I was at a small con in Portland and saw a dad explaining the X-Men to his little kid, and it hit me different

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Totally get what you mean, @henryp40. Saw something like that at a library last month, a mom pulling an old "Dark Phoenix Saga" trade for her daughter. The kid was asking who the "funny blue guy" was, meaning Nightcrawler. It's wild to think these stories we grew up on are brand new to someone else. That dad in Portland is probably having the best time right now, just laying all that groundwork about mutants and prejudice. Makes you realize these characters really do stick around for a reason.

henryp403mo ago

Wait, the kid didn't know the X-Men? That's wild to me. I feel like those characters are just in the air we breathe by now. Guess the torch has to get passed sometime.

seth_shah3mo ago

Those stories feel pretty dated now, honestly.

jason_lewis31mo ago

Think about what makes X-Men different from other superheroes though. Most heroes are about beating bad guys or saving the world. X-Men is about being born wrong, being hated just for existing. That little kid doesn't know it yet but that story's gonna stick with him in ways he won't understand until he's older. Hard to explain to a five year old why people are scared of things they don't get. But that dad planting that seed now? That's powerful.