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seriousfic (seriousfic) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-14 09:34:00

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char: banshee/sean cassidy, char: jubilee/jubilation lee, char: skin/angelo espinosa, creator: chris bachalo, publisher: marvel comics, title: generation x

Jubilee: Action Hero

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	"Like, your friend is dead." pi216 2009-04-14 10:05 am UTC (link)
	Jubilee: Worst First Responder Ever. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: "Like, your friend is dead." timemonkey 2009-04-14 11:07 am UTC (link)
	Worst or Best? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: "Like, your friend is dead." vignettelante 2009-04-14 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	She's on the same level as Bones and she hasn't even been to 23rd-century medical school! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-04-14 10:29 am UTC (link)
	Not a huge fan of Gen X for a variety of reasons, but I remember liking the "reveal" at the end that the "mutant" here wasn't actually a mutant at all, just a human kid with a disfiguring disability. (Reply to this) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-04-15 01:48 am UTC (link)

I think that counts as a mutant. Mutations are not always positive, and I don't just mean the comic-booky ones. The Elephant Man was a mutant, after all.
According to the dictionary, here's what a mutant is: "An animal or plant with inheritable characteristics that differ from those of the parents". So, if my parents both have brown eyes and I have green ones, that makes me a mutant - and presumably, this poor guy being a disfigured freak makes him a mutant, too.

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	icon_uk 2009-04-15 02:16 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, but Marvel has two kinds of mutants. The same kind as we do in the real world, and X-gene mutants, and we see a damnsight more of the latter than the former. And if your eyes are green, then no you're not a mutant AFAIK, just a result of complex genes from your parents coming to the fore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-04-15 03:32 am UTC (link)

Okay, bad example - let's say if I was a dwarf. Dwarfism is not, as far as I know, a hereditary condition - dwarves giving birth to dwarfish children is very rare. So, effectively, Dwarfism is spread via mutation. (I'm no authority on this, mind you, but it sounds right to me.)
And we may see much more of the X-gene type, but that doesn't make the other kind any less legitimate as mutants. I recall one story that had a hideously deformed man locked up in a holding cell somewhere in Russia - the story involved Omega Red somehow, I think - and there was some talk about how most mutants are not monstrous at all, but every now and then you come across one that fits the stereotype. This guy was huge, and proportionately strong, but he didn't have any particular mutant powers - he was just an insane freak that the Russian government had locked away for some reason.

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	jlbarnett 2009-04-16 01:15 pm UTC (link)
	in the MU only X-gene mutants are hated and feared. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-04-16 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not sure that's true - X-genes may provide some of the more spectacular examples of mutation in the Marvel U, but your average Joe Schmoe on the street doesn't know that. As far as they're concerned, a guy who's covered with hair or has claws instead of fingernails is a mutant, same as any other. (Reply to this) (Parent)