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2/12 The original X-Factor setup gives him a pretty ridiculous opportunity. The team poses as mutant hunters so people will report mutants to them. Then they can get those mutants somewhere safe and help them learn to control their powers. That's the idea introduced in X-Factor #1. But the people watching those advertisements don't know about the rescue part. They see a company telling them mutants are a problem and offering to deal with that problem. Hodge has control over that message. The team is trying to help people while their public image encourages people to be afraid of the very same people they're helping. You can see how that would make things worse, even before you know everything Hodge is doing. His position lets him work both sides of it. He gets to present himself as someone helping X-Factor function while feeding the hostility that makes an organization like the Right possible.