When were mutants discovered?

[XCharlieX]

X3 has shifted perspective a little as to when mutants were discovered for me. In the intro, Warren tells his son "no, not you too". The scene is a flashback which means roughly 20 years before x men took place people knew about mutants. In the movie universe was it simply an unknown phenominon then? When did they discover the genetic aspect of mutation?

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

thats what I wanna know too.

 

[ico]

It seemed in the flashback of the deathcamp with a young Magneto in X1 that they had never seen anything like it before. So I would guess that Magneto was roughly one of the first to emerge. Or at least, one of the first so powerful that people noticed.

 

[tirminyl]

Or one of the first to have his powers manifest in that region. En Sabh Nur was the first

 

[JokerNick]

32 A.D.

like I said many times, the wolverine movie will be taking place back in the time of Jesus Christ, Logan will walk with him, be his 13th apostle, he will also fight the Romans with JC, and the reason Logan turns into an outcast is because of Jesus's death........ they will show him crying below the cross, then all a sudden, his claws come out, his cuts jesus down and holds him in his arms crying, he will be there when Jesus is resurected, and Logan's gift from JC is immortality, they showed that in X3........

The Passion of the Wolverine

 

[Angry Sentinel]

^ I knew I missed something in X3, this explains so much...

Best.Flashback.Ever.

 

[Baredevil]

Logan is Judas?!?!

 

[ico]

Or one of the first to have his powers manifest in that region. En Sabh Nur was the first

Hee, yeah I knew about Apocalypse but I figured since he hasn't been shown on screen yet that he isn't a part of the movie-verse.

 

[Pizzaboy1138]

When did they discover the genetic aspect of mutation?

Think Gregor Johann Mendel, back in 1865.

 

[Baredevil]

Mmm... all those pesky mutant peas.

 

[Decay]

They discovered their mutant abilities when they were kids as far as I know...

 

[Baredevil]

I think the threadstarter meant "When did the world in general, i.e. non-mutants a.k.a. boring ordinary humans, discover that there were exciting, unpredictable, costume-wearing beings who had a predilection for rearranging popular U.S. landmarks in their midst?"

 

[Decay]

Hmmmm...who could know that!

 

[ico]

Also, bare in mind the fact that in the X3 flashback to Jean as a young girl, her parents still seemed to have no idea that she was a mutant, granted they knew she had powers, but they seemed to have no clue where they came from, considering that they thought she had an illness.

So it would be fair to say that in say, 30-40 years, from when Magneto's powers first surfaced at the Nazi deathcamp, and when Charles and Eric went to visit a young Jean, the world still pretty much had no idea what mutants where.

I'd say it was somewhere inbetween Charles and Eric meeting Jean, and the flashback to young Warren as a child trying to hack off his wings.

So somewhere in that 10 year span I would say.

 

[javon]

32 A.D.

like I said many times, the wolverine movie will be taking place back in the time of Jesus Christ, Logan will walk with him, be his 13th apostle, he will also fight the Romans with JC, and the reason Logan turns into an outcast is because of Jesus's death........ they will show him crying below the cross, then all a sudden, his claws come out, his cuts jesus down and holds him in his arms crying, he will be there when Jesus is resurected, and Logan's gift from JC is immortality, they showed that in X3........

The Passion of the Wolverine

LMAO!!!

 

[Kanon]

Also, bare in mind the fact that in the X3 flashback to Jean as a young girl, her parents still seemed to have no idea that she was a mutant, granted they knew she had powers, but they seemed to have no clue where they came from, considering that they thought she had an illness.

Also, the first thing that Magneto says to Jean is "Did you think you were the only one of your kind?" or something like that, meaning that the existense of mutants was not common knowledge to the point of a mutant thinking it was the only one.

 

[X-Maniac]

It's an interesting question. Charles and Erik knew they were mutants when they visited Jean.

I wonder who figured out the genetic cause of their powers, who found the mutant x-gene, who called them 'mutants'....

Sinister would have known about the idea of new characteristics appearing in a species way back but DNA itself was only discovered in 1953, even though terms like 'gene' were used much earlier on to describe a unit of a characteristic that can be passed on.

 

[TNC9852002]

Seeing how there may be hundreds of thousands of mutants in the world now, they must've been "discovered" in some way back thousands of years ago, which may support Apocalypse's origins in the comics...

-TNC

 

[ico]

Yes TNC, but they didn't become a popular knowledge until very recently, according to the movies that is.

 

[Daniella]

Well, I think that when Logan was born, they knew very little aout mutants... Magneto and Xavier were two of a few... Apocalypse is the first ( in my opinion... )... the mutants were a lot more known when Jean was " found " by Xavier...

PS: Jean was became a mutant about 20 years ago... Warren, 10...

Dany

 

[Nibune]

Mutants so far as we have seen in the movie world date back to older then the professor, IE Wolverine

Apocalypse as stated by comics is #1

 

[chaseter]

Beast was reading Scientific American titled "Tracking Mutations". Although Apocolypse was the first mutant ever.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

No, Apocalyspe is NOT the first. I have prove that Sahar is, they are from the same region but Sahar was the first RECOREDED mutant according to Xavier in the comic... Sahar was Apporx. 100-200 yrs older then apocalyspe.

 

[chaseter]

No, Apocalyspe is NOT the first. I have prove that Sahar is, they are from the same region but Sahar was the first RECOREDED mutant according to Xavier in the comic... Sahar was Apporx. 100-200 yrs older then apocalyspe.

Proof then??? I would like to see this??? Please post it.

 

[Angry Sentinel]

It's true, I think I read this before... although Azezel has claimed to be the first mutant as well. And I don't think they've revealed his backstory yet.