They were looking to create weapons to assist them in their endless war against the Skrulls. They endowed ancient humans with specific powers that would make them into lethal soldiers. The Kree abandoned their Earth experiments after they came to believe the humans would turn on them. Some Mutant powers, on the other hand, are random or just bizarre — like Maggott, Eye-Boy, and Longneck.
While Inhumans are an off-shoot of humanity known as Inhomo Supremis , they are still necessarily human — or humanoid. While the Inhuman dog Lockjaw was an artificial creation, the X-Gene, in contrast, can be naturally exhibited by animals, among others. There are mutant crabs and spiders. There have even been mutant virus strains.
In alien races, mutants are also fairly common, such as the pink-skinned Kree. While they share some qualities, their relationship with humankind has been drastically different. Mutants, on the other hand, have always been in a vulnerable position with the rest of humankind, no matter what their powers. The X-Gene causes mutations that can be drastically different from one Mutant to another, and may not involve physical abilities at all — Charles Xavier is a case in point.
Inhumans, too, can have varying powers and abilities , but there are some characteristics they share. Sign up for free! Topic Archived Page 1 of 3 Next Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. User Info: Stardrifter There's a huge difference. Mutants get their powers by being dirty freaks who don't deserve to live.
You're not yearning for a time before art was politicized. You're yearning for a time before you were politicized. A mutant is specifically someone born with an X-gene. It's a literal genetic mutation, akin to having Downs but much cooler. User Info: kaiolino. As a scholar years later, I came to realize that the ability to respond to differences and forge meaningful relationships across them was a capacity, a super-power if you will, that comics could train their readers to exercise, an imaginative skill fit for a truly heterogeneous world.
But in writing The New Mutants , I came to the conclusion that without an underlying democratic ethos or worldview, such real-world differences have little meaning. In The New Mutants , I argue that cultivating egalitarian and democratic responses to differences became the sin qua none of American superhero comics from the s through the early s. In the s and s comic book series like the Justice League of America , the Fantastic Four , and the X-Men provided readers an exceptionally diverse range of new characters and creative worlds, but most importantly, modeled what it might look like for those characters to bridge divides of race, species, kin and kind for their mutual flourishing and the good of the world.
What distinguished these earlier figures from their contemporary counterparts are the seemingly endless dialogues and struggles they engaged to negotiate, respond to, rethink, and do something with their differences as a matter of changing the world. The more specific or particular the superhero gets, he suggests, the less the character speaks to all kinds of readers.
As a child growing up in Kuala Lampur, Ampikaipakan explains that even thousands of miles away from U. Rather it was the message these comics carried about the value of being a freak or an outcast that translated across both actual and virtual distance.
This argument is both undoubtedly correct, yet severely misguided. The fact that superheroes highlight rather than overlook the social, cultural, and biological differences that shape humankind, that makes identifying with them possible—this is why one superhero is never enough. Superheroes proliferate because no matter how many there are, they can never quite capture the true heterogeneity of everyday life. The attempt to do so is what keeps us reading.
We should not settle for the mere representation of more diverse characters, as though the very existence of a female Pakistani Ms. Marvel alone were an act of anti-racism, or anti-sexism; these latter categories describe not a representation or image, but an ethos, a worldview and way of life—this ethos is what Ampikaipakan was drawn to in reading Spider-Man.
As readers, we must demand that the depiction of more diverse characters be motivated by an ethos attentive to human heterogeneity, its problems and possibilities; these character must be placed into dynamic exchange with the world around them, rather than merely making us feel good that some more of us are now included every once in a while. Take for example the dramatic creative decision by writer Matt Fraction to relocate the X-Men from their long-standing home at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning in Westchester, Massachusetts, to San Francisco in What kind of hero are you made of?
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