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Author: ErikModi

Mar 30th 2017 at 4:46:38 PM

@marcoasalazarm Sorry, I had to ditch it for the new opening to make sense.  But hopefully I've made it up to you with adding a page quote.

Rewrote the first paragraph to hopefully explain the trope more succinctly, in accordance with Madrugada's suggestions.  I now feel the second to last paragraph is superfluous, but I want to hold off on deleting it until others decide if it's worthwhile.  This hopefully puts the Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon essay in greater context as it relates to the trope in question.  As I explained to Madru in a PM, the idea for the trope hit me while using the Marvel Unlimited app to read old X-Men comics (starting with the first appearance of Phoenix) and seeing the "As Cro-Magnon exterminate Neanderthal, so must Mutant exterminate Human" argument crop up seemingly every five issues, stated by one side or the other.  So I still feel that having some relationship to the Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal divide, both how it's perceived and how modern anthropological theory models it, is relevant to the trope itself, though if there's sufficient disagreement I'll shuttle it off to a Real Life example (which will probably count as a subversion).

I still welcome anyone and everyone's feedback regarding the trope itself and its description, as well as more examples.