The First Mutant, Apocalypse

Jerry felt that the issue of Mutants and humans was a problem for the ages.

As Erik had thought, wiping out all humans and leaving only Mutants behind was too extreme and too cruel.

Not every Mutant had an unhappy childhood. Many ordinary parents still loved their children after discovering they were Mutants and did everything they could to protect them.

Besides, even if every human were killed, how could they guarantee that children born to Mutants would not have a dormant X-Gene, one that could not awaken any abilities?

But Professor X's approach of desperately maintaining friendly relations with human governments and hoping that Mutants could fully integrate into human society and coexist peacefully was equally unrealistic.

The X-Gene only determined whether someone had superpowers; it could not determine whether they were good or evil.

There were good and bad people among humans, and the same was true of Mutants. True peaceful coexistence was like a utopia—far too idealistic.

So Jerry felt that it would be more realistic if Charles and Erik could combine their ideas.

Mutants did not need to place humans entirely on the opposite side, but neither could they cling to illusions and try to please them. Making human acceptance their goal was not a viable path.

The most important thing was to establish a power base of their own for Mutants. It should not simply be a matter of recruiting them to a school for a few years, then having them return completely to human society, where they would be captured, experimented on, and studied by various human organizations.

Instead, they needed to gather all Mutants together and create something akin to a Mutant nation. And they needed to dare to draw their swords—boldly.

They had to let all humans know that the Mutant faction