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Secondary Mutations

16:21 / 15.07.04

What were the secondary mutations in Grant's New X-Men? Sure we had Beast turning more...beastly, and Emma become uberbitch diamond, but what were the other mutations? Was Wolvierine's the ability to regenerate his whole body from a charred femur? Was this the thing that Grant hailed as writing something that no other writer has thought of doing before with Logan? Or was it the weapon # sentinel program?

16:37 / 15.07.04

Jean got her telekinesis back, and Logan's healing gifts were "heightened". Presumedly, secondary mutations have always been around. Jean's telekinesis was one such secondary mutation —originally, she was a telepath in a coma, right? Xavier fished her out?

Scott and Charles were the only ones NOT to get secondary mutations. Charles isn't so much a CHARACTER in NXM as a ideological force, and the entire run is about Scott's secondary psychological mutation.

Archangel developed healing "blood", which necessitates a cut and crude blood swapping situations. Iceman's ice form become malignant and now he's stuck that way. Besides those two in Uncanny, no one else developed secondary mutations. I don't think...

21:31 / 15.07.04

Any flux in powers can be attributed to "secondary mutations".
It makes Danni's (Moonstar) power shifts that much more believable. I think she went through about six different varieties of powers throughout the last two decades what with the Valkyrie stuff really messing her up and now she's back to her original powers (creating illusions out of people's worst fears).

Beast, Emma, Jean, Psylocke, Gambit (power up), Rogue (the skrull mess), Iceman, Angel (wings, no wings, wings again, blood etc), Polaris (negative energy thingy from Zaladane), etc etc etc.

And I expect there's hundreds of amped up villains who can now be ascribed to having had secondary mutations.