> Like all media, they seek to reach wider and wider audiences, for a good chunk of time,

Unfortunately this trends towards stretching out their characters and plotlines to utter absurdity and diluting storyline quality.

And I'm not sure if the ESG storyline angles even sell. Maybe we can pick a sample comparison; I remember a time when X-men had a feminism angle in their storylines. Then I read the recent X-men House/Rise-Of-X and it was so much better since it refocused on a new setting and their future instead of referencing ongoing real life politics.

Recent? FFS, they _always_ have been a reference for marginalized races/ethnics/disabled people, among the Teen Titans. Have you been living under a cave for 50 years?

Damn it, please, take a look on Charles Xavier. He's a disabled guy with mental powers. And OFC Magneto and his band are a metaphor on Malcolm X and radicalized Black people.

The X-Men from his birth it's basically Marvel:ACLU.