That's a problem I've been having with X-Men for a while.
I think this is because X-Men was the main cash cow for the publisher for so long. So the editors keep a really tight rein on the writers, the publishers can't figure out whether a title is good or just sells because Wolverine is on the cover, and the X-teams have to feature prominently in every crossover. Under those conditions it's tough to have any character development, let alone switch out the entire team every decade like Claremont did, and your continuity becomes increasingly dumb as bad writers' decisions are retconned immediately after they leave. It's tough to tell someone that there's a good X-Men title being printed, because as much as they try to insulate it, the characters are now so hopelessly tangled together that you feel like you need to pick up another 5 books to make sense of it all.Something Amyss said:
Then again the things you scenarios you mention tend to have respected people, Super Technology probably a genius, Science accident mostly likley a scientist, magic again probably someone who is experienced in magic or has ties in magic, Alien/God probably a whole race of them and the god probably already has a personality but not only do mutants have powers they are also time bombs whose powers range from shooting lasers to controlling the fabric of reality itself. The kid who tends to torture small cats could have powers similer to Magneto.Ukomba said:
They're not sabotaging them (Anymore then they've sabotaged anything by letting Bendis touch it.).Saelune said:
How's that different than all the non-mutant marvel villains? Ya, a psycho kid might end up with mutant powers, but a psycho kid might end up with super tech, demonic magic, or scienced into super powers. Some how, most Avengers get judged based on how they use their powers, where Mutants are automatically prejudiced against. Even when a Hero's powers are similar or near identical to Mutant powers, they're fine if they aren't actually a mutant. I'm not saying I don't get peoples fear of Mutants, I just don't get how to rationalize a fear of mutants while not fearing Scientists. Never know when any given Scientist in that universe could do something that results in themselves or someone else gaining super powers that might also cause psychosis.PapaGreg096 said:
Not every Scientist has superpowers but every mutant does also most of the time said psycho kid already has tied with super tech or demonic magic and most of the time they do something big with it, mutants meanwhile you can insult someone who might be a mutant and they could turn you into dust.Ukomba said:
They could also insult someone who might be a non-mutant villain and have the same thing happen. In fact, it seems like Mutants are more likely than non-mutants to have some sort of obvious physical identifier to show they have powers. The point being, mutants aside, there are plenty of cases of average joe's in the Marvel Universe getting powers. Some times good people, sometimes bad, some times good people are driven bad by it. Mutants might be slightly more common than other ways, but a lot of times the powers they get are a minor threat and some times just harmless disfigurements.PapaGreg096 said:
To me, you just summarized pretty much every comic book ever since ever. I mean, yeah, sometimes, you get a good writer, who for a few years, tells some really awesome stories, that propel that particular comic into something better than the average drab crap, but then that writer quits to do something else, and you get some other mediocre writer, who doesn't do shit with the material fo ryears, and it's back to what it always defaults to. Watered down storytelling with a revolving door cast, and no permanent change at all.Something Amyss said: