>>147163779
>the "Pretty mutants who strut and preen and punch ugly mutants" thing isn't an invalid criticism.
It's about as valid a critique of 60s to 90s X-Men as the pseuds trying to take Batman down by claiming he's "a rich guy beating up the poor and the mentally ill". It's ignoring the context of why the villains are being punched, and pretending they're innocent victims.

The Brotherhood don't represent ugly mutants who can't fit into human society, they're usually just a crew of henchmen assembled by Magneto, Mystique or some other terrorist leader who wants to kill or enslave people they see as inferior to them. They get punched because they're bad, dangerous people who have to be stopped.

The Morlocks were supposed to represent mutants who couldn't fit into human society, and chose to hide underground, but they're also like a cult, following leaders who are usually villains, and rejecting any offers to help them or find them somewhere better to live than a sewer. If they get punched it's usually because their leaders have them attacking the surface yet again.

From the 2000s onwards, especially from Decimation, the books really started tearing down the distinctions between all the rival mutant factions, and having as many of them as possible all living together. With the 'mutant community' as a largely unified bloc, mutant on mutant violence became more about punching the ones who just wouldn't fall in line behind the 'community leaders', or about who got to be those leaders. Things are broken and too many fans like it that way.

>>147164497
Wasn't that Masque, not Caliban?

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