Similar vibes to Storm (the incredibly powerful mutant with fully hideable powers who is worshipped as a goddess by some cultures) saying 'we don't need a cure, we're perfect as we are' to Rogue (the mutant who kills everyone she touches).
Rogue had it rough
Rough had it rogue
Rogue was rough at applying rouge
Roguer, Rouger.
100% Indigenous Canadian me listening to my light skinned city Indian cousin with 1/8 blood ancestry.
For the record, I am a 100% Ojibway from all sides from my family (there might be one European in there somewhere about four generations ago), I grew up a traditional lifestyle and my first language is Ojibway which I still speak (but I have no one left to talk to in my area). I am a big brown long haired Indian that you can't mistake for someone obviously being different .... and seldom seen as an actual Native person .. I'm often told that I'm Filipino, Chinese, Japanese or my favourite an overweight Thai.
You have no idea how close to home this comic is to me.
Marvel has always used "mutants" to talk about people who are different without directly talking about the actual real world we live in. They've used anti-mutant bias to talk about racism, sexism, religious discrimination, etc. Sometimes people are unable to see their own biases, but when you talk about it being anti-mutant bias, they get it.
Cookie monster beast got me howling
Nah that's just how my boy Hank used to look before he turned into dog faced furbait
I never got that about Cyclops. If his laser is red, and his glasses are red, wouldn’t that just let the light through? Wouldn’t he need green glasses?
Nah mate, the red lenses are reflecting red light, which is why they appear red. If they absorbed red light they would be absorbing incredible amounts of energy every second and heat up super fast. Because they reflect the energy the energy just goes back through the portals to the dimension that it came from. (Canonically.)
Editor: Why did you make his eyes red?
Artist: Coz of the lazers, duh
Editor: No, I mean why scientifically?!
Artist: (oh shit oh shit)
Editor: WE NEED TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER
Editor: CALL NASA, SPARE NO EXPENSE!
(ten convoluted phone calls later)
Artist: ... and so the force beam reflects forcelessly off the glasses and back into its home dimension where his optic nerve lives....
Neat! That’s actually cool that it gets explained! I feel much better about that now and can finally sleep after all these years. Thank you.
And it's actually not light coming out of his eyes, but punch energy.
Mmmmm…fruit juicy red!
see i've always had two pretty massive issues with this: 1) how tf does he see anything if he's got portals in his eyes, and 2) shouldn't there be a constant glow from behind his glasses whenever his eyes are open?
Obviously it's a cartoon and it doesn't matter, but once you try to explain things you kinda gotta come up with explanations for things like this..
And WTF are his eyelids made of??
In a world where mind-reading is possible, I don't think it's too difficult to say that his "magic eyes" also still retain the ability to see.
Except, also canonically, his eyes project a beam of concussive, ruby-coloured force. If they're reflecting the blast, they should be experiencing a huge amount of force, and go flying off his face.
Also, he has 2 eyes
See, his secret identity works!
When he's in the field he has a helmet that has only one opening, and they call him cyclops. If the government ever comes looking for a one-eyed mutant called cyclops by his teammates, they'll never suspect the cool guy with red sunglasses covering his two eyes.
True. He's actualy Bicyclops.
It could be that Cyclops's laser is either being absorbed, reflected, or a mix of both.
Who's cyclop?
Fixed😅🤗
Would just like to add that while they look like lasers coming out of his eyes, they're actually concussive blasts, fueled by another dimension.
Is...is this implying you don't get to talk about your oppression when there's someone else who's even more marginalized? Or am I misunderstanding (I hope I am)?
You complain less about your unfortunate circumstances in front of people who have it much worse, at least if you're nice.
Not pictured: Maggott sitting by himself at his own lunch table.
Okay, Beast and Nightcrawler I know, but is that flamehead aka Cage? Not a mutant if so. And who are the other oddities?
Chamber is the flame face, the pink blob with a skeleton is Glob, and the bird one is Beak.
I had a conversation about this with a friend who is racially marginalised but white passing a few weeks ago. She is dating a non-white passing person of colour and it seems very frustrating because she doesn't feel able to talk about it without complaining to someone who has a worse experience of it.
Who is the guy between Beak and Herman?
Chamber I think.
Who is the guy with the exploding beard?
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