The up coming X-Men 97 is worrying me now for one reason. The sudden number of articles about the character Morph and the decision to make him non-binary or more specifically the choice to make this a big deal. Now on one hand making a shapeshifter no binary kind of makes sense, perhaps too much sense for people looking for DEI boxes to tick?
All I am hearing is "Morph is non-binary" or "Finally an X-Man is Non-binary!". And so what? So what he's non-binary? What about the show? The story? The animation?
I don't think I am wrong when that a character's identity is made such a big deal of that it's preparation to use them as a shield. That any criticism of the show will be redirected to be criticism of Non-binary people.
With the show out next month I am worried that the story will shift to the politics of today or worse the recent "Krakoa Era" of X-Men rather than you know be like it's set in 97? X-Men has always been a imperfect metaphor for Civil Rights and I worry Disney might want to push it into identity politics, which it would be a WORSE metaphor for.
I stand by it being a bad metaphor for Civil rights because well super powers are involved.