History YMMV / GodLovesManKills

* ValuesDissonance: One of the biggest scenes in this comic is when an unnamed police officer shoots Reverend Stryker to defend Kitty Pryde from being shot herself by his hand. Many modern readers might scoff at the idea of this happening today, as the heightened awareness of PoliceBrutality and incompetence within law enforcement in the 2020s makes the deification of a cop saving the day seem rather naive at best and downright tasteless at worst, especially since it's since been revealed that [[https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law many police forces often have ties to far-right extremist groups not too far from what Stryker preaches in the modern day]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Of all the times for Claremont to forget he wrote Nightcrawler as a practicing Catholic... Kurt would have made a perfect counterpoint to Stryker's hysteria. With Stryker's [[AsTheGoodBookSays twisting of Scripture]] to justify his genocidal intentions, Chris couldn't have found one point to have Kurt quote from Wisdom 11:23-26? [[note]]"But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent. For you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things that you have made, for you would not have made anything if you had hated it. How would anything have endured if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved? You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord, you who love the living." [[/note]]
** NewerThanTheyThink: Unfortunately, Kurt's Catholicism wasn't introduced until ''ComicBook/TheBroodSaga'', which — though it ran roughly concurrently with ''God Loves, Man Kills'' — wasn't produced until afterward.

* ValuesResonance: You would not have to change much if you were to set this story in the present day. Televangelists, while not nearly as popular or ubiquitous as they were in TheEighties, are still influential in American culture, entertainments and politics as the LGBT Civil Rights movement can attest to.
[[note]]This is probably the reason Stryker was changed to a military general in the movies. Since the movies reach a larger audience, Fox didn’t have the stones to ruffle too many feathers with a conservative Christian minister as a villain[[/note]]

* InNameOnly: [[Film/X2XMenUnited X2]] is, simply put, a complete bastardization of the source material it is “supposed(?)” to be adapting. It strips away all of its meaningful components and waters down anything slightly thought-provoking. Even its BigBad, Reverend William Stryker, is changed from a SinisterMinister to a GeneralRipper as to not offend the MoralGuardians. [[SarcasmMode Luckily, Stryker’s faith really had nothing to do with his actual character]].

* InNameOnly: [[Film/X2XMenUnited X2]] is, simply put, a complete bastardization of the source material it is “supposed(?)” to be adapting. It strips away all of its meaningful components and waters down anything slightly thought-provoking. Even its BigBad, Reverend William Stryker, is changed from a SinsterMinister to a GeneralRipper as to not offend the MoralGuardians. [[SarcasmMode Luckily, Stryker’s faith really had nothing to do with his actual character]].

** This is probably the reason Stryker was changed to a military general in the movies. Since the movies reach a larger audience, Fox probably didn't want to ruffle too many feathers with a conservative Christian minister as a villain.

* MoralMyopia: Doylist example. Claremont famously had Kitty Pryde use the n-word to compare the oppression of mutants to that of black people, though in a context that accuses Stevie Hunter of mild hypocrisy when due to her reaction confronted with another minority's oppression. Considering that this is comparing a fictional minority to an actual minority, one traditionally threatened by mob violence that most mutants could shrug off easily, the line loses a lot of its impact.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Oh, yeah. While Stryker's appearance in X-Men history was always intended to be a one-off, but he's since become one of the most iconic and menacing villains in X-Men history, making appearances in four of the movies, thanks to him personifying with [[TruthInTelevision disturbingly]] [[ValuesResonance realistic]] clarity the FantasticRacism that truly defines the X-Men as characters.