>>151989861
You might be able to find earlier moments for certain characters, but for the franchise as a whole it's the early 2000s, particularly the Morrison run that started pushing the "mutant culture" idea. The X-Men othered themselves, set themselves apart from humans, and it's been the same ever since. I'm not sure there's any way back, this is what Marvel want, this is what the fandom wants.

Any X-Men story that actually treats "mutantkind" like it's an actual real thing and not just something mutant villains believe in is inherently a bad X-Men story.

>>151990045
It's not gonna happen because the idea that any minority group should have to put in any effort to fit in with the majority is now considered a racist fascist nazi holocaust.

>>151990146
The group calling themselves not human is not the same thing as being forced to try and fit in with a group also trying to force minorities or other groups to not be themselves but to be the majority is racist to begin with even if it's not seen half as hard as what you just said but and it is imperatively bigoted to tell them to Don't Be Your Own Thing For What Makes You Different just be normal and pretend you are normal and people are not accepting them 100% becoming what others considered normal when they had their own culture long before they had us Neighbors it's how people try to justify bigotry for Generations and persecution.But at the end of the day saying you're not human being because you are this does sound more like bigotry than anything.

>>151990171
Anon, were you having a stroke while typing that.

>>151989861
When Marvel wanted to make X-Men toys and had to say that Mutants weren’t human to get pass restrictions.

>>151990290
I wonder if any scientists or geneticists or people who actually know what is race and species actually talked at that trial.

>>151990290
As hilarious as it is that Marvel undermined the very premise of X-Men in a legal battle to pay less tax on X-Men toys, it wasn't something that really impacted the comics or adaptations.

>>151990146
It's very obvious that the entire "mutants = minorities" metaphor has been a huge mistake and in modern times it's putting a hard limit on what can even be done with X-Men characters without idiots calling the writers evil racist bigots for what their story about mutants would mean if applied to some IRL minority.

It's also ruined a large number of the mutant villains, turning them into allies of the X-Men against evil bigot human strawmen who were the real villains all along, while Magneto, Mystique, Sabretooth and Apocalypse are OK once you get to know them.

>>151990503
What if you introduce minorities on a different axis than mutants?

Humans suck so being anything else would be a positive.