Why do people hate the X-Men when they love the Avengers and the Fantastic Four?
Andrew Ingle supports an interesting theory, one that works inside the Marvel Universe: “The people love superheroes. They dress up in spandex and save the world! They’re celebrities to them, brilliant, beautiful celebrities. And you can see Cap or someone when they’re coming. You KNOW they’re Cap. Their powers are their powers and that’s what lets them protect the world. They get their abilities for a reason. However, a mutant is someone born with their powers, and they DON’T always dress up in Spandex and advertise it. When you walk down the street, you don’t know whether the person across the crosswalk will spontaneously shoot you with poisonous acid blasts from his eyeballs. Anyone can be a mutant, but only Johnny Storm is The Human Torch. The fact that mutants can be anyone is what scares people.” As for the plots, Peter Lidkis reminds us, “There is hatred for mutants in the MU. The difference is that Avengers is not THE book that focuses on it. It only occassionally looks in on t
