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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: X-Factor review (and spoiler)
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 19:04:35 EST
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> ...The X-Factor commercials would just encourage increased mutant hatred.

Worse than that, consider X-Factor's actions.  New, dangerous mutant appears.
The authorities are chasing him.  Suddenly a bunch of recognizable mutants
show up, chase the authorities off (violently:  destruction of property,
injury, and possible deaths involved), and disappear with the newly-appeared
mutant.  In other words, mutants taking care of their own kind, never mind
what it costs to ordinary humans.  This could hardly be better calculated
to make normal humans see mutants as united against them.

Also, offhand I can't remember a time when even the X-Men -- who have a
reputation as sort of a mixed blessing -- have ever made quite such an
open frontal attack on the legitimate authorities.  There have been a
number of occasions when the X-Men have come into conflict with the cops
through doing their own thing in suspicious circumstances, but this seems
a new level of escalation.  X-Factor, in their costumed identities, are
already just as much outlaws as the X-Men are, if not more so.

> And then when they are in costume they don't want people to know they
> are associated with X-Factor.  Which of course explains why they have
> huge X's across the costumes.

And surely it won't take long for anybody with brains to put two and two
together and correlate X-Factor involvement with the new costumed group.
Furthermore, note well that Warren's identity as the Angel is *PUBLICLY*
*KNOWN*!  Any competent police/FBI man investigating the affair would be
knocking on X-Factor's door with warrants -- both search warrants and
arrest warrants -- within hours.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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