History WMG / XMen

** There was a story in a Hulk annual where Doctor Samson theorizes that getting powers from gamma rays is expressly tied into your personality and its desires.

In-universe explanation for why Mystique was originally going to be Nightcrawler's biological father, but was later decided to having Azazel be his father. Mystique's original plan was to get Destiny pregnant as a man, but when Destiny was tested for infertility Mystique sought an alternative solution. Azazel was understandably surprised, but agreed to the deal. 9 months later, Kurt was born.

What we saw of Jack showed him as a working-class, criminal sort, bank robber and burglar, which fits with Emmma Frost's background as growing up poor and working class.

Wolverine's old, uses his claws a lot and doesn't age. Meanwhile OldManLogan has him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin being old]] and ''not using his claws'' since the villains took over and ''aging''. Clearly he needs to use his claws to keep his healing factor sharp.

Wolverine's old, uses his claws a lot and doesn't age. Meanwhile OldManLogan has him [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin being old]] and ''not using his claws'' since the villains took over and ''aging''. Clearly he needs to use his claws to keep his healing factor sharp.

It's possible the atomic bomb reference may be "topical," but 1) thus far all World War II references haven't been topical (with the possible exception of Ben and Reed's wartime careers), and 2) it's something of a defining moment for the character difficult to shift off to a later event like Tony Stark's Vietnam origin.

[[WMG: Dr. Manhattan created the X-Men]]
Bald guy with freaky abilities? Check. Most popular character is a mass murderer? Check. Is it a MindScrew? CHECK!
* X-Men created before Watchmen? Check. X-Men and Watchmen coming from different, competing companies? Check.
[[WMG:ALL Mutants have the power to come back from the dead.]]
It would explain so much.
* It doesn't explain Doug Ramsey. Or Laurie Collins.
** Wait for it...
*** No. Doug was TheScrappy, and the only time he's been mentioned in the last 20 years is in two issues of ''House of M''; he's either dead or depowered. Laurie wasn't popular, either, and so she's probably also KilledOffForReal. Maybe someone else will take their {{Code Name}}s, though.
*** Hey, Doug was mentioned repeatedly when Warlock showed up with his memories; that's only ''ten'' years ago!
**** Doug Ramsey and many others are resurrected for Necrosha, although they [[Main/CameBackWrong aren't quite themselves]]. His [[Main/FaceHeelTurn switch to the Dark Side]] however, finally allow him to subvert his decades-long [[Main/BlessedWithSuck uselessness in a fight]]- though "Evil Doug" [[Main/IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight may not be permanent]].

* Well just remember how long it too Siryn in X-Factor to accept her Father was dead. Her exact phrasing was somewhere along the lines of "Banshee is an X-man and they always come back." So perhaps the statement should be all mutants who are X-MEN (main team members to exclude X=Corp) have the power to come back from the dead...unless it's the future and Armor just snapped your neck or burned out your healing ability.
** All mutants who are X-men, and Magneto!
*** And the Maurauders, and Madelyne Pryor, and Omega Red, and Unus, and....

[[WMG:Everything shown in the X-Family-related media is a result of psychic manipulation.]]
Every use of mental powers that looks the slightest bit fishy is proof. Everything that might disprove it is a memory fabricated by psychic mutants to cover their tracks. First, Xavier led the hive mind; later, Emma Frost took over. In the Main/UltimateMarvel universe, they rule separate hives.
* Except in the Ultimate universe, it's been pretty firmly established that Frost's only power is the "turn to diamond" trick. She's not a psychic.
** Not quite, at least once telepathy was hinted. It is possible, she did hide them.

[[WMG:The Celestials who added the mutant "x-factor" gene to humanity feed on psionic energy released by mutant powers.]]
All the battles between mutants are hors d'oeuvres to them. The powers themselves are a side effect. The reason all mutants are different is that they like a variety of flavors.
* ... And now a variation of this theory has been used in the new ''Eternals'' series, with the Deviants being the multiflavored snacks. Do the Knauf brothers read TV Tropes?

[[WMG:Alternatively, The Celestials created the mutants to sow the seeds of bloodshed, which they could use as human sacrifices to feed their MagiTek industry.]]
In ''The Eternals'', The Celestials' technology is described as being made of rock imbued with magical power. Various magical traditions believe stone can be enchanted by absorbing the blood or LifeEnergy of people sacrificed upon it. The Celestials plan to sit back & watch the superpowered freaks they created wipe out each other & the normal people; then, when there's nobody left, they will harvest the bedrock of the planet, which will be empowered with massive amounts of magic energy by the deaths of entire species, and use it to build countless devices for export throughout their intergalactic empire.
* And Aaron Stack was sent away for getting too close to the truth.
** Nah, he's just a total [=*****=].

[[WMG:Corsair is just fine.]]
At the risk of being a Main/CaptainObvious... it seems unlikely that Corsair's really dead, even though he's the sort of Main/CListFodder that you can get away with killing. (He hadn't been seen for some time, and so he's more expendable to Main/TheVerse than characters who got [[Main/KilledOffForReal a lot deader]].) Anyway... "The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire" was a lot bloodier than many an X-Men arc, with limb-ripping ahoy. Corsair's "death" was much cleaner than any other in the entire arc (and there were many), and his body was buried on a habitable but uninhabited planet... the perfect place to leave a character you want to [[Main/IGotBetter get better]] but not return right away.

[[WMG: The scene where Phoenix fights Galactus is from the future.]]
The Phoenix lander recently discovered water ice in the Martian arctic. This discovery leads to people building Martian colonies and surviving a catastrophe that destroys all humans on Earth. (Probably an asteroid impact or pollution) However, humanity survives, because of their Mars colonies, and in the far future, people only remember that "Once there was a Phoenix that dealt fierce blows to a destroyer of civilizations."

[[WMG: The Phoenix will Main/RetCon out the Decimation, End of Grey's storyline, Comicbook/CivilWar, and One More Day once Main/JoeQuesada leaves Marvel.]]

Jean Grey's gonna come back. When she does, she'll find out the world's been rewritten since she's been gone into a place she really, ''really'' doesn't wanna be. So, either we have another [[Main/EarthShatteringKaboom cosmic temper-tantrum]] looming on the horizon, or one massive Main/FixFic by the Powers that Be after Quesadilla leaves. Maybe both.
* Or she will show it to be all an illusion by some [[RunningTheAsylum mad god trying to alter reality]]. It doesn't make sense for all that to happen in the Marvel universe even in an erased reality, because that implies that the erased reality was still a possible reality. It should be revealed as something like Mojo rewriting the universe according to some bad fanfiction he wrote.
** Or that it never happened at all, it was ''only'' someone's bad fanfiction (well, it ''is'' just that in reality, so why not in canon too?)

[[WMG: Apocalypse is a [[Main/{{Warhammer40K}} lost Primarch]]]]

Think about it: he's immortal, his parents are unknown, he was found in a place a baby shouldn't be able to survive, and he is trying to take over the world. The way he looks is a result of Warp mutation.

[[WMG: Mutants are actually several different subspecies.]]
Even if all mutations are activated by the same genetic sequence, mutants can pretty clearly be separated into elementals, psionics, superhumans, and bestials.
* What about mutants with multiple powers or secondary powers that are different from the first? Emma Frost comes to mind. Are they hybrids?
** One assumption would be to go by whatever is considered the primary power. Wolverine, for example, is known best for his metal claws and bones, whereas his healing factor is only ever mentioned if he gets hurt.
*** The metal isn't a power, it's an external effect that he survived because of his healing power. It's bone claws (bestial) or healing power (superhuman).
* The implication is that all mutant powers are basically psionic; in one early story mutants with multiple unrelated powers, some of them seemingly physical, are used by the Secret Empire to power a superweapon (a lame unarmed flying saucer "superweapon", but still.)
* They're really more like breeds. Somewhere, a taxonomist is crying.

[[WMG: Mutants all have one power: the first instance of major duress in their lives activates a [[PersonalityPowers corresponding power based on their personality and the problem at hand]] to protect them.]]

Most mutant powers seem to be random. The X-Gene is actually a complicated, [[EmpathicWeapon semi-sentient]] genetic code that activates when its host first experiences stress and applies a reactionary solution to the problem.
* Kitty Pryde's "reactionary solution" to being nervous about meeting her prospective new boarding school principal and having a killer migraine was to fall through the floor and land directly on her butt in front of her parents and said prospective new principal?
** She was thinking of jumping through the wall and running away. It didn't work out quite like she planned.
* Alex Summer's was activated to defend himself from the Living Pharaoh.
* Angel's love of heights caused him to develop wings, not ''vice versa'' as it's implied.
* So that means that Darwin is nervous about everything?
** There was a story in a Hulk annual where Doctor Samson theorizes that getting powers from gamma rays is expressly tied into your personality and its desires.
* I thought the idea of peoples' personalities unconsciously deciding their powers was somewhat canon? Or maybe I'm mixing it with fanon, since I've heard of this idea more than a few times over the years. Though in some instances it doesn't seem to make sense: Jean Grey's reaction upon seeing her friend die is suddenly reading everyone else's minds? Cyclops' reaction after losing his family and living in an orphanage is to shoot red beams out of his eyes? Storm makes sense, Colossus makes sense, but after a while, the theory kind of fails. Or maybe it's that only the stronger personalities can select their powers, whereas those who aren't as willful get whatever the gene gives them?
** Same troper as above: then again, I've also heard of the environment deciding, usually in regards to Storm.

[[WMG: Magneto has been playing everyone, or really really fails]]

He can generate magnetic fields of several million Gauss. Magnetism is, as we all know, an aspect of eletcro-weak force. He should be able to induce radiation and massive electrical fields at will. He should be able to throw ball lighting and kill with a thought.
* Why should he do that when he can just magnetically rip out your blood using the traces of iron it contains?
** He ''can'' do all that, but only when the writer remembers or has any knowledge of physics, or when it wouldn't make the story last five seconds because the entire X-team just got flash fried.
*** See the "mental blocks" WMG below.

[[WMG: X-23 will be played by SummerGlau]]

If she appears in a film that is. You know it makes sense.
* Psh, it more than makes sense, it's downright eerie watching ''{{Firefly}}'' if you've read the X-23 miniseries first...I have to keep reminding myself that's ''not'' Laura onscreen.

[[WMG: Wolverine is a DungeonsAndDragons [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] with some make up slapped on]]
This explains the regeneration, plus everytime Wolverine is cut up, a new Wolverine grows and joins a super hero team. This is how we have WolverinePublicity, because he really is everywhere
* ...this reminds me hilariously of an episode of the 90's X-Men cartoon, where Jubilee told some kids a campfire story where the Wolverine {{Expy}} was a troll.
** Which was based on the comic, where Kitty is the one telling the story to a sick Illyana.

[[WMG: Alternatively, Wolverine has another mutant power: colocation.]]

That's why he can be [[WolverinePublicity having adventures with the X-Men, the Avengers, and on his own]] in three different parts of the world simultaneously. No one notices or thinks to call him on it because, compared to Wolverine's other powers, colocation is pretty subtle.

[[WMG: Layla Miller is the MarvelUniverse's HaruhiSuzimiya, and X-Factor is her SOS Brigade]]
It does make sense that a girl whose never appeared before House of M could have a massive ability to have an impact on reality due in part of Scarlet Witch. Her powers is to spot changes in reality, restore the memories of an individual in said altered reality, the ability to spot paths of casuality and a chance to change the results, and precognition, but that could be her changing reality and changing it back every little while? She subconsciously rounded up a group of people to keep an eye on her after House of M and willed everything in the series to happen herself.

[[WMG: The ''Homo superior'' thing is not just YouFailBiologyForever, but someone's propaganda]]

In mainstream Marvel continuity, the idea of mutants as a "new species" doesn't stand up to biological scrutiny [or even far less so than the idea of superpowers]. Mutants are described as being a single new species, but they're wildly divergent variations off a clear human mainstream. Mutants and humans can interbreed and produce viable offspring; more pointedly, humans can have mutant babies, and mutants have had normal human babies. Mutants aren't an isolated population speciating from normal humanity; they're a population ''distinguished'' from normal humanity based on strangeness.

People like Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, and Peter Parker are considered "human" because their powers manifested after contact with radiation or drugs. Scott Summers, Jean Grey, and Erik Magnus Lehnsherr are not considered "human" because their powers didn't manifest after contact with serums or gamma rays. Yet, ''rising levels of ambient radiation'' due to nuclear testing have been cited a few times as a cause for the growth in the mutant population during the latter twentieth century.

WordOfGod at different times has suggested that the Celestials long ago put a "kink" into human DNA allowing the development of powers. Perhaps it's all part of the same biological mechanism, and the only real difference between a mutant and an "altered human" is how close somebody was to having that superhuman capability triggered (either through genetics, environment, or both) and therefore how little an impetus it took to push them over the threshold. (Consider how nobody's managed to properly duplicate the super-soldier serum's effects. Perhaps it's because nobody else had ''Steve Rogers''.)

Going by the weirdly biased name ''Homo superior'' itself, which would more likely have been called ''Homo mutandis'' or some such by a reasonable biologist, the whole "mutant species" idea was probably coined by a mutant supremacist very early on. Human reactionaries seized on the fear of mutants supplanting humanity, and unfortunately, even peacefully-inclined mutant separatists like Charles Xavier found the idea useful or unavoidable.
* The name, at least, comes from Magneto, who used it when taking over an army base in X-MEN #1. So yeah, propaganda.
** Wait, so why does Prof X still use it? Is he just a dick?
** Well, some versions like [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Xavier]] did showed dickish behavior.
* The name ''Homo Superior'' long predates the X-Men. It started in the 1930s, before EvolutionaryLevels (and its dark side [[SocialDarwinist social Darwinism]]) were [[ScienceMarchesOn debunked]].

[[WMG: Storm isn't really the happily married wife of Black Panther. She's acting as a secret agent.]]

That whole "Wakanda won't share the cure to cancer with the world cause y'all suck" thing? That really burned Storm up. So much so that she decided to infiltrate Wakanda, obtain the cure for cancer, and smuggle it back out. And what better cover could she have than the wife of the ruler of Wakanda? The divorce papers are already lined up, once she's got the secret, she's out of there!
* I like how the ''fans'' have ideas that make more sense than the actual writers.
** That's because we're actually trying to make sense of it, while the [[RunningTheAsylum fanboys in charge]] are just doing whatever they think would be neat to try out that day.

[[WMG: The goverment is fanning anti-mutant hysteria... because they created them.]]
Mutants are the result of the goverment isolating the genetic quirk that gave wolverene his fantastic and using it in a early version of the super-soldier program. The original test subjects displayed no superhuman abilities but it sure did pay of in the long term!!!!
** Except mutants were around long before the Government. The oldest one, Selene, has been around since the Hyperborean people.
*** Maybe she was created recently with false memories.
*** Also, TimeTravel exists in the MU.
** In UltimateMarvel, [[spoiler:so-called]] Mutants are [[spoiler: the product of the Canandian (!) superhuman-project]].

[[WMG: There is no RuleThirtyFour in the XMen universe.]]
And no [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters Rule of First Adopters]] to help with mutant acceptance.
* Actually, mutant porno has had a few explicit mentions.

[[WMG: Mystique and Changeling were/are the same person.]]
This is why the X-Men trust Mystique time and again despite her many HeelFaceTurns--because Xavier trusts her. The Changeling never existed to begin with. He was just a cover identity. Any sightings of his ghost or his body being turned into a zuvembie are merely tricks of the imagination. Alternately, Mephisto did it.
* Except that it's been established, thanks to alternate universes, such as Age of Apocalypse and Exiles, that Morph used to be Changeling when first starting out. In the AoA, they're on two entirely different continents during consecutively running stories, X-Calibre and Astonishing X-men, respectively. Changeling died while posing as Professor X. The team keeps trusting her because she's just that manipulative, and the writers keep handing them the IdiotBall.

[[WMG: Dave Barry appears in the second Origins film involving Wolverine.]]
In ''Dave Barry Does Japan'', he comments that a Japanese energy drink tastes like wolverine spit. The drink is called Hugo. Wolverine is played by Hugh Jackman (there are many readings for the syllable "go", many of which could be euphemisms for kissing or references to Wolverine). In one of the post-credits tags for Origins: Wolverine, he is in a Japanese bar, implying that his Japan-locale personal series takes place here. Dave Barry often encounters embarrassing situations, and Wolverine can always use the spare bit of humor to lighten an otherwise totally-awesome-but-lacking-[[RuleOfFunny rules]]-aside-from-[[RuleOfCool cool]] fight, and what better way than trying to MidbattleKiss the love interest and accidentally planting one on a sixty-year-old male American tourist?

[[WMG: Jubilee is actually the Jubilee line.]]
Well firsly, they share a name. Secondly, they're both new(ish). Thirdly, the resemblance between the London Underground logo and Jubilee's earrings in the '90s cartoon is uncanny.
* So Jubilee's from [[{{Neverwhere}} London Below]]? ''Awesome''.
* I don't know why, but that idea makes me so happy after the whole M Day debacle. "Wondra." Argh.

[[WMG: Wolverine was VanHelsing in the past]]
He's played by Hugh Jackman, was turned into a werewolf, and seems to be immortal. By extention of course, Wolverine has also been [[{{Film/Australia}} a cattle drover]], a magician, and a musical star.

[[WMG: Continuity Errors/Alternate Timelines/Comic Time/Multiple Wolverines are the result of the recent major reality warping events in the last couple decades.]]

Avengers Disassembled. House of M. One More Day.

All were major events that happened in a relatively short time apart in Comic Time. With the amount of stress placed on the 616 universe from all these events, something had to give. And something did. After surviving House of M's irreversible Mutant Decimation, the 616 Universe was permanently damaged, resulting in temporal anomalies. These anomalies include Compressed time (Comic Time), Spacial and Temporal Distortions (Having at least 3 damn Wolverines running around), and branching timelines that result in multiple pasts and futures. Every alternate continuity is a shockwave from the "ground zero" of 616's damaged existence with the epicenter being House of M, with One More Day and Avengers Disassembled amplifying the effects.

So yeah, thanks Spider-Man, Scarlet Witch, and pretty much mutants in general. No wonder you guys get so much hate, everyone throughout multiple timelines knows sub-consciously you're to blame for Crapsack Worlds like Days of Future's Past and Marvel: Ruins.

* And then they all punched Superboy.
** Don't forget all the weird stuff coming out of the cosmic events. The universe basically has had 2 major rips within a year from one another

[[WMG:The Quicksilver we see now is not the real Quicksilver, but a creation of Wanda's powers.]]

Wanda killed the real Pietro in yet another fit of insanity, and to deal with this, replaced him with one created from her reality-warping abilities, similar to how she made her children. At first, it acted much like the real Pietro did; however, as Wanda removed herself farther and farther from reality, so did the Pietro clone, and began to act erratically. When everyone realized Wanda was losing it, Pietro, being part of her mind and symbolizing all she wanted to hold on to, attempts to protect herself by urging her to create the House of M world. The reason why Wanda was able to 'resurrect' Pietro when Magneto killed him out of rage, was that it wasn't Pietro, but something she created from her memories. Afterward, without Wanda to direct his actions, Pietro went completely off the rails going off her last state of mind. It isn't until Wanda chooses to live in obscurity and relative normalcy that 'Pietro' begins to regain a modicum of sanity.

[[WMG: Magneto's powers actually make sense!]]
You see, Magneto has either reality warping, or energy control, just restricted by a mental block. He only can do things he thinks electromagnetism can do. This explains the SelectiveMagnetism. He's either deluded or misinformed.
* Magneto having mental blocks about his powers has been implied in canon several times over the decades. It supposedly results from his realization that he could have saved his family from the Nazis had he known earlier that he had these powers.

[[WMG: The next Film/XMen movie ''should'' be...]]
''Film/XMen: Apocalypse''. I'm thinking TonyTodd as Apocalypse, CliveOwen as Mr. Sinister, and MichaelBiehn as Cable (among other ideas).
* I can totally see either Tony Todd or ClancyBrown as Apocalypse. Or maybe Clancy would work better as Cable. Gary Oldman as Sinister.
** Jonathan Frakes as Cable. Gary Oldman will be playing JudgeDredd in a Dredd movie that doesn't actually suck.

[[WMG:''X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' was actually a Danger Room scenario based on Logan's speculation about his missing memories.]]
It's not his fault. He's the best there is at what he does, and what he does isn't writing.

[[WMG:Destiny was ''[[SherlockHolmes the]]'' Irene Adler.]]
...or at least was supposed to be when this would have only made her 90-something [[ComicBookTime as opposed to 120-something]]. Think about it: who better to get the drop on Sherlock Holmes than someone who can see what he'll do?
* Long since confirmed by WordOfGod.

[[WMG:Kitty Pryde will lead a revolt against Scott Summers' Utopia.]]
Once she recovers [[spoiler: from having been stuck in the giant bullet]], Kitty will take a good long look at Utopia and declare it a mutant ghetto. Given her ancestry(at least one grandparent survived the Holocaust), she's not going to like the idea of a mutant ghetto. And given that Scott left her to drift in the giant bullet, and [[spoiler: Kurt died on Scott's watch]], she's going to want to have words with Scott.
** Didn't Wolverine also leave Kitty in the giant bullet? And since she and Wolverine have, traditionally, had a much much closer relationship than she and Scott, if she's gonna feel betrayed by anyone should it be him instead?
** And Scott ''did'' try to get her out, in fact its said they tried all they could possibly do, they just couldn't. Utopia isn't a mutant Ghetto, really, its more along the same lines as the X-Mansion. Mutants live free of persecution, and trian and learn to use their powers safely. The only problem they could have with it would be the same problems with the X-Mansion. Also, [[spoiler: Kurt's death was a HeroicSacrifice, and effectivly saved all mutants. it wasn't either Scott's fault or anything he could have stopped or avoided.]] And as pointed out, Logan is just as much at fault, and [[spoiler: with your logic, is just as much at fault for Kurt's death, probably more so since he was just with him.]]

[[WMG:There is another Sean Madrox.]]
Baby Sean Madrox received a slap while he was at the nursery. That made [[MesACrowd two of him]]. And one was kidnapped.\\
When we see him again, he will go by the code name of Chorus, having the powers of both his parents.

[[WMG: Wolverine is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of gravity]]
Comics closely related to Wolverine (where he has a starring role) tend to end up revolving around him, as one mass does to the other, while comics that are only tangentially related to Wolverine still have him show up anyway, even if he doesn't do much - gravity has infinite range.

[[WMG: The Hulk's children shall become the new Horsemen of Apocalypse]]
And the Hulk will have to put aside his differences with Xavier and the X-men to take them down. Skaar will become the new War, Hiro-Kala shall become death, Carmilla Black will finally be confirmed as Banner's daughter and become the new Pestilence, and Lyra will become Famine because there was nothing left.

[[WMG: Stryker knew about X2 in X-Men Origins.]]
He captured Deadpool, a mutant who can break the fourth wall. Deadpool then told him about X2 and Stryker realized that he had to set that movie in motion. This explains why he spent so much money on giving Wolverine the Adamantium when Wolverine would probably turn against him anyway. This also explains why he continually tried to erase Wolverine's memory. Soon, Stryker found out that he dies in X2 and decided to destroy the X-men continuity, forcing the produces to have a reboot. Deadpool went along with this, knowing that he might actually have a part in the new reboot, but when he saw the fight scene between Wolverine and Gambit, he realized that this movie could never surpass the old X-men films. He tried to warn Stryker that the movie was getting stupid, but Stryker sewed his mouth shut. Angered by this, Deadpool decided to sabatoge the movie by killing its main characters, thus forcing them to reboot X-Men Origins and give him his own movie.
And the crazy thing is, [[http://www.beyondhollywood.com/zombieland-writers-officially-onboard-deadpool-movie/ it worked]]

[[WMG: Kayla did not die in X-Men:Wolverine Origins]]
The character Kayla was based on had healing factor in the comics, so her movie self probably did too and she eventually recovered from her wounds.

[[WMG: Mystique was SherlockHolmes]]
...[[FoeYay needs no further explanation]].

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* The name ''Homo Superior'' long predates the X-Men. It started in the 1930s, before EvolutionaryLevels (and its dark side [[{{Darwinist}} social Darwinism]]) were [[ScienceMarchesOn debunked]].

After Siryn gave birth, baby Sean was taken away on a medical pretext. There, he was given a clap in order to activate his self-duplication power. While the original Sean remained in the hands of his kidnappers, the dupe Sean was brought back to Siryn. Multiple Man then accidentaly absorbed the infant dupe within himself, to everyone's distress. He now believes the baby was the son of one of his dupes, while in reality the baby was a dupe of his son. When we see Sean Madrox again, he will go by the code name of Chorus, having the powers of both his parents.

Bald guy with freaky abilities? Check. Most popular character is a mass murderer? Check. Is it a MindFuck? CHECK!