x-men’s inherent flaw in its storytelling is that it always has mutants with useful powers telling mutants with actual curses to be proud of their powers
“you should embrace your gifts” says Orgasm Dude, the dude with the power to give anyone an orgasm
“yeah thanks” says Will Explode If He Gets A Boner Man
Isn’t this literally the Rogue subplot of X-Men 3?
“Is it true, there’s a cure?” says Everyone I Touch Dies
“There’s nothing to cure” says Weather Lady Who Was Worshiped As a God
It’s not a flaw, it’s a reflection of real life, the way everything is in x men
It’s like a white gay man who lives in a liberal city telling a black trans woman in a deep red state that she should be proud and out of who she is despite that her life expectancy and safety are not the same as his
It’s like someone with mild autism telling someone with severe schizophrenia that they are fine the way they are and don’t need treatment
All marginalized groups are not the same, and all people are not the same, and Storm telling Rogue she doesn’t need to be fixed is referencing people who can get by with their minority standing telling people who will literally not survive how to feel and think just because they are also a minority
I still love how Logan is literally just Les Mis, if instead of singing Valjean and Cosette just had knives for hands
“Hey do you know that one movie starring Hugh Jackman? The one where he plays a grizzled old famously unnaturally Strong guy who was imprisoned/tortured to the point of almost losing his humanity…. his character has an ordinary human name that starts with J (James, Jean) but people dehumanize him by calling him his Captivity Number™ (Weapon X, Prisoner 24601). His life is turned around when a kindly old mentor figure shows him compassion (Professor Xavier, Bishop Myriel) and sets him down the path to redemption. And then! Then he meets this young girl who aLSo has an “I was treated like an animal/slave” backstory. After the girl’s mother tragically dies the two become a father-daughter duo, each helping each other recover from their Tragic Pasts. But there’s a problem: not only is Hugh Jackman’s character In Hiding, but there are ALSO people hunting for the girl! See, Jackman’s character helped rescue her from the Horrible People who raised her as their slave (Donald Pierce and co, the Thenardiers) but now those people want her back. So they’re on the run from both the Law™ and the girl’s former “caretakers”. And while at first Hugh Jackman’s character is the one protecting the daughter, by the end of the film he is clearly the vulnerable one– and while they both protect each other he ultimately needs her more than she needs him. And the story ends with Hugh Jackman’s character dying as his adopted daughter begs him to stay, although at least he died holding her hand and knowing that after a life of untold horrors he finally found a family”
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