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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Practically every member of the X-Men has fallen victim to this trope at least once. |
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Practically every member of the X-Men has fallen victim to this trope at least once. |
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* [[Broken Aesop]]: Many. |
* [[Broken Aesop]]: Many. |
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** Marvel got a ruling saying mutants weren't people for purposes of taxes and tariffs on merchandise. See [http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/24/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-152/ here]. |
** Marvel got a ruling saying mutants weren't people for purposes of taxes and tariffs on merchandise. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022223546/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/24/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-152/ here]. |
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** Also, after decades of using mutants as a metaphor for an [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|oppressed minority]] that we should love and respect, Joe Quesada mandates the Decimation event, in which a vast majority of the Marvel universe's mutants are depowered and there are in the low three digits of mutants left. |
** Also, after decades of using mutants as a metaphor for an [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|oppressed minority]] that we should love and respect, Joe Quesada mandates the Decimation event, in which a vast majority of the Marvel universe's mutants are depowered and there are in the low three digits of mutants left. |
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** One of the taglines for the first movie was "Trust some. Fear the rest." Imagine this being applied to any minority group. |
** One of the taglines for the first movie was "Trust some. Fear the rest." Imagine this being applied to any minority group. |
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