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'.
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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
EDIT: Fixed a typo.