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Does Galactus count? I never read that series, so I dunno if he counts as 'deadbeat'.
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Exit Strategy posted:I'm just saying that if I need a permit to carry a pistol, maybe the government should have oversight over the man with laser eyes that can cut buildings in half. You know. Know where he lives, maybe do a criminal background check before he's allowed in public, stuff like that?
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Exit Strategy posted:I'm just saying that if I need a permit to carry a pistol, maybe the government should have oversight over the man with laser eyes that can cut buildings in half. You know. Know where he lives, maybe do a criminal background check before he's allowed in public, stuff like that? Moving the metaphor for mutants to homosexuality rather than race, haven't people tried to make this argument about people with AIDS on account of those deadly deadly blood cells they carry around?
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FredMSloniker posted:Does Galactus count? I never read that series, so I dunno if he counts as 'deadbeat'. Galactus and Galacta get along really well, actually. Just because he's always away on work doesn't make him a deadbeat.
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Fuego Fish posted:Galactus and Galacta get along really well, actually. Just because he's always away on work doesn't make him a deadbeat. Yeah, I mean, Gladiator just sent his kid to the worst boarding school, he's still involved with him though.
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Fuego Fish posted:Galactus and Galacta get along really well, actually. Just because he's always away on work doesn't make him a deadbeat. Don't tell me they actually put her in continuity.
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Elfface posted:Moving the metaphor for mutants to homosexuality rather than race, haven't people tried to make this argument about people with AIDS on account of those deadly deadly blood cells they carry around? Yeah, people have unironically argued for concentration camps for people with AIDS, along with religious right nutjobs saying AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality.
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Jul 3, 2017 16:38
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, people have unironically argued for concentration camps for people with AIDS, along with religious right nutjobs saying AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Yeah, pretty much pick a right winger from the 80's and you'll find those comments. Of course they were at the same time staunchly defending Apartheid, so hey, mutants get to be metaphors for lots of things. Speaking of, here's Cyclops and Havok wrasslin' from X-tinction Agenda, when Genosha was enslaving and getting all concentration camp-y with the Mutants from that era (I think this is where Havok ended up after going through the Seige Perilous?)  
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Kalli posted:Speaking of, here's Cyclops and Havok wrasslin' from X-tinction Agenda, when Genosha was enslaving and getting all concentration camp-y with the Mutants from that era (I think this is where Havok ended up after going through the Seige Perilous?) Blasting each other's clothes off is bad enough, but..."make each other stronger?" Are they pumping each other up? "Our daddy always taught us to be proud of our blasts, 'specially seeing as they're such a nice size and all."
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Jul 3, 2017 18:41
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Mutants are a Metaphor for any Oppressed Group really.
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Jul 3, 2017 20:36
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Mutants are to superheroes what oppressed minorities are to people.
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Jul 3, 2017 21:37
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The best was when mutants were a standin for the homeless and mentally ill and then they got tired of that so they drowned them all.
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Jul 3, 2017 21:42
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makoto20 posted:In that specific case it's the Fantastic Four's money and Johnny's Storms natural charisma. If Johnny had no powers he'd still be a well loved competitve stock car racer who gets his face in the papers while the internet loathes him for "being famous for being famous. Sunspot is an unknown unlikable dickbag who bullied a kid for having powers that were useless in a fight. I remember Sunspot basically being a stereotypical hot-headed (lol pun) jerk in the early new mutants comics. I think he's had some character development since then, but comics do have a bad habit of forgetting about character development . Jerkass Sunspot. 
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He's more superbillionaire playboy these days. They kept his friendship with Sam pretty intact though. 
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Bongo Bill posted:Mutants are to superheroes what oppressed minorities are to people. People always talk about mutants being a minority or homosexuals, but it rarely comes up that mutants can be a stand in for youth.
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Open Marriage Night posted:People always talk about mutants being a minority or homosexuals, but it rarely comes up that mutants can be a stand in for youth. EDIT: You know what never mind.
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Synthbuttrange posted:He's more superbillionaire playboy these days. They kept his friendship with Sam pretty intact though. Also his love of Magnum P.I.
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Doesn't matter what they were when it was created, mutants are long past being a standin for anything.
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Kalli posted:The best was when mutants were a standin for the homeless and mentally ill and then they got tired of that so they drowned them all. Being killed in a genocide or mass extinction level event is like the second most common cause of death if you're a mutant in the Marvel comics.
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Alhazred posted:Being killed in a genocide or mass extinction level event is like the second most common cause of death if you
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Until an entire island populated with non-mutants are incinerated or ordinary people are put in concentration camps mutants are more at risk than any other Marvel character.
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Alhazred posted:Until an entire island populated with non-mutants are incinerated or ordinary people are put in concentration camps mutants are more at risk than any other Marvel character. Uncle Ben.
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Jul 4, 2017 18:14
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I remember well when the island full of Uncle Bens was genocided
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purple death ray posted:I remember well when the island full of Uncle Bens was genocided SHOCKER!!
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Every mutant is a clone of Uncle Ben.
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purple death ray posted:I remember well when the island full of Uncle Bens was genocided Is that why they no longer sell their cajun rice sauce? Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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purple death ray posted:I remember well when the island full of Uncle Bens was genocided Ah yes, Benosha
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Dacap posted:Ah yes, Benosha 
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Dacap posted:Ah yes, Benosha
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Dacap posted:Ah yes, Benosha We should all strive to be more like Dacap.
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Dacap posted:Ah yes, Benosha holy poo poo dude
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Dacap posted:Ah yes, Benosha 
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Game recognize game.
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Alhazred posted:Until an entire island populated with non-mutants are incinerated or ordinary people are put in concentration camps mutants are more at risk than any other Marvel character. Everyone in Paris died during Fear Itself (or at least they all got turned to stone, a bunch of the statues were broken and there was never any talk of turning them back), Paris has a comparable population to Genosha. Of course that never got brought up ever again and it's also not genocide.
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Skwirl posted:Everyone in Paris died during Fear Itself (or at least they all got turned to stone, a bunch of the statues were broken and there was never any talk of turning them back), Paris has a comparable population to Genosha. Of course that never got brought up ever again and it's also not genocide. Odin turned them back. In the marvel universe the casualties in Paris were equal to a Wednesday in New York
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Everyone forgets when Hickman had Perth get hit by a evolution asteroid from Mars in his Avengers.
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TwoPair posted:Everyone forgets Perth and people say comics aren't realistic.
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Alhazred posted:Until an entire island populated with non-mutants are incinerated or ordinary people are put in concentration camps mutants are more at risk than any other Marvel character. Well, there was that one time when half the entire world was killed.
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There's always Slorenia. And Busiek had Kang blow up Washington DC. Did that kill everyone there? It's been a while since I read the Kang Dynasty. (I love that title for the storyline.) prefect fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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