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| Super_Boom said: Yeah this is the part that I don’t get. What’s the practical difference between mutants and aliens and people that accidentally get bitten by radioactive spiders, and why are some terrible and some okay? Maybe they’ll start anew and ignore the racism thing. Somehow. |
That is easy to explain with a few simple words.
"A mutant can be anyone."
The MU is an odd thing, Magneto sewed the seeds of terrorism in the general populaces minds. Many of the baseline humans think that mutants = bad so why would a mutant be protecting people (ala Spiderman, Spiderman has been accused of being one mind you).
A normal hero most the time is explained, Thor is a god, Ironman uses a suit, Cap is a WW2 super soldier, Hank Pym is publicly known scientist. But a mutant? They have the power to walk through walls, freeze the very water in your blood and take control of your mind and it's not some celebrity in the Avengers, it's the guy you had an argument with last week at the super market, it's your cousin who has anxiety issues. That fear, the fear of a mutant can be anyone, is why in the MU it's such an issue.
... rings a bell with modern society, no?
They can't ignore the racism thing, it's part of mutants, is the reason they exist. Without it they are just a bunch of people with powers. Essentially there is no story if they aren't feared and hated.
Ian McKellen once said the reason he did the X-men films is because it's about something, it means something.
Hmm, pie.
