Unlike a lot of geeks, they're pretty, glossy, studly and pretty much airbrushed perfect.
To quote a prostitute in Desperate Housewives speaking to Bree: "Do you even HAVE pores?"
Just speaking about the first of the films, while I couldn't stand it, the look of the X-Men was nicely like the heroes of Starship Troopers, where everyone was pleasingly airbrushed and Athena poster-ish.
They're geeks in the same way a drop dead gorgeous perfect 10 model but with her hair tied back, wearing unfashionable clothes and glasses that aren't trendy ones is a "geek" and not pretty until she gets a trendygirl makeover.
As far as the comics go, I really couldn't comment.
To be honest, take any person or group that feels enough like outcasts and they'll latch onto almost anything. And, of course, the mass media takes very great care to ensure their protagonists are everyman/everywoman enough for the majority of people to identify with them.
It's why you have to make sure every muscle-bound brute has his pet dog, or fish, or takes up gardening, or has a pretty and very feminine wife (usually pregnant) or how that drop dead gorgeous ninja assassin mutant hero actually likes to read comics/has problems chatting to men.
So all of the options were true. Of course, all comic book villains are really meant to be evil Communists trying to bring down America.
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To quote a prostitute in Desperate Housewives speaking to Bree: "Do you even HAVE pores?"
Just speaking about the first of the films, while I couldn't stand it, the look of the X-Men was nicely like the heroes of Starship Troopers, where everyone was pleasingly airbrushed and Athena poster-ish.
They're geeks in the same way a drop dead gorgeous perfect 10 model but with her hair tied back, wearing unfashionable clothes and glasses that aren't trendy ones is a "geek" and not pretty until she gets a trendygirl makeover.
As far as the comics go, I really couldn't comment.
To be honest, take any person or group that feels enough like outcasts and they'll latch onto almost anything. And, of course, the mass media takes very great care to ensure their protagonists are everyman/everywoman enough for the majority of people to identify with them.
It's why you have to make sure every muscle-bound brute has his pet dog, or fish, or takes up gardening, or has a pretty and very feminine wife (usually pregnant) or how that drop dead gorgeous ninja assassin mutant hero actually likes to read comics/has problems chatting to men.
So all of the options were true. Of course, all comic book villains are really meant to be evil Communists trying to bring down America.