Originally Posted by
Sutekh
My understanding as of the old Days of Future Past storyline, is that most of humanity has a latent X-gene, as a result of Celestial tampering, and while they would not just actively become mutants at puberty, they did have the potential to be mutated by cosmic rays, gamma rays, radioative spider-bites, etc. A small percentage of humanity, for whatever reason, totally lacked this X-genetic potential, and the Sentinels considered them 'pure' and allowed them to breed and live relatively normal lives, and these people, I assume, if exposed to cosmic rays or gamma rays or radioactive spider-bites, would *not* become a Human Torch or a Hulk or a Spider-Man, but just die a horrible death.
I would have assumed that there's just the one X-gene, and if it was turned on via Spider-bite or gamma rays or Terrigenesis, then it *wouldn't* also be able to be another of those things, so you couldn't have a mutant Inhuman or a Spider-Hulk or whatever, but there have been multiple examples of that not being true (Thanos, a mutant Eternal, Maelstrom, a mutant Inhuman, Crosta, a mutant Atlantean, etc.).
Nah, they are, IIRC, bonded with demons, by their psycho-dad, Nicholas Scratch.
It would have been a neat bit of development if Nicky had bonded them with demons as children not because he wanted to give his seven rando kids super-powers, but because he eventually planned on sacrificing them and absorbing both the magical power of seven minor witches, *and* seven demons, turning himself into a demon-king with vast magical power (and finally, in his eyes, superior to his mother, whom he hates for her magical supremacy).