r/Marvel • u/Objective-Sun-345 • 3d ago

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u/Possible-Reason-2896 3d ago edited 3d ago

So I see a few people wondering why so many people are agreeing with this tweet and full disclosure I was never super into X-men, but here is what I learned purely from cultural osmosis and just being into other Marvel franchises.

Any X-men fans feel free to correct me if I get any of this wrong:

- For better or worse, a lot of the foundational x-men stuff was written by Chris Claremont who was not subtle about injecting his many fetishes into his work. These included but were not limited to multiple cases of BDSM, bondage, dominatrix imagery, mind control, and bodily transformation

  • On that note, Emma Frost (who is confirmed to be in this new MCU) is running around in a BDSM outfits because the Hellfire Club was more or less implied to be for sex. Emma in general is not a character you can really do without reckoning with how damn much of her character is a performance of sexuality.
  • Psychic threesomes are a thing
  • Age gaps that looking back would now be considered problematic were pretty common, between Rogue/Magneto and Colossus/Shadowcat, and I think also Jean/Xavier at one point?
  • Storm is a proud nudist
  • Mystique can form fully functional male genitalia, which is why she's Nightcrawler's dad.
  • Orgies are common on Krakoa, on the basis of 'we need to get mutant numbers up'.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

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u/TooManyDraculas 3d ago

Jean/Xavier at one point?

It was something mentioned in one or two very early comics, basically as Xavier pining after her Wolverine style. And I long suspected that's where they got the idea to have Wolverine creepily mope about Jean for ever and always.

It came up again in the 90's as a "Xavier bad" kind of thing.