The X-Men stories look very unrealistic for me. I'm convinved that if mutabnts existed in reality the government would either had put them under the strictest control or destroyed completely.
Well, both those scenarios have been played out over the years in the X-Men comics. The Genosha storyline in Uncanny X-men envisaged an island paradise that only existed because the mutant members of the population had been lobotomised and enslaved. There've been other stories of all-out race war between mutants and humans, including the release of a mutant-specific killer virus - and whole alternate universes where mutants were the rulers and the human population was being slowly exterminated.
The trouble with X-Men of course is that it's an ongoing series (since the 1960s) and so they have to keep trying to find new ways to approach the question.
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Date: 2007-06-11 09:35 am (UTC)Well, both those scenarios have been played out over the years in the X-Men comics. The Genosha storyline in Uncanny X-men envisaged an island paradise that only existed because the mutant members of the population had been lobotomised and enslaved. There've been other stories of all-out race war between mutants and humans, including the release of a mutant-specific killer virus - and whole alternate universes where mutants were the rulers and the human population was being slowly exterminated.
The trouble with X-Men of course is that it's an ongoing series (since the 1960s) and so they have to keep trying to find new ways to approach the question.