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I've always loved how bafflingly retarded X-Men is. They've been on this "civil rights" allegory for as long as the franchise has existed, and the entire time, Mutants have been dangerously unstable human weapons. Either they're completely fucking mental, their powers are strategic weapon-scale dangerous, or both. It doesn't matter how it's framed or what the characters say, on an even surface-level analysis, the only sane conclusion you can draw from X-Men is that around muties, never relax.
Pretty much. There are generally 3 types of mutant in these stories you can rank on a scale.
1-9: Mostly passive powers, often utterly pointless and never, ever going to be a threat to anyone or thing. Like Beak who has the powers to... look like some nightmare anthropomorphised chicken. Or for an even more useless example:
So does she smell of spiders or can she smell in the way spiders do? Either way, utterly useless to anything and that's before even getting to the point that there are so many spiders out there there will be drastically different scents or detection methods. Unless she smells like all spiders! 😯 Which is still stupid.
10: Has a power that can actually cause damage. More often active use than passive and the precise danger can depend on training. As per recent retcons this is where the "Omega level" mutants reside but many non Omegas can also be considered, like Manifold.
11: Spelled "ELEven" because these are walking Extinction Level Events. Either active use powers where someone has trained to hone their ability in a way it can end all life on the planet, like with Magneto. Or worse; either a passive deathfield like Jay from the Ultimate 1610 Universe [who really was localised enough in aoe he would better be described as a 9], or Peter/Orphan Maker who is forced to wear a containment suit because if he doesn't he simply ends the planet.
When you have characters like that in a story all allegory goes out the window, while the window still exists, because even if they are the best person to ever
lifelive the fact their basic existence is a threat to everything means either by mistake or villainous act something can happen to kill everything alive.Ritualistic suicide would ironically be the most sensible option from someone who was "good" with that kind of powerset.
Ediot: wordz.
I meant to include something like that in the 11 category, Legion and Franklin Richards would also fall into that list although Franklin isn't a mutant anymore because Dan Slott decided so.
Instead I was going to name Matthew Malloy since he only comes into his powers during adulthood due to Xavier putting various mindwhammies on him prior to that. His powers awaken and he causes the equivalent of a nuclear explosion turning the local area into a crater. When SHIELD ends up trying to kill him, and does kill Cyclops and Magik in the attempt, Matthew survives, reconstitutes himself, takes out the SHIELD helicarrier, then ends up accidentally killing Emma Frost and some others when he visits the X-Mansion after.
Prior to all this Maria Hill talks about how Nick Fury only ever had 1 "worst case scenario" which was "Man wakes up with the power of God", which is precisely what happens with Matthew.
magneto cries out in pain as he strikes you
Don't forget the insane amount of covering professor X does for mutants that have legitimately done horrendous things because of their mutant powers if they want to join his school.
Mutants are Ubermensch living gods, and Magneto is their God-Hitler.
The story is the X-Men is ultimate the story of how incredibly powerful superhumans are oppressed by grossly inferior normies, with the help of Ubercück Charles Xavier and his band of self-hating collaborators, who aid the normies in keeping homo superior down.
You, normie, ought to be scared of living in a world where a living god could snuff out your life on a whim. Too bad in such a world you wouldn't have any say in the matter.
The truth is that is superpowers were real, those with them would quickly rise to utterly dominate society. The idea that they could, or would, be suppressed is completely laughable.
The only advantage the jews have is a handful of IQ points on average, and yet they easily rose to a dominant position as an elite in the social hierarchy. The only time someone tried to stop them, he only managed to kill a portion of them, and the remainder used their sacrifice to enable permanent privileged status. And everyone else gleefully handed it to them. So imagine a world where the jews had superpowers to the point where, if we are honest, all the normies of the world combined couldn't beat them in a straight fight. They'd win, win totally, and win fast. We already saw the real jews win against being hugely outnumbered in Israel multiple times without the benefit of superpowers.