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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'm guessing it is a pretty bad one?
Beak has the brittle skeleton of a bird, and the head of a bird, and that's it. No feathers, no wings, can't fly. He has, literally, all of the weaknesses of a bird.
My various fanfics.
This is contrasted with his future grandson, also called Beak. Tito has all of the strengths of a bird.
There's one particularly powerful scene in which an entire mob of mutants with awful mutations storm the facility with the rumored mutant "cure".
Heck, even Beast was tempted to take the cure, since his mutation had progressed to the point that he had more feline features, including paws. As he told Wolverine, he couldn't even play piano anymore.
Edited by M84 on Jun 25th 2019 at 9:42:03 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedTo swerve the topic more onto the MCU proper, the Morlocks would actually be a interesting direction to take the MCU mutants, given they were unexplored in the Foxverse.
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He's one of the main Morlock characters in the comics.
It just wouldn't feel right for the MCU Morlocks to not have him be a part of the group.
I guess if the MCU version is completely divorced from whatever FOX did, there'd be no issue with their version of Leech actually looking like his comics counterpart.
Edited by M84 on Jun 25th 2019 at 10:38:25 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedOh, I thought you were talking about some sort of problem with him that needs to be addressed. I definitely think he should be here, yeah, and I don't think Fox's portrayal of the character is that much of a problem given it is fairly distinct from his comic self in both appearance and character.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."For one thing, Scott can't control his laser beams unlike Carol.
This is an argument that keeps getting brought up but has never actually been shown in the X-Men. The books treat it as though mutants like Magneto and that kid who could kill just by existing are the norm and virtually every mutant we've seen has powers with lethal applications.
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....They need to leave that girl alone.
If this becomes another Jake Lloyd thing, I'm gonna prescribe someone getting they skull cracked open until lessons are learned.
Because she's 7 years old, and that shit should not be tolerated.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Jun 25th 2019 at 9:12:25 AM
One Strip! One Strip!I remember now that the Strong Female Protagonist comic portrays the issue more cohesively. In its setting, everyone with powers received them during the same Mass Super-Empowering Event, but the effects widely varied. Some came out the same but with superpowers, others were transformed into Petting-Zoo People or rock people and so on. So "biodynamics" who look like humans are generally more accepted than "dynamorphs" with altered appearances. It's also a direct plot point that most dynamorphs don't want to be superheroes
, with the main superhero lead having a minor crisis upon seeing they would rather just return to a semblance of normal life.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 25th 2019 at 10:34:26 AM
Is that not how it works though? This always seemed very ill explained to me. Are mutants NOT the next stage in human evolution? Is it confirmed that mutant genes aren't dominant and unpowered humans won't ever truly vanish?
I think it's a huge case of Depending on the Writer; some comic really do go with that idea, but it doesn't match at all with how Evolution works in real life; Evolution doesn't work by stage according to the theory, it's more like life forms randomly evolve, and the one best-fitted to survive the environment stick. To give an exemple: yellow canary birds initially didn't really exist because yellow is an absolutely terrible camouflage in the wild and they died quickly due to being spot by predators; when humans begin keeping them as pets, yellow was appreciated due to making them look pretty, thus allowing this particular color to propagate in captivity when it couldn't have possible survive in the natural state.
Realistically (relatively speaking), that should be how Mutants work, so as long as society is still safe for normal humans, they shouldn't disappear to be replaced by Mutants.
Edited by Theokal3 on Jun 26th 2019 at 11:38:48 AM
Yeah, the whole "stages" thing is not how evolution works.
People forget that "fittest" in the context of evolution doesn't mean anything besides how good lifeforms are at passing on genes to the next generation.
It's also a crapshoot whether the children of mutants inherit the X-gene. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes their powers are the same as their parents, sometimes they're completely different.
Graydon Creed for example was born to two mutant parents but was not a mutant himself. And yes, this led to him having an unhappy childhood which informed his later genocidal worldview — especially since his parents were Sabretooth and Mystique two of the worst people in the Marvelverse.
On the other end, there's Raze, a mutant from the future who was the son of Mystique and Wolverine. Unlike his half-brother Graydon, he not only was a mutant, but he also inherited both of his parents' powers.
Edited by M84 on Jun 26th 2019 at 5:40:26 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
War has nothing to do with evolution. That's treading way too close to Social Darwinist bullshit.
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And one of Mystique's other kids, Nightcrawler, was also a mutant but he didn't inherit her powers. Instead, he inherited his father's powers (and demonic-looking appearance to boot).
Edited by M84 on Jun 26th 2019 at 5:45:02 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedYeah but its such a cool saying.
I'm also reminded of how the ultimate alien forms from Ben 10: Ultimate Alien worked by apparently placing the aliens in a simulation of them experiencing thousands of years of war & conflict enabling them to transcend into more powerful battle ready forms.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Yep; apparently the writers of Ben 10 Ultimate Alien did some research on Evolution to explain their concept, so kudos to them for that.
But yeah, point is, Evolution isn't destiny; there aren't "stage" meant to succeed each other, it's more like random diversifying and let's see which species survive.
Edited by Theokal3 on Jun 26th 2019 at 11:48:16 AM
Well that explains how the aliens get stronger through such simulations.
Humongosaur went from just being a dinosaur man who can grow bigger to losing the size-shifting but gaining a hard spiked shell & somehow being able to transform his hands into guns to fire bone projectiles.
Echo Echo went from being a small guy who can super scream & duplicate to growing taller, becoming more robotic looking, & losing the duplication ability but gaining the ability to super scream even stronger on pods all over his body he can detach and control telepathically.
Edited by slimcoder on Jun 26th 2019 at 2:55:17 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
