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Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-all-the-government-you-pay-for dept.

An anonymous reader points to this Wall Street Journal article, writing "According to the U.S. Court of International Trade, the X-Men (along with other figures from the Marvel universe) aren't human. The presiding judge subjected the figures to "comprehensive examinations" which included "the need to remove the clothes of the figure." Ironically, the X-Men, whose struggle for human acceptance has been a key theme in the series, were more easily classified as non-human than Kraven and Mole Man.

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  1. Deeply, deeply ironic... by Malfourmed · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...that the X-Men fight to have themselves accepted as human in their principle-driven comic book world, while their owners and masters fight to have the opposite declared in the dollar-uber-alles real world.

    <comic geek pedant mode>

    It's Spider-Man, not Spiderman

    </cgpm>

    And Superman was never human - he was always Kryptonian!

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  2. Re:Non human? by nucal · · Score: 5, Insightful
    and did the Judge need to perform a "comprehensive examination" of her including removing her clothes?

    I think that Ken and Barbie would be non-human by this criterion ...

  3. Superman is not SUPPOSED to be human! by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to the plot of Superman, he shares no DNA with us, he just happens to be roughly the same shape because evolution on Kryton followed a Parallel path.

    On the other hand, Spider-man IS human, in fact according to the plot of the comic, he was a perfectly normal person up to the point in the story that he was bitten. Peter Parker dolls definitely should have been subject to the tax, according to the (admittedly very dumb) rules.

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