>>122886595>That is something to seethe about cause without it, X-Men don't have a raison d'etre. Remember the entire fucking point of the group was to improve the social standing of those NPCs.Originally every known mutant on Earth could fit into a single room. Even as the success of the X-books in the 1980s and 1990s meant more mutant characters were created, almost all of them were still heroes or villains on one faction or another. There weren't "all those NPCs" until 2001 to 2005.
>Normal heroics was just a means to an end.Normal heroics sold a lot better than doubling down on the metaphor so much it became all the books were.
Mission statement or not, it's a setting for stories to be told in, not a narrative with an ending, any progress made will be undone as surely as Spider-Man will lose that better-paying new job and the Hulk's cure won't work. "Progress" that the rest of Marvel would be forced to incorporate into their own stories, like there suddenly being millions of mutants everywhere was never something that could be allowed to last without unbalancing everything.
