X-Men musings

[ratcreature]

This occurred to me when I commented in another journal, but one of the reasons why I like XMFC fix-it scenarios where the beach scene isn't the moment when Erik embarks upon an ideology of genocidal mutant separatism is that I can't imagine how Erik would even be able to make a sound judgment at this early point that a mutant-only society is a

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Yeah, I don't think that's Erik's decision is in any way sound, though I also don't think that it's presented as a particularly good idea! Ideology aside, the parents of every single mutant Erik knows, including his own, appear to have been baseline human, so I can only see his early ideology as "when mutants appear we will bring them into our society", whereas by the time of X2 there are vastly more mutants and at least a few second-generation mutants (including Erik's own kids - seen on the list in the office that Mystique infiltrates).

In comics, one of Erik's three grandchildren is in fact human, and his daughter had a good try at wiping out the X-gene, so I think in that universe it's dangerous to assume anything at all about your genotype's future!

[ratcreature]

Yeah, the reasons for why mutant supremacy and separatism right then is not a good plan are many, from the ethics to the emotional to mere practicality, but I still want it to make sense how he arrived at his ideology