In a recent court case, a US federal judge ruled that the X-Men are not human (via, most recently, Boing Boing). Understandably, given that the fundamental issue in the X-Men is whether these mutants are still human or not, many fans and, for that matter, authors of the series are, to say the least, perturbed that such a weighty issue has been settled by a court case in New York, particularly given that the case was about whether plastic figurines of Wolverine should be classified as dolls or toys (the latter, when imported from China, isn't taxed as highly).
Happily, Marvel is here to reassure everyone:
Don't fret, Marvel fans, our heroes are living, breathing human beings -- but humans who have extraordinary abilities ... . A decision that the X-Men figures indeed do have 'nonhuman' characteristics further proves our characters have special, out-of-this world powers.
Feh. De-weaseled, this translates as "Hey, you knew they were weird right? And you like weird, so that's good, yeah? Oh, and despite what the judge says, they're still human." Anyone else unconvinced?
PS: I like how the judge needed to say that she
subjected many of the figures to "comprehensive examinations." At times, that included "the need to remove the clothes of the figure."
I hope she didn't base her ruling that the X-Men and other Marvel figures weren't human on the fact that, lacking genitals, they clearly could never reproduce.
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the happy glowing korbat has a circle back ground and the circle pose is different to the other korbat ones aswell as the happy pose
Thanks for the tip-off - I've updated the interesting colours page. The Starry Korbat also appears to have the same sort of Circle pose, and has been updated recently - hmmm.