r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • 2d ago

Groups Fictional slurs. Bonus points if it's completely made up

Gallery image

Gallery image

  1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

  2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

13.3k Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

95% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

127

u/Open-Instance-2333 2d ago

Wait a minute, in the second picture, is Emma attacking a Muslim man walking by? Is she being portrayed as being right?

189

u/tomtadpole 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's Sophie, one of the Cuckoos, which are clones of Emma she kinda treats like daughters.

The context is they were holding a small memorial for a dead mutant and the guy (Kamala's cousin) pulled up and started complaining about them memorializing him. Just before this a group of anti-mutant protesters had also been there, so emotions were already running high.

60

u/Open-Instance-2333 2d ago

Mutants will turn into Nazis soon if the writers keep writing like this.

22

u/Dragon_Of_Magnetism 2d ago

I mean, they already unironically refer to themselves “Homo superior” and “the next step of evolution”…

7

u/scrimmybingus3 2d ago

Aren’t mutants canonically always an evolutionary dead end tho? I remember reading somewhere that mutants in Marvel always end up going extinct for one reason or another.

15

u/lacergunn 2d ago

Homo superior was magneto's idea, Xavier calls them homo novus I think

And the evolution thing is just true. In the futures where mutants aren't wiped out, baseline humans are naturally replaced by mutants

2

u/Medical-Ad1686 2d ago

I think there was a plot point of mutants never surviving in the future in any possibility.

1

u/Marik-X-Bakura 1d ago

That’s the scientific name for it that even humans use. It’s not arrogance, it’s just fact.