This story is reminiscent of quite a few different X-Men comics, which regularly focused on the discrimination directed at the mutant community.
Some of these story arcs, however, focused on robots called Sentinels hunting down mutants and imprisoning and/or killing them outright.
Fox’s X-Men cinematic universe has certainly expanded throughout its decade-plus run, but now the franchise is setting up shop on the small screen.
“Matt’s is much more a part of just the world in terms of there are mutants, mutants are hated and there are Sentinels — though very different from what we’ve seen before.