You know as time goes on, I begin to side with Trask more and more about the "mutant problem". At the end of the day mutants are just assholes with a HUGE ego, a science experiment Celestials tinkered with, and they have the gall to self-proclaim as the next step in human evolution when we all know that's a lie. Hell every future with mutants is a hellscape.
On a similar topic; what the fuck was Trask and the US government thinking with the Sentinel program? I get it, giant robots are cool, but billion dollar giant plastic automatons aren't exactly practical in an urban setting.
Granted the concept, like a lot of things, originally was built on "this is cool" over "does this make sense?". I guess the initial design was to maximize firepower and physical strength considering how versatile mutants are. But time and again their size has proven to be counterproductive, and more expensive. Moreover, where is the Sentinel program strictly a mutant deterrent? Didn't Stark make his own Sentinels once? 2099 is a relatively stable future......kind of. Well compared to mutant futures it is.
I’ve always felt that X-Men was wasted as a brand, and much as I liked the costumes and such, I could never immerse myself because the Mutant Allegory is horseshit and Muties are a danger to humanity.
Kevin Martin
I feel like modern comics has them as disposable mooks but they felt more scary when Claremont used them. They always seemed to be in fewer numbers and needed group tactics to take them down.
I'm going to get so much shit for saying this but I prefer the X-Men living in their own little bubble universe away from other Marvel IPs. That, and I wish a few characters from X-Men weren't mutants thus associated with them. There are days were I wish Wolverine was simply an escaped government experiment.
>I'm going to get so much shit for saying this but I prefer the X-Men living in their own little bubble universe away from other Marvel IPs Get in shit for it? Someone says this everytime someone brings up X-Men. Honestly it is a very widely held opinion.
In fact: I am gonna get in more shit by saying that X-Men should be in the Marvel universe. The biggest problem they have is that they made more sense in the Claremont era than they do now. When the Marvel universe felt smaller, mutants worked. The reason why mutants don't work now is there are far too many shit superheroes that have been made and bloated the whole Marvel universe.
>There are days were I wish Wolverine was simply an escaped government experiment. This has less to do with bubble universe and far more to do with the runaway popularity of a character leading to him being overexposed. Wolverine as part of a team for a few mini series back in the day was great.
I agree, but not because >Muh ‘Vengers not hater why it b like dat for Muh Muggas It’s because the line cannot progress with other superheroes. The X-Men won’t be able to get the public’s trust of 100 other super teams exist and aren’t a danger to their well-being.
Either way, my problems with the X-Men are different. They want to both have their cake and eat it too. Your characters can’t be overpowered supermodels yet be allegories for ghettoniggers. You cannot be the next step of human evolution and then have fucking Glob Herman demand equal rights and campaign for the right to have more Glob Hermans. For me, it should’ve been a clear story about nuclear/atomic fears filtered through themes of the Ubermensch.
Zachary Reyes
Well that, and its kind of hard to justify X-Men as misfits anymore
