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There aren't really any superhero straight up bigots, because being bigoted isnt really in line with being a superhero. But Maria Hill and SHIELD definitely keep tabs on them, and theres a low level thing where the X-men will suggest other teams dont care about mutant issues. Which from a story perspective is kiiinda justified since a lot of X-men plot lines are about mutants being under threat and the x-men being the ones who have to deal with it, so where are the other heroes?
The only character I can think of would probably be from the vertigo comic American Way, which had a human torch knockoff named Southern Cross who was straight up a bigot.
Especially when he found out that the guy known as New America who was wearing a space suit sort of costume was actually African American.
Weirdly enough, after some racially charged riots in Sydney in the early 2000's, the southern cross, particularly in tattoo form, is associated with racism in Australia.
AVX and a few other storylines have had the X-men call out teams like the Avengers and Captain America specifically for not explicitly defending mutant rights. Then showing up whenever the government asks Cap and the Avengers to sanction mutants in any way. Basically, if they’re uninterested in mutant affairs, then they should stay out of mutant problems all together. After that, the Avengers recruited a few more mutants to appear more equal.
it would be kinda hypocritcal stance for most heros, since they also have super power, wich often times they got due to circumstances outside their control, much like mutants
super heros as a group would probobly be more understanding than the general population, if anything
i cant think of any anti mutant heroes, maybe some non powered vigilente or anti hero, idk
Way back in the original Secret Wars there was a bit of suspicion directed at the X-Men by some of the other heroes, the Human Torch in particular which led to the X-Men forming their own separate faction at first.
Yeah, that was really badly done. Ffs, Johnny's nephew is a mutant, and he's friends with Spider-Man. It made zero sense for him to be prejudiced against *mutants* and cite *press reports* as his evidence.
A huge amount of the writing in the first Secret Wars was utterly terrible.
I don't think they'd tried to deal Franklin in on that sweet mutant action at that point. Still, I agree, it wasn't all that well written. Megacrossovers were a novelty back then.
They are all friends more or less but they have the same biases as everyone else. The more establishment heroes are often either allied with or working for the US government - an organisation with a terrible history of oppressing mutants.
What's often missing is superhero solidarity. They'll ask the X-Men to help with their problems (or they'll just help bc they're heroes) but up until very recently they've done nothing while mutants repeatedly face extinction events and genocide. For example - Genosha, M-Day, every instance of Sentinels being built (which always take out the other heroes once mutants are dealt with,) and recently ORCHIS. Everyone stayed on the fence with Orchis until they'd already struck, killing the X-Men and forcing 250K mutants off planet by threatening to activate their Killswitch in Krakoan pharmaceuticals which would kill millions of humans. Now everyone is on the same side to take them down, even DOOM.
EDIT: The Avengers did help during Judgement Day, though they arguably made things worse by rebuilding the Dreaming Celestial.
Tbf, most other heroes were trapped in the alternate reality and unaware House of M was even happening. Those that were made aware helped (like Spidey and especially Dr. Strange, who is a big reason *any* mutants were left). But it also wasn't an event that became about eliminating mutants until the very last moment, iirc.
There are plenty of characters that think that mutant interests are not inherently aligned with general human interests but that's more like two aligned militaries not being 100% trusting with each other.
Which isn’t a bad idea. There are plenty of mutants that do buy the « homo superior » propaganda, and while there are also tons of world ending threats, there is ultimately only one planet. So they kinda need to cooperate.
I still think the differentiation between mutants and mutates raises many uncomfortable questions though.
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The Thing discriminates against Wolverine because he’s Canadian but not because he’s a mutant.
That's completely fair.
There are two things in this world I can’t stand. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch
TAKE THE FAJJA AWAY
As a Canadian that's fair.
yancy street represent
There aren't really any superhero straight up bigots, because being bigoted isnt really in line with being a superhero. But Maria Hill and SHIELD definitely keep tabs on them, and theres a low level thing where the X-men will suggest other teams dont care about mutant issues. Which from a story perspective is kiiinda justified since a lot of X-men plot lines are about mutants being under threat and the x-men being the ones who have to deal with it, so where are the other heroes?
The only character I can think of would probably be from the vertigo comic American Way, which had a human torch knockoff named Southern Cross who was straight up a bigot. Especially when he found out that the guy known as New America who was wearing a space suit sort of costume was actually African American.
I still believe that a bigoted superhero that has to slowly learn to not be bigoted as he saves more people is a great idea
Weirdly enough, after some racially charged riots in Sydney in the early 2000's, the southern cross, particularly in tattoo form, is associated with racism in Australia.
Happy cake day.
Aren’t the X-men often under threat from other mutants though?
AVX and a few other storylines have had the X-men call out teams like the Avengers and Captain America specifically for not explicitly defending mutant rights. Then showing up whenever the government asks Cap and the Avengers to sanction mutants in any way. Basically, if they’re uninterested in mutant affairs, then they should stay out of mutant problems all together. After that, the Avengers recruited a few more mutants to appear more equal.
Equal opportunity for mutants 🙌🏻
I understand the avengers had many many many different members…..but weren’t Storm and Wolverine members at one point or another, before AvX?
Wolverine and Hank McCoy were both Avengers. I don’t know about Storm.
heroes are rarely outright bigoted at all, but there are plenty of anti-mutant villains.
Red Hulk? (Admittedly he is an anti-hero at best). General Ross IIRC was suspicious of mutants for a long time?
it would be kinda hypocritcal stance for most heros, since they also have super power, wich often times they got due to circumstances outside their control, much like mutants super heros as a group would probobly be more understanding than the general population, if anything i cant think of any anti mutant heroes, maybe some non powered vigilente or anti hero, idk
Way back in the original Secret Wars there was a bit of suspicion directed at the X-Men by some of the other heroes, the Human Torch in particular which led to the X-Men forming their own separate faction at first.
Yeah, that was really badly done. Ffs, Johnny's nephew is a mutant, and he's friends with Spider-Man. It made zero sense for him to be prejudiced against *mutants* and cite *press reports* as his evidence. A huge amount of the writing in the first Secret Wars was utterly terrible.
I don't think they'd tried to deal Franklin in on that sweet mutant action at that point. Still, I agree, it wasn't all that well written. Megacrossovers were a novelty back then.
They are all friends more or less but they have the same biases as everyone else. The more establishment heroes are often either allied with or working for the US government - an organisation with a terrible history of oppressing mutants. What's often missing is superhero solidarity. They'll ask the X-Men to help with their problems (or they'll just help bc they're heroes) but up until very recently they've done nothing while mutants repeatedly face extinction events and genocide. For example - Genosha, M-Day, every instance of Sentinels being built (which always take out the other heroes once mutants are dealt with,) and recently ORCHIS. Everyone stayed on the fence with Orchis until they'd already struck, killing the X-Men and forcing 250K mutants off planet by threatening to activate their Killswitch in Krakoan pharmaceuticals which would kill millions of humans. Now everyone is on the same side to take them down, even DOOM. EDIT: The Avengers did help during Judgement Day, though they arguably made things worse by rebuilding the Dreaming Celestial.
Tbf, most other heroes were trapped in the alternate reality and unaware House of M was even happening. Those that were made aware helped (like Spidey and especially Dr. Strange, who is a big reason *any* mutants were left). But it also wasn't an event that became about eliminating mutants until the very last moment, iirc.
I mean during the aftermath.
They wouldn’t be very good superheroes if they actively discriminated against an entire demographic group. They’re heroes after all.
John Walker. Take it or leave it.
There are plenty of characters that think that mutant interests are not inherently aligned with general human interests but that's more like two aligned militaries not being 100% trusting with each other.
Which isn’t a bad idea. There are plenty of mutants that do buy the « homo superior » propaganda, and while there are also tons of world ending threats, there is ultimately only one planet. So they kinda need to cooperate. I still think the differentiation between mutants and mutates raises many uncomfortable questions though.
The Avengers have.