Originally Posted by
BobbysWorld
I mean, I'll give you that classic Fantastic Four actually made appearances in mutant stuff like this, which makes the current tension between the FF and mutants even crappier, but the Avengers overall, the actual inciting elements of the Superhero Registration based Civil War and the ones who actively tried to recruit mutants like the X-Men to their side? You saying its not relevant for X-Men to be like where were Tony Stark and Steve Rogers on this subject when we were the only ones whose asses were on the line?
And sorry not sorry, but I happen to think that again, if people make weapons of mass destruction that are designed to selectively one specific minority, REGARDLESS of it they get mothballed up, the second they actually get used to wipe out 90% of that group, members of that group are justified in being like so you have opinions on how Ultron killing all people is bad, but not this, huh? Yes, Cassandra Nova pulled the trigger but bigotry still built the gun, and I don't recall any Avengers being like hey maybe we should examine the question of gun control at least in the specific context of giant weapons that only aim at specific people and just killed sixteen million of them. I'm just saying, Sentinels have been weaponized against mutants for decades in the comics, not just Genosha, but O:ZT, earlier in the 90s, etc, etc, and non-mutant heroes have never exactly stepped forward with a stance about not being any more okay with giant genocidal machines that ONLY target a minority most of them aren't part of themselves than like, they are with ones like Ultron that target living beings indiscriminately. And mutant characters aren't like, breaking the box by pointing out such discrepancies and having thoughts on them.
To be clear, I'm not saying any of this as a reflection or judgment of the Avengers or FF because these are all just fictional characters who can only act on what their writers write them acting on, whether we feel that would be in character for them or not, I'm just saying, rightly or wrongly, Marvel has not made it a huge priority to have non-mutant heroes step in and act when its ONLY mutants who are on the line rather than humanity overall, and that's an angle that in the context of what's actually been written and new stories, like, is a relevant factor.