With mutantkind there are rational fears and irrational bigotry. Unfortunately the Marvel universe treats both perspectives the same.
I gotta agree with ya there. I like this story and the movie that it spawned, X2, but I gotta say; I really started to sympathize with the humans in the X-Men Universe when I really thought about how dangerous mutants really are. The racism/homophobia angle doesn't really stick too well when you think about the fact that Magneto has Earth's entire electromagnetic field at his disposal, Storm has the very weather at hers and has caused terrifying hurricanes when she was pissed, Wolverine is a freakin loose cannon with a healing factor with impossibly sharp metal claws, and let's not forget Professor X and the fact that he has abused his abilities before.
Real black people (and I am one) can't completely move the entire Golden Gate Bridge with our minds on a whim or destroy entire cities by simply sneezing. Slavery would have ended MUCH sooner if we could. XD
Rather than being about how racism and homophobia is wrong, the X-Men seems to be more about how humans are impossibly stupid and have death wishes, seeing as they keep picking on and pissing off these walking people of mass destruction. Seriously, would you piss off a guy who can blow things up by touching them?
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