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The main attraction towards X-Men is that kids and teenagers could relate to the characters in the comics. In the video titled "Allegory in X-Men", Brad Meltzer (a comic book writer) claimed "that was my fantasy at 13, that I was somehow going to be revealed as a mutant".("Allegory in X-Men", American Rebels, Films on Demand, 11/21/2018).

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In the comics, the X-Men resided in the Salem Center in New York.

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by Amoeba Sisters

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Genetic mutations can occur in something as small as a DNA building block or as large as a segment of the chromosome.

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Society did not consider the X-Men to be normal, not because of their actions, but because of their genetic makeup. In the book "The Gene", Siddhartha Mukherjee claims "An organism is much more than its genes ... but to understand an organism, you must first understand its genes".(The Gene, 2016 , pg.10)

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The X-Men had abilities that made them different from everyone else and  even though they wanted to fit in,  society did not understand their genes, and therefore, did not accept them as normal.