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Beast - Experimented on himself to gain an edge in football.
Iceman - Descended from Frost Giants.
Storm - Sorceress who specializes in weather themed spell.
Emma Frost - Father experimented on her as a child to create the perfect being.
Psylocke - Japanese orphan adopted by the Hand. Her powers are supernatural techniques.
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Forge a former magic student turned engineer. Dani Moonstar, her grandfather was a shaman and she inherited his affinity for magic. Thunderbird and Warpath, the Damocles Foundation experimented on the people in their reservation in an attempt to create a new race that could survive the judgement of the Celestials. Cyper, a ordinary teen who encountered and became friends with ashapshifting techno-organic alien.
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Charles Xavier is a horny loser incel, who then hears the teachings of the legendary and extremely popular X-Man. He then becomes an advanced galaxy brain celibate volcel, and all of his hair falls out as he suddenly gains immense mental powers upon learning the truth.
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Rogue - Kidnapped by The Hand as a teenager. Rogue was experimented on and gain the ability to steal others powers through a touch. After using her powers to drain the powers and memories of Lady Bullseye, Rogue began her quest for vengeance and to save others from suffering her fate
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Having an excuse for lazy origins ended up kind of moot given how many X-Men a) have batshit insane backstories anyway b) undergo body transformation c) are revealed to actually not be mutants, but some random other species that will be forgotten about in a year or d) all of the above
Angel: ordinary rich playboy loses funds and/or pilot's license. Depressed, accepts an offer from Apocalypse and becomes Archangel
Beast: drinks the science juice
Cable: doesn't he barely use his powers anyway? He's just Booster Gold with guns
Cannonball: workplace accident in the mine
Colossus: involuntary Super-soldier experimentation, because Russia = evil
Cyclops: as he plummets from the plane flown by his father, an errant blast from the Shiar technology used to abduct his parents strikes his eyes, just as he is concussed and blacks out from the fall. Comic book logic means his eyes shoot force beams now
Or
An ordinary orphan used as a random test subject in the mysterious orphanage manager's genetic manipulations
Dani: just her Valkyrie stuff. She rescues Brightwind on Earth instead of Asgard, and the fear illusions come with the package
Dazzler: maybe an abandoned nuclear test site wasn't the best venue for a concert, as seen when loose wires from both the sound and lighting rigs lying in a puddle of goo electrocute the talent
Emma: bought her powers
Gambit: Candra
Magik: same as her real story. She accessed the stepping disks through secret magic instead of her power. If she didn't hang out with the X-Men a lot of writers would forget she was even a mutant anyway (See: Larocca thinking she teleports with magic in recent Uncanny)
Magneto: Nazi science test subject
Psylocke: the same source as her non-mutant superhero brother: Otherworld magic junk. Or maybe The Hand did it. Or Mojo. Betsy's body gets fucked with a lot.
Rogue: regular human terrorist trained to take out Ms. Marvel. When she confronts her, Carol is taking down some villain working on a power-stealing machine. The fight causes an accidental discharge and Rogue is zapped while touching Carol, giving her both Carol's powers and permanent absorption powers
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[QUOTE=Snoop Dogg;4364259]Charles Xavier is a horny loser incel, who then hears the teachings of the legendary and extremely popular X-Man. He then becomes an advanced galaxy brain celibate volcel, and all of his hair falls out as he suddenly gains immense mental powers upon learning the truth.[/QUOTE]
You know that’s just annoying, right?
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[QUOTE=Mackandal;4364725]Betsy's body gets fucked with a lot.
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No no she just dresses that way lol
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[QUOTE=Mackandal;4364725] Dani: just her Valkyrie stuff. She rescues Brightwind on Earth instead of Asgard, and the fear illusions come with the package [/quote]
Ooh, I like that. She uses her Valkyrie 'death-vision' (TM) offensively, showing someone a vision of their (possible, future) demise and leaving them paralyzed with dread (or flailing about randomly at whatever they are seeing, trying to 'kill' or run away from whatever they see killing them!).
Offensive precognition (or telepathy or clairvoyance or psychometry). Very cool. Kind of like what Jean did to Mastermind, all those years ago, opening up his mind to the entire universe. 'Some people can handle it...'
Or the movie, The Crow, only with offensive use of projective psychometry/postcognition, instead of precognition. "Thirty hours of pain. All at once. All for you..."