the x-men would stand with trans people meanwhile the Avengers would be part of the raids rounding up the trans people while going "we're gonna fix the problem from the inside"
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it'd be like Civil War where Cap and the X-Men form the core of one side vs the state sponsored Avengers on the other
a random smattering of visually different characters like The Thing join bc they get it, a handful of allies like Luke Cage are like "it's NBD, leave em alone"
Is Bobby Drake still gay? Because Iceman and the Human Torch being together would be great and then Johnny being poly and dating Spider-Trans as well is the topper
Nightcrawler is torn because as a priest he struggles to reconcile the idea of being trans with his faith, but as a visible mutant he understands being ostracized based on who you are
Doom announces that Latveria will suspend diplomatic relations with the U.S. and offers trans people sanctuary and citizenship under his protection, which Tony and Reed immediately point to as proof that trans people cannot be trusted.
Doom literally not giving a shit about trans people but making Latveria a Trans Safehaven just to spite Reed's efforts to support the US government is so intensely within character it actually is unreal
Doom cares not what form your flesh takes, only that it serves Doom!
(Actually canon in one of the novels; one of his top lieutenants is a trans woman who is loyal to him because he got her out the country she was born and got her GAC)
"It's ironic that I - Doom - am the only one here who seems to see the real value in ones' face. Are you blind to the plight, Richards? Have you forgotten what its like to be Human, not ever-changing like you are in that spandex suit? I've made FFS free for every girl on earth. What are you doing?"
"I, Doom, have single handedly recruited the top agents of the NSA & silicon valley with the stroke of my pen. Latveria shall exist as a Utopia for all the world to see, with ME, VICTOR VON DOOM, as it's Glorious Leader. Richard's capitalist homeland & precious inter net shall WITHER without them"
i...people really forget what a new deal arts student from brooklyn at the time would actually believe, he got a more comprehensive sex ed course than most kids get these days and that's just like one thing
This is the thing that made Civil War (the movie, not current events) interesting. What happens when the government becomes the bad guy? The answer is, you end up putting Captain America in jail for kicking bad guy ass. Which is bananas, but also surprisingly realistic.
Marvel Comics Rogers absolutely would. Go read the early Marvel NOW! X-Men comics. He is absolutely willing to work with SHIELD to detain newly created mutants. He has zero problem upholding the anti-mutant laws.
I was talking about Marvel Comics Rogers. Although I'm not familiar with the Marvel Now era, so I can't really comment on that. The Captain America I am familiar with was the Gruenwald Cap. I guess having such a long publication history you can see a character do many contradictory things.
I'll admit that I came in late as my first era was Marvel NOW! and that starts around 2015 and after "No More Mutants." After the Phoenix Force events, one of the first things he does is try to take a new mutant into custody and fight Cyclops for the kid.
Yeah, Marvel NOW! isn't a great era for Avengers fans. Even the stories based around the Avengers, as a team or individual, don't show them in a great light. There's one Avenger centric volume where Stark Industry weapons are used against people and they don't actually investigate that further.
if only because without fail no matter what's happening in their individual solo books, when there's an Avengers Vs X-men story to be told the entire team ends up massively out of character. Its honestly a real problem.
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Probably why he's rarely with the Avengers in the books.
a random smattering of visually different characters like The Thing join bc they get it, a handful of allies like Luke Cage are like "it's NBD, leave em alone"
Spider-Man comes out
(Actually canon in one of the novels; one of his top lieutenants is a trans woman who is loyal to him because he got her out the country she was born and got her GAC)
so yeah absolutely
"avenging" implies that they only stand up for those who've been wronged after the damage is already done; most lib possible super team