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Jean Grey

Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear.

— X-Men  ·  2000

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker insists that mutants are not what humanity ought to dread, implying the real danger lies elsewhere. It is a calm reversal of a common prejudice, redirecting fear away from those who are merely different.

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