Originally Posted by
shgs
Really, saturated? Marvel claims to have 9,000+ characters on its website. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that all these characters are earth-based, super-powered non-mutants even though the actual number is much lower. That's around about 0.00013% of the Earth's population having non-mutant superpowers by my estimation, even when overestimating massively. How is that saturated?
By contrast, there were around 16,000,000 mutants on Genosha alone, before Cassandra Nova's genocide. Unlike other super powered individuals, who tend to acquire their abilities in freak accidents or other unique, unrepeatable circumstances, mutants are simply born with powers. Not only do mutant parents beget mutant children, but non-mutants often give birth to mutants. Thus, not only is the mutant population, at its peak, far more significant that the non-mutant super-powered population, but it is capable of increasing in number in a way that the population of other super-powered beings simply cannot. Given that humans have mutant babies with relative consistency, but mutants extremely rarely give birth to non-mutants, the mutant race will continue to increase whilst the human race gradually decreases if left unchecked. Add the fact that this race that is destined to replace humanity has innate and often weaponisable superpowers, and it is hardly surprising that humans see them as a threat.
Superpowers = good thing? So Carnage = good thing? Elektro = good thing? The Hulk on a rampage = good thing? Sabertooth = good thing? There are a shit ton of supervillains and otherwise terrifying super powered individuals. Superheores = good thing, because they use their powers for good. Supervillains = bad thing, and of course people are scared of them. The thing with mutants is that - unlike superheroes and villains, which make up nearly every superpowered non-mutant - the majority of them don't tend to place themselves so obviously into the category of good or bad. A guy with the power to breath fire might work at a petrol station. The guy with razor sharp claws might work at a book shop. These people could be perfectly reasonable, or they could be psychotic killers and you'd never know. That's kinda terrifying.
Therein lies the point. With mutant powers pretty much anyone could be given catastrophic and deadly superpowers, regardless of how malicious, unstable, sadistic, or straight up evil they are.
It's got nothing to do with what she looks like. Firstly, racial prejudice is not just about superficial looks in real life (e.g. there is a fair bit prejudice towards Eastern Europeans in the UK, though we are all white) nor has superficial similarity ever prevented gay people, for instance, from being persecuted. Secondly, he is not derogatory of the characteristics that make Storm a mutant, he is simply derogatory towards the various mutant communities. This is Runey denigrating people because they come from a certain geographic area and/or community (which happens even within individual towns in the real world, let alone between different ethnicities or races) not simply because they are genetically different from him.