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Angry Salami posted:On the other hand, Sublime as the source of anti-Mutant prejudice kind of undercuts the entire metaphor of mutants as an oppressed minority. People have got to remember that when Morrison did his take on Magneto all his criticisms of the character were correct. The noble and tragic anti-hero Magneto that Claremont invented who leads X-Men teams t had not been the character in a decade. The literal last arc before Morrison took over had Magneto ethnically cleansing populations and plotting to destroy humanity. The hostile reaction to Morrison's Magneto was in Defense of a character Morrison was not even really criticizing. Ironically Morrison is probably the man most responsible for Magneto being a sympathetic character again. And the most frustrating part is that Morrison gave them an out. They didn't have to make this convoluted Xorn's brother Xorn possessing Xorn nonsense. He outright stated in his arc that Magneto was under mind control via Pre-Cambrian bacteria. If you wanted to bring back sympathetic Magneto "being horrified at what Sublime tricked you into doing" is the perfect character arc for it. Plus I don't think Morrison meant Sublime was literally brainwashing all humans to hate mutants, but in how he was behind stuff like the U-Men and Weapon Plus, egging on tension and being the voice in the crowd that starts the chant that everyone else gets caught up in. Stuff like Sublime is actually something we need more of in X-Men but only ever gpt done by Morrison. That is, villains who aren't Bigots and their Robots or other Mutants. The idea that if Mutants were an evolutionary jump then their opponents should be reflective of that. Like competing post human species like Cassandra Nova, or the first organism desperate to prevent more fit species from evolving like Sublime.
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