Thoughys on X-men 97 coming to Disney Plus+?
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (20)
sorted by:
The old cartoons had an interesting spin on racism. It had no solutions per say, for one you had humans that feared mutants and what they could do, and wanted to feel safe - the racists, but they were not being mocked or ridiculed for it.
And you had the mutants doing bat shit crazy stuff and being actual threats. The mutants were not some idealistic victims of society.
There is a line in the first X-men movie that stuck with me, it was something about having kids with weapons in schools. This covers the x-men racism very well.
The issue becomes even more interesting when you have mutants that can mind control or create illusions. You had mutants more dangerous then nuclear bombs.
1992 leftists, that believed in free speech, individual liberty, personal responsibility, treating everyone based on their character did a good job navigating all of this issues from a neutral perspective.
Who here believes that leftists today will not turn the show in to evil humans vs poor oppressed mutants with Sentinels as modern police designed to step on the neck of mutant fentanyl users?
I'm also certain that there is going to be a major difference in team dynamic. You had an old, straight, white male leader that everyone respects, Rogue was a southern redneck, Wolverine was manly and Jean was a red-head.
This show will either be unrecognizable or canceled by woke mobs.
Meanwhile, Magneto is a literal race supremacist. But mutants aren't supposed to be expies for white people. Hmm...
Very much this.
The comics have dealt with a very large range of powers even when it's just been one off characters.
This has included beings so beyond powerful the only way to deal with them was to erased them from ever existing like Matthew Malloy from Uncanny X-Men (3) #23: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Matthew_Malloy_(Earth-14923).
Originally his powers manifest in full after being confronted by existing PTSD of his wife dying in front of him during an alien attack years earlier. When he meets his wife's sister she tries to talk to him about the past and he snaps. With so much existing suppression he quite literally explodes and nukes the town he lives in.
On a more tragic note was a teenager in Ultimate X-Men 41 that manifested the power to secrete toxins that burned organic material within a radius. This included his family before he woke up, people he walked past on his way to school, everyone at his school once there, and his girlfriend right before his eyes.
In the end Wolverine is sent to deal with him to prevent the obvious fallout such an event would cause. Despite Wolverine's bloody history and track record as a killer and assassin through the years he still tries to offer the kid some comfort before the inevitable as nobody else would survive long enough once they got near.
Both tragic characters who have the potential to cause unbelievable levels of death and destruction that for the most part are a consequence of simply existing. There's no malice behind what they do, especially in the teenager's case, they simply are. That's why many are terrified of them, it's tangible dangers that can and have wiped out countless populations through either intentional acts or accidental ones.
Great points all around. I see that happening too