Stan Lee even said himself that he created the X-Men as a statement about bigotry and how everyone, no matter how different than you, has good in them. It's straight up an anti-discrimination metaphor. It doesn't get much more woke than that.

I don't like to use the word "woke" because it's become a conservative buzzword that has no real meaning anymore besides "something I don't like".

I grew up reading X-Men in the 80s and 90s, I watched the X-Men animated series when it came out and have watched it again in the last few years. Yes it is very progressive and liberal. That was the entire reason X-Men comics were created in the first place way back in 1963. It was originally meant to be a commentary on racism in America but has branched out to cover all sorts of liberal topics over the years

Anyone who tries to put some kind of right wing spin on the X-Men is either trolling you or is legitimately delusional

"x-men was never woke"

my god the first episode was literally about right wing fascists in government opposing civil rights while trying to put people on a registry and deploying sentinels to capture them and bring them to a slave island.

I'm just saying, the primary antagonist of the X-Men franchise was magneto. This is a man who will stop at nothing to either make all people into mutants, whether they want it or not, or destroy them for not being mutants.

On the human side, magneto was mostly fighting against people who would otherwise not care about him being a mutant, other than the fact that he's trying to kill them for not being a mutant.

Professor X is the staple of the show that defines it: where he fights in the Senate and other government institutions to have them respect the rights of mutants as people (which they are), and fights against magneto trying to kill everyone and take over, and on top of that, he gets flack from the Trump supporters anti mutant folks for being a mutant. The professor is fighting on all fronts to stop the prejudice and have all people, regardless of their mutant status, seen as equals, in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

If you can't see the correlation to pretty much every civil liberty movement ever, from the women's rights movements and the black suffrage movement, and the whole slavery thing... As well as more modern movements for gay rights and LGBTQ+ rights, etc.... The list is long....

Well, if someone can't put that together then, IMO, they're blind. At the most basic, here are people who are quantifiably different, persecuted on all sides, fighting for the right to exist.

How blind do you have to be to not see the very obvious correlations?

X-Men is a show about a minority class fighting for equal rights, nothing woke about that.

I saw someone complaining that the old X-men show was at least subtle and not in your face about how it approached social issues.

This was in response to a clip from the old X-men show of a bunch of anti-mutant brownshirts in armbands getting mad that a filthy mutant was touching a human woman.

I think it's safe to say that person was not arguing in good faith.

X-Men was always woke. I don’t care that word has been co-opted by conservatives. I do care when conservatives try to edit history and remove meaning from media to make it more palatable to their increasingly fascist audiences.

God loves, Man kills...Inspired by the rise of televangelism in the 1980s, the Xmen story deals with overall religious extremism.

1. The people who say that are lying.

2. X-Men and many other marvel properties are made by ((((((((((((them)))))))) so why do they give a shit? Shouldn't they be hating on it due do being anti Semites?

I require an example of someone stating that x-men isn’t woke. I don’t believe anyone could avoid understanding that.

He just needs a hearty handshake. From her, with no gloves on.

"keep your politics out of my x"

My scrote, x is political because it tells a perspective. You want no politics? Go watch a kids show on PBS.

who argued X men was never woke?