Molly Hayes (Runaways) as a future X-book star?

[WebLurker]

Well she could still be a mutant, but she hasn't been referred to as such for the entirety of the current series. They're certainly downplaying the mutant angle, but there hasn't been anything on the page saying she isn't one.

It kind of makes sense, a lot of crap goes down with mutants in the X-Books. Runaways being largely self-contained probably doesn't want to deal with that.

Interesting, given that the original Runaways stuff did have a lot with the X-Men often on. Given that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver lost their mutant status, it has seemed like Marvel would happy de-mutate any mutants not part of the X-Men franchise for marketing reasons.

Weird is an understatement - her Mom and Dad are brother and sister! Both they and Molly are test tube babies too.

Read that story once, but I thought they were foster siblings, at best. It would explain that weird comment about their "pure" marriage, though, in the original series.

Granny deliberately gave them powers, but it does still seem to be X gene derived - Molly's powers aren't the same as her parents. That's what makes she and Franklin Richards mutants and Mayday and Annie Parker (whose powers are identical to their father's) not.

Sure, Molly's parents could be non-mutants and Molly herself could be, but it was pretty important in the original series that the Hayes were factually mutants; the original story falls apart otherwise.

[Cyke]

Down the line, maybe. I actually quite like it when mutants are on primarily non-mutant teams, because it displays the very same diversity that the X-Men are striving for (e.g. back when there were millions of mutants, being in a town or classroom without a mutant was the exception), but it also then gives that book a neat and easy way to interact with the X-books then. Making Molly an X-Man would still retain that connection, but then it's more likely for the Runaways to be guest stars in an X-Book, rather than the other way around.

[Personamanx]

Interesting, given that the original Runaways stuff did have a lot with the X-Men often on. Given that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver lost their mutant status, it has seemed like Marvel would happy de-mutate any mutants not part of the X-Men franchise for marketing reasons.

Read that story once, but I thought they were foster siblings, at best. It would explain that weird comment about their "pure" marriage, though, in the original series.

Sure, Molly's parents could be non-mutants and Molly herself could be, but it was pretty important in the original series that the Hayes were factually mutants; the original story falls apart otherwise.

Well as self-contained as the original series was, the idea behind the book is that the kids were the children of couples representing most of the Marvel Universe's villainous archetypes. Molly's interactions with the X-Men over the years was largely due to Mutants being the one archetype that kind of represents an entire line of books. It's hard to be a mutant character without the X-Men coming up at some point. My guess is that with the show not being able to use mutants, they'd rather not bring it to the foreground in the new comics series.

Depends on how honest everyone was. They were raised as siblings, but considering the fact that the Grandmother was no stranger to genetic engineering the adoption/foster angle could be a fabrication. I mean, Alice was cloned in a tube but we don't know if she was originally grown in one. Or if Gene actually was an adopted teenage runaway.

I wouldn't say them being mutants were crucial to the original volume. They just had to fit the "Outcasts" angle. As far as them claiming to have been mutants, well that's probably less twisted than the reality.

[WebLurker]

Well as self-contained as the original series was, the idea behind the book is that the kids were the children of couples representing most of the Marvel Universe's villainous archetypes. Molly's interactions with the X-Men over the years was largely due to Mutants being the one archetype that kind of represents an entire line of books. It's hard to be a mutant character without the X-Men coming up at some point. My guess is that with the show not being able to use mutants, they'd rather not bring it to the foreground in the new comics series.

Could be that the series is trying to mold itself more to the TV show. The Nico/Karolina relationship in it has no real basis in the comics themselves (fan theories aside) but is right in line with Hulu.

Depends on how honest everyone was. They were raised as siblings, but considering the fact that the Grandmother was no stranger to genetic engineering the adoption/foster angle could be a fabrication. I mean, Alice was cloned in a tube but we don't know if she was originally grown in one. Or if Gene actually was an adopted teenage runaway.

I've only read the first trade paperback so far (still trying to motivate myself to start the second one and the others haven't been released yet), so maybe you know more then I do, but what I thought was that Molly's grandmother was just trying to clone her dead daughter and son-in-law a la the Jackal and Gwen Stacy, not that the Hayes had been cooked up in a lab from day one. Did later issues establish otherwise?

I wouldn't say them being mutants were crucial to the original volume. They just had to fit the "Outcasts" angle. As far as them claiming to have been mutants, well that's probably less twisted than the reality.

They self-identified as mutants, their motivation for betraying the rest of the Pride was based on the fact that they were mutants. It's kinda baked into the story.

[Magik]

She should stay with the Runaways so no