the X-Men, society persecutes them. In fact, when the X-Men first try to recruit Wolverine, he refuses: "Be an X-Men? Who the hell do you think you are? You're a mutant. The world out there is full of people who hate and fear you and you're wasting your time trying to protect them?" (Housel 140) Because the people view the X-Men as mutants, not humans, they refuse to treat them as equals. Consequently, Marvel's comic series X-Men discusses the philosophical dichotomy of equal human rights versus discrimination
"cure" for mutants to become human, but mutants seem to think that there is nothing wrong with them. An enraged Magneto emerges as a result of the proposed threat of this so called "cure", leading him to form a brotherhood with new allies and an army of mutants, to try to eradicate the "cure". Forcing the X-men to make a choice weather to fight against the brotherhood to protect everyone they can, even those who discriminate against them, or to sit aside, just watching as the brotherhood bestows a
equality was through peaceful demonstrations; on the other hand, Malcolm X believed that he had a right to defend himself, even if it led to violence. In 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, a comic book was released about a group of mutants that tried to keep peace between their people and the humans. Thirty-seven year later a Hollywood film was made based on the comic book series. X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000) was a box office hit that earned $157,299,717 in theaters; this movie entered
Defining Oneself in Invisible Man Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a novel which embodies the universal theme of self-discovery, of the search to figure out who one truly is in life which we all are embarked upon. Throughout the text, the narrator is constantly wondering about who he really is, and evaluating the different identities which he assumes for himself. He progresses from being a hopeful student with a bright future to being just another poor black laborer in New Your City to being
Once, a very long time ago, there lived a king whose greatest desire was to see and capture one specimen of the major fantastical creatures in his realm. Therefore, he called upon the great wizard Ildor to counsel with him on how to obtain his greatest want. Ildor told the kind to send his three children to capture a creature each from the three races of magical beasts in the kingdom. So it was that the kind sent his eldest son, Harbid, to seek the mighty dragon; his youngest son, Calidor, to find
novel deals with an alternate future set in 2013, one in which an anti-mutant human is elected president in 1984 and installs the Mutant Control Act, which allowed the United States government to create robot sentinels designed to exterminate all mutants of the world. The X-Man of 1981 are warned of this threat by Kate Pryde, who had her conciseness sent back in time. In 2013, almost all of the surviving mutants live in mutant concentration camps. Pryde had spent her entire
The X-Men are all mutants, Homo Sapien Superior, the next evolutionary step for human beings, a minority group of people with a genetic quirk, an X- Factor that grants them extraordinary powers. Some are blessings, like the ability to control the weather or to fly. Some are curses, such as the ability to blast uncontrollably strong beams of force from the eyes. Blessed or cursed, mutants are a group of people who are feared for their differences. Some mutants strike back against humanity
The popular superhero comic series X-Men were first released in the year 1963 with its original characters; Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Iceman and Marvel Girl, under the lead of Professor X also known as Professor Charles Xavier. Later adding in more popular X-Men such as Wolverine who has become the most popular X-Man since 1975. Marvel later adding in another character, Anne Marie is also known as Rogue added in the early 1980s. Rogues first appearance was in The Avengers Annual #10 -By Friends Betrayed
In October 2009, following the news of Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property, it was announced that Nickelodeon would produce a new film through Paramount Pictures with an expected release date sometime in 2012.[4] In late May 2011, it was announced that Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form on to produce the next film that will reboot the film series. Bay, Fuller, and Form