I really don't get the anti Mutant sentiment in comics anymore. You have all these superpowered beings, including ones like Hulk and Sentry that are mentally unstable and also Very capable of destroying the world. Some get their powers from chemicals. Some are aliens. Some are cyborgs or pure robots. But those are all fine, just hate on the ones who get powers from a genetic mutation. For some reason.
the allegory sorta doesnt work yea but also i think it's more mutants are considered unstable. Captain america is seen as a symbol and likely tied to the government (often seen as a symbol of security). People like thor are gods and iron man is a scientist. These are things that can mostly be anticipated. It's the same reason why hulk was often seen as a potential threat. When people cannot foresee something, they often fear it
Yeah, but then you have teams like the Power Pack or Future Foundation, which have two dinosaur-like characters on their team, and everyone is OK with them 😅
In a world of sentient robots, sorcerers, living gods, and cosmic entities just wanting a hamburger, hating on mutants is just dumb and a waste of everything lol.
The creepy thing about this comic is that the wild sentinels turn a plane into a fist and then ram it into the sky scraper Magneto is in. This happens in issue 3 of E for extinction, issue one dropped in May 2001, issue 3 dropped in July 2001. In September 2001 terrorists fly planes into the World Trade Center, an attack that nobody had ever seen before but was depicted in the comic a little over a month before it happened RL.
Yeah. It's...a little concerning, to be honest. That and some of his views on societal issues represented in comics tend to lean towards fascism as a solution. If you're aware of it, you're kind of self-inoculated, but I can easily see a younger comic fan thinking that his view on things is totally reasonable. I love his excitement for stories though, its very contagious.
Grant Morrison’s run was after the X-Men film. This run was Marvel’s response to the film’s popularity. Especially because they weren’t making money on the films.
I don't get how they literally didn't see 4 kaiju-sized robot monstrosities heading their way; even if they were coming in via the ocean, there would have been tremors, and tidal waves...
You would think that an island nation of 16 million+ would have its own military or militia to defend against such threats. Even if the majority of the mutant population has benign or crap powers, they should at least have access to normal weaponry.
Professor X Charles Xavier is & always has been Marvel's greatest SuperVillain. Read Xavier's dialog & keep up with him & since the 70's Xavier has been a monster
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg - Opinions, vary. A LOT of people didn't like what it did to Magneto! I think that Magneto's story should have ended after either X-Men #3 (Chris Claremont's final issue.) or at the end of the Fatal Attractions storyline. But the Xorn twist was a classic, and Planet X did have some really good moments here and there.
Humans almost went extinct many times, usually from disease or from hunting available food to extinction. Interestingly, the carrying capacity for humans on earth is less than a million without farming.
@@R.A.M222when civilizations fail, hunter gatherers survive. When civilizations rise hunter gatherers die off, but never fully. Its a cycle thats been happening for at least 12000 years.
"You know that helmet in the films that Xavier uses to detect mutants? It all started with Grant Morrison" Wtf? Grant Morrison didn't invent Cerebro. Where the hell did you get that idea? Cerebro has been a thing in the comics LITERALLY since the X-Men's creation in the 1960's. Grant Morrison's run started in the early 2000s (I want to say 2003, because I was reading them as they came out back then and then I moved countries and for a few months and couldn't get them until I learned where things were in London, and that was 2004). Seriously, if you actually did research or have read the issues where this stuff is all literally on the page, you'd know this. C'mon, man, this is BASIC STUFF, and you claim to be a so-called expert... Hell, Cerebro was in the early 90's animated series, at least a decade before Morisson's run, and even then it had already been around for three decades! It's a bit suspect that these basic knowledge errors happen a lot, especially with regards to your X-Men videos. It genuinely comes across that you have literally just read these issues and make a video about them without actual knowledge of a lot of characters or concepts and their history.
17:33 I don’t think this is the first appearance of super negasonic teenage warhead. I think she first appeared in the story where Cassandra Nova attacked the X-Mansion and made her appear to Kitty Pride telling her that she dreamt that Kitty lost control of her powers and phased deep into the earth. I believe it was later revealed that she and the others attacking the X-Men were all just projections made my Cassandra’s powers but I think that still counts as her first appearance.
Whenever the onslaught of tragic storylines gets me down, I will intentionally search out some of my favorite X-men issues. The ones when they are playing baseball or attending a wedding or drinking at a bar or having a Christmas celebration or something. I know it’s cheesy and it’s just a fictional universe but it makes me happy that these characters sometimes get that reprieve where they can just have a good day enjoying each other’s company
Except they DID catch a break! They got their own country, their own planet and everything! EDITORIAL JUST DECIDED TO RUIN THAT LAST YEAR TO MATCH UP WITH THE UPCOMING MCU SYNERGY! AND I HATE THEM SO MUCH FOR IT
Wouldn't Sentinels made the size of attack dogs make way more sense and be way deadlier? For every one 5 story Sentinel you could make hundreds of not thousands of small Sentinels multiplying the number of targets to destroy and making them harder to hit.
It's been a long time, and I haven't regularly been reading Marvel Comics enough to know much about this Cassandra Nova. Does she think she's one of the *good* mutants? Or does she want to kill off every mutant in the world including herself, eventually?
I actually read this storyline when it came out and enjoyed it quite a bit. Also liked Ugly John a lot - I'm pissed they killed him off. Then they did Cassandra Nova's horrible origin story, and completely ruined her character. I won't spoil it. I just want to forget it again.
Kinda wish all comics had a page at the beginning saying whose in the comic with a picture. Sometimes I'm going pagea trying to figure out who is who. I think i only have one that have done it, but it would be great
For as often as they "kill" the same characters over and over, I'm surprised and a little disappointed that they didn't have a dead SpiderMan somewhere in this story.
I think she will try this genocide in the Deadpool 3 and TVA wants Deadpool and Wolverine to Stop her.The only difference will be this time she targets multiverse instead of mutants.
That's ridiculous like seriously, all of them together can't figure out a way to destroy 4 sentinels, like they could destroy 2 at least, like seriously it's plot Armor lvl 99999 it's ridiculous
I can't stand Cassandra Nova, even worse it is so easy to kill mutants, they have the ability to put up a better defense and offense but it is rare and never as a group when they are grouped they are cattle in front of blades.
Cassandra Nova is way more powerful than Xavier since he overpowered him while he was using cerebro which amplifies the power of the user exponentially
We need the next part!!! Morrison’s arch is wild. Scott having to put that guy out to pasture was so haunting, those tense-decision moments that readers don’t get time to sit with before moving to something even crazier make for a wild story.
all this is insanity I'm so glad I'm not at all invested in this crap anymore. genocide is not a game for comic books to play. fuck I hfway still have a bit of PTSD from X-Men 30 years ago. who needs to be put through these nightmare hellscape storylines? glad few kids are reading this stuff
