For example, Mystique being transgender and Morph being non-binary.

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      X-Men has always tried to talk about social issues.

      And it always failed, spectacularly.

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        The problem with xmen is fundmental. They are weapons. Its not skin color or sexuality or anything, they are living weapons, and the metaphor falls flat before it ever stands up.

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          Exactly. There are mutants many thousands of times more dangerous than atomic bombs. There are mutants the fundamentally subvert the basics of society like free will. To look at it and say “this is just like black people” is, Uhh, questionable at best