But see I side with the humans in fearing them and wanting to remove their powers or whatever, the movies are especially egregious since there aren't like other superheroes so really they just feel powerless and there isn't the double standard aspect to boot. (Not sure how xmen coincided with like avengers, actually there's an avengers vs xmen comic out but I heard it's a pile of dross.) I'd totally sanction in forcing to wipe out their gene or making them muggles or whatever (no I don't think they should be put in concentration camps though, but the use of sentinels to stop them from abusing their power is reasonable), it's really just not applicable at all to our society and comes across as heavy handed. If you try to tackle a topic like racism you don't have a certain race be better than another in just about every way lest you make it lose it's value. And you're right they could have somewhat made it more legimate if they didn't paint the humans as the unquestionable villains, and are just plain wrong in hating the mutants. But by painting them as the obviously evil and racist group, that whole moral complexity theme goes down the shitter.
There is actually an event called M-Day where most mutants lose their powers. Sounds great, right? Except that most humans are inevitably unreasonable fuckwads (just like in real life) and find this to be the perfect opportunity to murder the former mutants due to their lack of powers. I'm also fairly sure this event can't be repeated again. Something about Scarlett Witch's power or whatever.
Aside from this, what can humans do? Would you say that these mutants should be killed because of how they're born? Should you eliminate the gifts they were born with? Who has the right to decide who has these gifts and who doesn't?
In the comics, aside from some crazy psycho villains, I think the human population aren't really painted as evil, just understandably and predictably scared of these weirdos with superpowers.
Just one question before I read that spiderman comic, is it in it's own continuity where it doesn't deal with bullshit outside sources or is it subject to that.
Both are part of large continuities. Superior Spider-man (I recommend you start with that before reading the revamped Amazing Spider-man cause it explains some shit) and Amazing Spider-man don't really deal with that much outside bullshit unless it's the avengers or something reacting to something Spider-man did.
Ultimate Spiderman does have a lot more "bullshit outside sources", but they mostly fit within the plot and work well with the story. At least until it gets to the Clone Saga, where the story begins to almost feel like a fucking fanfiction for a bit before going back to not being shit.
But superhero comics unless they're standalone titles (like watchmen, dark knight returns (and yes I'm aware dark knight 2 is terrible), astro city, top ten, etc etc.) are kinda pointless to follow since it always reset and it's a never ending cycle. Plus they don't have the balls to kill of captain america or batman and had to use terrible deux ex machima to bring them back to life which would put DB to shame (at least in dragonball it worked in the story and we were given the rules as to waht you can wish for beforehand). They can't even kill off a worthless character like Jason Todd, lol.
In the original Ultimate Spider-man (with Peter Parker as the main character) they kill off quite a few notable characters without bringing them back to life. Probably why I like the ultimate-verse so much.
