Got around to watching the first episode of The Gifted

Got around to watching the first episode of The Gifted.
Man, they really can't find a way to make Mutants sympathetic, huh?

I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T SUCK MY MUTIE DICK, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It's just that
These are the guys we're supposed to be rooting for
The guys with amazing supernatural powers that can be (and are) abused rampantly

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hahaha holy shit

>ask a man a question
>he starts to answer
>get mad and inturupt him with another question, then threaten to burn his arm
fucking muggas

So three things I noticed from that scene

1) That chain limited her powers to make her relatively harmless
2) Polaris is an idiot for not using her powers to escape when she's in a room with metal literally next door
3)Her powers are incredibly weak and can only control metal that's ten feet from her

she still threatened to tear the pins out of a dude's knee
a dude who was actually making an attempt to cooperate with her

Shit like this and House of M as well as that What If? story where Xavier became the Juggernaut and conquered the world is why humans should be afraid of mutants on Earth.

The only ideal solution is to form a mutant colony in deep space so that neither humans could hurt them nor could mutants terrorize humans.

but then you get the same problem as Magnetos MvC3 ending where he makes a mutant only planet out of taa 2, what happens to all the new mutants born on earth?

Superhero Registration Act? Fuck that, mutants need to be on a list, that's for damn sure. If they want to walk around to be free to start fires with their mind and whatever, the least they can do is leave a name and power description on a form

The Avengers and F4 give these new mutants a chance to either emigrate to the Mutant colony in space or go through Avengers Academy to be trained and inducted as Reserve Avengers. They're a militia of superhumans who are only called up when shit gets real and the everyday Avengers need help. This way, their powers and transformations are kept under check in exchange for residing on Earth. It also neutralizes some of anti-mutant bigotry if they're utilized as Earth's defenders against aliens, supernatural threats, etc.

Ageed. Though the problem in the show is that there's not a lot of justice for mutants, either; the emo bitch boy only used his powers accidentally, in self-defense. He endangered people, but he had no way of knowing this would happen, or that he even had powers.

On the other hand, the government was right t want to detain such a dangerous individual, especially since they don't know what really happened. But honestly, they'd likely never believe him, and I doubt they'd try to offer him help and therapy,and would rather just lock him up.

I'm actually liking this show so far because it's kid of gray. While we're supposed to root for the mutants, there's enough cause to see reason on both sides. I just wish they make the gray a actual theme in the show, instead of keeping the bad guys as irredeemably mean jerks.

The issue with mutants is that they're treated like crap when it should be the opposite. They should be taken in by the government and treated extremely well and integrated into society in ways where they can actually use their powers.

Maybe have some sort of option where if they're powers are violent in nature they can agree to either be monitored, have their powers damped in one of the million ways that exist in the marvel universe or join the military and all of this should be very public and on the up and up.

QFT

It actually explores the human perception of when mutants develop their powers and the ramifications. X-books typecast humans as torch-wielding nutjobs while in this show, it's not clear cut as Stryker experimenting on mutants for black ops but it's not benovolent either.

I wonder if we'll see a government operative whose a mutant in the near future? Or a team of them?

You want the mutant to become Inhuman?

It's the only sensible solution left after 50+ years of stories and all those quantum timelines, What If? scenarios, etc. that depicts BAD END for mutants or BAD END for humans.

Inhuman society is what Mutant society would end up like if they actually had the chance to develop properly. There's no fucking way that there won't be a caste system according to abilities and class type.

At least in space, mutants aren't going to have Purifiers and Sentinels hounding them like they are on Earth. And if they do, good luck trying to find them.

Exactly, but 616 USA likes to hunt down mutants with killer robots for some reason.

There's bound to be mutant Americans who would be gung-ho to serve their country and with some clever PR, they're toted as US heroes.

>Oh no, little Billy Thomas from down the street can talk to plants now! Better call the giant metal death squads
616 doesnt deserve to live

>Exactly, but 616 USA likes to hunt down mutants with killer robots for some reason.
Yeah that's the retarded thing. They military should have made a team of very public active mutants and PR'ed the fuck out of them as American heroes.

Marvels did an excellent job in depicting 616 events chronologically and through the eyes of civilians.

Look at what happened in the 1930s: A brawl between Jim Hammond and Namor that caused untold damage across NYC. It also took the eye of the protagonist of Marvels.

Then, you have all that shit that happened in the 1960's with mutants popping up, the menace known as Spider-Man, the advent of the Fantastic Four and the Trial by Galactus, costumed supervillains like the Green Goblin murdering civilians...and that's just in that decade!

Eye of the Camera was a sequel that delved into the 1970's and 1980's stories of 616 and after reading all that, can you REALLY blame people for being batshit paranoid?

Magneto's attack on Cape Citadel and threatening to nuke the world was his first public appearance. Magneto is the main reason why humans don't trust mutants. And with the retcon that Namor is mutant too, the first major metahuman incident in recorded history was by a mutant too.

The X-Books are kinda like their own continuity. They sorta part of 616, but in their books, nothing goes right for them nor do fellow superheroes try and help them out while the government is full of brain-dead retards.

Does The Gifted take place in the continuity of X1 and X2? Or is it in X3? The new timeline that Days of Future Past and Apocalpyse have?

So, the Israel solution.

I can't feel bad for people who get superpowers and then do nothing but whine about it

Honestly, I would be surprised if they didn't have a mutant working for the government. Even if they're worried about mutants being mutant sympathizers, they'd still provide valuable assets.

It's a new timeline on its own.

It makes sense here though, since you can have your whole life ruined by accident, circumstance, or factors out of your control.

t. Casual fuckwit

You mean like everyone's life?

Pretty much. Even the X-Men tried this solution, but settling right off the San Francisco was a huge mistake. It's the same for Providence, Asteroid M, Avalon, and Graymalkin.

With all the tech the X-Men have along with the future stuff that Cable brought and Shi'ar gadgetry, they should've found a planet far from the Milky Way so that they could be left alone in peace as well as not bother humans. For fuck's sake, Lila Cheney has a Dyson Sphere, that could be used as well.

It really pisses me off how muddled and confusing me X-Men timeline is

It's just like 616's X-books now. There's a fuckton of timelines and other shit that they have.

Look at the boy in this series: his powers are dangerous, and activated in self-defense. He didn't want them or ask for them. Now his whole family is being uprooted because they're running from an unfair system that wants to lock him up, likely without actually trying to help him. He's a victim of circumstance, but the people chasing after him likely won't care, because they only see him as a problem.

That doesn't happen to everyone. And even if it did, it's still a horrible situation for an innocent person to be in.

Well the X-Men disappeared so is this a continuity where Fall of the Mutants happened and everyone thinks they're gone?

I wonder what happened to the Brotherhood?

What if the Brotherhood is behind the government's laws? They drum up anti-human sentiment among mutants, encourage them to gather and fight. Meanwhile, they "accidentally" set mutants free from the detention center, or cart them off to a Genosha stand-in, and the Brotherhood claims that they've freed them.

The humans in the government don't know that it's all the scheme to start a race war. And the Brotherhood want this because I couldn't think of a reason that made sense.

hey
it's true

I could buy that, but it puts innocent mutants at risk of being killed or worse.

Then, again, those bastards would probably argue it's for the greater good...

for real they're such shit

>they only see him as a problem

he uh
he sort of is

more?

Has there ever been an Alpha or Omega-level mutant with charisma that wants a 3rd way? Said mutant thinks Magneto is an asshole like Nazi thugs while also viewing Xavier as a naive fool. Their option is for mutants to ally with other sub-groups like Inhumans, Eternals, Deviants, Atlantaens, etc. to ensure that Mutants aren't genocided while simultaneously preventing mutant villains to go unchecked.

The difference between this mutant's ideology and Xavier's is that the former believes that Mutants and Humans coexisting is a disaster for both sides. One day humans and mutants can reunite only when both sides aren't in a position to jockey for dominance.

He is, but he's not ONLY a problem. He's also a victim, an innocent person. The authorities don't see that, and won't really help him.

And that's the key here: he's upset for legitimate reasons. These powers have hurt him and his family badly.

Alpha/Omega-level mutants always go power crazy, so any third path they'd try to create would fall apart when they lose it.

The only reason Xavier and Magneto can maintain their side is because Xavier hides all of his shit with mindwipes and Magneto tries to place all of the attention on him, thinking that his sins will die with him.

>forming a sub-group alliance
>on the planet where the main group is incredibly paranoid about being replaced or enslaved
why would you do this

I was hoping for someone who wasn't power crazy and views Xavier & Magneto as part of the problem.

There was an episode in the 90's X-Men cartoon on FOX that had an ordinary guy run a community populated with mutants. He was a decent man that wanted mutants to live ordinary lives and protect them from the outside world.

How did the X-Men fuck it up for them?

House of M: Civil War had mutants forge ties with Atlantis, the Inhumans, and Wakanda which helped them in their struggle against anti-mutant militants. Makes sense to try and make a defensive alliance in case any one group is attacked by humanity.

They didn't. Cyclops came to visit the town and it was taken over by anti-human mutants. Cyclops convinced the townspeople to rise up against the punks and freed the human founder of their town.

Hahaha poor little humie boy getting his just desserts

Mutants do this shit whenever they're in power. Besides House of M, there was this What if? story as well.

Good. Fuck humans

these are the mutants champions? not shocked

Based X-Men roasting the shit out of the Feeble Four

Don't be such a cuck, mate

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Dr. Doom knows what to do with filthy mutants, I think we should let him run things for a while

yea
right

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This is why telepathic powered mutants would be cops, they could just read their minds and see what happened.

>implying they wouldnt brainwash the himan into thinking he did something wrong

The shitty thing about mutants is that they're considered a different species than humans. One gene doesn't make a new species, especially considering they can still breed with good ol' Homo Sapiens Sapiens. They're at best a new subspecies. Something like Homo Sapiens Mutare, not the blatant shitshow that is Homo Superior.

Depends on the Mutant. A dude born with fishes for hands probably doesn't need the same scrutiny as the guy whose nose launches nukes.

Wasn't there that electricity mutant that worked for the government?

s-she's not a mutant

>it doesn't even take a mutant to defeat Doctor Doom

reminder that (((mutants))) have been altering our history for decades
#stryker2020

#RobertKelly2020

She wasnt threatening, she was saying she could do it. Her point was that if she wanted to kill those cops, she would've killed them. It wasnt attempted murder

She was already moving around the pins.
Hence the hand movements and the glowing green in Reed's knee and the doubling over in pain part.
That's pretty much like putting your hands on an attorney, at the very least.

>"if she wanted to kill those cops, she would've"
That's up to a lawyer.
And it's still technically assault.

Pathetic flatscans only exist to serve Homo Superior

It must hurt, to be this cucked by a pack of superpowered malcontents.

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Jeez, Magneto really is a fucking freak.

Huggle muggles.

that was actually Xorn pretending to be Magneto, on drugs that were actually a 3 billion years old sentient bacteria that was mind controlling him into madness, because that sentient bacteria wants to stop evolution and be the ruler of earth.
that is why he has the inhaler in the third panel

comics

So Magneto DOESN'T wanna do all that?

no, it wasnt even him, it was retconned.
Magneto did create a mutant Israel in an island called Genosha, but the 16 million mutants who lived there were genocided by Sentinels.

They're already on a list called the MRA that's why the X-Men are mostly absent from Civil War 1.

That's why Reed being on the SHRA act was such a big deal. There's a famous issue of F4 where he goes to Congress to testify for mutant rights and CW1 was seen as a massive walk back on that.

Honestly I'm surprised the government doesn't try accepting them with "open" arms instead of using giant man shaped death machines, they should try making them out to be the countries greatest asset instead of trying to piss of kids who can go nuclear when they hit puberty

>it's Franklin's fault we lost the real Fury
Burn it all down

that is basically classic magneto though.