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Steel Inquisitor
Except we shouldn't just be seeing Jen, Jen isn't even that big a star in Marvel. She's B-lister, if not a C-lister. Marvel and Hickman are not only keeping Krakoa in a little box within its own titles, they may as well not be the game changer Krakoa's been shown as in their own books - which I think was deliberate in case Hickman wants to reveal it being a past life of Moira X or the next writer retcons it as such or does something else to take krakoa off there board - like having them all be sinister plant clones. The problem is in the books nobody brings these things up, which they would be talking about since they're meant to be people and people know what tourism is and want their old friends to hang out with them when they move to other countries. Dealing with anti-mutant bigot security threats is just normal to the majority fo these people, long before Krakoa. That's like the Avengers worrying about when Kang will strike. Here comes Kang again, who saw that coming? *every Avenger raises their hand* Hawkeye won the bet by five days, something like that. Except they have a large nation now, people they know whose jobs are about that. That's what every government does. But they don't need to choose that, that's a false option.
Every few years mutants are on the verge of extinction, they were in worse shape as a species during Decimation. This stopped being solely about being species when Xavier decided to make himself the founder and leader of a mutant nation, that's Krakoa's solution: entering geopolitics and their problems are now in the geopolitical arena. Economics, immigration, governance, those are now Xavier's answers to problems rather than creating superhero paramilitary squads. Sure it is, that's all the krakoa age is doing, that's how it defined itself from other time periods in the franchise. Even more than Utopia. You're not a mutant? Get out. That's how we're going to judge people as being a friend or enemy now. Apocalypse? You're in. She-Hulk? Get off our island or we're going to throw you out because you're not a mutant. Of course she wouldn't get that far into Krakoa to begin with, by design. Krakao's more hardline against immigrants than North Korea. Tyrants use nice language to soften their bad stances, and the Quiet Council hit all the benchmarks, even if it's not spoken out loud.
They can do that without doing what krakoa is right now. Unless, like I said, the mutant populace are inherently against democracy politically. Just because Xavier and co. are the ones making all the choices now isn't a reason that it's inevitable answer to all the questions mutant society has got governing. They're just the mutants who got their first and have the power to maintain their position, juts like in real life the rich and connected get to dominate the direction mutant kind goes in, except it's worse now because this in a nation rather than a super-heroes team or a movement.
But it is another country, it just has mutants. There are other super powered nations in Marvel, like Attilan, Atlantis and more. This isn't our Earth, it's Marvel's. Countries are, once again, not safe spaces. Jen can respect Krakoa as a haven for mutant kind, and think they're being racist against non-mutants when their immigration policy is more strict then North Korea's. Because nations shouldn't be forbidding people from crossing its borders because of their race. Countries have their own processes for immigration, there may are many hoops Jen would have to go through to be a citizen or be visit - her race should have nothing to do with it. Human rights, and this goes for all humanoid life on marvel Earth (which mutants are a sub-group of), not being given a priority until undisclosed further which will never arrive (because Krakoa as we know it is on a ticking clock, about to hit act 2) is a huge red flag. Then why are the non-mutant and mutants still so disconnected within their titles? Why aren't we seeing non-mutant guest stars constantly in Krakoa? Reed wanted to cloak Franklin's powers to protect him from Sentinels, Xavier and magneto went overboard and made sure that technology was kept out of his reach - a move I'd associate more with helping the anti-mutant cause because it doesn't help them. Despite the fact Xavier was a friend of Reed's. Krakao wasn't there for a friendly meet and greet, it was official business to recruit an Omega for their own agenda. The X-men weren't there, representatives of Krakoa were.
They have more going for them on morality than Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister and Exodus. The resistance to krakoa is not realistic in the last with their past characterisations, the X-men as we knew them would be starting civil war by now. They've chewed out Xavier for less. These characters wouldn't be so mild with their decisions as we've been shown, that's partially why it feels off. It is leading up to something big but it's telling that they're not doing anything now. Because he's a kid, and just because he's powerful Franklin shouldn't be used as a tool by Krakoa's government like he's just another killer. His parents would be right to be furious about that. It remains to be seen if anyone truly has a choice to leave Krakoa. The faction infighting should have vastly more tension then what we see, especially the unknown Genosha mutants who wanted to kill Magneto when he was vulnerable when he ruled Genosha. Their lack of presence is a huge red flag of what Krakoa's doing with these resurrected mutants from Genosha. Where are they?