• LilDumpy@lemmy.world
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      Nah bro. They got blasted with space radiation, and instead of severe malignant tumors and cancer, they got super powers.

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      I don’t think the fantasitic four are considered mutants. Their power’s arn’t from the “x-gene”, but instead from… science.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      I can’t remember what their deal is.

      Hot take: that’s the problem I have with crossovers - each hero’s circumstances for gaining their powers was written in a unique way, but when you mash them all together, you wind up with either contradictory stories or a world where there are like 70 different ways to suddenly become a superhero.

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        Honestly, if there’s already one fantastical way to become a superhero (or supervillain), why not have more?

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          I can logically see that too, but personally I just find that it undermines how “special” the solo superhero is in their own story, which is a classic theme in comics.

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            Ambush Bug gained his powers when a spaceship carrying alien laundry crashed down in the asylum where he was being treated, and he dressed in some of it.

            To me, that’s always going to be special.

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        There is an Avengers’ story in which Earth’s proclivity for superpowered individuals is due to a Celestial’s corpse buried underground.

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      Mutants are born that way, not made from being blasted with radiation or being bitten by a radioactive spider.