1: Gross
2: Scott Summers being the platonic ideal of a handsome, cishet white guy who would be loved by society if not for his mutation is actually a big part of how his character functions within the metaphor of the X-Men
The main difference between our contemporary relationship with dogs and our orientation to dogs in recent history is that until a few decades ago the love was explicitly conditional
A good dog could get a hero's burial, a bad dog could get a bullet without much hand-wringing
Magneto n Xavier are genuinely one of the only people that don’t even need a recast, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are still perfect for the roles in age