@dangallant984 said:
@DarkxSeraph said:
'How do people automatically know it's a mutant when other superheroes have similar powers or stuff and they look like normal people, too? Why throw stones at one hero and not the other?'I think it's context: most superheroes wear costumes when using their powers. Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Justice, Firestar, etc.. have not had issues with being mutants while they were on the Avengers, for example, while characters like the X-men, or X-factor, or the Brotherhood, put emphasis on the fact that they are mutants first. And most mutants probably don't even wear costumes to identify themselves as heroes, so it goes back to that, I think.
@DarkxSeraph said:
Gallant: Then that utterly defeats your own argument--the X-Men virtually always wear costumes during field ops and they STILL get the short end of the stick when out in public on them. Every mutant team has a uniform, like any other super hero team. I think you're reaching a bit on that one, to be honest. This would say that if Luke Cage every got into a scrap without a costume, he should be labled a mutant and hated. Oh, wait... he virtually never wore a costume in New Avengers (actually, I think he may have never). Same with Dr. Strange. So a good portion of time his 'costume' was a trench coat, slacks, and a shirt. By the above logic, they should have been branded mutants for not wearing costumes to ID themselves.
I didn't mean the costumes per se, I meant that standing as an Avenger is to stand as a hero in general, while being an X-man is standing for a more specific cause, one which emphasizes the fact that one is a mutant.
and, again, I would point out that Dr.Strange is a largely unknown character to the general populace of the Marvel U.
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