So what exactly did Cyclops do that made him the most hated mutant of all time? He died researching a life threatening problem for mutants and then his image was propped up to destroy the toxin that was killing his people and then he was martyr'd. Who would hate him for that?
I would say I hope that this is further explored in IvX but it can't be because Cyke is dead and besides a few people knowing how he really died, most will think he died trying to save his people from extinction.
I don't understand how the Inhuman's don't come out of this as the bad guys, I don't understand how Inhuman fans could not be upset for how the characters are being portrayed. They created the t-bomb/mist, even though they didn't know how it would affect mutants before hand, that does not absolve them of blame. Not knowing that feeding a person poison will kill them does not count as a defense for murder, at best it's manslaughter and still a crime, now expand this to not just one person but an entire species.
Sure Storm and Medusa said they would work together to find a cure, but that wasn't working fast enough. What's to stop them from working on a way to reform terrigennisis once the immediate threat to lives had been removed? The logic of waiting for Storm/Medusa to figure out a cure for a toxin that is actively killing people over the logic of them removing the toxin and then working on a solution to restore the ability of terigennisis is simply flawed. That may be poor writing on the authors part, but to argue that the first solution is the superior solution is simply showing a bias of cultural prominence over human life.
The argument that humans and mutants can just simply run away from the cloud is just as crazy. The logic behind that is the inhumans culture takes precedent over every other race/beings lives. Let's look at it from a human who does not want to transforms perspective, "Okay the T-cloud is going to be here next week, I need to move my family (lets say 4 people) out of our home for however long the t-cloud remains in my home." Let's say that the t-cloud lingers for a week, what about schooling, work, pets, criminals now having free run of empty homes because someone didn't want to become an inhuman. This could easily cause undue economic hardships, that's not even getting into the ideas about households that are split on wanting to become nuhumans or not. Let's say a husband want's to stay but the wife doesn't, they have kids, who gets to make the call for the kids?
All of the previously listed problems apply to mutants, but on top of that the mist kills and neuters them. What about mutants or humans that simply can't leave, such as homeless populations, the poor or elderly? Telling someone they can just pickup and move from their home is not a good enough excuse to keep the clouds.
Removing the t-mist doesn't kill inhumans, it doesn't even make them nonviable as a species because they can procreate until the end of time and those genes whether dormant or active will be there just waiting for somebody to discover terigennisis again and then you have the ability to "activate" the dormant gene. This is one of the most one sided conflicts I've ever read in a work of fiction.
Let's look at is this way, say the United States created a mist that would turn certain humans with the right genes into Americans (NuMuricans). They released the mist into the atmosphere at some point to try to save themselves as a culture/race because they were facing an immediate threat of complete destruction. The mist worked and American's are now popping up all over the globe and they are now a viable species again, some of the NuMuricans are happy with the change and others not so much. A few weeks/months later we learn that the mist is deadly to all Europeans, it kills them quickly and sterilizes them immediately. Now there are plenty of American's to procreate naturally but the mist speeds up this process and the Americans see it as a defining feature of their culture. The European's have found a way to destroy it and save themselves as a viable species. The American's try to stop them because the mist is their "tradition" and their "culture" must be maintained. The best minds from both sides are working on a cure, but every day European's are dying or are forced to flee their homes simply to live. The best minds vow to continue to work together regardless of the problem, whether it be finding a new way to create "NuMurican's" or a way to alter the current mist so that it is no longer deadly to Europeans. Keep in mind that more European's are dying everyday, what option do we choose?
The X-Men are right, end of story.
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