The Problem
We all know the infamous incident in which The Pretender uttered three words that undid centuries of progress for mutantkind: No. More. Mutants. At least a million mutants have been unfairly depowered and some even directly killed as a result of losing their natural gifts. But it didn’t stop there, humans took it upon themselves to wipe out mutants, both empowered and depowered. Without Cerebro, it seems that all hope is lost for those depowered mutants who were murdered by their human oppressors. However, in the Messiah Complex prelude ‘Endangered Species’, not only do we find that the isolated mutant genome has crumbled in the wake of the spell but we see Beast completely abandon her morals to not only team up with the most decrepit eugenicists and psychopaths but go on a goose chase with Dark Beast to find a way to restart mutations. Restore the natural order.
His attempts were made in vain.
But there was a theory prompted by our blue beast. While desecrating the corpses of Genosha with his AoA self, he posits that even though mutants have been depowered to the point that they can neither use their powers nor be seen by Cerebro, they’ve actually been reduced to being virtually undetectable rather than their X-Gene simply erased. And as we would find out, years later, Beast was right.