I just don't get people who say X-Men wasn't "woke" until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors...
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thisbenzingring 23 points 3 years ago
I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or zapped with gamma rays, and it occurred to me that if I just said that they were mutants, it would make it easy. Then it occurred to me that instead of them just being heroes that everybody admired, what if I made other people fear and suspect and actually hate them because they were different? I loved that idea; it not only made them different, but it was a good metaphor for what was happening with the Civil Rights Movement in the country at that time
Duamerthrax 11 points 3 years ago
Aren't Professor X and Magneto modeled Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X? Kinda of a sloppy analog if it's true, but still progressive for the time.
FakeGreekGirl 10 points 3 years ago
Their backgrounds are very different, of course, but their ideologies were (loosely) modeled on those two, yes.
Magneto tends to waver between mutant separatist and mutant supremacist, but he's very militant in his methods either way.
thisbenzingring 9 points 3 years ago
Beast was one of the original and was made blue to show him as different but anyone who knows the character knows he is a black man analogy.
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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.
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