After 10 films, X-Men fatigue was settling in, but The New Mutants was pitched as something different. Comparing character redesigns and colorings across comic book runs can be fraught, but canonically all three have been portrayed as darker-skinned in their earliest incarnations. Can The New Mutants climb out of this pyre to become, if not the most progressive, at least a passably good comic book film? Not necessarily, but it’d mark the film as more unique than the vast majority of city-leveling X-Men films, and put it more in line with standalones like Logan and Deadpool. A rather thorny issue with the X-Men films as a whole is how poorly they’ve juggled their vast stable of characters, focusing primarily on the same white, often male, leads.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2020 06:11 UTC