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We're litigating against the mutants?

Black Zot

By Black Zot,
Posted on: 2012-01-01 13:32 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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I don't think this is so much a spillover as it is legal hair-splitting over a few dollars. The company probably spent more on court costs than it stood to save on import tariffs.

Pretty sad when comic book continuity can impact real-world courts, though.

 

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After reading that, I can picture an evidence hearing....

Judge: "And what proof do you have that these action figures represent beings that are not human"
Lawyer: "As we see in the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: X-Men Edition, we see that most of the team and adversaries are classified not as human but Mutant. Making them 'more than human' in the eyes of the court, your honor."

Sheesh, Guess that would make Jennifer Walters proud, as she got to use Marvel Comics in court also! lol

Tech/KK

 

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I applaud the courts, if we let those darn dirty muties define themselves as human like we are, who knows what they'll try to take from us next! Give an inch, and they'll blast a mile with those crazy eye beams they can shoot! No more mutants! No more mutants!

 

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I wonder if Spock and Worf count as human?

Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound

 

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Originally Posted by Lazarillo View Post
I applaud the courts, if we let those darn dirty muties define themselves as human like we are, who knows what they'll try to take from us next! Give an inch, and they'll blast a mile with those crazy eye beams they can shoot! No more mutants! No more mutants!
Never understood this about Marvel. Mutants get the bad treatment, but heroes of other origins are treated with.....not as bad treatment, but they don't give their heroes the same level of respect that the DC populace does.

I get the real life Civil Rights analogy, but still. You'd think it be as simple as a mutant deciding to lie and say "I got my powers from a lab accident." Honestly, who'd be able to tell the difference out of the normal populace?

Beast could get away with it, as his blue fur WAS caused by an accident. Unless that was retconned.

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The X-Men (or the treatment of mutants in general) doesn't really make sense when looking at the Marvel Universe as a whole. I sometimes think it would've been better if they could be in their own separate setting where mutants would be the only superhumans. The Eternals kinda have the same problem - they're interesting on their own, but in context they're just another group of super-people.

The "pretend not to be a mutant" thing has probably been explored somewhere, but I don't read X-Men much so I couldn't say. I do remember when it was explored in reverse: in the House of M reality, homosapiens were the second-class citizens, and being a mutant was desirable, so Spider-Man got powers in a lab accident and pretended that he WAS a mutant. Which worked, for a while.

Back on the topic of the court case, though, I like to imagine that, someday in the future, someone will genetically engineer some superhuman abilities, and this court case will be used as precedent to remove their human rights, and they will have no choice but to make war on baseline-human civilization for self-preservation.

Edit: The name of the human species is apparently censored if I put a space where there should be one. >.<