Comics Human Extinction....

[mightiest_mortal]

I've just thought....

after Mday, with so few mutants left now, surely the whole human race is completely f****d, what with the Human Extinction gene killing them all out in a generation or two? (or did i blink when it was cured?)

 

[HandOfFate]

I think she just wipe out the X-Gene in active mutants, not the X-gene in every human.

 

[toya thegr8]

Isn't someone with an X-gene a mutant though?

 

[X_fan08]

Hmm... thats a hard one because what about Polaris who had the gene but it was latent which only could be brought out through the machine by mephisto... i think it was him.

 

[Doctor_Light]

Isn't someone with an X-gene a mutant though?

Everything I've seen was such that everyone had an X-gene, but one was only a mutant if it was active.

 

[toya thegr8]

Everything I've seen was such that everyone had an X-gene, but one was only a mutant if it was active.

Oh okay. Thanks.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

Xgene or not, all of the non-Mutants are meant to all be dead with in a few generations because of the extinction gene.

Unless the Mutants start shaggin like bunnies, there isnt going to be much of a population left on the planet anymore.

 

[Doctor_Light]

Well, if X-men: The End was any indication, they're all pretty damn virile (or fertile, as the case may be).

However, come what may, I doubt seriously that the human (or mutant) race is in any real danger, given that no one is exactly sure how far-reaching the effects of M-Day will be. There's certainly no way of knowing yet whether or not it will affect any children conceived afterward.

 

[X_fan08]

Well, if X-men: The End was any indication, they're all pretty damn virile (or fertile, as the case may be).

However, come what may, I doubt seriously that the human (or mutant) race is in any real danger, given that no one is exactly sure how far-reaching the effects of M-Day will be. There's certainly no way of knowing yet whether or not it will affect any children conceived afterward.

Yeah. Rouge and emma had like five kids each. someone was eager after she could touch another person:heart:

 

[Galact-Gal]

Okay, can anybody explain to me how that "extinction gene" is supposed to actually work? I mean, does a person who has it just drop dead when they reach a certain age? I don't recall it ever being explained in X-Men. (My personal theory is that Cassandra Nova was mucking around with Hank's mind when he came up with that one. Or else he was on drugs )

 

[Boba_Fett_123]

Well, Henry said in Planet X that he knew how to reverse the gene, and then it was just quietly dropped (because, IMO, it wasn't one of Morrison's better thoughts, and I personally was happy to see the back of it). So I just assumed that Henry went ahead and cured it for everyone post-Planet X.