And not sharing the resurrection protocols with humanity helps prevent the collapse of human religions - the majority of which rely on the promise of heaven or hell to keep followers in line - or the inevitable existential crises of immortality. So mutants are doing the human world a favor by not sharing that they beat death. AND they’re doing their own people a favor by bringing back those whose lives were cruelly taken at the hands of humans or their weapons.
Win-win!
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I really hate the resurrection protocols I feel Hickman lowkey dropped the ball it doesn't feel like cheating death. The concept of souls ruins it, is their no mutant with the power to bring souls back to the land of the living? It comes off like cloning I hate that! The Five should have been the Six their missing the most important part of the equation!!
Pardon my rant.
I thought this was the best issue of the series but it was still only meh.
So what exactly is this "standard" you are talking about that applies only to mutants? The thing with the X-Men as a franchise is they were always more or less school aged teens/young adults and so they were not in the world of business and industry, except I guess if you count Warren Worthington's family. So by default they did not make a economic contribution to society. Tony and Reed contribute both in the superhero sense and in the sense that they contribute to society via their business dealings. Reed isn't involved in manufacturing but he does hold patents on his creations. I don't recall if he has any that are for domestic use.
And Spider-Man for decades. And Fantastic Four. And Avengers.
Every single one of these has shown how terrible 616 humanity is, whether it’s pushing for anti-hero legislation, painting heroes with the same brush as villains, putting KNOWN supervillains and monsters IN CHARGE of governments or organizations, creating ‘mutant cures’, turning on a filthy Kree half-breed in favor of a poorly dressed false hero, or evicting the First Family and confiscating their tech REPEATEDLY, or all of New stork believing Spider-Man is a criminal...
All of 616 humanity is crappy, with a very small percentage bucking the trend.