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A lot of what's going on in the comics goes back to when Marvel almost went bankrupt in the 90s, having to sell off much of the movie rights to their characters to stay solvent. Over time, the options on those rights reverted to Marvel, but then you have studios like 20th Century Fox who stubbornly held onto the characters, because let's face it, slap X-men onto a film and its going to make money even if its bad.
With the cinematic X-men not under their control (keep in mind that the X-men used to be Marvel's biggest property, right up there with Spider-man), Marvel did a lot to hamper the comics version in an effort to undermine the films - Decimation and Avengers vs X-men being two of the big ones, trying to make the Inhumans the new X-men being another, all with varying degrees of success and failure. Then Disney acquires Fox and most of the film rights are brought back to Marvel. And now Marvel has to somehow bring back thousands of Mutants that had been killed off by the company over the last 25+ years. But in this age of subversion, you can't just have them come back and continue trying to go for the dream of peaceful coexistence. Can you?
Nope, sex cult island with a severe isolationist attitude while also hanging the cures and treatments for various illnesses over the heads of the non-mutant population of the planet. Now, to be fair, this is seen as something wrong by several key mutants for several good reasons (for example, the first of the 3 Laws on Krakoa is "Make More Mutants". Something that has rubbed Rogue up the wrong way, leaving her to decide that if and when she gets pregnant, its going to be her decision, not when the state decides). In fact, many of those mutants have reformed various X-men teams to get back to the idea that there can be peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans.
(As an aside, this thing with the film rights was partly why the Fantastic Four didn't have a comic run for nearly 3 years, one of the other reasons was the disastrous reboot film in 2015)
With the cinematic X-men not under their control (keep in mind that the X-men used to be Marvel's biggest property, right up there with Spider-man), Marvel did a lot to hamper the comics version in an effort to undermine the films - Decimation and Avengers vs X-men being two of the big ones, trying to make the Inhumans the new X-men being another, all with varying degrees of success and failure. Then Disney acquires Fox and most of the film rights are brought back to Marvel. And now Marvel has to somehow bring back thousands of Mutants that had been killed off by the company over the last 25+ years. But in this age of subversion, you can't just have them come back and continue trying to go for the dream of peaceful coexistence. Can you?
Nope, sex cult island with a severe isolationist attitude while also hanging the cures and treatments for various illnesses over the heads of the non-mutant population of the planet. Now, to be fair, this is seen as something wrong by several key mutants for several good reasons (for example, the first of the 3 Laws on Krakoa is "Make More Mutants". Something that has rubbed Rogue up the wrong way, leaving her to decide that if and when she gets pregnant, its going to be her decision, not when the state decides). In fact, many of those mutants have reformed various X-men teams to get back to the idea that there can be peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans.
(As an aside, this thing with the film rights was partly why the Fantastic Four didn't have a comic run for nearly 3 years, one of the other reasons was the disastrous reboot film in 2015)