Harrison Osterfield Appreciation Blog

Zendaya, in Sydney, Australia, for the Challengers Australian Premiere, on the 26th of March, 2024.

Why would mutants be hated in the MCU?

A large part of the identity of mutants in the Marvel universe is the fact that they represent minorities, and therefore, face a certain level of bigotry and prosecution. Now that the X-Men are set to join the MCU, why would the general public have a distain or dislike of mutants, considering other superpowered characters are treated like heroes, like The Avengers? I have a proposition.

I think that the concept of mutant hatred being politicised makes a lot of sense.

I think that governments and people in power preferring superpowered beings that they can control, and therefore branding anybody outside of that, especially people without a platform, the way that most mutants are portrayed as more or less everyday people rather than kings, billionaires, gods, etc. is a good and easy target for them to weaponise the public’s perception into anti-mutant, pro-government, pro-military propaganda.

The foundation’s already there with The Sokovia Accords, with various governments being much more in favour of controlling superpowered individuals rather than letting any of them freely act of their own individual or group accords. Mutants can simply be a face for that general sentiment to be perpetuated through propaganda. Yay War Machine, yay Captain America. Characters who have already been proven to have saved the world in large, well-known conflicts like what happened in Avengers: Endgame already have a certain level of public goodwill that governments would find hard to fight against, but newer, or lesser-known, or everyday mutants don’t have that same level of goodwill, nor influence, nor power (theoretically), that characters like The Avengers already have, and so could much easier be marketed as threats to the everyday public.

Also, seeing as not every mutant has powers that would largely benefit most governments, but there’s also some that could be weaponised dramatically, it’s believable that various governments would want to deter mutant goodwill as propaganda against other governments potentially using them, while also giving excuses not to put mutant-positive propositions forward themselves because mutants aren’t always powerfully useful for self-serving politicians and governments. If it doesn’t directly and selfishly help them personally, then they aren’t going to support it, and instead weaponise that disregard in an attempt to further their own agendas.

“Mutants are too variable to be trusted, or more accurately, used.”.

Andrew Garfield joking about the plot of ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’.

Tatiana Maslany wearing a shirt that says ‘SUPPORT TRANS FUTURES’ on it to promote She-Hulk for Marvel Studios and Disney, and therefore forcing them to have that on their social medias for the world to see, including who knows how many queer kids and their guardians, is fucking awesome and I thank her for that.

A fun reminder that somebody being out doesn’t give you the right to ask or demand invasive or personal information from that person.

I feel like this is the moment a young mutant just found out that his power is manifesting sliced bread

i’m about to make tumblr user runcibility’s goddamn day

Harrison Osterfield photographed by Danny Getz. Harrison wears sweater Moné, pants Daniel w. Fletcher and bracelet Serge DeNimes

Randomly thinking about how in Year 10 in my high school, my English teacher, who I think was the head of the English department at our school, decided to give every student in our class new names, and only referred to us by those new names for pretty much that entire year, and that apparently she claimed to do that with all of her classes but I had never heard of that before? Like surely if a teacher is re-assigning peoples names for every single class that she taught each year, people would talk about that more? She literally refused to call us by our own actual names and would only refer to us by the names that she gave us, which she said were often inspired by classic literature, although we didn’t read any of the books that she apparently got that inspiration from. It wasn’t instant, either, like for some people it took weeks for her to assign them a name. Anyway the name that she assigned me was Tatiana and apparently it means queen or something, and my friend got assigned the name Regina, and everybody made fun of it because of Mean Girls and called her Regina George but her actual birth name is Ashleigh.

Peter, Peter, Peter. No good deed goes unpunished. SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME 2021, dir. Jon Watts

TOM HOLLAND as PETER PARKER / SPIDER-MAN in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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