“considering our recent past”
Vietnamese communist mutants won the war
That would make for a sick comic, nva x-men!
hanoi jean
Isn’t that basically Kimiko’s backstory in The Boys?
the idea that the government exists at all in a world with ubiquitous superpowers does stretch cresulity
eh, you just need pro-gov capes and compatibilists like prof x fighting for the status quo
That’s why Magneto is always right, homosapiens are inferior to mutant kind!
I refuse to believe that Toad is superior to anyone
see, my homo superior allies? this is how they treat us when they think they can get away with it, by attacking our weakest. they think us beneath their notice! we shall show them something worth notice…
Isn’t there also a guy that’s basically just a bird with hollow bones
Yeah, Beak
Can’t fly, can’t do much
Most famous for having a clutch of kids with Pixie
And I do mean clutch, his avian physiology and her insectoid physiology resulted in something most people look at and go
Does he have a cloaca though
You’d have to ask Grant Morrison
That is a good point.
I got lots of good points for comic book stuff
And that’s why Marvel won’t let me write for them
That and my innate desire to elevate D-tier characters like Stingray and Bantam to the forefront
for every country on earth?
during the cold war i presume you’d have cooperation on making sure governments being overthrown were for economic reasons rather than mutant reasons. there were also fewer of them for a long time
yeah i think it works okay if it’s like one mutant per million people. then the mutants not in new york can just have useless mutations like furry blue skin. if one in 10 people can control the earth’s rotation, things don’t stay normal very long
capeshit really struggles with this, both a bias towards people in the first-world getting super powers, and a bias towards people in the present. If this was always something that could happen, The history textbooks would have fewer william the conquerors and more peasants with laser vision usurping thrones.
This is why i always preferred the earlier X-Men comics explanation that the mutant X-gene was a result of nuclear weapons testing putting atomic material into the atmosphere
And that’s why one of their earliest monikers was The Children of the Atom
The horrors of Soviet X-Men would be that they would make the coolest place, by using their powers collectively with the people. They would also have essentially Sentinel-like technology that’s used to prevent disasters and such.
if made by americans, the soviet x-men would work together to build a better future and then turn to the camera and say “and now we can do what we really wanted all along. eat babies. mmm babies. mmmmm lemme kick this dog, it’s in my way and i want to eat more babies. yaay communism!”
