X-Men: Apocalypse announced for May 2016

[Beagleman]

Hey, mutant genes slows visible aging, etc., etc.

Also true, that's how I explain to myself all those inconsistencies when it comes to actors/casting in these movies. For example: Sabretooth just mutated some more and grew a foot taller (he also stopped shaving). Works for me.

 

[RoJoHen]

For example: Sabretooth just mutated some more and grew a foot taller (he also stopped shaving). Works for me.

I always pretended that Magneto did some early tests with his mutant-making machine that caused Sabretooth to mutate further, but your theory works too!

 

[Anwar]

I always assumed that in the movies Victor and Sabretooth were two different guys. They never call Creed in the Origins films "Sabretooth" and no one calls Sabretooth "Victor Creed".

 

[Christopher]

I always assumed that in the movies Victor and Sabretooth were two different guys. They never call Creed in the Origins films "Sabretooth" and no one calls Sabretooth "Victor Creed".

Good point. Kind of like how the diamond-skinned teenager in Origins is never actually called Emma Frost in the movie, so she can be easily treated as a different character altogether.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Which raises a question about mutation in the X-men mythology I always had. If Mutants are really the next stage in Human evolution would there not be more common patterns of mutations? Instead of random powers unique to each mutants? Also do Mutants who have children pass on their specific abilities to their offspring?

 

[Tosk]

Also do Mutants who have children pass on their specific abilities to their offspring?

Not usually, but it can happen.

 

[Unicron]

It's one of those areas where the comics have tended to be pretty wonky where the genetics are concerned. The three Summers brothers (Cyclops, Havok and Vulcan) all have mutations that are similar since they're biologically related. They all can absorb and project energy. Other siblings however seem to get random powers with no relation, like Colossus (metal skinshifting) and Magik (teleportation and magical power from Limbo) or Cannonball (pyrokinetic flight) and Husk (can shed layers of skin and change the composition of the new skin into a new material such as metal or wood).

Nocturne of the Exiles seems to be an interesting case, hailing from a reality where Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch married and led the X-Men. She inherited her mother's hex bolts and her father's physical appearance, but doesn't have his teleportation abilities. Rather, she can physically jump into someone's body and possess that person for a time.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Also do Mutants who have children pass on their specific abilities to their offspring?

When they're famous characters, usually. Whenever you get a future AU, you get children of the existing cast who either have some combo of their parents' powers or one of their parents' powers with either modifications or far greater.

 

[Christopher]

It's one of those areas where the comics have tended to be pretty wonky where the genetics are concerned. The three Summers brothers (Cyclops, Havok and Vulcan) all have mutations that are similar since they're biologically related. They all can absorb and project energy. Other siblings however seem to get random powers with no relation, like Colossus (metal skinshifting) and Magik (teleportation and magical power from Limbo) or Cannonball (pyrokinetic flight) and Husk (can shed layers of skin and change the composition of the new skin into a new material such as metal or wood).

I'd add Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, but apparently the comics just followed Age of Ultron's lead and retconned their origin so they aren't really mutants at all.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Banshee/Siryn is the only example I can think up off the top of my head where the same power is passed down from parent to child.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Banshee/Siryn is the only example I can think up off the top of my head where the same power is passed down from parent to child.

Rachel Grey/Summers and Ruby Summers (the latter having both Cyclops' optic beam and Emma Frost's diamond form) would be two others.

 

[kirk55555]

The mutant Polaris is (unlike Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver) still the daughter of Magneto in the comics, and she has the same magnetic powers as he does.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Banshee/Siryn is the only example I can think up off the top of my head where the same power is passed down from parent to child.

Rachel Grey/Summers and Ruby Summers (the latter having both Cyclops' optic beam and Emma Frost's diamond form) would be two others.

Cable/Nate Grey (six of one, half a dozen of the other) got mama's telepathy and telekinesis, too, and I always thought their single glowing eye was a tribute (of sorts) to Cyclops.

 

[Gaith]

Hey, mutant genes slows visible aging, etc., etc.

Also true, that's how I explain to myself all those inconsistencies when it comes to actors/casting in these movies. For example: Sabretooth just mutated some more and grew a foot taller (he also stopped shaving). Works for me.

And, don't forget...

Jean Grey: Hey Professor, I've been studying the X-gene some more. Turns out, statistically, that us mutants are almost guaranteed to be really, really good-looking. Like, Hollywood-movie good-looking.

Toad (listening in via surveillance mic): F&$#!

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[Unicron]

Yeah, I forgot about Banshee and Siryn (derp ) but there is one small distinction there. Siryn's vocalizations can cause specific emotions and affect the minds of others, allowing her to potentially control or influence their actions, while Banshee's apparently don't. Purple Man and his daughter Purple Woman have the same abilities (pheromone control), and Wallflower of the New X-Men inherited a virtually identical mutation from her father.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I really just have a general knowledge of Marvel Comics compared a very detailed one of DC Comics history. Is there a Marvel equivalent to the Legion of Superheroes? A reoccurring future? That shows what happens to mutants?

Of course the Legion has been rebooted and retconed to many times to even count. The main "possible future" I know of is Days of Future Past. From what I have heard John Byrne wanted the original story to end with it clear it was prevented.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

I really just have a general knowledge of Marvel Comics compared a very detailed one of DC Comics history. Is there a Marvel equivalent to the Legion of Superheroes? A reoccurring future? That shows what happens to mutants?

Of course the Legion has been rebooted and retconed to many times to even count. The main "possible future" I know of is Days of Future Past. From what I have heard John Byrne wanted the original story to end with it clear it was prevented.

I think the X-Men would the be closest thing Marvel has to the LOSH. Especially during the 80's with the Starjammers, Gladiator and the Shi'ar Empire, the alien entity Phoenix Force and time travel stories like DOFP.

 

[Unicron]

Marvel tends to show more "what if" style futures that might come to be, although some of them do share common plot elements (a future ruled by Sentinels for example, or where some other calamity has afflicted either the mutant or human races, or both). The Earth-X timeline is a dystopian future, but one in which most of the human population gained super powers after Black Bolt spread the terrigen mists across that Earth.

 

[Anwar]

I really just have a general knowledge of Marvel Comics compared a very detailed one of DC Comics history. Is there a Marvel equivalent to the Legion of Superheroes? A reoccurring future? That shows what happens to mutants?

Of course the Legion has been rebooted and retconed to many times to even count. The main "possible future" I know of is Days of Future Past. From what I have heard John Byrne wanted the original story to end with it clear it was prevented.

The closest thing to Marvel's future teams are the Guardians of the Galaxy team from the 31st Century.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

^ I think the X-Men do the future timeline very often. There are several, but the DOFP timeline is the most famous (unlike in the movie, the time travel didn't actually reset the timeline, at least for those who live in that timeline).

Yeah, I forgot about Banshee and Siryn (derp ) but there is one small distinction there. Siryn's vocalizations can cause specific emotions and affect the minds of others, allowing her to potentially control or influence their actions, while Banshee's apparently don't. Purple Man and his daughter Purple Woman have the same abilities (pheromone control), and Wallflower of the New X-Men inherited a virtually identical mutation from her father.

I don't think Purple Man is actually a mutant. I seem to recall some kind of chemical accident.