X-Men

"X-Men Origins: Wolverine (video game)"

"Mutants are all around us. They could be your neighbors. They could be your co-workers They could be related to you. Gifted with extraordinary powers, they are the next step on the evolutionary ladder. Some use their powers for good; some, for unspeakable evil. One group had dedicated its wondrous abilities to protect mankind, even those who hate and fear them. Known to the world at large as outlaws, they are the X-Men."

"Only hours ago, it had seemed like just another ordinary day in the life of a kid whose world was falling apart. Her parents were splitting up, and Kitty Pryde herself was being plagued by a series of steadily worsening, skull crushing headaches."

"It was too close. It had only been a few years since the assassinations. In a way, it seemed like that would be too raw. My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magnetos case it was violence begets violence. In Xaviers it was the constant attempt to find a better way."

"With Magneto, whose people were hounded and hunted and almost tortured, he had every right to feel, Were trying to help mankind, and theyre making us outlaws, and theyre persecuting us, weve got to strike back."

"They were meant to emphasize the conflict between people who felt that weve got to all work together and find a way to get along, and people who feel, Were not treated well, therefore were going to strike back with force!"

"I wanted to spotlight a group of innocent people who were feared and shunned and later hunted and persecuted. I wanted to show how anyone, no matter how blameless, can be victimized if the fates so decree."

"...the idea of a revived "international" X-Men was my idea in 1974, after the companys president, Al Landau, suggested that it would be good to create a group of heroes from different countries we sold comic[s] to. I put writer Mike Fredrich and artist Dave Cockrum on it, with instructions to use a few old X-Men and create a few new ones, and left them to it. I quit the editor-in-chief job not long afterward, so had no further connection with it [...]"

"It is as important a serious piece of work as Strindberg or Ibsen. You don’t shortchange the work because it is a comic book franchise for a studio. I think entertaining is a serious business and shouldn’t be taken half-heartedly."

"I always wanted to get involved in science fiction fantasy, and the notion that Professor Xavier was Martin Luther King and Magneto was Malcolm X, and these were two men who had very strong, decent beliefs, but had taken different roads. And the irony of that, and the moral ambiguity of that, intrigued me. It was a step beyond simple crime-solving, superhero action. It was much more socio-political, and in that way exposed more truth."

"You look at the X-Men movies and its an allegory for what its like to be gay, like, if you take the word mutant out of that movie and stick gay in, the movie still works."

"Misc X-titles and Limited Series"