I was trying to do too much and not doing any of it as well as I could. But I've had a change of mind... though not everyone shall enjoy it. I will.
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Speaking of allies, what about the non-mutant superhumans who could very well be next on the chopping block of human hatred as soon as the mutants have been "dealt with"? I'll keep saying this till I'm blue in the face, but Civil War and the Superhuman Registration Act, as well as the personal experiences of the likes of Hulk and Spider-Man, showed that it wouldn't take much for "normal humans" to turn against everyone and anyone with powers, not just those whose powers came from an X-gene. Even in Days of Future Past, the Sentinels wiped out non-mutant superheroes along with the X-Men, and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four privately admitted in one comic that the reason for the costumes and outlandish superhero names was to turn them into beloved celebrities so they wouldn't be scorned and hunted by the public and the authorities as dangerous freaks (like the X-Men were). With that in mind, non-mutant superheroes should be more inclined to side with mutants facing persecution from human society and governments rather than either turning a blind eye to or even helping prop up a system that will more than likely turn against them as well in the end.
The spider is always on the hunt.
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They used to Have Moira, Tom Corsi, Charlotte Jones, Stevie(can't remember her last name) and a few others whose names I can't recall.
They were friends with the FF and Avengers.
How can mutants truly exist in a world that "hates and fears them" while they just accept all of the other non-mutant heroes.
The logic makes it hard to justify.
Thanks for understanding. For some reason, when I had previously mentioned the idea of there being more complexities, preferably more interesting ones, in the human/mutant relations, such as a few more allies, people negatively responded to me as if I was attempting to deny that there's bigotry in the world, even though I had spelled out that that wasn't my intention at all. Like you mentioned, what can help showcase diversity isn't only in the differences in skin color, but also diversity of opinion, thought, etc., and what solutions can be put in place, not to necessarily eliminate all bigotry in the world, since that's a really tall order that has yet to be fully solved, but what can help bring communities closer together towards a better future regardless. I'm sure that, at least to a point and depending on the writer, that sort of aspect does have a place in the X-Men series, not to mention, interesting stories.
Last edited by Electricmastro; 08-14-2019 at 04:13 PM.
True. Diversity should encompass everything, even differences of opinion.
In my life, I've met people I agreed with and disagreed with and I usually find myself when I make a friendship with someone who I didn't think I had anything in common with until we found something we had in common.
And it's usually because we're comic and sci-fi geeks.
And sports.
Like the Hulk or Spider-Man, but on a more systemic as opposed to individual level. While X-Men can allegorize systemic injustice and persecution in real life, I would agree that there are ways to update the allegory for our contemporary era. For example, the role social and digital media plays in perpetuating and propagating bigotry, as X-Men Red attempted to address, or like Rosenberg's run addressed (as bad as it got overall), medicalized attempts at genocide by treating certain persecuted/marginalized groups as a sickness to be cured, only more literally with the X-gene-negating vaccine. Perhaps more mundanely, addressing the kinds of people who don't care enough to be active bigots or active allies, passively standing by and letting the active bigots do the dirty work that they themselves won't, pretending they have clean hands and are above the fray even as the situation edges closer to outright violence and even genocide, whether committed by individuals or by institutions.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Given the X-Office's tendency to have their villains turn into anti-heroes, and, eventually, X-Men, over time, I'm not entirely sure I want the X-Men to face off anyone 'ripped from the headlines,' since that seems like it would inevitably lead to white supremacists and neo-nazis and school shooters *on the team.*
I'm normally all for diversity, but there are a few groups I don't particularly *want* to see represented...
I think that it's best when the "mutant metaphor" is considered more loosely. It's far from a perfect analogy, so it's best not to treat it as such.
The X-Men should have elements of persecution and of progress and change, and people fearing change....all of that. But I don't think that mutants need to always be direct stand-ins for minority groups. When the metaphor is taken too literally, it becomes problematic in a variety of ways. To me, it's really more about "the new" than anything else. Here's something new, here's the people who are scared of it.
I think it's great that all kinds of people find something of themselves in the X-Men and their stories. I think that as a kid, their stories really helped me to learn to judge people by their behavior rather than by anything else like appearance or race or religion. I identified with them myself....which helped to bring me a little closer to other people who identified with them.
So I think they need to keep the metaphor a little less specific, and allow for some more nuance. I think that AoX/PoX has already introduced some concepts that could prove quite interesting, so we'll see if that turns out to be the case.
I'll add that I agree with those who've said they want to see some amount of progress in the stories.....some popular mutants in the Marvel universe culture, and more examples of humans sympathetic to their cause. Someone like Dazzler putting out an album and having it be a big hit rather than a reason to attack her. That'd be nice. I hope to see examples like that in the stories as things progress.
Yes, but you’re talking about real world humans. Black Americans were/are often forced to participate in white institutions, have their art and their bodies exploited and appropriated by whites. Mutants are a fictional race with godlike powers. They have the option to create their own government and culture separate from humans like we’re seeing with Hixmen. X-Men in 2019 should be radical and extremist. An existential threat to the human status quo. None of that ‘Hey man, let’s just get along and stuff because we’re all the same!’.
I thought the best thing about The Gifted was the portrayal and perspective of human parents who just want to protect and do the right thing for those kids. That meant joining a terrorist cell, home schooling, and negotiating with separatist cultures.
Obvious things like Mutant Town ghettos in big cities, legislation about mutant jobs, those are always welcome... but what about stories starring parents or friends of mutants who WANT to help but are wholly unprepared to deal with mutant children. The X-Men become “bad guys” insisting on separation and secrecy.
uh zzWhat? are people really clamoring that loud dor a stories about Jim the accountant who volunteers at a call center for those poor misguided, Mutants. who need to be totally transparent with humans, stop being so mutanty dampen their Powers and assimilate like good Flatscans?? since when did wanting your own zhit WITHOUT the humans handing out peace and Freedom when they've deemed you've earned it Bad. its nice to have allies buuut
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Like the few times ice gone to pride I've seen those *EYE ROLLINGLY* Prominent straight allies with their signs and tshirts. (and I'm not saying they're all like this... most organizations do a lotta good) but the Stonewall riots story *usually* dont focus on the straight "allies like its cool youre here for support but wearing a sign telling everyone you're just being a decent human being is tacky
When I met Leah Williams last week-she made an interesting point.
Because you are playing with SOMEONE ELSE'S toys-you can only do so much before you are asked to go back to that comfort zone the company has established.
See it's easier to do Midnighter sleeping with guys of color and Apollo because he was LGBTQ from day one. It's harder to do that with Iceman and his 50+ years. You could probably get away with that with Prodigy, The Doras or Kate Bishop's former lover in WCA.
X-Men will allow you get away with some stuff that others can't like an all LGBTQ X-Men team. You won't get past the announcement before you get death threats if you tried that with Avengers. Despite the fact you could get away with it because we have seen chapters of teams like West Coast Avengers.
Well it depends on how down and DIRTY you want to get. I mean no you know whats will be given.How should the X-Men reflect this modern resurgence of bigotry?
Challenge Question:
If Hobie Brown (SpiderGwen universe version) got mutant powers-why would he join the X-Men? When he looks around and aside from Storm & Maggot-there are no other black mutants.
He is going to ask where are the folks who look like him at? Who is going to tell him how Synch died. Or the kids from God loves Man kills.
How bigotry is dealt with a Mutant of color is different from a white mutant? Is it like the same way we deal with shooters?
How many white mutants someone tried to get them help for the "illness"?
Did we not see Synch surrounded by cops when we saw him introduced?
Because this is not the Archie universe where it's black and white. You got folks who don't need MUCH to attack a POC or LGBTQ.
I don't think Marvel wants to go there.
Hmm, interesting points you raise there. Speaking of Hobie Brown, considering that there's already a universe where he got spider-powers thanks to a spider that had been irradiated by toxic waste carelessly dumped by Oscorp and became an anarchist version of Spider-Man leading a punk rock revolution against President Norman Osborn's corrupt regime, it would be very interesting to see his reaction to the likes of the Avengers and the X-Men. While he'd probably side more with the X-Men than the Avengers, seeing the Avengers as propping up an oppressive system, I could also see him reacting poorly to the fact that the X-Men are being bankrolled by elite billionaires that happen to be mutants, finding it at best incongruous with the idea of fighting for the rights of all mutants to live free of persecution and at worst deeply hypocritical.
The spider is always on the hunt.