So in the first Ultimate Spider-Man run Fisk bought the wrestling company that Spider-Man first appeared at so Fisk would have the rights to Spider-Man. And then started flooding the market with Spider-Man merchandise so people would start getting tired of and even hating Spider-Man.
I think the point is also to show that Fisk can just profit from Spider-Man's likeness and rising popularity, basically saying "the more you save, the more i gain from the merch"
When you started talking about Jaffa Cakes and X-Men, it made me think of that Mitchel and Webb sketch where Webb has a super power to manipulate biscuit with his mind, and Mitchel says "do it with this one" and Webb replies "I can't that's a Jaffa cake its not a real biscuit."
Who decided that chocolate cake isn't a delicacy, but a Girl Scouts Thin Mint is one? Not that I'm complaining; I love the idea of having cake as a staple of my diet, the cookie is just more portable.
@@benwagner5089 I think that it’s a thing of it depends on how hard someone goes on the chocolate cake. Because technically “chocolate covered pancakes” would count, and someone could essentially make that with some eggo’s and chocolate syrup
And we got the hairy caveman form... I would have loved to see a freaking dinosaur rip apart titans. Or maybe we could have had the whale pull a moby dick and (spoiler ahead) transport the team across the ocean to stop the rumbling
Pretty sure the cool skill and advantages of the Beast Titan changes with the animal, but I'm now just imagining the T-Rex pitching missiles like the current one right now.
I always love your X-Men vids, but I think something you always leave out when bringing up Genosha is its direct parallel to the founding of Liberia by former slaves fleeing America during the 1800s. There's allusions to every civil rights and equality movement you can imagine in the X-Men.
They were not fleeing. They were actually deported as was the plan of Abraham Lincoln had he not been assassinated. Originally the entire population of freed slaves were meant to be deported to Liberia to leave America a homogeneous white nation after the Civil War concluded.
I had that argument a couple weeks ago. Someone was calling comicon woke so I promptly showed him that Superman has always been woke since it was made in response to antisemitism at the time.
This makes me wonder when in the X-Men timeline they actually started calling mutants by the separate species name of Homo Superior. I feel like that reference in the comics might have helped their argument as well.
I've seen scans of comics as early as the Stan Lee days where the term was being used, but I don't think Stan meant it the way that it reads. Mainly because Stan himself always argued that he created the series with the intention of mutants being humans too. I mean after all mutants are born from humans, and humans can mate with mutants so logic would dictate that we're the same species technically.
@@CrudzMcKenzie Oh yeah I know you weren't, I was just saying all that to clarify that while Stan Lee used the term too, it's been obviously twisted later.
@@BlackTheBerserker Thor isnt human either, or Superman. I think an important point is the difference between "Human" as a species and "Persons" as a classification of sentience. It would be a sensible differentiation in universe as well, given that Earth 616 comes into contact with so many alien species throughout time.
@@BlackTheBerserker also Donkeys can mate with horses, but they are seperate species. Different species/genus of plants can be mixed, but that doesnt put them in the same genetic classification. Ligers too. Lions and tigers are a different species but can still make offspring
Karl using his genetic advantage to ‘cheat’ at arcade basketball makes me think of Star Trek DS9 where when the characters O’Brian and Bashir are playing darts, O’Brian makes Bashir stand several yards further back brim the crease because Bashir is genetically augmented and when he stands at the normal position he can get perfect throws with every dart.
I don't blame them honestly. The take away from this isn't that marvel did something weird that goes against their story but simply that tax laws are really dumb.
Just a fake argument to get out of a loophole they shouldn't have been forced to jump through in the first place. It is scary knowing that a business can use Cochran logic to avoid loopholes that might be there for a good reason.
@@SaviorGabriel it doesn't matter if it's official anime done by Japanese animators or not what matters is that it's a classic and is amazing 😊 plus the definition of anime is anything animated so think of it as American Anime haha
Just strange. In this case we are talking about made up characters in stories. But a more corrupt business could argue semantics over much more diabolical things.
@Hattoipool - not as bad as being a black lesbian trans woman would be. And there are probably more groups that are discriminated against (eg being disabled) that said hypothetical person could belong to that would result in them suffering more abuse at the hands of bigots. 😠
I’ve seen a comment going against x-men comics being progressive is because they were created because Stan Lee didn’t want to give their characters superpowers from radiation. While ignoring all of themes and plots and I read the original comics and even back then it was about discrimination. The dude was trying so hard to accept reality.
If you take it a level deeper, Marvel didn't nullify their storyline with this move. They just proved how easy it is to get the government on board of the villain's side, exactly like what happened in the comics, so they're just showing off how accurate the story is.
having been born "disabled" and lived with the stigma for 45 years I have seen and felt the discrimination both hard and soft forms of it. I'd much rather someone come at me as a "Freak" because they at least are being honest about it.
Dr. King was not saying that violence is the only way to get their point across. He used that phrase, "a riot is the language of the unheard," in a number of speeches. Generally accompanied (usually prefaced) by a statement along the lines of, "I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action point of view." His statement is not to say that a riot is the only way, but that when riots occur we should take time to consider what it is that is being said in the "language" of a riot. It is an entreaty to consider intolerable conditions that are represented by the particular riots that America was confronting at the time. He tends to follow the quote up by asking "And what is it America has failed to hear?" and then illustrates his point with examples of what sort of injustice poor people of color have encountered in their lives in recent decades. Note: none of this in any way invalidates the X-Men parallels. I totally understand and agree that the parallels are woven throughout X-Men. I am only quibbling with Carl stating that Dr. King was essentially giving in to an inevitability of violence as the only solution. Some did, Dr. King did not. Dr. King may have been right or wrong in his notion. But that wasn't the point Dr. King was making.
The talk of anime intros makes me wonder if you ever heard the openings for Overlord. They're all amazing and I have 3 openings and 2 of the endings on my playlist
I talk shit about blm for being a for profit scam. Look into where donations went. And tell me why the leaders of blm need a mansion..... Only good blm is bureau of land management
I dont know if you have seen the film Boondock saints but talking about amazing clips made me think of Willem Dafoe in full drag shooting an Italian gangster while screaming like a horse... Good times.
Is this basically saying that Magneto was right? His whole point is that mutants are the next step in human evolution, so they shouldn't have to live as second-class citizens.
"Skeleton Knight in Another World" has the best intro of any anime in the last ten years. Maybe not the best song but it is the only intro I consciously decide to watch as I fast-forward past all the other intros of shows I watch.
Technically the mutant race aren't fighting to be recognized as humans, but people. Mutants are genetically distinct from humans and belong to a separate species that nonetheless deserve "human" rights; the crux of the argument being that you don't have to be human to be a person. The court case was to establish that the X-Men could be considered toys because they didn't technically belong to the human species, not that they were animalistic or subhuman. Weaselly? Absolutely, but not hypocritical.
@Malcolm - arguably they’re not a separate species as they’re born from human parents and can mate and have viable offspring with humans; at most they’re a separate *sub*-species, similar to how Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens Sapiens (us) are both humans and could (and indeed did) interbreed but are both distinct sub-species of humans.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 Technically you're right, but I think that's more due to the writers not fully understanding the classification system, as in mutants are canonically not the same species as humans (this has been stated several times over the years and it's where the term "homo superior" comes from), but the writers didn't realize that would mean humans and mutants shouldn't be able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
@@seanhurley9216 "Homo" literally translates to "same", but in this context refers to the genus to which the species "sapiens" belongs. It is not part of the species name.
The thing is, even if Mutants are a different species, that still doesn’t make them non-human. Homo Sapiens doesn’t mean Human, but rather Homo Sapiens is a species of Human. For example, Homo Erectus was a different species to us, but they are still Human. As Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens are both HUMAN species.
I love the concept of the XMen and them as characters bringing us as viewers closer together knowing that everyone who is sentient living things humans or not all deserve respect. But at the same time they exist in the same world as other heroes and team up with them to save the world over and over and some of these heroes work high up in government and how does no one try to help them and succeed
My problem with mutants being an allegory for marginalized groups and how they work within the marvel universe is how marvel continuously pushes the idea that mutants are completely distinct from other super humans (Even though the only thing that makes them different from them is just the x gene), and how marginalized groups functionally have the same physical potential to do things as any other person. The problem with the allegory is that a person being concerned over people being able to spontaneously explode, read your thoughts, or becoming god wouldn’t be unreasonable. Real marginalized groups don’t hold the sort of power (Obviously). Funny enough, Zootopia has this same problem. Minority groups are presented as predators who are physically stronger and have predatory instincts while the dominant class are herbivores. Both unintentionally create scenarios what show marginalized people as a threat, by putting extreme physical power imbalances in the story and emphasizing their intrinsic differences. I’m not saying the X-men are bad, or that they’ve never had good social commentary, they have. It’s just that the concept doesn’t entirely fit with the world building of the rest of the marvel universe, and that it falls short in being an allegory to an extent.
Cakes are completely different from biscuits simply because of the aeration factor kinda like how biscuits are different from cookies because biscuits are made to be dunked and thus are smaller because you know how big is your mug while cookies are made to be eaten by themselves hence why they are bigger and crunchyer also fun fact crunchiness is due 100% to the duration of whipping the butter and sugar have undergone the longer the crunchyer unless you are melting moments then in that case the longer the softer. I'm a baker by trade these are things I have learned
3:16-3:26 and then Moira X comes out of nowhere and shows Xavier the future. Xavier: ah Christ. Maybe magneto was right. Let's call him up and get all the mutants and go live on Krakoa.🤣🤣🤣
This incident shows how intellectually dishonest corporations are. It's a shame that they're never held accountable for their transgressions, even on matters of principle.
I could be wrong but wasn’t there a second part of that Dr. King quote that basically said that using violence only makes it easier for your oppressors to hold you down using fear?
He prefaces the quote, in some of his speeches, by noting why he still believes non-violence is the answer. A part of that prefacing is done by making the point that "I'm absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt." He wants us to consider what root causes resulted in the violence. He is not asking us to mindlessly consider violence an inevitability of oppression, nor as the only or best option.
A species is a group of similar individuals who can interbreed to form fertile offspring. Quicksilver is the child of Magneto and a human woman in the comics. Quicksilver also has a daughter called Luna. If quicksilver can have kids, his parents are the same species. So magneto must be considered human. If he is, then most other surely can be.
American motorcycles are broken down into 100cc+ / 99-50cc / 49cc- .... due to similar things "50cc" engines are actually 49cc (no licence needed to drive)
The civil rights allegory breaks down due to the super powers giving them far greater destructive potential than a normal human. I think that RWBY handled it better (initially) with the faunus, (humans with one animal trait). They got a physical advantage like night vision, better hearing, or even a tail that can act like a 3rd hand. These traits never elevated them exponentially above the regular humans.
It's not a perfect allegory. but the marvel universe still others them specifically. Other heroes with just as much power and arguably many more destructive get a pass. The change in mutants DNA is basically the only difference but they get thrown under the bus. And that unsubstantiated difference is s all they need to treat them as sub human.
I've always thought X-men was a very clumsy commentary on real-life issues. Sure there's a thread you can follow and explore in a story with those kinds of characters and settings. But you can't count on every writer to be skilled enough to do that well. And it's always going to be more work to write around certain issues (And again, not every writer can be counted on to do that well). So it's like these people who are supposed to be bad people because of the real-life counterparts they represent have more justification and are more reasonable because it's not just skin color or whatever but is actually mutants with supernatural abilities. Take the little girl who can walk through walls. There's the real-world commentary part of it. You could say she stands in for a minority and powerful people or governments will only see that and not the individual. But it's impossible to ignore there's a little more going on than just skin color or nationality or etc in the X-Men stories. It's legitimately dangerous for a governing body or police force or military to not be able to do something as simple as secure an area. Protect the kinds of secrets they should be protecting. Etc. Insert almost any plot involving people in power that shows up in those stories. And I'm being careful with those words btw. I'm not simping or shilling, just saying there's some stuff I think a government or representative should be able to keep confidential when there's a good reasons for it. Some things they _ought_ to be doing... So their point still stands, you know? It doesn't really end at "You shouldn't be bigoted". What they're saying isn't that baseless. And I don't want ever to think these sorts of things about people who exist in place of real-world bigots, warmongers, etc. The X-Men world gives them that gift imo, so even if they take things too far you can still see where they're coming from. Which is a problem when the real world version it represents is just skin color or whatever.
I just realised that BNA is just furry X-Men. There's a specific population of humans who have superpowers of some kind and they're treated as a lower class.
I respect that they pulled the same stunt for all their characters. Even if it's a shitty move at least they weren't shit about it if that makes sense?
The simultaneous metaphor for human evolution speeding up and genetic mutation being a natural part of adaptation doesn't work if they aren't human. Neither does the irony of the people v mutants basically being a war to not keep evolving but traditionalize our current state and stay mired in the same misfortunes we currently endure.
The same parallel can be said of emperors who conquered a civilisation, but treated them nicely and have disciplined armies when conquering them; will be enough merit for a majority of the peasants to think rebelling against this new governance (which practically have little impact over the common folks) is not worth the effort.
It's actually kinda funny how Karl completely misunderstood Marvel's stance here. Marvel didn't go to court to say that mutants are less than human, Marvel went to court to say that mutants are better than human. They are Homo SUPERIOR. Definitely not humans, but this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Well it is technically true, they are Homo Superior which is a different species that evolved from humans. It’s the same as saying thor isn’t human, none of them are human but they are still people.
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That 5% tax savings puts the whole "It's not a doll, it's an action figure" fights we had as kids in a whole new context.
So in the first Ultimate Spider-Man run Fisk bought the wrestling company that Spider-Man first appeared at so Fisk would have the rights to Spider-Man. And then started flooding the market with Spider-Man merchandise so people would start getting tired of and even hating Spider-Man.
I think the point is also to show that Fisk can just profit from Spider-Man's likeness and rising popularity, basically saying "the more you save, the more i gain from the merch"
Considering Marvel's financial situation during the 90s, they probably needed to pinch every penny they could just to keep the company afloat.
When you started talking about Jaffa Cakes and X-Men, it made me think of that Mitchel and Webb sketch where Webb has a super power to manipulate biscuit with his mind, and Mitchel says "do it with this one" and Webb replies "I can't that's a Jaffa cake its not a real biscuit."
But is it a cake or a biscuit!?!?!
Who decided that chocolate cake isn't a delicacy, but a Girl Scouts Thin Mint is one? Not that I'm complaining; I love the idea of having cake as a staple of my diet, the cookie is just more portable.
@@benwagner5089 I think that it’s a thing of it depends on how hard someone goes on the chocolate cake. Because technically “chocolate covered pancakes” would count, and someone could essentially make that with some eggo’s and chocolate syrup
Apparently the dinosaur and other animals in the intro of AoT are actually previous versions of the beast titan
And we got the hairy caveman form... I would have loved to see a freaking dinosaur rip apart titans. Or maybe we could have had the whale pull a moby dick and (spoiler ahead) transport the team across the ocean to stop the rumbling
Pretty sure the cool skill and advantages of the Beast Titan changes with the animal, but I'm now just imagining the T-Rex pitching missiles like the current one right now.
@@ela-811 just grabbing rocks with it's mouth, crushing them slightly, spitting them out and tail whipping them into a widespread shotgun blast
I always love your X-Men vids, but I think something you always leave out when bringing up Genosha is its direct parallel to the founding of Liberia by former slaves fleeing America during the 1800s. There's allusions to every civil rights and equality movement you can imagine in the X-Men.
Liberia was set up by the usa as a colony to repartriate former slaves...
Genosha was apartheid South Africa
@@johnathanclark79 Yeah there's elements of both in there. The original Genosha arc honestly deserves an adaptation.
They were not fleeing. They were actually deported as was the plan of Abraham Lincoln had he not been assassinated. Originally the entire population of freed slaves were meant to be deported to Liberia to leave America a homogeneous white nation after the Civil War concluded.
Well Krakoa for sure.
Neckbeards in 2022: "why are you trying to make mutants political, this is ruining comic books, woke sjw words angry"
I bet they'd freak if an extra supporting character was added and they weren't white. "Woke representing bs"
It’s not specifically mutants from marvel comics though is it
It's mutants and "insert literally any media product they don't agree with/understand/shows any character diversity at all".
It’s so funny cause mutants always were political
I had that argument a couple weeks ago. Someone was calling comicon woke so I promptly showed him that Superman has always been woke since it was made in response to antisemitism at the time.
This makes me wonder when in the X-Men timeline they actually started calling mutants by the separate species name of Homo Superior. I feel like that reference in the comics might have helped their argument as well.
I've seen scans of comics as early as the Stan Lee days where the term was being used, but I don't think Stan meant it the way that it reads. Mainly because Stan himself always argued that he created the series with the intention of mutants being humans too. I mean after all mutants are born from humans, and humans can mate with mutants so logic would dictate that we're the same species technically.
@@BlackTheBerserker Oh absolutely. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I just meant it would have been more ammo for the lawyers.
@@CrudzMcKenzie Oh yeah I know you weren't, I was just saying all that to clarify that while Stan Lee used the term too, it's been obviously twisted later.
@@BlackTheBerserker Thor isnt human either, or Superman.
I think an important point is the difference between "Human" as a species and "Persons" as a classification of sentience.
It would be a sensible differentiation in universe as well, given that Earth 616 comes into contact with so many alien species throughout time.
@@BlackTheBerserker also Donkeys can mate with horses, but they are seperate species. Different species/genus of plants can be mixed, but that doesnt put them in the same genetic classification.
Ligers too. Lions and tigers are a different species but can still make offspring
Karl using his genetic advantage to ‘cheat’ at arcade basketball makes me think of Star Trek DS9 where when the characters O’Brian and Bashir are playing darts, O’Brian makes Bashir stand several yards further back brim the crease because Bashir is genetically augmented and when he stands at the normal position he can get perfect throws with every dart.
I don't blame them honestly. The take away from this isn't that marvel did something weird that goes against their story but simply that tax laws are really dumb.
Hey someone with common sense!
There is something respectable about penny pinching on your taxes.
Just a fake argument to get out of a loophole they shouldn't have been forced to jump through in the first place. It is scary knowing that a business can use Cochran logic to avoid loopholes that might be there for a good reason.
'Jaffa cakes do go hard when they're stale' is such a powerful statement
🎵"I am human and I want to get taxed, just like everyone does..."🎶 - The Smiths
i am the son and the heir of an income that is criminally vulgar.
I love the English/American intro for x men but wow the Japanese one hits hard
Makes me wish the '90s show was a proper anime. I love how they all look in anime form.
@@SaviorGabriel it doesn't matter if it's official anime done by Japanese animators or not what matters is that it's a classic and is amazing 😊 plus the definition of anime is anything animated so think of it as American Anime haha
“A relatively small amount of money” I wouldn’t say so, 5% in revenue taxes might have been massive for their bottom line lol
It's actually closer to 45% lower tax bill, which would absolutely be worth them going to court over.
This is why we learn math in school. You're totally right and I never would have caught that.
(12-6.5=5.5 & 5.5/12=46% saved)
Just strange. In this case we are talking about made up characters in stories. But a more corrupt business could argue semantics over much more diabolical things.
Man the writers must've really proud of themselves for such good writing
Peak Realism
By reducing the tax from 12% to 6.8%, this is a reduction of the tax bill by 43.333%, not 5.2%...
An intro that gets me is an old cartoon called Silverhawks
If one is 12% and the other is 6%.....the difference is closer to saving 50% on theor tax bill.
Love the content. Just a math quirk
Yes, thank you. Made me a bit crazy especially technically saving 50% in taxes is an order magnitude bigger than 5% ^^
In the Marvel Universe being both Black and a Mutant has to be worst then just being either Black or a Mutant
Real world equivalent would be being a black trans person
@@kailebdv woe be they who is a Black *Trans* Mutant.
@Hattoipool - not as bad as being a black lesbian trans woman would be. And there are probably more groups that are discriminated against (eg being disabled) that said hypothetical person could belong to that would result in them suffering more abuse at the hands of bigots. 😠
The Attack on Titan thing with the dinosaurs and the whale is all the different Beast Titan variations
Who was the whale then? They go through all kinds of back story in the show and haven't mentioned it
@@metzger5850 all the different possible* beast Titan variations
"Don't politicize comics, superheros arent political"
*The comics:*
I’ve seen a comment going against x-men comics being progressive is because they were created because Stan Lee didn’t want to give their characters superpowers from radiation. While ignoring all of themes and plots and I read the original comics and even back then it was about discrimination. The dude was trying so hard to accept reality.
If you take it a level deeper, Marvel didn't nullify their storyline with this move. They just proved how easy it is to get the government on board of the villain's side, exactly like what happened in the comics, so they're just showing off how accurate the story is.
having been born "disabled" and lived with the stigma for 45 years I have seen and felt the discrimination both hard and soft forms of it. I'd much rather someone come at me as a "Freak" because they at least are being honest about it.
Just want to mention that Fact Fiend shirt looks awesome. Alright back to the video about funny comic heroes.
In the xmen universe Beast must have been a wet dream for all the furies out there .
Not really.
Dr. King was not saying that violence is the only way to get their point across. He used that phrase, "a riot is the language of the unheard," in a number of speeches. Generally accompanied (usually prefaced) by a statement along the lines of, "I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action point of view."
His statement is not to say that a riot is the only way, but that when riots occur we should take time to consider what it is that is being said in the "language" of a riot. It is an entreaty to consider intolerable conditions that are represented by the particular riots that America was confronting at the time.
He tends to follow the quote up by asking "And what is it America has failed to hear?" and then illustrates his point with examples of what sort of injustice poor people of color have encountered in their lives in recent decades.
Note: none of this in any way invalidates the X-Men parallels. I totally understand and agree that the parallels are woven throughout X-Men. I am only quibbling with Carl stating that Dr. King was essentially giving in to an inevitability of violence as the only solution. Some did, Dr. King did not. Dr. King may have been right or wrong in his notion. But that wasn't the point Dr. King was making.
Power rangers intro got me into heavy metal
This is an EX-man. He has expired.
The opening theme for Sonic Underground is really hype.
Through out this video I only thought of Logan/Wolverine saying "I'm canadian." So I guess Marvel's saying canadians isn't people...
I mean you tried 🤦🏿♂️
The talk of anime intros makes me wonder if you ever heard the openings for Overlord. They're all amazing and I have 3 openings and 2 of the endings on my playlist
Nerds will say things like "Magneto is right" and then talk shit about BLM for being too extreme.
It’s because they’re racist and just want black people to sit down and shut up lol
I talk shit about blm for being a for profit scam. Look into where donations went. And tell me why the leaders of blm need a mansion.....
Only good blm is bureau of land management
It's called racism
Show me a camp of african americans being worked to death and killed by gas chambers and this comparison wont sound so remarkably moronic
Then they go "Don't make comics Political".
I swear, when Marvel comes out with some X-men movies and show there are gonna be people saying “Why did you make the X-men political?” smh
Yep, happens every time, unfortunately.
I payed no mind to the way the people behind the camera looked. Little did I know Nisha's a dime. Good on yeah.
The t rex and whale in the AoT intro are meant to be a visual metaphor for the beast titan
oh shit I've been here before, I'm stuck in the content loop!
The Ninja Turtles Japanese Anime intro from the 80s is crazy, Go Go Turtles!
I dont know if you have seen the film Boondock saints but talking about amazing clips made me think of Willem Dafoe in full drag shooting an Italian gangster while screaming like a horse... Good times.
I love that you guys are punk rock as hell! Like I love that you'll make money off the vids, but also only on your terms.
What goes surprisingly hard is the outro for the series "Sonic Underground."
I thought all of the animals in the opening of AoT were different people as the beast titan. But I never found anything to back that up.
I love the intro to the Hellsing anime specifically the non ultimate version.
Hey Karl, really hardly any of us AOT fan know what the actual fuck was up with that T-rex
Is this basically saying that Magneto was right? His whole point is that mutants are the next step in human evolution, so they shouldn't have to live as second-class citizens.
"Skeleton Knight in Another World" has the best intro of any anime in the last ten years. Maybe not the best song but it is the only intro I consciously decide to watch as I fast-forward past all the other intros of shows I watch.
I thought that it was about the LGBT+ community because gay people have super powers
Gay people can double jump
Technically the mutant race aren't fighting to be recognized as humans, but people. Mutants are genetically distinct from humans and belong to a separate species that nonetheless deserve "human" rights; the crux of the argument being that you don't have to be human to be a person. The court case was to establish that the X-Men could be considered toys because they didn't technically belong to the human species, not that they were animalistic or subhuman. Weaselly? Absolutely, but not hypocritical.
@Malcolm - arguably they’re not a separate species as they’re born from human parents and can mate and have viable offspring with humans; at most they’re a separate *sub*-species, similar to how Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens Sapiens (us) are both humans and could (and indeed did) interbreed but are both distinct sub-species of humans.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 Technically you're right, but I think that's more due to the writers not fully understanding the classification system, as in mutants are canonically not the same species as humans (this has been stated several times over the years and it's where the term "homo superior" comes from), but the writers didn't realize that would mean humans and mutants shouldn't be able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
@@malcolm32 what do you think that "homo" in "homo superior" means?
@@seanhurley9216 "Homo" literally translates to "same", but in this context refers to the genus to which the species "sapiens" belongs. It is not part of the species name.
The thing is, even if Mutants are a different species, that still doesn’t make them non-human.
Homo Sapiens doesn’t mean Human, but rather Homo Sapiens is a species of Human.
For example, Homo Erectus was a different species to us, but they are still Human. As Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens are both HUMAN species.
The original Thundercats intro was hype af.
Please do more tax loophole videos!
For entertainment purposes of course!
I love the concept of the XMen and them as characters bringing us as viewers closer together knowing that everyone who is sentient living things humans or not all deserve respect. But at the same time they exist in the same world as other heroes and team up with them to save the world over and over and some of these heroes work high up in government and how does no one try to help them and succeed
My problem with mutants being an allegory for marginalized groups and how they work within the marvel universe is how marvel continuously pushes the idea that mutants are completely distinct from other super humans (Even though the only thing that makes them different from them is just the x gene), and how marginalized groups functionally have the same physical potential to do things as any other person. The problem with the allegory is that a person being concerned over people being able to spontaneously explode, read your thoughts, or becoming god wouldn’t be unreasonable. Real marginalized groups don’t hold the sort of power (Obviously).
Funny enough, Zootopia has this same problem. Minority groups are presented as predators who are physically stronger and have predatory instincts while the dominant class are herbivores.
Both unintentionally create scenarios what show marginalized people as a threat, by putting extreme physical power imbalances in the story and emphasizing their intrinsic differences.
I’m not saying the X-men are bad, or that they’ve never had good social commentary, they have. It’s just that the concept doesn’t entirely fit with the world building of the rest of the marvel universe, and that it falls short in being an allegory to an extent.
Ah Karl the ghost dinosaur in attack on titan is there because it was a previous beast titan. The beast =/= a gorilla.. Not always anyway
Cakes are completely different from biscuits simply because of the aeration factor kinda like how biscuits are different from cookies because biscuits are made to be dunked and thus are smaller because you know how big is your mug while cookies are made to be eaten by themselves hence why they are bigger and crunchyer also fun fact crunchiness is due 100% to the duration of whipping the butter and sugar have undergone the longer the crunchyer unless you are melting moments then in that case the longer the softer.
I'm a baker by trade these are things I have learned
3:16-3:26 and then Moira X comes out of nowhere and shows Xavier the future.
Xavier: ah Christ. Maybe magneto was right. Let's call him up and get all the mutants and go live on Krakoa.🤣🤣🤣
This incident shows how intellectually dishonest corporations are. It's a shame that they're never held accountable for their transgressions, even on matters of principle.
I could be wrong but wasn’t there a second part of that Dr. King quote that basically said that using violence only makes it easier for your oppressors to hold you down using fear?
He prefaces the quote, in some of his speeches, by noting why he still believes non-violence is the answer. A part of that prefacing is done by making the point that "I'm absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt."
He wants us to consider what root causes resulted in the violence. He is not asking us to mindlessly consider violence an inevitability of oppression, nor as the only or best option.
@@ChrisWoj Thanks for the answer. I knew he said something about it but I didn't know what he actually said. Truly a wise man.
@@Nostripe361 Absolutely, and the speeches incorporating this particular topic were among his finest.
Wait, your cookies go soft when they're stale? Or does "biscuits" also refer to another kind of sweets that I wasn't aware of?
Yes, biscuits are just cookies and yes, most types do go soft when stale
Have you never tried to eat a stake cookie
Sorry, but Tank! is the best anime intro. Cowboy Bebop ftw
Big fan of the dorohedoro opening myself
A species is a group of similar individuals who can interbreed to form fertile offspring.
Quicksilver is the child of Magneto and a human woman in the comics. Quicksilver also has a daughter called Luna.
If quicksilver can have kids, his parents are the same species. So magneto must be considered human. If he is, then most other surely can be.
Well the dinosaur is suppose to be an iteration of the beast titan
Transformers animated Japanese intro is hype as fuck
Pokemon's original intro is still the best in America it beats catch up
American motorcycles are broken down into 100cc+ / 99-50cc / 49cc- .... due to similar things "50cc" engines are actually 49cc (no licence needed to drive)
The ironing is delicious
That Japanese X-Men intro song is nice, it goes decently hard, but have you heard the American X-Men intro song?
This episode is unusually quiet
Been in a bit of an x-men binge lately after watching The New Mutants which is really good I really recommend it
The American Intro is so much better.
What does Deadpool think about this?
The civil rights allegory breaks down due to the super powers giving them far greater destructive potential than a normal human.
I think that RWBY handled it better (initially) with the faunus, (humans with one animal trait). They got a physical advantage like night vision, better hearing, or even a tail that can act like a 3rd hand. These traits never elevated them exponentially above the regular humans.
It's not a perfect allegory. but the marvel universe still others them specifically. Other heroes with just as much power and arguably many more destructive get a pass. The change in mutants DNA is basically the only difference but they get thrown under the bus. And that unsubstantiated difference is s all they need to treat them as sub human.
Marvel larped the fukk out of a comic book argument and won LMFAO
So the tax savings according to your figures are 43 and 1/3 % not 5.2 %.
Nisha, I don't think anyone would give an f if you wore your actual slippers to work
The Buffy The Vampire Slayer theme was a very 90s song and overly rememberable to me.
Of course no one in comics are human, they are drawings.
I've always thought X-men was a very clumsy commentary on real-life issues. Sure there's a thread you can follow and explore in a story with those kinds of characters and settings. But you can't count on every writer to be skilled enough to do that well. And it's always going to be more work to write around certain issues (And again, not every writer can be counted on to do that well). So it's like these people who are supposed to be bad people because of the real-life counterparts they represent have more justification and are more reasonable because it's not just skin color or whatever but is actually mutants with supernatural abilities.
Take the little girl who can walk through walls. There's the real-world commentary part of it. You could say she stands in for a minority and powerful people or governments will only see that and not the individual. But it's impossible to ignore there's a little more going on than just skin color or nationality or etc in the X-Men stories. It's legitimately dangerous for a governing body or police force or military to not be able to do something as simple as secure an area. Protect the kinds of secrets they should be protecting. Etc. Insert almost any plot involving people in power that shows up in those stories.
And I'm being careful with those words btw. I'm not simping or shilling, just saying there's some stuff I think a government or representative should be able to keep confidential when there's a good reasons for it. Some things they _ought_ to be doing... So their point still stands, you know? It doesn't really end at "You shouldn't be bigoted". What they're saying isn't that baseless. And I don't want ever to think these sorts of things about people who exist in place of real-world bigots, warmongers, etc. The X-Men world gives them that gift imo, so even if they take things too far you can still see where they're coming from. Which is a problem when the real world version it represents is just skin color or whatever.
Ironic the comics is about wanting to be accepted as humans while marvel is saying in court they are NOT!
Marvel: so the x-men are humans and should be treated as such unnnlesess we are talking about taxes
US tax laws are the reason that tomatoes are legally vegetables in America, though they are really fruits.
So Marvel proving Magneto right.
I'd say they are giving him ammo
Rock the dragon!
I just realised that BNA is just furry X-Men. There's a specific population of humans who have superpowers of some kind and they're treated as a lower class.
I mean, fuck taxes though.
This was just a smart move, and its a good argument from a law perspective
I respect that they pulled the same stunt for all their characters. Even if it's a shitty move at least they weren't shit about it if that makes sense?
Fuck tax *avoidance by giant corporations.
@@ooooneeee I mean yes but let's not start a political war in the comments of a joke video meant to be entertaining
Wait wait are you family friendly now
The simultaneous metaphor for human evolution speeding up and genetic mutation being a natural part of adaptation doesn't work if they aren't human. Neither does the irony of the people v mutants basically being a war to not keep evolving but traditionalize our current state and stay mired in the same misfortunes we currently endure.
Imagine being afraid of melanin
I don't blame marvel for avoiding paying taxes. If you can make more money for the same amount of effort off of a technicality go for it.
Magnet is right!!!!!!!!
The same parallel can be said of emperors who conquered a civilisation, but treated them nicely and have disciplined armies when conquering them; will be enough merit for a majority of the peasants to think rebelling against this new governance (which practically have little impact over the common folks) is not worth the effort.
That intro was awesome but the English xmen was better
I love the X-Men and what they stand for. But at the same time I’m so anti government I don’t mind Marvel trying to cut their own taxes
Uk xmen series theme is better. That melody is beautiful.
It's actually kinda funny how Karl completely misunderstood Marvel's stance here. Marvel didn't go to court to say that mutants are less than human, Marvel went to court to say that mutants are better than human. They are Homo SUPERIOR. Definitely not humans, but this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
SLIGHT MANGA SPOILER AoT opening with the animals is kinda a reference to past beast Titan forms
It’s interesting that the video here at 2:01 CST has 15 likes and 8 views! 😳
Update: less than one minute later: 166 views and 35 likes! Balance restored
Well it is technically true, they are Homo Superior which is a different species that evolved from humans. It’s the same as saying thor isn’t human, none of them are human but they are still people.
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Unpopular opinion: the X-Men are a terrible metaphor for human rights.
Why?
@@dearhvally8856 because an innocent, good intentioned mutant can sneeze and accidentally level a city block.
@@michaelryan3818 I feel that's invelevent to the theme or message behind it. It just happens to be in a super her comic, that's why that can happen
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