Re: Why are mutants treated different from SuperHumans?
Because mutants are humans born with powers. They are considered the next step in evolution. Therefore, they represent the extinction of "normal" people. Normal people don't like to be extinct. Just watch Independence Day.
It's comics. You could ask the question, how does that a guy becomes an angry green f*uck who smashes. It's all the comics buddy, it's all how they don't age.
Superhumans mostly got their powers either through technology or by accident. It doesn't constitute a trend. Mutants, on the other hand, represent mainstream humanity becoming obsolete. they're a threat to the status quo.
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i think the real reason they're treated different is because mutants are supposed to be weaker than the super human crowed. it's just spelled out differently in the scene.
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Easy. Mutant haters are only in X-Men comics. The common man in every other Marvel title cheers the freaks on as they fly, swing, or run by to save their common asses.
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Yea, but how does the Marvel Earth population know the difference?
Say like Wonder Man. He uses his power, and no one hates him for that. Or spiderman. How does the populace know? Of course if anyone uses any power in an X-men comic the people hate them and immediately call them a mutant.
Because mutants are a tangible symbol for changes in society and reactionaries will always rally against a target like that.
Additionally mutants are an accident of nature taken to the extreme. They lack the respectability of the guy who goes out to learn MartialArts for decades. They lack the sense of wonder you get the guy who builds himself a suit of armor and saves himself. They lack the tragedy of the man who survies a lob accident only to discover that every dark urge he has will take physical shape.
Basicly because mutants haven't sacrificed or work to gain their powers people see them as irresponible and potentially dangerous. But, unlike say the BruceBanner, that danger comes from who they are not what has been done to them.
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For Spiderman they wouldn't (thats why they thought he was a mutant in one of the HoM realities). But for many the back story is relatively well known or easily guessed.
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mutants are born via natural evolution of human dna.
they are still essentially human in most respects, even if they don't look it.
superheros/villains are either technologically,magically or cosmically augmented aliens/humans.
one is the natural progression in the materials from which each new generation of the species comes into being. the other is not the face of progress (and conversely the writ of obselescence for the common sap) but rather an unconnected and fantastical other/realisation of human potential (Dr. Strange's magical knowledge, Tony Stark's clunky armor suits ...).
basically mutation equals ho'sap obselescence, superheroes/villains do not (well not necessarily, maybe Doom's gonna tire of them ...).
the distinction would be by what they know of the origins of the character. Ironman doesn't seem superhuman or mutated, just a man in a tin suit. Hulk's famous for the gamma accident, SilverSurfer's an alien, the FF are accidentally mutated, etc etc... mutants are a betrayal of their origins... like changing faith when your parents are deeply religious.
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