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I just don't get people who say X-Men wasn't "woke" until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From what I’ve heard, Mystique is now canonically Sherlock Holmes and met destiny in the late 1800s when she was being a detective in London.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I saw that was a thing now, that Mystique and Destiny are now canonically Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, respectively. That's the kind of awesome weird shit that makes me want to get back into comics.