The mutant issue continued to escalate rapidly...
The whole world was watching the mutant uprising in the United States. Media outlets from around the world had converged on New York, eager to see how it would end.
Mutants were everywhere, but China's approach offered little that could be used as a reference. It simply couldn't be replicated.
That made the outcome in the United States all the more important!
No one noticed that, lately, apart from a few small-party politicians seeking attention, all the real power brokers had fallen silent.
Governments around the world were keeping quiet. They wanted to use this uprising to figure out where the mutants and the public stood, and what each side's breaking point was.
Only after both sides had laid all their grievances bare would there be a chance to negotiate and finally resolve the issue for good.
Hela's unexpected actions had, in a sense, saved an increasingly perilous situation.
Mutants weren't Black people; they were all "armed." The crimes committed by some mutants reflected on the many innocent ones, making it difficult for them to win support from ordinary people.
Just as ordinary people were running out of patience with mutants and beginning to feel afraid and fed up, Hela had tipped the scales of public opinion.
The massacre outside the Police Station had made people take a closer look at the way mutants lived and what they were demanding.
With the help of many others, Raymond took only an hour to bring the United States' television media under control.
The pundits wanted to "speak out"? No problem. They'd be given their chance...
Television stations kept airing reports about the difficult lives mutants led in the southern states.
They were shunned and lost their jobs because they had scales. The police treated them