Elsewhere, the X-Men were mutants born with great powers that enabled them to do good when harnessed properly, but they were feared and hated and are generally victims of horrible double standards compared to other superheroes.
Legion: His solo in X-Men: Legacy has a number of jabs at usual X-Men conventions. The fact that they only find mutants with "flashy" powers, filling their ranks with combat capable mutations, the fact that they're so ineffective the X-Men still need to be soldiers, and that none of them seem to work on human-mutant relationships anymore like how mutants can not only coexist but also aid society.
New X-Men: The series explores many of the harsher aspects of how a subculture of superhumans might function in the real world, with abuse of power-enhancing drugs, campus insurrection at the Xavier Institute, the homegrown culture of the "mutant ghetto", and even Che Guevara-esque idolization of Magneto figuring into the plot.
Grant Morrison apparently tried to deconstruct Cyclops/Scott Summers, the X-Men's fearless leader, following his being possessed by Apocalypse, with their New X-Men run, by trying to show the insecurities and emotional vulnerability behind his stoicism which were originally present in the Lee penned issues.
Astonishing X-Men: The villain of the Exogenetic arc, Kaga, takes a jab at the entire premise of the X-Men; growing up ostracized and ridiculed, Kaga's a mutant, not by way of an X-gene, but by the effects of the Hiroshima bombing. Once he encounters the X-Men, Kaga expresses bitterness over what he calls "perfect men and women who strut, pose, and punch people uglier than themselves."
Sabretooth (2022): Perhaps more than any other book in the Krakoan Age, this one criticizes and deconstructs how Krakoa functions and the Quiet Council governs, spelling out just how they look to other people (man, mutant, or machine); a cultish dystopia where anyone who fails to "behave" is ostracized at best, imprisoned at worst, all run by a group of smug, elitist, hypocritical, shortsighted, bigoted, self-righteous, and nepotistic douchebags who care more about forcing everyone to think like them then any actual sane or moral governing and gleefully commit the exact sort of sins they condemn everyone else for.
