# Marvel studios: No more origin stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857 "2014-08-18T22:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857/61 "2014-08-21T14:11:50Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And, Nava, that’s Magneto’s version. Why in the world can’t the two species coexist? I’d even argue that mutants are only superior in a limited sense, due to the huge variation of manifestation. A world full of mutants would just split along power lines, since, really, each powerset is more of a difference species. Would you propose that the most powerful should let the rest die out, too? No, **BigT**. It’s Chuck’s. Mags is the “we’re gonna destroy you before you destroy us / if you so much as look at one of us funny I’ll destroy you” version (depends on what day he’s having). Chuck started by creating the unfortunate name and proposing that mutants were a new species and the new step in human evolution without any actual scientific proof, has used his powers for all kinds of shit from getting his students “papered” without following procedures to avoiding taxes to getting laid to getting those students permission to go to his school when the parents weren’t particularly keen on it (“but it was for their own good!”), and every time he’s on TV or gives a public talk is an unmitigated PR disaster. Apparently his ability to read minds serves as a distraction from the kind of crowd-reading that any decent speaker can do. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857/62 "2014-08-21T14:15:17Z")
OOT: just the expresion “mutants and humans” is alienating - it implies that mutants are not human. And Chuck says it about as many times as Logan goes snikt. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857/63 "2014-08-21T17:25:23Z")
He also enslaved a being to use for the danger room. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857/64 "2014-08-22T05:10:17Z")
I’ve been saying for years that you can’t trust Professor X. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857/65 "2014-08-22T06:08:36Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > He also enslaved a being to use for the danger room. To be fair, he didn’t know that. The Danger room and Cerebro both became self-aware without his knowledge or intention. What if your car suddenly became self-aware and sued you in civil court for enslavement? Legally…haven’t you done exactly that? (I’m perfectly safe; Ford Tauruses are strictly sub-sentient.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857/66 "2014-08-22T12:40:25Z")
Yes he certainly **did** know that. IIRC, it is established in the book “Dangerous” (Astonishing X-Men) that Charles did indeed know that Danger had become a sentient creature, but kept it imprisoned anyway to serve his own ends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-studios-no-more-origin-stories/695857.md?page=3)