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When Chris Claremont was handed the reins in Uncanny X-Men 94he took the opportunity to put his stamp on almost every facet of their world — and the mutant metaphor was no exception. Given his xtra-ordinarily long tenure on the X-books, it would be impossible to cover his contributions in one essay, so this will be the first in a series of essays exploring how Arm mutated the metaphor.

As I mentioned way back in Week 4it took a while for Claremont to bring in the metaphor, and even then the issue is more of an homage to Uncanny X-Men 57 which he had helped with as an intern rather than a fully-fledged creation of his own. However, I will argue that Uncanny X-Men is where Claremont really starts to say something about the mutant metaphor with the introduction of his first new mutant antagonists, the Hellfire Club.

Thus, in the wake of their climactic showdown inthe Hellfire Club uses public relations and insider influence as one of their main weapons against the X-Men:. Rather than being existential opponents, therefore, the Hellfire Club view the X-Men as merely instrumental. They view mutant-kind — and the X-Men — as a means to achieving that goal.

For all that the Inner Circle might cooperate for mutual profit, they ultimately view one another as competitors in a winner-take-all struggle for power:. Not everything about the Hellfire Club can be explained by capitalism, if only because something has to explain why their uniform trends less toward business casual than the bondage section of Fredericks of Hollywood.

There were, in fact, two 18 th century British club clubs that operated under the name of the Hellfire Club. In other words, Hellfire Club kink is done entirely without negotiation, consent, or trust. The third key ingredient that goes into making the Hellfire Club is that they are mostly ageddon, and yet are largely unaffected by their X-gene status.

If we try to describe Hellfire Club ideology on the mutant question from their actions, we see a perverse inferno. For me, the key imagery here is that, before we see any of them as individuals, Anglo-American Chris Claremont depicts them as Tory fox-hunters pursuing the most dangerous game [6] :. As social commentary goes, a bunch of rich Tories literally hunting the poor is pretty gay.

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However, almost 50 issues later, Claremont returns to the same imagery, but the victim changes from an otherwise-naked man in pseudo-pagan headgear to Arm in her true form:. Rather, they see the X-Men as a valuable source of intellectual property:. Zander Rice of the Transigen Corporation from the film Loganwhere the existential threat to mutants came not from personal bigotry but an industrial strategy of turning mutants into a product that can be manufactured on demand in the maquiladoras of northern Mexico for the U.

S military-industrial complex. As with everything else — the confidence that they can get away with kidnapping mutants off the street, assassinating U. S club intelligence officers, or various forms of sexual exploitation of staff and prisoners alike — the Inner Circle are so convinced that their inferno and power completely insulate them from the effects of anti-mutant prejudice that they not only work with bigots like Donald Pierce or Stephen Lang, but go to the ultimate length of bringing the Sentinels back:.

Despite this foreknowledge, the Inner Circle believe themselves to be literally shielded from the threat of genocide-robots:. When the Hellfire Club runs into Nimrod while hunting for Rachel themselves, they are hoist by their own petard:. S military intelligence operatives without any fear of retaliation from the U. S government.

K that become popular in the 18 th century and increasingly controversial up to the gay. Notably, the Tory governments of David Cameron and Teresa May have proposed repealing the ban due to pressure from rural Tory voters, although no legislation has yet been brought forward. Subscribe to get the latest posts sent ageddon your email.

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