Are the Fantastic Four not also mutants or are they the "good ones" in the setting?
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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Nah bro. They got blasted with space radiation, and instead of severe malignant tumors and cancer, they got super powers.
I don't think the fantasitic four are considered mutants. Their power's arn't from the "x-gene", but instead from... science.
Science as in "I have a theory about a region of intense and mysterious radiation... let's stick our bodies in it and see if I'm right."
yes, comic book science!
Ohhh yeah, I forgot the "x-gene"
🎵"Maybe they're born with it, maybe it's the x-gene!" 🎵
It's always about Jean damn it
I can't remember what their deal is.
Hot take: that's the problem I have with crossovers - each hero's circumstances for gaining their powers was written in a unique way, but when you mash them all together, you wind up with either contradictory stories or a world where there are like 70 different ways to suddenly become a superhero.
Honestly, if there's already one fantastical way to become a superhero (or supervillain), why not have more?
I can logically see that too, but personally I just find that it undermines how "special" the solo superhero is in their own story, which is a classic theme in comics.
Ambush Bug gained his powers when a spaceship carrying alien laundry crashed down in the asylum where he was being treated, and he dressed in some of it.
To me, that's always going to be special.
There is an Avengers' story in which Earth's proclivity for superpowered individuals is due to a Celestial's corpse buried underground.
Mutants are born that way, not made from being blasted with radiation or being bitten by a radioactive spider.
Who's the fat blue one wearing an X diaper?
Beast?