They've become their own parody with Professor X basically pulling an Epstein every other week and running away to the Bird Star War's rip-off planet (Shi'ar homeworld).
They've basically just become a bunch of buttholes who are way to insular. I blame this mostly on the writers and the editorial who really are in love with the movies over anything else and took Singer being a pedophile and ran with his gay pedo metaphor.
The Editorial team is full of East Coast Women and British "people" so it's smug gays writing. They're the type of people with both Dunning-Kruger and an inability to try to understand their enemies.
I just want a alt. timeline where Scott joined the Avengers and replaced Captain America, but is called Red Glare or some shit. Kill Jean twice. Or have the X-Men have internal disagreements with how they're running shit and join other organizations for the good of mutant kids.
Have X-23 reform her friendship with Finesse to get in contact with Firestar about reforming the Avengers Academy. Have Scott come to terms that he's become increasingly radicalized and that all he really wants to do is go fly planes.
Because born with whacky powers is fundamentally not a creative origin, so writers have nowhere to go but play up the destructive power aspect, which Marvel already permanently outdid with that 1000 issue special where they had the x-men recruit a random unnamed mook that just slaughted his whole town.
At this point it'd be a parody if they were well-written and nuanced.
Now I want a follow up where it's revealed that Krakoa keeps killing and mindwiping the kid because he won't stop trying to escape and turn himself in.
The same reason there aren't more parodies of the Fantastic Four or the Titans. Most superhero parodies outside of comics tend to be of Superman and Batman because they're so well known, if parodies include more characters it tends to be parodies of the Justice League because even if normies weren't overly familiar with the Flash or Aquaman, the characters were broad archetypes that were easily parodied with everyone understanding what you're doing.
Outside of the specific generation of 90s kids who grew up with the cartoon and games, most of the X-Men who aren't Wolverine don't have the same level of instant recognizability to normies, so don't get parodied to the same degree as Superman and Batman, you just get occasional parodies of them within other comics, usually made up of insider jokes that require you to have a fan's level of knowledge to get it.
After the Fox films I think you've got enough to do a decently recognizable parody. Though honestly the best parody of Professor X you could do is make him real life Patrick Stewart.
There's enough material to work with, but if you're going to do a Marvel movie parody, you're probably going to do Spider-Man or Avengers over X-Men because more people saw those movies.
But we're basically going around in a circle. Other superheroes get parodied more because they're better known and more popular with normies. Most X-Men parodies that happened are probably in cartoons or comics from the 90s when their own cartoon and comic were big.
prombambly because they're simultaneously shallow and extremely specific. It's hard to make your parody clearly based on them specifically without ripping them off entirely
like if you wanna do a justice league parody, fine. you have an alien, an unpowered brooding detective, a guy wielding space magic, a hot buff chick from a foreign mythological place, etc
but you can't just broad-strokes the concept of mutants. and once you call them mutants, it feels too on the nose. But if you don't, it won't feel like the x-men at all. A parody usually wants to be quick and to the point, and there's nothing you can really slot in there with a nice quick single word. at best, you could do a parody of the -genre-
Would be [insert oppressed collective du jour here]-phobic.
Why are X-gays so thin-skinned?
They've become their own parody with Professor X basically pulling an Epstein every other week and running away to the Bird Star War's rip-off planet (Shi'ar homeworld).
They've basically just become a bunch of buttholes who are way to insular. I blame this mostly on the writers and the editorial who really are in love with the movies over anything else and took Singer being a pedophile and ran with his gay pedo metaphor.
The Editorial team is full of East Coast Women and British "people" so it's smug gays writing. They're the type of people with both Dunning-Kruger and an inability to try to understand their enemies.
I just want a alt. timeline where Scott joined the Avengers and replaced Captain America, but is called Red Glare or some shit. Kill Jean twice. Or have the X-Men have internal disagreements with how they're running shit and join other organizations for the good of mutant kids.
Have X-23 reform her friendship with Finesse to get in contact with Firestar about reforming the Avengers Academy. Have Scott come to terms that he's become increasingly radicalized and that all he really wants to do is go fly planes.
more like sex-men
like Scott and Jean?
Best Jean.
they are already self parodic at this point
And yet, writers refuse to lean onto the joke that the team has become.
There was one on the Kids Next Door cartoon
The Casper cartoon from the 90s and the Radioactive Man (Simpsons) comics had Wolverine parodies as well.
The ALF comic had pic related.
Cool.
Enough with the professor x pedophile joke pls
He was in love with Jean since issue 3, that shit is baked in
Because born with whacky powers is fundamentally not a creative origin, so writers have nowhere to go but play up the destructive power aspect, which Marvel already permanently outdid with that 1000 issue special where they had the x-men recruit a random unnamed mook that just slaughted his whole town.
At this point it'd be a parody if they were well-written and nuanced.
Now I want a follow up where it's revealed that Krakoa keeps killing and mindwiping the kid because he won't stop trying to escape and turn himself in.
I just want him to slaughter Krakoa.
He keeps trying but they show back up the next day.
I always hated them. I don't understand how it's so popular.
Garfield and Friends and Codename Kids Next Door had X-Men parodies
The same reason there aren't more parodies of the Fantastic Four or the Titans. Most superhero parodies outside of comics tend to be of Superman and Batman because they're so well known, if parodies include more characters it tends to be parodies of the Justice League because even if normies weren't overly familiar with the Flash or Aquaman, the characters were broad archetypes that were easily parodied with everyone understanding what you're doing.
Outside of the specific generation of 90s kids who grew up with the cartoon and games, most of the X-Men who aren't Wolverine don't have the same level of instant recognizability to normies, so don't get parodied to the same degree as Superman and Batman, you just get occasional parodies of them within other comics, usually made up of insider jokes that require you to have a fan's level of knowledge to get it.
After the Fox films I think you've got enough to do a decently recognizable parody. Though honestly the best parody of Professor X you could do is make him real life Patrick Stewart.
There's enough material to work with, but if you're going to do a Marvel movie parody, you're probably going to do Spider-Man or Avengers over X-Men because more people saw those movies.
Yeah, but the question was specifically about X-Men parodies.
But we're basically going around in a circle. Other superheroes get parodied more because they're better known and more popular with normies. Most X-Men parodies that happened are probably in cartoons or comics from the 90s when their own cartoon and comic were big.
because the X-men suck big smelly hairy saggy balls
prombambly because they're simultaneously shallow and extremely specific. It's hard to make your parody clearly based on them specifically without ripping them off entirely
like if you wanna do a justice league parody, fine. you have an alien, an unpowered brooding detective, a guy wielding space magic, a hot buff chick from a foreign mythological place, etc
but you can't just broad-strokes the concept of mutants. and once you call them mutants, it feels too on the nose. But if you don't, it won't feel like the x-men at all. A parody usually wants to be quick and to the point, and there's nothing you can really slot in there with a nice quick single word. at best, you could do a parody of the -genre-
Maybe they can all be trannies the Ex-Men
Having the analogue for Professor X be a child molester made me very angry. You can criticize the X-Men for a lot, but child abuse isn't one.