The hatred for Mutants in the Marvel Universe has never made sense to me
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detroitwalt
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Replace "super powered people" with "people of color" and "mutants" with "black". The real world doesn't makes much sense either now does it?You have all sorts of superpowered people walking around the world but yet mutants recieve all the hate?
What he said. Also you gotta remember the x men were around during the infancy of the universe so it made more sense for the hatred then before it just became overwhelmed with super powered people. But even then, most of those are science experiments. Mutants are identified early on as having the mutant gene, almost like jewish people in concentration camps
I used to have this argument with dudes on the old Wizard World board and to this day no one can give me a satisfactory answer as to why I am supposed to buy that The Thing is a beloved celebrity but Storm is supposed to strike fear into the hearts of men.
The X-Men conceit works if they were the only super-humans on the planet.
Once you introduce all the other ones it loses its resonance because it is just as likely that as a citizen of the Marvel U that your child/lover/best friend will get powers from being bitten by a radioactive honey badger than they will be born a mutant.
The X-Men conceit works if they were the only super-humans on the planet.
Once you introduce all the other ones it loses its resonance because it is just as likely that as a citizen of the Marvel U that your child/lover/best friend will get powers from being bitten by a radioactive honey badger than they will be born a mutant.
HipHopStan
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The civil rights thing aside, think about this for a minute: Would you be weary of a person who could walk through the wall of your home and steal everything? Or a person who could move cities with his mind? Or a person who could impersonate the President, walk in, and set off nukes? Then again, the Marvel (and DC) universes have so many super heroes around I'd be a bit shook of. I'm kind of glad that they don't exist.
Yet.
Yet.
TransJenner
Banned
Nephlium 
Those are the real "mutants"
Those are the real "mutants"
TransJenner
Banned
I see what the agenda's are tryna do with XMen Apocalypse
I never really thought about it, but no, it doesn't make much sense. I hear what some of the people in this thread are saying, but it just doesn't add up. And to add to that, how would anyone know a mutant from a regular super powered person? And if you want to go a step further and bring those mutant timelines to the present state of things, with social media and the push toward acceptance, I just don't think it holds up. It would be quite clear that the X-Men are the good guys when you visited their Facebook page.
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Turk
Young, Gifted, and Black
If the x-men resided in their own stand alone universe this would make more sense
Well what they've done now is say that mutants have a specific disease killing them off. Or theyve done things like say mutants are contagious or shyt like that. They couldn't keep the same rules in play once the world got bigger
HipHopStan
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This thread makes me want to get out Alex Ross's MARVELS (a story about an ordinary man's perspective as heroes like The Avengers, F4, X-Men, Spiderman, etc. all come into the world) and read it again.
Metaphor for real world racism.
Kill Dat Noize
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X men is better when it's its own thing and not part of the larger marvel universe imo.
Universe is too deep and too expansive.
Universe is too deep and too expansive.
When them white folks wild on Storm and she was like "i dont know if its because im a mutant or because im black." 
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
It's a metaphor for how America treated black people brehYou have all sorts of superpowered people walking around the world but yet mutants recieve all the hate?