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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
If you really want to go all in on the social commentary, make a lot of the minority mutants front and center, hell, make Ms. Marvel a mutant. See how the public reacts from the premiere super team being a group of white men and women to this increase in minorities. I expect a lot of double standards, and that works for any potential mutant script.
This is kind of why I'm of the opinion that the X-Men work best in their own, separate cinematic universe, divorced from the other heroes. You don't have to worry about questions like, "Why is the world chill with Vision but not Cyclops?" The X-Men universe as a standalone was able to tackle mutant prejudice plots without distractions. That said, I understand that people love the X-Men and want to see mutants share the screen with Avengers and Guardians and other nonaffiliated heroes, so I just hope they handle the introduction well.
What I was thinking of is that all superpowered people are viewed with prejudice. You wouldn't have to deal with it as much with the non-X-Men heroes because, being world renowned celebrities, they get treated a lot differently from that guy down the street with fins growing out of his head.
Plus, even under that broader definition of mutant, most MCU heroes still wouldn't qualify, their abilities coming from advanced technology, knowledge of magic, being an alien, or just a Badass Normal. And for some of the ones that definition does apply to, they spend so much of their time on other planets or fictional ultra-isolationist kingdoms, it wouldn't really affect them, either. In fact, of currently active MCU heroes, Wanda and Spider-Man might be the only ones you'd expect to be seriously burdened by anti-mutant prejudice ... and that'd fit into their stories pretty well.
Edited by RavenWilder on Jun 18th 2020 at 12:35:41 PM
Fun fact: people aren’t always cool with Vision!
In the comics someone suicide bombed him because they were worried about robots taking all the meat women
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThere's already shades of that in the MCU.
You fall in love with a meat woman one time! One god damned time!
Also, why suicide bomb someone who has two ways to avoid being harmed? This guy did not think through his cunning plan.
Though to be fair, it may have been due to lack of information.
One Strip! One Strip!I mean it worked so who is the fool? The fool who blew himself up or the fool who didn’t think to intangible?
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAnti-Mutant prejudice is illogical in a different way from real life prejudice. Real bigots tend to lump barely or not at all related groups together an their perceptions because they're all "different from me" in similar ways. Not that a real life bigot admits that "different from me" is what they have a problem with, they'll invent some excuse to claim their prejudices are justified and then apply that excuse broadly and illogically.
Meanwhile Anti-Mutant bigots seem to take the stance of "I hate Mutants but if your different from me in a functionally similar way but for different reasons then we're cool" and then they're internally consistent about that.
Regarding Sorcerors, they're not omniscient, so there's only so many conflicts they can help with, and the biggest question is where were they when Bor and the Frost Giants were fighting over the Tessseract. Maybe the NYC sanctum could've done more during the Battle of New York. As for real world conflicts, they aren't magical or even alien in nature, and are more abut human determinism.
Basically, unless it's a threat to reality, or aliens, they probably don't have reason to get involved.
If they do bring in the mutants and the mutant metaphor I pray to god they try for some fucking nuance and don’t go right to “the government keeps building murder robots to murder us”
Maybe even get some Xstatix influence where people go “I’m not prejudiced against mutants, I love mutantcore music”
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI would not worry much about the sentinels, if they are the same as in the animated series, they will not be a real threat.
Sentinels are generally only dangerous if they are in a Bad Future.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Jun 18th 2020 at 1:11:07 AM
I still want the hilarity of the MCU debating why giant killbots are a good idea.
“The only way to keep your neighborhood safe...is with giant robots designed to hunt down ‘those people’, right Senator Kelly?”
“When you say it like that it sounds really dumb and racist.”
Edited by Beatman1 on Jun 18th 2020 at 4:14:32 AM
Magneto: Humans hate us and want to destroy us.
Xavier: You exaggerate, if we take a peaceful route, there will be peace and love.
Magneto: Are you serious? They literally create homicidal robots to kill us.
*5, When you mentioned Sokovia, I remember that the government gave a position of power to the jerk who started a battle inside a university.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Jun 18th 2020 at 1:20:57 AM
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 18th 2020 at 1:19:09 AM
They could tie Magneto to the Red Skull, who is still alive and free to his own machinations in the main timeline, as per Word of God.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianI think the MCU populace has a general weariness of superheroes that could get ugly when Mutants come out of the woodwork. Saying the general public should in some way be protected from enhanced individuals sounds reasonable when "enhanced individuals" translates to "The Avengers plus a tiny handful of survivors of weird scientific accidents", but when there turns out to be a visible percentage of the world's populations who are born enhanced and often just want to live their lives, then saying that people need to be protected from them gets unreasonable. And you know what maybe in a few movies they work through that and make steps towards progress but there's still prejudice in subtler ways.

There was apparently an old issue where Colossus did say Carol was a mutant actually. This was just after she'd become Binary I think, so it was during the time she was hanging out with them.
One Strip! One Strip!