Or they could do something like mind control a political opponent into spouting racist rhetoric they don't actually believe in to ruin their reputation and career, forcibly out a gay politician before they're ready to come out or erase everything they know about how to do their job in the first place. And that's just the issues with telepaths. In a meeting with Emma Frost, she is not the one who has anything to worry about, the human does because they have no way to protect themselves from a telepath whose personal history has shown she cares nothing for boundaries and ethics (just ask Storm or Firestar).
Thanks for this thread bc some like to pretend as if its never happened. The Avengers showed up to help the X-men when Bastion tried to eradicate the bulk of the remaining mutant race
It's more of an individual thing, but Marvel Divas had Black Cat, Monica Rambeau and Hellcat supporting Firestar when she had cancer. Justice and Firestar were also Avengers during the Busiek run.
They still did it and its not like its the only time they've helped mutantkind since then. The showed up in a big way to help in X-men Red
They helped clear Jean's name after the hate campaign Nova tried to smear for all mutants in that book. The Avengers supported and vouched for Jean at the U.N. when she made her speech
You’re welcome! From what I’ve seen, there are quite a number of X-Men threads having some posters fully embracing a negative outlook on humanity, which there’s nothing wrong with in of itself. People are free to have negative outlooks after all, though at the same time, I felt it could get negative to the point of being unhealthy/losing some sanity, so just as they’re free to have negative outlooks, I felt it would be reasonable enough to have a more positive, hopeful outlook, at least so long as the outlooks are honest, and academic, and reasonable. Glad to see someone else who feels similarly.
I remember that ending of X-MEN RED where Taylor ended the run with a hope note and then the X-men disassembled happened and it like they took that hope spot for mutant kind and did a 180 where all humans hate mutants and things look bleak when Roserberg started his Uncanny Run, I felt that sorta negated all Tom Taylor did in X-MEN RED which I didn't like. Its like all the hard work Jean's Team in X-MEN RED was all for nothing.
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There was an X-Men issue from the 90s where J. Jonah Jameson is approached by Bastion with information revealing the secret identities of the X-Men, but Jameson refuses to publish it, thinking Bastion and his persecution of mutants is the real story:
https://panels-of-interest.tumblr.co...-uncanny-x-men
Now Jameson is often written as a Fox News like personality, who will put opinions above facts and will blame Spider-Man for things that are in no way his fault and Jameson is greedy and opinionated (heck some of the stuff he did in terms of creating the Scorpion and the Spider-Slayers may be illegal), but he is usually presented as being against bigotry. I do not think he likes the X-Men because he thinks they are vigilantes, like Spider-Man, but I do not think he would approve of persecuting random mutant civilians. Also, the fact that Bastion may have murdered one of his reporters is enough to turn Jameson against Bastion.
I think there can be a realistic balance between bigots and allies in the X-Men comics, just likes there is real life.
To be fair, given what we know about structural racism at this point, the government being like this is not off the mark.
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Wouldn’t be surprised if Hickman read through that and that that dinosaur stomp on an improvement, and not an improvement that denies that prejudice exists either, was the last straw for him, being a big motivating factor to giving mutants more productive peace on Earth.
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