October 21, 2015

Overly Devoted Archivist Uncategorized #Wait didn't they ALREADY decimate the mutant population in House of M? #or am I thinking of something else, marvel, xmen 0 Comments

After decades of using mutants as a metaphor for an oppressed minority that we should love and respect, Joe Quesada mandates the Decimation event, in which a vast majority of the Marvel universe’s mutants are depowered and there are in the low three digits of mutants left. What made it worse is the justification. Quesada claimed Marvel had to decimate the mutant population because Grant Morrison had established that there were millions of mutants across the globe, and that in Quesada’s eyes, that meant the Fantastic Racism element no longer worked. Specifically, he pointed out that mutants were supposed to be victims of bigotry, and yet had their own neighborhoods, culture, music, and even languages. In real life, many minority groups have all those things and yet still suffer discrimination from the majority, meaning there’s no reason mutants couldn’t have numbered in the millions and still have been targeted by normal humans. Quesada’s explanation is tantamount to saying that black people, Asian people, Latino people, or LGBT people no longer experience discrimination because “Hey, at least they have their own neighborhoods and pop culture figures!”