• frog@feddit.uk
    49·
    6 days ago

    In the 90s X-Men animated series, there was an episode where there was a city wide mutant attack pushed by the Friends of Humanity. One of the scenes had a guy explaining he just looks different and that he has no real powers. 😢

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 days ago

    I can accept Panel 4 as Hank may be having a veggie burger. However Panel 3 breaks it for me. There is no world where in every day life Logan feels for Scott. I can suspend my disbelief for almost any magical, SciFi, super natural or even fairy tail story. However panel 3 I can not believe.

    • Amanduh@lemm.ee
      2·
      5 days ago

      I thought the joke was showing 2 of the mutants who you can’t tell are mutants in one panel

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    6 days ago

    I’m pretty sure Beast is eating a burger here, but I can’t see it as anything but an homage/crossover with the Cookie Monster

    • Higgs boson@dubvee.orgEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      My guess is that the artist or someone realized that: Beast is big and shaggy and blue. Inevitably, he is going to look like cookiemonster to some extent. So they hung a lantern on it

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    24·
    6 days ago

    While Rogue looks normal, her superpower is somewhat disabling. If she touches anyone, she will cause them harm.

    X3 highlights this.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
        21·
        5 days ago

        You’re not doing it on purpose but your comment does highlight the ease people dismiss the social experience of hidden disability.

        • Oh your that (weird) person always wearing gloves.

        • Why are you so sensitive about your gloves?, just take em off.

        • Someone tried to rip off her gloves the other day and they are in the hospital now.

        Comments in this style are more common for teens but the sense of not belonging even if for something at first glance mundane lasts well into adulthood.

        • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          5 days ago

          Additionally, gloves and long sleeves only solve incidental contact; she can’t be intimate with someone, for example.

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            2·
            5 days ago

            Even within Marvel, is he genuinely not a mutant? I swear I’ve read a comic where he suspects that the substance that blinded him, not only sharpened his other senses but even made him smarter to some degree. Sure, Stick honed his senses, so there’s a self-development aspect of it too, and his parents might have not carried the X-gene or whatever it is, but ultimately his powers comes from a mutation in his DNA no?

            • uid0gid0@lemmy.world
              3·
              5 days ago

              Marvel is very strict about who is and who isn’t a mutant (unless you’re talking about Franklin Richards, but that is a whole other discussion). To be an official “mutant” in marvel comics you have to be born with the X-factor in your genes that lets your powers express naturally. External forces like gamma radiation, radioactive spiders, cosmic rays, DNA manipulation, etc make you a mutate, not a mutant.

              • tetris11@lemmy.ml
                1·
                5 days ago

                I think its more murky than that.

                There was a whole story arc about mutant growth hormone, which was derived from skin cells scraped off people like the Owl and other supers.

                This MGH gave humans temporary mutant powers, and cites its origin as the X-Gene.

                Confusingly though, it still tries to draw an arbitrary distinction between inherited mutants and somatic ones.

                Origin

                While it is most of the time extracted from mutants, it can also be extracted/synthesized from other super-powered individuals, but the source of their superpowers must alter their genetic make-up. For example, the Owl or Spider-Woman are not mutants, but their powers come from genetic mutations, and they were both used as MGH sources.

                My understanding of this, is that anyone who has a non-fatal mutation of their X-factor gene develops mutant powers and abilities and, if permanent, becomes a mutant.

                “Traditional” mutants inherit the X-factor, and are mutants from birth. That’s the only distinction I can see, and seems like a bit of a weak distinction tbh.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 days ago

    At the point X-Men stories usually are, Hank and Kurt cope so hard they actually enjoy the attention.