Current Events > are there any mutants (X-Men universe) that didn't get cool combat powers

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like it's all dudes with claws, dudes who can shoot lasers out of their eyes, mind reading, walking through walls, etc

are there any x-men universe mutants that just have a giant leg growing out of their forehead or poop out of their dickhole or something
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Skin and Cypher
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There is a kid whose mutant power is that he can explode at any force he wants.
Thats it.
Use your power once and you die.
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Foppe posted...

There is a kid whose mutant power is that he can explode at any force he wants.
Thats it.
Use your power once and you die.

How does he even know he is a mutant tho.
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IIRC in Ultimate Marvel there was a kid whose mutation was that he gave off toxins that caused organic matter to breakdown. Wasn't something he could control either, it was just something his body did automatically.

He unintentionally wiped out a good chunk of his hometown
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Doom_Art posted...

IIRC in Ultimate Marvel there was a kid whose mutation was that he gave off toxins that caused organic matter to breakdown. Wasn't something he could control either, it was just something his body did automatically.

He unintentionally wiped out a good chunk of his hometown

That kind of reminds me of Hazmat from Avengers Academy
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GOATSLAYER posted...

Skin and Cypher

wasnt Cypher in the later years got significant upgrade? as he can "speak" in computer language or something. that would make him an expert in coding.
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Doom_Art posted...

IIRC in Ultimate Marvel there was a kid whose mutation was that he gave off toxins that caused organic matter to breakdown. Wasn't something he could control either, it was just something his body did automatically.

He unintentionally wiped out a good chunk of his hometown

Then Wolvie executed him.
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In Generation Hope, there was a guy who just started melting when his powers activated, but he killed himself before you could see if it would turn into anything useful.
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Returning_CEmen posted...

Foppe posted...

There is a kid whose mutant power is that he can explode at any force he wants.
Thats it.
Use your power once and you die.

How does he even know he is a mutant tho.

It seems like the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters allows you to send in a DNA test to see if your kid is a mutant, so they can help them develop their powers in a good way.
And since kids wants to be the future X-Men, they beg their parents to do it.
...or something like that, it was ages since I read it...
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Returning_CEmen posted...

Foppe posted...

There is a kid whose mutant power is that he can explode at any force he wants.
Thats it.
Use your power once and you die.

How does he even know he is a mutant tho.

I remember this comic.

it was pretty hilarious.

Edit: and Beast tested him, iirc
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Foppe posted...

Returning_CEmen posted...

Foppe posted...

There is a kid whose mutant power is that he can explode at any force he wants.
Thats it.
Use your power once and you die.

How does he even know he is a mutant tho.

It seems like the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters allows you to send in a DNA test to see if your kid is a mutant, so they can help them develop their powers in a good way.
And since kids wants to be the future X-Men, they beg their parents to do it.

Oh, poor kid lol
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https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR
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Ricemills posted...

GOATSLAYER posted...

Skin and Cypher

wasnt Cypher in the later years got significant upgrade? as he can "speak" in computer language or something. that would make him an expert in coding.

That's not useful in a fight
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There are tons of people with either useless, life-disrupting abilities that have no combat (or even practical) purpose. Beak is basically just deformed to look like a bird person and has hallow bones, but he can barely fly or do anything worthwhile with his powers.

Now the X-Men, the Brotherhood, the Acolytes, etc... don't really recruit people with these sort of powers because they need combat utility for their teams.
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GOATSLAYER posted...

That's not useful in a fight

what if you're fighting Sentinels?
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Doom_Art posted...

GOATSLAYER posted...

That's not useful in a fight

what if you're fighting Sentinels?

The Sentinels are going to let you sit down, pull out your laptop and try to hack into their system?
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Most mutants actually have useless powers. They're the ones that are the most persecuted too. The ones with the super cool powers are in the minority.
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Foppe posted...

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR

That's hilarious.
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GOATSLAYER posted...

Doom_Art posted...

GOATSLAYER posted...

That's not useful in a fight

what if you're fighting Sentinels?

The Sentinels are going to let you sit down, pull out your laptop and try to hack into their system?

Colossus throws Wolverine to create a hole in the Sentinel, then he throws the hacker in the same hole so he can hack it.
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While Cypher's powers aren't combat related his sheer utility as a linguist gets him a spot on various X-Teams, but he typically avoids direct combat himself and relies on other people for protection (frequently his best friend Warlock).
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Foppe posted...

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR

this would actually be a really cool comic book villain because he could literally nuke a whole city if he wanted. so how can you beat a guy who has this potential
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Romulox28 posted...

Foppe posted...

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR

this would actually be a really cool comic book villain because he could literally nuke a whole city if he wanted. so how can you beat a guy who has this potential

Bishop could absorb the blast
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Romulox28 posted...

Foppe posted...

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR

this would actually be a really cool comic book villain because he could literally nuke a whole city if he wanted. so how can you beat a guy who has this potential

I think the problem with that is, while nuking a city is pretty bad, the Marvel universe seems filled with people who can do the equivalent of nuking a city and not die in the process, which allows them to do it again.
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Ricemills posted...

wasnt Cypher in the later years got significant upgrade? as he can "speak" in computer language or something. that would make him an expert in coding.

He could also read computer code. It's just when he first appeared, computers were still fairly rare. I think he was killed off in the 80s. When he was resurrected a few years ago he could also read body language and tell what people were going to do. That made him better.

Skin got six feet of extra skin all over his body that he could controll.
Maggott could eat anything, but he was in pain all the time.
Kylun looks like a thundercat and can mimic any sound.
Wraith got invisible skin.
Choir got like seven mouths.
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Foppe posted...

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR

Top comment lmao.
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There's plenty of no name mutants that didn't get cool powers, they just grew fur, or skin turned purple, or something. That's why their no names.
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SGT_Conti posted...

Romulox28 posted...

Foppe posted...

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RwGR

this would actually be a really cool comic book villain because he could literally nuke a whole city if he wanted. so how can you beat a guy who has this potential

I think the problem with that is, while nuking a city is pretty bad, the Marvel universe seems filled with people who can do the equivalent of nuking a city and not die in the process, which allows them to do it again.

why do you guys assume his explosion would be massive? Beast described him as human fireworks, not bomb.
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I thought the Morlocks had a lot of "useless" or gross, etc mutations.
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Well, being able to change the density and shape of the combustion kinda implies that you can make a big explosion if you want.
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The overwhelming majority of mutants in the X-Men universe don't have cool powers.

Many of their mutations are small enough to be concealable so they can pass for human with a bit of work, or they can be handwaved as having some slight disfiguration. Then there are the mutants who's mutations are too obvious to hide and who end up as societal outcasts, like the Morlocks.

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Morlocks_(Earth-616)

Most mutants with functional powers don't attempt to join super teams either, because they're mostly just normal people caught in inconvenient situations. If they're lucky and somewhat socially mobile, they can attempt to move to mutant friendly communities, that are often one step up from the ghetto in terms of property values, but are somewhat safer for people trying to live free from the anti-mutant bigotry.

These stories inevitably resolve in tragedy as they find themselves being forced to take a side in some violent conflict and lose their innocence if not their lives, or they have their sympathies being mistaken and get unfairly arrested, or they become victims of anti-mutant terrorism, or they become a casualty of an anti-mutant genocide campaign courtesy the Friends of Humanity, the Purifiers, the Right, or Cassandra Nova.
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ForgetMeNot is actually one of my top favorite X-men. Always felt like he can add a real emotional impact on the story.
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hollow_shrine posted...

The overwhelming majority of mutants in the X-Men universe don't have cool powers.

Many of their mutations are small enough to be concealable so they can pass for human with a bit of work, or they can be handwaved as having some slight disfiguration. Then there are the mutants who's mutations are too obvious to hide and who end up as societal outcasts, like the Morlocks.

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Morlocks_(Earth-616)

Most mutants with functional powers don't attempt to join super teams either, because they're mostly just normal people caught in inconvenient situations. If they're lucky and somewhat socially mobile, they can attempt to move to mutant friendly communities, that are often one step up from the ghetto in terms of property values, but are somewhat safer for people trying to live free from the anti-mutant bigotry.

These stories inevitably resolve in tragedy as they find themselves being forced to take a side in some violent conflict and lose their innocence if not their lives, or they have their sympathies being mistaken and get unfairly arrested, or they become victims of anti-mutant terrorism, or they become a casualty of an anti-mutant genocide campaign courtesy the Friends of Humanity, the Purifiers, the Right, or Cassandra Nova.

And this is why people support Magneto.
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Stacey X? I mean, she's a furry hooker with the ability to produce pheromones. It's useful for sure, but not in a fight I wouldn't have thought.
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I remember the one from X-Men 3. He had porcupine powers. I called him snuggles or huggy bear. What made him funny was he thought he was a powerful mutant.
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Apparently the reason they killed off cypher was that the artists hated him. They always hated that they had to show him hiding or something in combat so they begged the writers to kill him off.
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Forge, or at least the writers have to constantly nerf him so he doesn't get to do anything cool with his potential. Dude should be constantly outclassing Iron Man yet all they ever do with him is some random half-assed gadgets.

ForgetMeNot is an odd one:

ForgetMeNot was a mutant who was stated to be in a state of constant existential superposition: Both real and unreal. "He's literally written out of the story".

Consequently, his abilities include:

Imperceptibility: ForgetMeNot is incapable of being perceived or remembered by virtually all individuals. When ForgetMeNot is not directly within view of an individual, his presence, existence, and any memories of him completely disappear.

From marvel wikia
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Foppe posted...

Skin got six feet of extra skin all over his body that he could controll.
Maggott could eat anything, but he was in pain all the time.
Kylun looks like a thundercat and can mimic any sound.
Wraith got invisible skin.
Choir got like seven mouths.

somebody just visited Cracked.com, i see.
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Nothing wrong with cracked mutants.
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