LogFAQs > #891677477

The general complaint seems to be "why are x group with superpowers beloved but y group with superpowers hated?"

A couple of counterarguments:

1) There are several Marvel heroes who DON'T have good publicity who aren't X-Men. Spider-Man, especially early on in his career. Ghost Rider. Daredevil. Hulk. The Thing. Recent characterizations of the Inhumans lend towards this. Namor (even before he became an official X-Men member). The only ones who actually have GOOD publicity are members of one of two major groups: The Avengers and The Fantastic Four.

The Avengers is a government agency led by the literal poster boy for truth, justice and the American way and who is a literal war hero. Before that, it was led by multi-billionaire and industrialist Tony Stark. The Fantastic Four, on the other hand, already had good publicity before they even became superheroes simply due to them being well-renowned scientists, astronauts, etc., and even THEN, those two groups both have members who were feared and/or hated.

2) Humans fear mutants precisely because of the fear that mutants will take over the human species as the dominant species. That's not a fear with the Captain America, who was manmade, or the Fantastic Four, where the event that resulted in them can be prevented, without resorting to eugenics or mass genocide. Mutants, however, are naturally occurring, and there's not a damn thing humanity can do to stop mutants from breeding and creating more without a) sterilizing all of them or b) killing ANYBODY who possesses the X-gene, which includes non-mutants.

"But people can't tell who's a mutant and who's not!"

No they can't make that distinction. But as established, they generally distrust anybody who isn't an Avenger or Fantastic Four member. Spider-Man, Hulk, etc., might as well be lumped in with the X-Men.

3) Civil War DID happen, and it caused people to be fearful of ANY superpowered person, mutant or not, unless they revealed themselves publicly to the world and registered as an agent of the government.
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