OK, but like I said, the average person wouldn't know the difference between Spider-Man and Cyclops (or any of the other X-Men). If someone hates the X-Men, they are most likely also going to hate Spidey.mutants are discussed all the time in marvel comics.
on the news. in the senate. 24/7 like trump.
as would happen if mutants started springing up in the real world.
people would know the difference.
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humans are weird. they love MJ, beyonce, obama while hating the black man who lives around the corner.
they love steve jobs while hating "middle easterners/immigrants"
Even in X-Men '97, we're shown that Spidey wouldn't be out of the woods on the whole mutant thing. In one of the first few scenes in the first episode, a Daily Bugle newspaper quickly flies by in the wind, and one of the headlines reads, "IS SPIDERMAN A MUTANT?".
Anyway, it's fiction, like I said, so we're supposed to suspend our disbelief. Looking at it more critically, though, Spidey would be viewed as a "mutie" as well by people in the Marvel universe.
It is what it is