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racefortheironthrone · 11 months

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Are there any notable examples of anti-mutant prejudice towards the X-Men coming from within the superhero community?

This is a great question!

This gets to the complicated nature of how mutants fit into the Marvel Universe. I've always been a vocal proponent of the idea that, far from the mutant metaphor only making sense if it's in its own little bubble where mutants are the only people with superpowers, the mutant metaphor actually functions better in the context of the Marvel Universe, because it allows you to explore more complicated and more subtle ways that prejudice functions.

While there are plenty of super-villains who have quite blatant anti-mutant prejudice, you don't tend to get that same kind of overt bigotry towards mutants among super-heroes. Partly, this is because bigotry is a very unheroic character trait, but it also has to do with the way that the way that Marvel historically portrayed the spillover effects of anti-mutant prejudice.

Following in a kind of Niemöllerian logic, it's almost always the case that groups that hate and fear mutants also end up hating and fearing non-mutant superheroes. Thus, Days of Future Past starts with the Sentinels being turned on mutants, but it ends with the Sentinels wiping out the Avengers and the Fantastic Four too - because the same atavistic fear of "the great replacement" applies to both mutants and mutates. Likewise, the same forces that line up to push through the Mutant Registration Act inevitably end up proposing a Superhuman Registration Act, because once you've violated the precepts of equality under the law for one minority group, you establish a precedent to do it to another.

Instead, I would argue what you see in the case of anti-mutant prejudice among superheroes is explorations of liberal prejudice. This takes many different forms: in Civil War, you see Tony Stark insensitively try to wave the bloody shirt of Stamford in the face of a survivor of the Genoshan genocide or Carol playing the good liberal ally but ultimately trying to get mutants to set aside their own struggle in favor of her own political project. (For someone who's spent a good deal of time working, and living with, the X-Men, occasionally against the interests of the state, Carol does have a tendency to stick her foot in her mouth. Hence in Civil War II, you see Carol essentially goysplaining the dangers of creeping authoritarianism to Magneto.)

In Avengers vs X-Men, you see the Avengers acting like they know the Phoenix Force better than mutants and ultimately prioritizing the safety of mankind over the efforts of mutantkind to reverse their own extinction. This is where the "Avengers are cops" meme in the fandom comes from. (I would argue that Captain America is badly mischaracterized in the latter event - we know which side he's on when the interests of mutants and the interests of the state come into conflict.)

The common thread here is that anti-mutant prejudice among superheroes emerges as a kind of unthinking, unreflective callousness brought on by a worldview that thinks of humans as the universal default of lived experience - while thinking of mutants as a somewhat annoying special interest group that fixates on their particularist grievances rather than working for what the heroes consider to be the common good.

For a more intimate version of how this plays out, I think the Fantastic Four are a great exploration of how "well-meaning" liberals can massively fuck up when they don't do the work of examining their own biases. We've seen this since the very beginning: in Fantastic Four #21, Kirby goes out of his way to depict uber-WASP Reed Richards blithely assuming that the "free market of ideas" will take care of the Hatemonger, while the subtextually Jewish Ben Grimm knows that the way to deal with a mind-controlling Hitler clone wearing purple Klan robes is deplatforming-by-way-of-clobberin'.

Then later on, we see Reed Richards debate Congress out of passing a Superhuman Registration Act, while saying nothing about the Mutant Registration Act - even though he has a mutant son who is directly threatened by it. (See that adorable blond moppet with the slur scrawled across his face in the fictional advertisement above? That's Franklin Richards.) This is why I have a crack theory that Franklin's biological father is actually Namor rather than Reed, which is why Reed so consistently shows a passive-aggressive hostility to his son's mutancy.

At the same time, Sue also has her blindspots when it comes to mutant rights. In the underrated FF/X miniseries, Susan Storm acts like an understanding and supportive parent to Franklin - right up until someone suggests that Franklin might want to come to Krakoa and explore his mutant identity, at which point she goes full Karen and starts lashing out with her powers. Chip Zdarsky, the writer, explicitly compared Reed and Sue to liberal parents who support gay rights in the abstract until their kid comes out as trans and wants to spend time in LGBT+ spaces.

#marvel #marvel meta #xmen #xmen meta #mutant metaphor #krakoa #avengers #fantastic four

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rudhira · 2 years

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bokatan · 9 months

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2, 9, 33, 41, and 42 for all

[ sixty-nine more questions for your ttrpg characters ]

2: what was your original concept for this character? how did playing them change that concept?

Mercy: So for starters- she's been my default player character in games for a few years, but I'm mainly drawing from her RDR2 version here to go along with the NV cowboy vibes. I started using her in this context as a vague namedrop in Reed’s backstory but then I realized she’d be a fun courier, so I started working her backstory out more and making everything connect. She actually had another FO4 version before I made Reed- it's not part of her canon now, but she was my first sole and I had a little thing going where she was a gen3 synth that got outed to the BOS alongside Danse.

Reed: I wanted a cute barbie doll to dress up, & I heard that the game has a different feel with a male sole so I wanted to see for myself(whoever told me that was 100% correct). His personality basically fleshed itself out and a lot of his little quirks are tied to various mods I use for him + glitches/bugs I've run into while playing the game. I actually pulled a bit from FO3 too- I started playing it for the first time a few weeks after I started my first FO4 Reed save. I unintentionally ran straight into the Anchorage DLC, hated it, and then decided that Reed was getting slapped with that as his prewar background out of spite. Prior to that, he was supposed to just be a generic BOS soldier that came in from the Capitol Wasteland rather than the actual sole survivor. I also had a thing set up with him and Charon for a minute- at one point he was going to have more significant FO3 ties and I had Charon as his main companion, but that idea was scrapped after I worked out the whole Dogmeat thing.

Delta: Their concept is heavily tied into the other two’s- I wanted to harass Reed with a few tropes about being haunted by his past & exes coming back wrong, and at the time Mercy was still a vague figure in Reed’s backstory with a sketchy prewar career rather than an actual character that turns up later in Reed's storyline. As far as their personality goes, they started off with a lot of my original SoSu Mercy's concepts + her gay thing with Isabel from the Automatron DLC and I tacked on some Far Harbor tie-ins later on. Basically I wanted a companion option that could hack terminals, worked well alongside my best girl Ada and wouldn't judge my stockpiling, fit into my favorite DLCs, and that I could harass Reed with.

9: when in their life were they most scared?

Mercy: After leaving the Enclave. She was on the run for about a year before she even stopped anywhere for more than a day or two, and by that point she was halfway through Wyoming. She’s still very wary of letting people know about that background & she wants nothing to do with other Enclave deserters and remnants

Reed: He’s lowkey terrified when he gets to a point where he knows he’s ghoulifying but denies it; that goes on for a good 6-8 months before he finally starts coming to terms with it. One of his biggest fears is losing self autonomy and the whole ghoulification thing hits very close to that for him

Delta: I'm just going with the times that they remember, so: helping Reed swap High Confessor Tektus with a synth replacement in Far Harbor, and infiltrating the Prydwen with Reed to help plant explosives. The latter was significantly more stressful since they were using Reed's power armor as a disguise- they both lucked out that nobody questioned why Reed was 1: running around with another paladin, and 2: on the Prydwen rather than at the airport where he was supposed to be

33: what artistic medium are they most drawn to?

answered for all three here!

41: how do you keep notes for this character, if at all?

I have all of their general info, stats, etc up on my carrd + obnoxiously organized tags on here. They also each have their own giant docs with everything in my drive. Reed’s and Mercy’s are both pushing 10 pages now because they have detailed storylines and timelines, relationship outlines, etc etc. It’s super cluttered, it’s extremely messy, there’s things on there that probably only make sense to me, and it’s never being shared anywhere in that format because it’s the digital equivalent of me scribbling in a notebook lmao

42: can they dance?

They're all about average here- Mercy's probably the best out of the three but she's not a dancer or anything, she's just small and light on her feet - same goes for Delta.

#ask games #thank you!<3 #only answering this 600 years later. it's fine don't worry this definitely didn't get stuck in drafts hell #reed tag #mercy tag #delta tag

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telleroftime · 2 years

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