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bfslick50 posted...

Mutants with powers not helpful in a fight by and large still have a power that can be used somehow to get an advantage in a capitalist society and make bank.

How does looking like a chicken help someone? Or having really saggy skin. Most mutants just have things like that, pointy ears, a long neck, 20 fingers on each hand and stuff like that.

In universe it's supposedly rather rare for a mutant to even have a "power" and ever rarer for that power to be useful in any meaningful ways. Like how useful would it be to cry acid tears? Or constantly be excreting mucus from your body? To taste things with your feet?

We don't see a ton of those things going on because the series focuses on the X-Men and Brotherhood guys. Xavier's school is there to teach them how to control their potentially dangerous powers, and Magneto would only recruit useful ones. The rest are just out there struggling to live, and being beaten to death and rejected by society.

The protests and terrorist attacks we see in the episode aren't targeted at the X-Men or the Brotherhood. It's targeted at mutants in general. The guy in the video is talking to Cyclops, but he's not talking about him.