Is Humanity Right to Fear the X-Men? | X-Men Video Essay

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  @marquiseemthembuu997 · 2 years ago

  Bastion: We are here to save you-<br><br>Civilian: Oh, thank God it&apos;s the sentinels.<br><br>Bastion: FROM YOURSELVES!<br><br>Civilians: Oh, God it&apos;s the sentinels.

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  @Robert-hz9bj · 2 years ago

  I mean, there&apos;s obviously a fine line between &quot;reasonable concern&quot; and &quot;outright bigotry,&quot; but honestly, yeah. &nbsp;Humans should be afraid of at least SOME mutants. &nbsp;Hell, there are some mutants that most other mutants should be afraid of. &nbsp;People like Magneto and Xavier can affect the world on a global scale. &nbsp;And despite all their claims to being SO different from humans, mutants are still subject to all the same moral and ethical failings of humankind. &nbsp;I wouldn&apos;t trust ANYONE with the power to literally shut-down the entire world&apos;s energy infrastructure in an instant, and I don&apos;t think that is an unfair position...

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  @thegamebusters5413 · 2 years ago

  So what if humanity dies out? Like seriously what is wrong with humans not being on the planet anymore? Mutants aren&apos;t killing them, their descendants will be mutants. What&apos;s so wrong with that?

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  @xaviong257459 · 2 years ago

  Jubilee: What did we ever do to you?<br><br>Graydon Creed: You were born!

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  @hodgepodgesyntaxia2112 · 2 years ago (edited)

  They one upped the idea of Captain America siding with mutants willingly.<br><br>Instead, the sentinels extended their genocidal movement to target all of humanity’s heroes (even those who’d been following the rules).<br><br>It was an interesting writing direction.

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  @MorganEdgy · 2 years ago

  Also, watching Dr. Doom complaining about war crimes is hilarious

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  @ofrundos · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PjMCeu0ADg&amp;t=1596">26:36</a> that is a problem with the way Marvel and in general superhero comics operate. The Xmen can&apos;t save the day on an Avengers comic and the Avengers can&apos;t save the day on a Xmen comic. They are characters that deserve their spotlight to take main stage in their own works. <br><br>But that, due to the nature of the Xmen civil rights theme, has the unintended side-effect of making the Avengers seem like bigots that side with the racist humans than with their mutant friends.

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  @MichaelAChristian1 · 2 years ago

  &quot;That is ILLOGICAL. MUTANTS ARE HUMAN!&quot;&apos;- Sentinel.

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  @CardboardArm · 2 years ago

  Xaviers lesson in episode 10 doesn&apos;t get talked about enough. The importance of self-love and self-care in the face of hatred. Magneto doesn&apos;t WANT to be right and Xavier knows this.

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  @kcalbnaes3919 · 2 years ago

  If I was a normal person in X-men I would be way more scared of the sentinels than I would be of mutants. Imagine your in a shopping mall and a giant f@cking robot comes crashing through the ceiling and starts destroying the place chasing after one guy because he can glow in the dark or something.

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  @Replica_Rabbit · 2 years ago

  Hmmm, if I live in the marvel universe. Mutants would be at the bottom of the list of my fears, I be wondering why they using on the mutants when there Aliens, Gods, Killer Robots, Kaiju, and etc attacking cities almost daily. So, I don&apos;t think it justified

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  @TheShockVox · 2 years ago (edited)

  The problem with X-Men being an allegory for racial bigotry (eventually changed to other allegories for other groups, in less fitting ways, I&apos;d argue in some cases) is mutants genuinely can be more dangerous. There&apos;s mutant named Nitr His power is he just BLOWS UP. ) In fact his blowing up is what really kicks off the even lt Civil War. That&apos;s terrifying. Or the mutant boy in ultimate X-Men who just naturally accidentally kills his whole town just by existing. (EDIT found out Nitro isn&apos;t a mutant in 616, only in the show wolverine and the xmen)

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