If you substitute a message board for the round table discussion, and drop in a couple of guys from your local comic book shop in the roles of Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellan, you might end up with an exchange similar to this. The only thing missing is misspelled words typed in ALL CAPS and cheesy screenames.

Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine, took the other side, pointing out that there are other characters for whom the cure is more attractive. “Rogue [Anna Paquin], as amazingly powerful as she is, lives a potentially very lonely life,” said Jackman. “Never being able to touch anyone, never being able to have a physical relationship, never able to have children. Now, as politically abhorrent as something like the cure is, it’s also humanely, socially, incredibly understandable that a character like that would take it.”

“It isn’t necessarily her mutancy that’s the problem,” McKellen shot back. “It’s other people’s reaction to it. Maybe it’s society that’s wrong, not her.”

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