X-Men : Heroes or Freaks?

X-Men has been my new interest now

It started when I watched X-Men The Last Stand in the plane between Jakarta - Singapore - Dubai.

I still remember how I was not patient after returned back to the plane in Singapore, to the movie to re-start, since it was cut in the middle when we stopped.

Then I continued to watch another 2 previous x-men movies and watch The Last Stand once more in Mumbai and I decided to be their fan. Not only because of the hunky-wolverine..:p

Then I spend sometime to search that Marvel comics character in internet and I found out that this characters was created back in 1963! even at that time my mother has never met my father yet...

What make this x-men are interested is that: The complicatedness and so many characters with the relation between one another - which doesn't make it to be melrose-place-alike, the super hero story which I found is not as simple as superman-hero story - saving a person and everybody claps. The story is complicated in a way that the must fight - the enemy who consist of normal person, government and even other mutant who has different ideas.

Then at the end of each story.. the questions will still remains.. no matter what big things they have done for the earth and the human being.. still they are considered as freaks.

Maybe because the creator is the same as Spiderman - Stan Lee.. the red thread of the story is the same.. that nobody (or no-mutants) is perfect.

Rouge wants her power dissapear so that she can touch other person. Wolverine has been wandering around a fighting - gambling to get money for living, where other fighters will alienate him since they can't beat him. Jean Grey, altough she accept everything, but she has to let a part of her mind being blocked since her real power can be uncontrollable. Mystique, since a long time ago she already give up to be acceptable to her environment and let human being really believe that she's as bad as she looks. Cyclops, has to wear special glasses all the time to strain the laser light from his eyes to destroy other things. Angel, when the mutant start to change him, he was trying so hard to make himself as normal as other person by trying to file his wings. And many other things also from other characters to reveal their own problems and weaknesses..

My fav. character

Mystique:

Powers
Mystique can psionically shift the atoms of her body to duplicate any humanoid of either sex, wearing any kind of clothing. She can precisely duplicate another person’s retina pattern, finger, palm and skin-pore patterns, and vocal cords. She can increase her volume, but not her mass. Mystique’s power grants her age retardation, increased healing, and immunity to drugs and poisons.
Abilities
Mystique is a highly skilled combatant, actress, marksman, and strategist in terrorist and commando operations.
Weapons
Mystique uses an array of conventional weapons.

Why this character is interesting: it is her way that she let everybody else think that she's as bad as how she looks and she doesn't give a damn about it. She is smarts, will be the chosen one to sneak in (since she can change the appearance) and operate the computer to get any information.

In the last movies, she turned into normal person and lost her power because she protected Magneto. But then Magneto betray her and leave her alone since she's no use anymore. From that, she, then reveal all information she knows about Magneto's plan which help the government to fail them.