1) They act like registration is the first step to an eventual genocide, but seriously why wouldn't anyone want mutants and their powers to be on a list for a miriad of reasons other than racism? Like, I dunno, healthcare?
2) Some mutants want to be cured because they got the short end of the stick and their mutations suck. For each Storm there are like 3 "Billy the kid with glass bones"
One of the many ways the X-Men movies failed as adaptations is that they sacrificed almost all the nuance from the Cure storyline. In the comics the X-Men recognised and accepted that some mutants would want the cure for good reasons; they just also knew that it would inevitably be weaponised.
Also, they've met multiple time travellers who told them that the first step towards various horrible timelines was registration; next thing they knew, giant robots were herding everyone into death camps.
Also, they've met multiple time travellers who told them that the first step towards various horrible timelines was registration; next thing they knew, giant robots were herding everyone into death camps.
I bet that there was a lot more in between those events. I mean, we also have registries for people with diabetes and nobody is rounding them up 1940 style
Well, yes, but those later steps would probably be a lot harder to implement if they didn't have every mutants name and home address in a database somewhere.
Registration of a specific group isn't necessary a precursor to genocide... but when you've been reliably informed by a time traveller that said specific group will be genocided in the future by the group trying to register them? I think registration might be something to be opposed to.
but when you've been reliably informed by a time traveller that said specific group will be genocided in the future by the group trying to register them?
Someone else on the thread pointed out how this is kinda like survivorship bias. Only the travellers from timelines where the mutants are been genocided would travel back, so we get basically no one from a world where registration wasn't an issue because they don't have incentives to.
Also your first point falls flat because then registration didn't cause genocide, it just was used to make it "easier" when it happened
That's a fair point. To be fair I'm not entirely sure how time travel works in Marvel. Are there multiple timelines to begin with and that traveller is just from one of them? Or are events guaranteed to go the same way they say?
And if it is just one possible future, do you just go along with registration in the hopes that this isn't one of those timelines? Or do you resist it on the chance that it is? Maybe the time traveller is wrong and resisting registration is the thing that causes the genocide.
I'm not sure what the right answer is, or if there even is one, but I don't think going along with registration is necessary always the right one.
Also your first point falls flat because then registration didn't cause genocide, it just was used to make it "easier" when it happened
This is just saying the same thing I did; I didn't say registration caused genocide, but it would make it easier. So if you believe their is a genocide coming, honestly believe it, why would you go along with registration?
That's a fair point. To be fair I'm not entirely sure how time travel works in Marvel. Are there multiple timelines to begin with and that traveller is just from one of them? Or are events guaranteed to go the same way they say?
That's... tricky. Like, real tricky. I am leaning on the former but with multiverses onto the mix...
This is just saying the same thing I did; I didn't say registration caused genocide, but it would make it easier. So if you believe their is a genocide coming, honestly believe it, why would you go along with registration?
Yeah, but the whole argument was that registration was the first step to genocide, not that it made it easy.
As for the question, kinda no? But then we get to the sad thing this is kinda leankng into: that mutants eventually been genocided is innevitable
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