"The X-men were always woke!" (assaults their own kind if they don't join them)
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The X-Men are lame. The whole thing started as some civil rights movement parallel. And in a world where people loved Spider-Man, Captain America, Fantastic Four and other people with powers, those same crowds hate the X-Men...for...also having powers. Because they were born that way instead of acquiring them? Who the fuck knows. It was a flimsy plot to begin with at least in-universe. I think that's the whole reason Civil War was even a thing to kind of retroactively fix a glaringly large plot hole in the marvel world.
And of course all the fears people had about them were completely validated when Magneto and Sinister and Apocalypse killed a bunch of people.
Stan Lee debunked that it was based on civil rights movement but that hasn’t stopped people from seeing what they want
There's a pretty strong case to be made that Xavier was based on the peaceful Martin Luther King and Magneto was based on the militant Malcolm X.
...At least, what people THOUGHT King was like at the time. You probably know the truth by now.
Fun fact: In the last month or so of his life, Malcolm X realized the error of his ways and started turning his attention towards the Democrats...which meant he wasn't a useful idiot anymore, so he had to die.
Yea I’ve read up on King. Read Malcolm X’s autobiography and my favorite part is after he opened his eyes. I can see how that could be read into the x-men but Stan Lee said it wasn’t their intention when creating the characters
True. Like how I have proof that Charles Schulz created Franklin as just another character, not a political statement.
In fact, I'll get a photo and post it here tomorrow.
It's dumber than that because Magneto has the hololocaust thing too
Yeah. He mostly made the catch-all 'mutant' so he didn't have to craft so many origin stories. No time to make up a good backstory for a power, now you can just be born with it. Of course characters that caught on, got well fleshed-out backstories.
Yeah and Tolkien says he doesn't use allegory yet LoTR is overflowing with allegory.
True. I was just saying what Lee said. I can see how people could interpret a variety of things in X-Men
and now they using it as a vehicle to push their bullshit.