Upon reading the New X-Men series of comics it suddenly struck me that the concept doesn't hold up as part of a wider Marvel universe.The X-Men storylines, as an allegory for racism, is watered down by the existence of beloved superheroes inhabiting the same world. While it's true that the mutant issue has a tangential relation to genetics and a fear of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens of being replaced, i think it would only be logical for this fear to extend to a bulking mass of inraged destruction like the Hulk or even more humanoid superheroes that still display capabilities beyond natural humans like Spiderman. Specially considering that a mob guided by an "Us against them" way of thinking would hardly care to run DNA analysis for each individual that could potentially threaten their whole species in order to determine if they're mutants or simply a recipient of some miscellaneous radioactive accident. Either way it shouldn't make any difference since it has been stablished that some superpowers obtained incidentally can be passed down to the individual's descendence, namely the sons of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl.It also should be pointed out that other superheroes do go through a phase of, let's say, impopularity from time to time. However, this is most often due to specific actions of said hero or in atypical examples of widespread opposition to superheroes, it's originated for a concern over what superheroes do, not at the very concept of them (The whole Civil War storyline)Marked for deletion (Old)
Yes, this is something I've always thought about whenever the X-Men came up in relation to other heroes.The only ones I think get a pass are the Fantastic Four, since they were prominent in certain ways before getting powers, and I'm pretty sure their story of being hit by cosmic rays is well known.How come people don't call Spider-Man a mutant? Have people heard his story of being bitten by a radioactive spider, and do they actually believe it? If they do, why?It would have been an awesome idea if mutant genes were the whole reason for people having powers in the Marvel Universe that would give it a great overarching significance and get rid of these kinds of plot holes.Of course we can't really expect that much. The Marvel "Universe" was assembled higgledy-piggledy from various comics that happened to be running at around the same time and only years after the fact was the concept of continuity and internal consistency taken seriously.
>>110543Things like that often happen to big "universes" that include pre made canons by different people with different visions. Some elements just stop making sense. That's why I've always preferred well thought out stories in their own contained worlds instead of throwing everything into a blender like many franchises do nowadays
A lot of these stories don't make sense in a wider context of superheroes living in the same world.X-Men would probably be a lot less dumb if it wasn't in a setting with all the other heroes.Some writers do make it out to be that the world of mutants is mostly just people who aren't really in a position to be actual heroes but are still weird or dangerous, and let that move things (so the X-Men themselves are seen as okay or at least tolerable, but your average rando mutant is considered a freak and should be put down).but then you have weird shit like somebody talking to the Avengers or whatever and being like "man, I'm so glad you aren't like those creepy X-Men" to Cap or whatever -- I could be misremembering all the details, but the gist is therewhich might be an attempt to drive the racial point home, that the specifics of how they have their powers shouldn't matter, but there's a lot of anti-mutant sentimentit still feels fucked up that the whole thing with the movies means that fucking Iron Man of all heroes ended up more popular than Wolverine though, after decades of absolute X-Men domination
>but then you have weird shit like somebody talking to the Avengers or whatever and being like "man, I'm so glad you aren't like those creepy X-Men" to Cap or whateverWhich stretches the suspension of disbelief even further because the X-Men are infinitely cooler than the AvengersThe Avengers "team" doesn't even have a uniform. ew.
You're overthinking this. Just fap to Rogue's ass and be happy