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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
That's not every continuity. Ultimate Marvel started out saying that, but then had the startling reveal that mutants were actually invented by the Weapon X program. They were one of the numerous efforts to replicate Captain America.
IIRC, this reveal was what led to Magneto going full omnicidal maniac and attempting to murder the world. Because the Ultimate Universe runs on edgelordy grimdarky edgedarky grimlordness.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 20th 2020 at 11:22:18 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.By my reckoning the reveal what was caused him to stop destroying the world as he realizes the error of his ways.
But otherwise, yes, grimdark to the fuckin' gills.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Yes learning that he wasn’t actually The Next Stage Of Human Evolution broke his resolve and maybe brain
Because after that he insists Xavier will help him despite being the one who killed Xavier
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWeeeeeellllllllllll
They did.
But it was proven to be a lie by Loki in the same story
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI actually liked the ambiguity better than the confirmation. The back and forth "Is he/Isn't he" was fun.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don't think there needs to be much of an explanation. After all, the MCU never felt the need to explain why SHIELD was this new thing nobody had heard of back in Iron Man when in later movies they've been around for decades with a huge headquarters in Washington, so I don't see why they'd suddenly become invested in retroactive continuity housekeeping now.
However, if there is an explanation, it still shouldn't be some complicated Infinity Stone Mass Super-Empowering Event like a lot of people have been speculating. Remember, in the comics mutants started as being rare enough that the discovery of one would set off a race between the X-Men and Brotherhood to recruit them. It wasn't until Grant Morrison's run on the comics that there was a "mutant baby boom" that made mutant more widespreadnote , so maybe the MCU mutants could be a similar situation?
Like mutants have always been around, but up until now they've just been rare enough that they're usually mistaken for any other kind of superhuman, but relatively recently to the film's events, the "mutant baby boom" has just started hitting puberty, and people start to realise that too many young people are spontaneously displaying superpowers for them all to be aliens or lab accidents or whatever.
I think Genosha may have been the tipping point
Or maybe the Morlocks
Point is in the course of things the comics kept introducing more and more groups of mutants
Forever liveblogging the AvengersUltimate Magneto was actually kinda interesting in my opinion.
He was basically the original Lee/Kirby vision unleashed. No tragic Anti-Villain ala Claremont, but a vile, hateful suprematist with absolutely god-like powers and a willingness to use them for terrifying results.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% Scandinavianhttps://mcucosmic.com/2020/01/20/speculation-enchantress-might-be-appearing-in-loki/
"They’re looking for a female who portrays Caucasian between 5’6″ and 5’8″ with BLONDE hair. They were very specific to specify the blonde hair. The other is an African American female a bit taller between 5’7″ to 5’9″."
I have the theory that the second woman is to play Verity.
If the villain is Amora, I hope they give her a better motivation, than just being friendzoned by Thor.
I also hope they avoid the Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male aspects that were present with Enchantress's sister Lorelei in AOS.
I hope they avoid the Femme Fatale and Woman Scorned portrayal of Amora. That would be a huge step back from Hela.
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It may be that one of Amora's rules is not having sex with a hypnotized person.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Jan 20th 2020 at 7:47:41 AM
So, how much you want to bet they're going to avoid calling Amora "the Enchantress" because of Suicide Squad (2016)?
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jan 20th 2020 at 10:58:20 AM
If they're trying to move away from her Femme Fatale aspects, considering how easily it lapses into sexist stereotypes, it may be to their benefit to just leave her as Amora.

The origins of mutants, in every continuity, is that while they've existed since ancient times, it's only in recent years that they started turning up in large numbers that make their existence impossible to hide from the public. Sometimes there's an explanation for the sudden surge in the mutant population (fallout from atomic tests was the original explanation in the comics), while in others it's never addressed, but it's always been the case whether you're talking about comics, movies, or animated series. Why should it be any different in the MCU?