7/6/2023 0 Comments The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous by Asa Simon Mittman![]() The film opens with a flashback of a young Eric Lehnsherr (later known as Magneto) using his ability to create magnetic fields to bend metal gates as he and his parents are forced into Auschwitz. The X-Men are humans who have become monstrous through their mutations. Films such as X-Men (2000) play on the idea of mutants as frightening others at risk of being forced to reveal publicly their capacities if a proposed ‘Mutant Registration Act’ becomes US law. The monstrous is a category that has a strong hold on the contemporary imagination. They may be foreign in the sense of coming from overseas, or distant and remote lands but also in the sense of being unfamiliar, curious, weird and marvellous. ![]() Although they may be born of human parents or have some recognisably human attributes there is always something that makes them different or foreign. ![]()
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