How did Mutants get Their Power?

[chamber-music]

Ah comic book science versus real science. Its water and oil people it don't mix.

I can't decide whose origin is more confusing: Cable, or his sister Rachel. Rachel's story involves dying of old age, yet coming back in her early 20's again. I mean, god damn.

Rachel definetly Rachel. Even with all the cloning, time travel, future virus, chosen one rubbish its still Rachel t:

 

[Franklin Richards]

Don't talk about my woman like that.

 

[Manic]

Oh, and I forgot about the confusing nonsensical rule about Rachels in the multiverse. So yeah, it's definitely Rachel.

 

[fifthfiend]

]his power was elevated so much over the years that it no longer makes sense.

So basically just like 90% of mutants.

EDIT: and superheroes in general.

 

[Arach Knight]

Ah comic book science versus real science. Its water and oil people it don't mix.

That depends. Science itself is far from exact. In fact, it isn't exact at all. Science is merely a formalized process for drawing the most likely conclusion.

To that end, science is just an elaborate explanation of how things function, based on what we know, rather than being based on anything one could call the objective truth (I know that seems like a really sophistic stretch, but work with me here).

If I had to describe Ice Man's ability to reform a new body, I would first consider what substance comprises human consciousness. It is immaterial or ethereal. It is an energy. Energy can not be created or destroyed, merely transformed (conservation of energy). Working from that premise, all Ice Man does is transform the existing energy of his consciousness, into a different physical manifestation.

That doesn't seem too hard to accept. It only requires a modicum of suspension of disbelief. Even then, our own physical world has such mysteries in it. The Turritopsis nutriculais a known biologically immortal entity (it is a type of Jelly Fish). So is it too hard to imagine that Ice Man could do the same?

 

[Majin Boo]

evolution

 

[The Question]

You mean a God?

Not really, no.

 

[The Question]

That depends. Science itself is far from exact. In fact, it isn't exact at all. Science is merely a formalized process for drawing the most likely conclusion.

To that end, science is just an elaborate explanation of how things function, based on what we know, rather than being based on anything one could call the objective truth (I know that seems like a really sophistic stretch, but work with me here).

If I had to describe Ice Man's ability to reform a new body, I would first consider what substance comprises human consciousness. It is immaterial or ethereal. It is an energy. Energy can not be created or destroyed, merely transformed (conservation of energy). Working from that premise, all Ice Man does is transform the existing energy of his consciousness, into a different physical manifestation.

That doesn't seem too hard to accept. It only requires a modicum of suspension of disbelief. Even then, our own physical world has such mysteries in it. The Turritopsis nutriculais a known biologically immortal entity (it is a type of Jelly Fish). So is it too hard to imagine that Ice Man could do the same?

That fish, however, isn't immortal in the sense that it can't physically die. Cut it into pieces and it'll join the choir invisible.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Not really, no.

So if Storm effects the weather 'conceptually' and not physically...then she is using her mind to control weather?

 

[KevanG]

In Earth X, there's a baby Celestial at the center of the Earth and everybody with powers is basically antibodies designed to keep people from f**king with it. Oh, and the God's aren't God's, just aliens who got molested by the Celestials and evolved to a point where their physical forms are based on what other people think of them. In 616 God's are God's because they're God's, and there's no baby, so this was just regular Space God's f**king with people for no reason what so ever.

For some reason I love this explanation

 

[PyroChamber]

Of all the mutants in the Marvel Universe, who is considered to be the very first mutant?

 

[chris moore]

I think technically its Apocalypse isn't it? I can't really see how Namor is considered one as he isn't a human who spontaneously developed the ability to do what he does at puberty then swam to Atlantis and took it over. Or even an Atlantean born of two Atlanteans who at puberty developed the ability to breathe on land. He is a hybrid of a non-mutant human and an offshoot of humanity, Homo mermanus.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He has the X-gene or whatever they're calling the genetic thingamajig that differentiates mutants from humans now. Simple as that.

 

[Manic]

Namor is usually called the "first" mutant because he's seen as the first mutant of the modern age (ie. the 20th century). Except thanks to a retcon from Matt Fraction, Dr. Nemesis is the first modern mutant.

 

[Havok83]

I think technically its Apocalypse isn't it? I can't really see how Namor is considered one as he isn't a human who spontaneously developed the ability to do what he does at puberty then swam to Atlantis and took it over. Or even an Atlantean born of two Atlanteans who at puberty developed the ability to breathe on land. He is a hybrid of a non-mutant human and an offshoot of humanity, Homo mermanus.

Selene would actually be the earliest recorded mutant.