Posted: 12 August 2019 at 7:56am | IP Logged | 10
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Mr. Byrne: "...Willy has no yellow and black uniform in his immediate future."
This might address what I think of as the Cypher effect. Some people aer mutants, but just can't (or shouldn't) be super heroes. Doug Ramsey could understand languages. Lila Cheney could teleport, but only on a transplanetary scale. Caliban could detect other mutants. Interesting, and sometimes useful, but more often, just an incidental ability.
There's more to learning how to live as a mutant than putting on a black and yellow uniform and learning to fight Magneto. Not that learning combat tactics and techniques is a bad thing, but for some mutants, it just wasn't any more practical than for an average teenager to learn the same.
It's true that these abilities could certainly be useful on occasion... but I am not convinced that Xavier's dream was to create an army of mutant warriors. I could very easily understand some students at Xavier's who simply weren't going to be X-Men.
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