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peterbwatsonparker · 2 years ago

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my controversial marvel opinion is that mutants and mutates are related, taxonomically.

mostly to rationalize how even in universe some people get in radiation/chemical/whatever accidents and die while others get superpowers.

so the way i see it is that there’s a certain subset of people who possess certain genes that make their DNA more malleable, and able to accept and reorder itself around mutations, which includes both mutants and mutates, with the main difference between the two being that mutates are able to accept changes, but need some sort of outside trigger to set off/activate mutations, while mutants have the x-gene that acts as a sort of internal trigger, allowing for powers to activate without external influences

#marvel #the automatic/'natural' power activation *does* still lead to people being more tetchy around mutants #bc inactive mutates are functionally baseline barring potentially lethal-accidents #but it does lead to some distrust of mutates as well #imo the way i see it is that mutates are the base branch from mainstream homo sapiens #placeholder term homo adaptis or whatever #and mutants are a branch/subspecies out of that #homo adaptis superior (sometimes shortened to just homo superior)#inhumans technically possess similar mutation-accepting genes #but they're different since their genes are from genetic engineering and atavism instead of like.#whatever evolutionary weirdness leads to mutates and mutants #yes ik this isnt exactly in the spirit of the original x-men but *however*#as a (technical) biologist i feel the need to insert rule-building into bs comic science #yeah yeah ik i also probably used taxonomy wrong #but like #taxonomy #phylogeny #are all so similar that the day i stop getting them confused is the day i get my post-grad degree #worldbuilding #interwoven-verse

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