Editing X-Men (section)

== Cultural impact and legacy ==

* The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books such as ''[[Fantastic Four (comic book)|The Fantastic Four]]'', ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', ''[[The Incredible Hulk (comic book)|The Incredible Hulk]]'', and ''X-Men'' ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and incredibly powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of superheroes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fingeroth |first=Danny |year=2005 |title=Review of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society |url=https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-superman-on-the-couch-what-superheroes-really-tell-us-about-ourselves-and-our-society-by-danny-fingeroth/ |journal=ImageText |publisher=University of Florida |issn=1549-6732}}</ref> 
* The superhero team has been described as an allegory to real-life struggles experienced by people rejected by society.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eckhardt |first=Peter |date=2022-07-26 |title=10 Ways The X-Men Changed Marvel Comics |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-changed-marvel-comics-ways-how/ |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=[[Comic Book Resources]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=How the X-Men Helped Foretell Our Civil Rights Future  |url=https://public.com/learn/how-the-x-men-helped-foretell-our-civil-rights-future |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=Public.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Ramzi Fawaz argues that X-Men presents a feminist revision of the idea of a superhero team: "As a corollary to its critique of normative identity, ''The X-Men'' shifted the traditional locus of affective and political identification in mainstream superhero comics from white male heroes to powerful and racially diverse female superheroes whose emotional strength anchored mutant kinships and whose superpowers granted them unprecedented ability to reshape the material world."<ref>Ramzi Fawaz, ''The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics'', New York University Press, 2016, p. 147.</ref>