#tolerance is extinction

[fakedimebag]

I am UGLY CRYING in the club right now. Inconsolable after this week's X-Men '97 finale.

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[bluevallery]

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[mutant-ninja-anole]

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[nicholasmoorethetwittermigrant]

Not to be crass, but after months and months of stupid right-wing grifters handwringing about how “they deleted Rogue’s ass,” having this shot in the finale is bizarrely cathartic.

#animation #x men 97 #xmen #rogue #anne marie #bastion #gambit #tolerance is extinction #disney+ #marvel

[fionapplespiano]

HIS NAME WAS GAMBIT. REMEMBER IT!

#they. are. soulmates #get Bastion’s bitch ass! #x men 97 #x men 97 spoilers #tolerance is extinction #rogue #Anna Marie #Gambit #remy lebeau #bastion

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

"Charles invading Magneto's mind (an act Magneto's right to call a violation) leaves Erik stranded in the literal freezing waters of his lifelong PTSD. Those tumultuous ocean waves, an obvious metaphor for Erik's mind, threaten to sweep both Erik and Charles away. 'Both' is Episode 10's key word. Charles Xavier could've easily consigned Magneto to his agony and gone about his business. Instead, he makes a choice simultaneously selfless and selfish. He doesn't fight Bastion (Theo James) with his X-Men. He stays in Magneto's mind and risks not just his own life, but his psyche. Even though the gesture doesn't excuse Charles's mental attack, he seizes this rare opportunity to help his beloved friend escape his emotional torment. Charles Xavier will either drag Erik free or drown with him, holding him close in the seething ocean.

"Charles is the only person capable of reaching Magneto because they're equals and opposites. Call them polar magnets or counterbalancing scale weights — or just soulmates. They complete one another, overused Jerry Maguire quote or not. Magneto hears Rogue's (Lenore Zann) distraught voice crying out to him in his amnesiac darkness. Hers is the only face he sees from his memories. Yet without erasing or diminishing his obvious love for Rogue, Erik also adores Charles. He has for decades. Even when they were physically apart, Charles rested in Erik's mind. Blocking out Xavier's influence is why Magneto wears his helmet. As Rogue wisely points out to Erik in Episode 2, 'You were worried if you still felt how much he loved you, you wouldn't be able to go through with your crusade.' That helmet is Magneto's armor against love.

"So, of course, it's Charles who reminds his fragmented self of the identity he forged from the ashes. Charles's compassion succeeds for the first time not because X-Men '97 backpedals their 'Magneto was right' statement in Xavier's favor. Rather, Charles finally works to meet Erik where he is. Erik might be an island because of and despite himself, but his fate needn't be forever lost and always losing. Charles reminds him they are a chosen family of two. He bleeds the poison from Erik's heart. And Magneto emerges reborn, reclaiming himself, his memories, and his purpose. He couldn't have a true redemption arc without Charles at his side."

#cherik #professor x #professor xavier #magneto #x-men 97 #erik magnus lehnsherr #charles francis xavier #collider #rogue #rogueneto #kelcie mattson #spoilers #episode 10 #tolerance is extinction #hyperfixation

[kikirumbleroom]

I have not finished watching the new episode but I am already seething that they've returned to villainizing Magneto. Like I get it--he shut down the power..but calling him a 'bad' guy, threatening to kill him without even trying to speak with him [i'm looking at you, wolverine].

The man actively tried to do better. To be better. He proved himself he is capable and showed he can be helpful. Instead of taking all that into account, they're back to seeing the worst--which I can see from past patterns I guess--but it is still maddening. The man suffered trauma upon trauma, was there at Genosha. Granted they don't know he was captured by Bastion, not one of them even think to show some empathy for the man [so far at least]. They're all ready to return to labeling him as a 'villain'.

Like fuck off. And what's worse just before he resurfaced, everyone was saying: Magneto warned us. He said it repeatedly. They pretty much understood what he was saying all the damn time.

And while I'm not saying condone his actions to kill the earth [tho justified tbh], show him some understanding. How can you agree and understand the man one day and then turn around and suddenly say such stupid, superficial nonsense about killing him etc.

#x men 97 #xmen 97 spoilers #xmen animated series #magneto rant #[i honestly want to slap the entire xmen rn] #tolerance is extinction #episode 9

[cryptovalid]

The politics of Operation Zero Tolerance

If you've followed X-men '97, you know that's it's more than competently executed nostalgia-bait. It's a deconstruction of the original ideological framework of the X-men. I'll be riffing off of the way that Operation Zero Tolerance mirrors real world alt-right ideology and where the show might lead this theme. Spoilers ahead up to episode 8. It's a long one.

So the reflections of the January 6th insurrection, Great Replacement conspiracy and stochastic terrorism are pretty spot on. But what do the Prime candidates actually believe?

Mutants are constantly referred to as 'the next step in human evolution'. This frightens some non-mutants, who see themselves being replaced. Their solution is to subjugate mutants.

I want to focus on some of the ways this doesn't make sense first.

1. Evolution doesn't have well defined 'next steps': every new generation is slightly different from the previous, so that over time new traits will emerge and become common, and others will become less widespread. In the comics, this is not why mutants exist: the are the result of alien tampering with human dna: the Celestials implanted the X-gene in some humans. So 'mutants' are demonstrably just a strain of humanity, and the main reason humans have mutant babies is that their own genes are getting expressed in a new way.

2. No amount of control or violence can stop this. The rate at which mutants appear isn't even dependent on their own reproductive success since most mutants have human parents.

We don't know why more and more mutants are being born now, but OZT will not stop this. It's not even their goal. When they say human being are being 'replaced', they actually mean replaced as the ruling class of the planet. Bastion's 'utopia' doesn't have less mutants being born, just used as slave labor.

This really puts the anxiety of OZT into focus: they want to maintain privilege. They aren't really being 'replaced', any more than older generations are always 'replaced' by younger generations. They are primarily afraid that mutants will render them obsolete in the labor market. But if mutants can be forced to do unpaid labor for their benefit, that doesn't threaten them.

The way this parallels the rhetoric of the alt right is striking. Obviously, the reasons why jobs are moving overseas are different: colonized populations are more exploitable by capital. But the fears are the same: my children are different from me, and if I'm not valued for my labor, I will become poor. Like OZT, the alt right also chooses to enact violence even though it won't solve either of these issues. the MAGA-crowd threatens non-conformity and asserts its dominance to maintain its relative privilege over other groups. This is why it's all culture war stuff. The alt right isn't interested in striking to improve conditions for workers, it will attack immigrants and minorities they perceive as competition. Never the bosses that make the hiring decisions. It's scapegoating.

Even child and slave labor are on the table. Because again, this 'economic anxiety' isn't triggered by other people doing the work, just by other people getting money, care and respect that they feel they are owed.

It's not the solution that matters to OZT or the alt right: it's the catharsis of violence and control. It's interesting that OZT actually has a better point: mutants are inherently better at some jobs, some mutants ARE inherently dangerous. Their anxiety is way more warranted.

And I think that is what makes OZT hit so hard as an allegory: it is a steel man version of every bigot's rhetoric, and it is horrifying.

Where might the show take this theme? I don't think the show will end with the X-men fighting Magneto, as that would undermine the show's thematic support for his ideals. Magneto might be defeated, but that will not be the finale. I think the institutional support for OZT will be the closing statement.

The events of episode 8 will be blamed on the X-men. There's just too many ways that a sleeper that Wolverine cut to ribbons can be spun and Bastion has stated multiple times that he understands the optics of martyring mutants. In my opinion this explains how the primes failed to kill a single X-man, even though Trask could take down the whole team.

This twist will (I think) be used to set up the Avengers as the final threat: the X-men try to reason with Magneto, the Avengers attack him, and maybe Xavier erases Magneto's memory as a prelude to Onslaught.

Onslaught can then lead into Heroes Reborn; when Onslaught threatens to kill the Avengers and Fantastic Four, Franklin Richards creates a parallel universe, where they live out their lives in blissfull ignorance of mutants. I believe this could explain why the MCU does not have mutants: it's the Heroes Reborn Universe (The FF could live in a separate universe).

So how to put a button on OZT? I don't think that they will end as a political force (these ideas will remain relevant in the fiction as in the real world). I think the show will obviously set up a fight with Bastion, but the ideological refutation will have to come from Mrs. Da Costa. She is the poster child of an apathetic liberal, who will only support mutants in fashionable ways. If she ends the series giving up her social status to save her son, perhaps even dying, it will thematically reinforce the need for allies to be traitors of their own privilege.

This ties in with my final speculation. This is a weird one and a reach. We have not seen Roberto Da Costa's father. We also don't know where Bastion's father is (who is essentially Nimrod). Is it possible that they are half-brothers? Emmanuel Da Costa is a prominent anti-mutant member of the Hellfire Club, and it's strange he hasn't shown up yet. Honestly, this could possibly explain why Roberto is so light-skinned. Which I do not want to make excuses for otherwise.

#x men 97 #Bastion #operation zero tolerance #Tolerance is extinction #roberto da costa

[reelvibes91]

X-Men '97: A New Era of Animated Brilliance"

It's no secret Marvel has been struggling to find their footing since the end of the Avengers saga. Now that X-Men 97 has released, it seems like things may be shifting back in a positive direction for Marvel.

97 is the type of series that baits you with Nostalgia and then delivers much more than you could ever expect. It takes a lot of the same themes the X-Men have always had present and moderinzes them for today's world.

The visuals in this series are some of the best we have ever seen. On par with other modern superhero animated content in terms of animation. It surpasses most in terms of writing and fleshed out story. There were obviously stand-out moments such as episode 5 and some weaker moments such as the Lifedeath storyline. However, overall, this series was impressive.

It had a lot more emotion than I ever expected it would carry. Some scenes were very heavy in terms of grief and character development in unexpected ways. That is what more content needs to do. Hook us with the bait and do more unexpected things to make sure we are not just getting the same old content on repeat.

X-Men has always had incredible themes such as acceptance, loss, family, and politics. We get to see a lot of that here with the episodes that focus on the UN and Genosha and how the human race views Mutants. It's not stuff we have not seen before, just not this well written. This show brings it to another level.

When it comes down to the team itself, they are well ultilized. Cyclops has always been my favorite X-Men, and this show really brought his powers and character to new heights. He was given the struggle of choosing between staying with the X-Men or pursuing the idyllic family life. Gambit and Rogue were used to perfection, leading into the big episode 5 ending that completely blew me away and shocked me.

The three part finale was very well made as well and provides insight into what the next season will look like. Long-time X-Men fans will be waiting with anticipation for this massive story, which should definitely bring more heartbreak and destruction to the world of both humans and mutants alike.

Everything about this show works because there was a clear vision that shaped the season. What happens at the beginning still matters at the end. While the animated series of old were great, there seemed to be less narrative flow throughout. 97 held strong to the themes they set out to explore and created a cohesive and strong story to get from point a to point b. With that strong storytelling, it is now just a quick jump back into season 2 and more compelling storylines if all systems keep firing the same way they did for the first season.

#X-Men 97 #beau demayo #Marvel Studios #Cyclops #scott summers #Jean Grey #rogue #Gambit #Remember It #tolerance is extinction

[afaimscorner]

Magneto was right

I could write a whole essay about why the fact that Magneto was right in "X-Men: First Class" made that one into the worst X-Men-Movie ever and why on the other hand the fact that Magneto war right in "X-Men' 97" makes that show into the best Comic Adapation of the last twenty years. But I don't see the need for that. You either get why that's the case or you don't, it is as simple as that.

#X-Men #x men 97 #tolerance is extinction

[blamgranules]

You best pray our children read their textbooks more than their Bibles, for only history could be conned into forgiving us.

#black Panther #x men 97 #tolerance is extinction

[fakedimebag]

Magneto talking about what he experienced on Genosha to Charles was heartbreaking. But most of all, it did what most forms of media have failed to do from Magneto's point of view. It showed just how justified he is in his actions.

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[thingsasbarcodes]

X-Men '97 1x10 - Tolerance is Extinction - Part 3

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[isagrimorie]

[initial reactions] X-Men 97 1x10 - Tolerance is Extinction, part 3

Damn. X-Men 97 season 1 stuck the landing.

Also, nothing whatsoever in this episode has discouraged me from shipping Charles and Erik. I swear Charles was thisclose to kissing Erik.

But also, Charles Xavier, what a Dick.

I get that it was for the good of Earth and Humanity to fix the magnetic poles but also what a dangerously cold move to enter Magneto’s mind and control him.

It made both of them vulnerable and I’m glad they’re both stuck together in the past. I hope there’s more of a fallout for what Charles did to Erik.

Jean and Scott being in Nathan’s/Cable’s life all along is really great.

And Morph confessed their love for Logan but using Jean’s look because that’s the only way Morph thinks Logan can accept that love. (Also, way over Logan’s feelings for Jean. Let that end please).

I wish Storm had more to do.

Anyway X-Men is constantly everyone facing the consequences of their own actions.

Love the set-up for season 2 with the team scattering across time.

#x men 97 spoilers #tv: x-men 97 #tolerance is extinction

[rrdcooc]

Me rewatching Tolerance Is Extinction, Part 2 (for the third time) - Oh my god, the sky on the Gold Team's mission is gold, and the spacescape for the Blue Team's mission is midnight blue... ;u;

#X Men 97 #Tolerance Is Extinction #OPs

[ultradude13]

X-Men '97 Episode 9 "Tolerance Is Extinction-part 2" by Butcher Billy

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