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Maybe the X-Men could live in a town that don't trust Super Heroes like the Avengers. Events like The Battle of New York with the collatoral damage, and the rise of Ultron, a psychopath created by an Avenger. And then there are rumors of more superpowered freaks in town. And maybe the mayor could be Senator Robert Kelly, who was in New York during the battle and lost his wife and son in the collateral damage. Since then, he and Daily Bugle editor-in-chief could make a smear campaign about super heroes being dangerous.

Charles Xavier has been careful to have the X-Men operate in secret. He erased the memories of witnesses of mutant incidents and trusted Nick Fury to keep the secret from all of S.H.I.E.L.D. Then, in a Season 3 episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Juggernaut attacks Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which catches the attention of Coulson. Fury says he's got a team handling it, but Coulson was noticing a lying pattern in Fury's speech. Suspicious of Fury, Coulson's team goes down to Xavier's school to investigate. There they met the X-Men, which confirmed Coulson's suspicions. And Skye kept wondering the whole episode what the difference between Inhumans and Mutants. She asks Kitty Pryde that question, and Kitty, having never heard of the Inhumans asks "Are you sure you're not a mutant". Oh, wasn't Juggernaut attacking? Maybe the X-Men took care of him, but he's back for more in the climax. S.H.I.E.L.D. and the X-Men defeated Juggernaut, and Juggernaut was imprisoned in the Vault. Xavier let Coulson to allow his team and Level 10 S.H.I.E.L.D. members to know about mutants and put mutants on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Index. Xavier also explained to Skye that Mutants are the result of the X-Gene and would gain their powers out of nowhere and can't touch the Obelisk without turning to stone. Inhumans came from a Kree gene, get their powers in Terrikenesis and are chosen by the Obelisk. And some Avengers like Hulk who got powers artificially are mutated humans, but not Mutants. Coulson promises to keep the Mutants secret from the public and would only tell the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that have the clearance.

Anyway, after that crossover, the X-Men are still operating in secret. Then a big battle with Magneto in the first season finale gathers enough attention that includes news helicopters that the secret is out, then season two would be about the Mutant paranoia, led by Mayor Kelly.