Before the Avengers became all the rage here in the last whatever it spent 10 12 years the uncanny X-Men took a run as another Marvel superhero team

They took a run at capturing the hearts and minds of cinema goers everywhere and it just never quite worked.

They rebooted it, they went back in time, they messed with stuff and moved it all around and

Deadpool as a character has done a wonderful job of

lampooning that. Maybe it's because the characters have powers that are too big. I don't know. I don't know why it

didn't translate to the screen very well, but I loved these comics as a kid and I particularly

liked this motif of the X-Men being this shield that guards the realms of men from

destroying each other and being destroyed by evil forces but also being

totally rejected and unappreciated by the very people that they're trying to save and

protect and the very society that they're trying to preserve and take care of

because you know they're weird they're outsiders but the X and X-Men I think

stands for some like genetic mutation or the X gene or whatever

So there's something wrong with them and there's this rivalry between the humans the

Normals like you and me and the mutants who are super undesirable because they're

unbelievably attractive except they can like shoot lasers out of their eyes or have

purple hand swords that appear out of nowhere. I never understood really what the

gripe was but you know people

fear what they don't understand, that's what I'm told. And so it really is a very

fascinating dynamic and it lines up really neatly with the dynamic that Jesus

is talking about when he's explaining the tension that is

going to exist that must exist between citizens of his kingdom and citizens of

the world kingdom. Now he never ever ever ever in any way

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