>>104071045>But that is the premise underlying the whole franchiseAnd it's always sucked. In a society where there's not only aliens and gods but they're also well received by the populace, people are throwing a fit because mutants are supposedly not human. Normals are always the ones to initiate harm, their victims are always weak and innocent mutants who've in no way provoked anyone. The X-Men are always oh so great martyrs for defending the people who hate and fear them. Magneto is the result of human evils. It's all told in a specific black and white manner that often impedes the story by tucking platitudes here and there like ads or pausing action entirely.
If it were me, I'd make things grey. Mutants are human, and that's the real problem. They live in a society too fragile to handle their powers, whether they are well meaning but careless or they are corrupt by power like normal humans tend to. Common folk would be weary of all mutants on account of the results of their actions, and the state would be trying to supress them indiscriminately to preserve stability like it suppossedly does with vigilantism.
Magneto's reeing about how bigger Homo Superior's dick is would be explained as him supporting survival of the fittest, which just so happens to be Homo Superior at this time. His attitude would be less "I'm better, reeee!" and more "I'm better, beat me if you can". Some of his appearances would deal with him being on the receiving end of his own ideology and eventually it'd be revealed that his beliefs stem from him having gone through traumatic suffering and subconsciously understanding that the stronger people are, the less they suffer.
>SentinelsThe stormtroopers of the Marvel universe. They're about as useful in their intended purpose as a flat tire. Unless the plot calls for a genocide in which case they are the heavy metal that scorches the earth. Then they go back to chasing strictly innocents and crumbling like dreams.
