One of the funniest things I ever did during my college career was take a film class specifically about superhero movies. I took a class called The Biology of Hope and Belief, a class for Star Trek nerds to learn about fictional languages, and although those were funny in concept, they were miserable in execution. The Superhero Film class was actually a hoot, and I learned a lot about this genre that I previously knew practically nothing about. 

X-Men were some of my favorite heroes we covered because their story of found family in a world that doesn’t understand them is so human and relatable. They can serve as allegories for so many different kinds of people, and I find the concept of a mutant school extremely compelling. I also like that Professor X is bald. I don’t know; if you can tell that I don’t know much about the X-Men, you win this round! Enjoy your X-Men memes that you surely understand more than I do.