Why does Marvel Editorial always make a minority/mutants the “bad guys” in major crossovers?
Copied and pasted from a friend in the FB group House of X because I agree with this. It seems like we've progressed, but the cultural zeitgeist still thinks it's best that the marginalized are a continual problem:
"Why is it that whenever there's a crossover in Marvel involving mutants, it inevitably boils down to a minority group seeking to not be killed or achieving something that amends the harms done to them and literally everyone else in the Marvel Universe considering that a problem worthy of violence?
AvX: Mutants await the Phoenix to revive their dying species which was obliterated in an act of genocide, and humans who don't know anything about the Phoenix invade their territory and put their kids in concentration camps. But mutants are the bad guys.
IvX: A poisonous cloud is circling the globe and horribly deadly to mutants caught in its path. The X-Men destroy the cloud to save mutant lives, and their leader is branded a monster and the Inhumans attack them. The Inhumans need that cloud to maintain their classist social hierarchy, but mutants are the bad guys here for not wanting to die.
AXE: Mutants have found a way to resurrect themselves and any mutant who has died, like the millions of mutants murdered in an act of genocide. This makes the Avengers angry for some reason, humans demand by violent protest to be given this technology even though it doesn't work on humans (and despite the mutants giving them life-saving wonder medications that cure every affliction known to mankind for free). But mutants are the bad guys here.
We keep seeing this pattern: An oppressed minority group wants to live. They're bad guys for doing it without permission. They want to not die. They're wrong to save themselves. They find a way to help and heal themselves. Everyone else is angry that they don't get access, too.
Why are mutants, a minority group, cast a villainous or morally ambiguous for trying to survive?
In not one of these stories do the Avengers behave in any way I would consider heroic, despite the editorial bent wanting to clearly cast them as the protagonists. This keeps happening too much under too many authors to be a coincidence. What is Marvel's editorial leadership really all about?"
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How and why is Jean not an Omega Level telekinetic?
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I mean, same, buddy.
Source: A.X.E.: X-Men (2022) #1, by Kieron Gillen and Francesco Mobili
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Marvel Graphic Novel #38: Silver Surfer Judgment Day by John Buscema
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