Mutants are NOT the next evolutionary step. It makes ZERO sense. Where’s the ecological pressure to randomly sprout huge varying and dangerous powers??
How many mutants are killed by their powers or kill others around them? How is that a positive? And if its a trade-off (like humans large skulls sometimes killing the mother) then some 4 decades isn’t enough time to establish this. Fish didn’t just crawl up on land , sprout wings and fly off.
And all that shit about “You humans fear us because we will supplant you.” NO, they fear you cause you’re a wildly out of control roulette wheel. It’s just a matter of time before some kid, at age 13, can suddenly make black holes and WHAM goodbye Earth! WOW…that’s some evolution.*
Occams razor would suggest mutants are a forced thing like High Evolutionary creating powered lifeforms.
Humans are right. Mutants are incredibly dangerous. They’re walking loaded guns. People try and wipe smallpox, polio,…etc…why shouldn’t the mutant gene be wiped out?? It’s a threat to humans, mutants and every other lifeform on Earth. I’m not talking about killing mutants, but i am talking about wiping out the mutant gene.
*I GUESS technically its evolution run rampant. Humans have run amuck and can wipe out the planet. Mutants come from humans. But hey mutants, stop talking like you’re a positive thing. It’s pure blind luck the planet is still around and the vast majority of you have only been here a blink of a blink of a blink of an eye in the history of the planet.
I agree with point 2. I see the previews for The Gifted, and even more so than for the movies I side with the authorities that want them locked up. How would anyone NOT condsider them a threat to humanity? Some of them outright want to kill normals.
Mutants are a comic book fantasy plain and simple. Of course people like Magneto are going to view themselves as better than humans otherwise Magnus is really little better than Hitler, which is extremely ironic if you think about it. To me The Gifted is just a parable for the Holocaust. Sure Mutants are dangerous but just last month a human killed 12 people without even working up a sweat.
Marvel comics claims that any of a number of highly advanced civilizations have “tweaked” the human genome to increase the likelihood of “beneficial” mutations – which somehow invoke the generation of vast amounts of energy or other scientific law violations. The reason remains nebulous – these civilizations are so advanced as to be almost magical: either time travel of advanced analytical ability allows them to know that on the balance, humans with superpowers is a good thing.
The Marvel universe has beings such as Galacticus --who was created with the Big Bang and must consume planets to survive, and for the universe to exist, Galacticus must survive. Kinda makes even the Hulk seem like not too much of a problem, by comparison.
I don’t know the canon well and I hope someone will vague it up for me. I believe Cable is from the far future, where everyone is at least part mutant. And that’s bad because of a mutant infecting virus. But good because without mutants, there’s no humans at all. Or something.
But yeah, the whole Marvel thing now is to hype the mutants as “the other” or the “outcast.” In the TV cartoon, one orange hairy mutant says, “I don’t have any powers. I’m just different.” Not so helpful when confronted by an angry mob. Lots of people are “other” or “different” so it strikes a cord.
I’m embarrassed it took me so long to realize the point of superhero comics. They’re a parable for mutually insured destruction. Once you create a superhero, like Batman or Superman (no need to mention DC, I know) or Iron Man, then you naturally create supervillains. Then of course, you can’t get rid of the superheros. And you get superheros with conflicting ideas of the direction to go, so we get antiheroes and rogue superheros. I’m embarrassed it took me until the Iron Man 3 movie for me to realize, the only way to confront the dictatorial hegemony of the [del]United State’s[/del]Tony Stark’s [del]nuclear[/del] Iron Man weapon … is terrorism.
Ok THAT makes sense. Not so good for Earth, but good for the galaxy if we view mutants as some sort of white blood cell. Sure they can run amuck and kill their…lymph node…? (earth).
But on a larger scale they are to defend the body (The galaxy)
Interesting. I was looking at it on too small a scale.
The actual reason why they’re mutants was simple. Stan Lee got tired of coming up with an origin story to explain how each individual character got super powers, so this was a blanket excuse to skip writing them. He called it the “cowardly way out.”
In Old Man Logan we have a future where there are a lot fewer mutants and White Queen flat out says Magneto was wrong about them being the next evolutionary step. Very few mutants were being born at that point.
They touch on that some in the comics on occasion but I haven’t read the comics in years so can’t remember specific examples. In the first movie Senator Kelly convinces another politician to support the Mutant Registration Act on the grounds that “You’re for gun control, right? Some of these kids have powers far more damaging than a gun.”
Way back in 1963 the X-Men were supposed to be an allegory for racism. So the writers don’t usually go out of their way to show us the “victims” in this case as being dangerous to normal people. Though there are exceptions. Oddly enough the Fantastic Four dealt with this issue when Reed messed with his son to prevent his powers from manifesting.
Keep in mind that in 1963 WWII was still fairly fresh in the minds of people so let’s keep in mind what wiping out the mutant gene would mean. Registration, forced sterilization, and genocide. Magneto may be a villain but he had valid concerns.
I subscribe to the concept that “mutation” in the Marvel universe is a parable for puberty. These young peoples’ bodies are changing in mysterious ways and, as a result, they are being forced to take on great powers great responsibilities. These teenagers believe “normals” (adults) fear them and wish to control them, and that they will eventually replace these “normals.”