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Post by brawl2099 on Jan 4, 2018 16:39:02 GMT -5
You know, with the Gifted getting renewed on Fox, it amazes me that the Mutant Underground concept has never really taken off in the comics or fanfic. It's a great, tense story with lots of rom for story to tell.
You put together a mixture of familiar and new faces, place them squarely against a government organization set on tracking mutant fugitives down, and add in various homegrown hate groups, and even more organized groups like the Purifiers and Friends of Humanity.
How it hasn't been done just baffles me.
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Post by claypot on Jan 4, 2018 17:02:00 GMT -5
Answer: Popular characters get more fans than lower ones. Marvel recently canned Iceman, Jean Grey, and Generation X. We're getting New Mutants and Exiles to replace those titles, due to low sales. Marvel did titles outside of the main X-books with The Brotherhood and NYX, the latter introduced X-23 after X-Men: Evolution introduce her from the cartoon. I like to see MU work with the Gifted title with some of the Young X-Men and mix new characters to be an underground X-Men team where the X-men can't get to.
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Post by brawl2099 on Jan 4, 2018 18:33:02 GMT -5
It could have been the focus of one of the big name titles though. Adjectiveless X-Men, include three or so A-listers (Rogue, Havok and Polaris maybe), and focus on the underground? That would be storytelling gold!
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Post by Stephen Crosby on Jan 4, 2018 19:28:48 GMT -5
What would this underground be for? Getting mutants out of the United States, where the Mutant Registration Act passed? Or are they being brought to the United States from countries with anti-mutant laws?
My initial thought is that this premise would be similar to what X-Factor started as. The team finds new mutants who are branded as criminals through unique circumstances or being openly targeted for persecution, and gets them out of that situation Only the team does it without masquerading as mutant hunters, because that was a terrible idea that could only be brought up by a supposed friend who actually leads an anti-mutant militia. And I can get behind it, because that is an aspect of what the X-Men does. Protect a world that hates and fears them. Train new mutants in the use of their powers. Help mutant civilians out of dangerous situations and into a safe community like mutant town.
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Post by D. Golightly on Jan 4, 2018 21:05:27 GMT -5
Getting them out of Genosha.
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Post by brawl2099 on Jan 5, 2018 11:23:43 GMT -5
I'd thought a lot about the concept in the past and The Gifted actually turned out quite a bit like how I would have done it (though slightly less dystopian). Have the underground operating out of an area that's incredibly unfriendly towards mutants, and getting them somewhere more friendly. Whether that's the deep south to California, or Chicago to Canada or whatever, I never got that far. Along the way they encounter bigotry, mutant hunters, and so on. Add in more violent, radicalized mutants engaging in acts of domestic terrorism as well... It's a very interesting story.
One thing I like from The Gifted- the concept of the Hounds starting as mutants who have been made technologically more compliant, and actually straight up complicit.
It'd be a lot of fun to write, and a complete change of pace from what's normally done.
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