Should we get a issue were we get a in depth look in to how the x gene really works or keep it as a hand wave. Personally I'd love if they established what makes a omega different from a normal or what determines what powers will be developed.
Yes
No
Should we get a issue were we get a in depth look in to how the x gene really works or keep it as a hand wave. Personally I'd love if they established what makes a omega different from a normal or what determines what powers will be developed.
You have a mutant gene. You get a random mutant power. Maybe multiple powers. Maybe no power at all and you just look funny.
Any explanation is going to be a lot of genetic bullshit.
I think the closest to an explanation was in Galacta when they said that all mutants are unconscious reality warpers. And that's like saying nothing.
The problem with really specific explanations like "how the x-gene works" is that it can potentially limit options for writers down the road. And as much as people like to devour detailed information about things like that, for the writers it can be very burdensome. They already have to remember a lot as it is.
No, boring. I think we've already had decades worth of material to explain it away. It doesnt need to get any deeper than it already is. That would open the door to more contradictions and limitations. Its a random mutation among humans and in the case of mutants, less so when they reproduce
Absolutely, unequivocally and vehemently...No.
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Nah. Doesn't add anything; just boxes creators in.
Whatever the fictional science is, the only certainty is that writers will either break the rules, or engage in artful circumvention of them.
I never liked the name "X-Gene".
By the way, this is how the 1996's Generation X TV movie introduced the mutants:
Mutation: n. 1. The act of being altered or changed. 2. The illegal genetic condition [US Statute 5504178], first apparent in puberty, caused by the X factor located in the pineal gland of the brain.
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Since this is my wheelhouse I absolutely want it.
But then I realize writers will never be able to keep it consistent or accurate going forward.
You got it!
https://aiptcomics.com/2018/11/09/re...erent-mutants/
From an actual geneticist!