Livewatching: "X-Men: First Class"
Raven and Hank are pretty good foils to each other too tbh. As in, when she sees Hank, she thinks he’s amazing because of his mutation, where Hank thinks she likes him despite his mutation.
Which on the whole is representative of the paths they end up chosing-Charles and the X-Men may not explicitely say they’re acceptable “despite” their mutations, but they do put quite a lot of effort into making themselves sound less scary, less powerful (and therefore, yes, potentially dangerous) than they really are.
In many ways, Charles and the XMen are a much more palatable kind of activists and while I agree that you have to learn how to compromise at some point, I’m still sad we didn’t get to see more of the XMen kind of leaning toward Erik’s radicalism while remaining at the school.
(I’m guessing there was some of that in the comics, possibly still is, but tbqh I do not have the patience to try and get into that) Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth