Quote:It's not really Marvel's choice really. They can't use the term mutant and they can't use most mutant characters. Like her father so it's not a big deal that they changed her origin to me. Besides, enhanced human (I think is what they are calling them) or mutant. It's the same thing really. 

 

The relationship carries plenty of weight to me because both her and the vision were created by the infinity stone. They have done nearly no amount of explaining her powers. They hint that it's telekinesis but they have not called it that yet. I don't think we have seen the end to the building of her powers. To much was put into the people are scared of you/this is to protect other people thing to be just a couple of throw away lines. Heck her name is specifically used in the news broadcast. 

 

I feel you, but Marvel set a very enduring precedent that, while I never completely understood nor agreed with it...I eventually came to accept:

 

I first started reading comics, specifically the X-Men right before Fall of the Mutants. The narrative within the MU has always been that the general populace is afraid of/hates mutants specifically but the myriad of "accidental" heroes are often given a free pass despite these altered humans are often more powerful and as a result destructive. The base Silver Age Fantastic Four is substantially more powerful than your Silver Age/Giant-Sized X-Men, for example. The FF is celebrated as heroes, meanwhile the X-Men go through long stretches where they are reviled and/or have to operate "underground." The Hulk alone is capable of wrecking continents by himself yet unless he's actively out to break stuff (see World War Hulk), he doesn't garner a fraction of the hate your typical, relatively weak mutant would (let's use Dazzler just because). This inherent hypocrisy is part of what gave Civil War (for its many flaws) some actual merit...

 

At least to me.

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