Can Teens still develop Powers ?? (Teen Talk)

[milly3cat]

Since X-men began, there have always been story's of teens getting there powers for the first time.

Best story was X-men unlimited ?? First contact, when Jean and Gambit found that boy with electrical powers and he had the legacy viris.(10 years ago)
Are these story's gone because of house of M. Can a ten year old boy get powers now ???

These are all the under 18 mutants in 198 files. Not many but could list grow ?

New X-men ............... Outside institute

Anole ....................... Bruiser (runaways)
Blindfold
Bling
Dust
Elixir ........................ Glob Herman (prison)
Hellion
Icarus
Hisako ...................... Jazz (street)
Leech
Loa
Match
Mercury
Onyxx
Pixie
Quill .......................... Quentin Quire (In the lab)
................................ Franklin Richards (listed in book)
Rockslide
Stepford Cuckoo's (times 3)....... Squirrel Girl (limbo)
Trance
Wallflower
Wither
Wolfcub
X-23

There are 24 students at the insitute, and six who are not.

Quire in the lab and Franklin at the plaza leaves only, Squirrel girl, Jazz, Glob and Bruiser with powers outside the X mansion.

[Bearpod91]

I think the evolution of mutants has stopped after HoM so that means "no more mutants" and no more new mutants.

[mattbib]

Are these story's gone because of house of M. Can a ten year old boy get powers now ???This hasn't been definitively answered.

All mutants who lost their powers did so because they lost their X-gene. The X-gene's were eradicated. Presumably this applies to all those humans who have latent X-genes or who are carriers. Presumably, but not definitely. It hasn't been revealed yet. So it could go either way.

Also presumably those remaining mutants could procreate and pass along their X-genes to their children.

[The Lucky One]

Well, the stated intent of the whole Decimation event was to get back to the whole 60s dynamic, where every couple of issues some new mutant would first manifest his/her powers, and it would be a race between the X-Men and the Brotherhood (or other bad guys) to find and recruit them. That being the case, it would be pretty foolish of Marvel to not allow any young teenagers to manifest powers from now on.

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[Tre Styles]

I'm thinking no. But other posters have sorta swayed me into thinking that current mutants could have babies who'd grow up to have powers. However, that being said, originally when Wanda declared "no more mutants" I was under the impression that she wiped out the mutant gene totally, excepting the ones that got protected by Dr. Strange's spell. But now, the jury's still out on that issue, with all the variables that have come about. I guess we'll just have to wait and see....but far as current teenagers during this time at Marvel, no. They can't develop any mutant powers....

[malephoenix]

Well, the stated intent of the whole Decimation event was to get back to the whole 60s dynamic, where every couple of issues some new mutant would first manifest his/her powers, and it would be a race between the X-Men and the Brotherhood (or other bad guys) to find and recruit them. That being the case, it would be pretty foolish of Marvel to not allow any young teenagers to manifest powers from now on.

-D

Where/when/by whom was this stated? I'd be glad if this were true, but I was under the distinct impression that there would be no teens growing into their powers.

[Loestal]

Where/when/by whom was this stated? I'd be glad if this were true, but I was under the distinct impression that there would be no teens growing into their powers.

That's all bullshit. I'm sorry but that's NOT what is happening. No, there will be no more mutants anytime soon unless it's retconned and I don't see that huge of one going down anytime within 10 years. Get used to not seeing mutants in every other book because all your getting is those currently still mutants.

And the gene that creates mutants has been DELETED from humans. There is no way a mutant can just spring back up, that gene the Celestials put in us was removed by Wanda. Which...now makes me see a loop hole that can be used to bring mutants back later down the line.

[Kirayoshi]

If the goal of House of M was to reduce the number of mutants, then good, fine, dandy. If the series' goal was to eliminate the possibility of there ever being any new mutants ever, then Joe Quesada just shot Marvel in the foot.

If there will never be any more new mutants, then within a few years there will be no purpose in the School for Gifted Youngsters. Once the current crop of students graduates/quits/dies there will be no more mutants left. And what will be the point of attempting to improve relations between humans and mutants if, within a generation, the entire mutant population can be counted on the fingers of Kurt Wagner's hand?

Millions of mutants may be too many, but I fear that in the long run 198 will turn out to be way too few. The X-Men, as a team, as a comic and as a concept, were always about seeking a better future. The way I see it now, for mutants there is no future.

[Loestal]

If the goal of House of M was to reduce the number of mutants, then good, fine, dandy. If the series' goal was to eliminate the possibility of there ever being any new mutants ever, then Joe Quesada just shot Marvel in the foot.

If there will never be any more new mutants, then within a few years there will be no purpose in the School for Gifted Youngsters. Once the current crop of students graduates/quits/dies there will be no more mutants left. And what will be the point of attempting to improve relations between humans and mutants if, within a generation, the entire mutant population can be counted on the fingers of Kurt Wagner's hand?

Millions of mutants may be too many, but I fear that in the long run 198 will turn out to be way too few. The X-Men, as a team, as a comic and as a concept, were always about seeking a better future. The way I see it now, for mutants there is no future.

Ok really, how long would it take for the current gen of x-men and the "New X-men" to die off. A LONG time, seeing as how the original are still around and are about 28-30 years old. Marvel doesn't need to depend on freakin mutants to survive, and I think...I HOPE that's what they are trying to prove. The past 15 years has been nothing but mutants and it was getting old. And again, they will probably retcon it away or something. Which is fine bringing in a new mutant every once in a while some how...such as Vulcan not being on earth during HoM so he wasn't affected, well..that's what I'm assuming happened anyways. HoM didn't cut the mutant life line, it just pinched it off. But my point was, was that some people seem to be a little delusional or mislead and expected to start seeing mutants coming back often again soon.

[Porcelain]

Given that so many actual mutants survived (outside of Strange's mumbo jumbo & Emma's whatever), it's only logical to think that the potential to be a mutant also survived in some 'humans', as will of the hereditory aspect.

Wanda's whatsit was more like the swiss cheese version of no more mutants. We're just seeing a cull back to how things used to be, not no more no more ever ever - we're just back to rare and unique, rather than one on every street courner and setting up their own ghettos.

Inside the comics they barely knocked mutant population back what 5-10 years, if that?

[Dizzy D]

Seeing how many mutants are still around, I think there is nothing stopping teens from still developing powers. Wanda turned most mutants into humans, but there are still mutants around. It's only logical to think that some of those remaining mutants are kids who still have to develop their powers.

[Tre Styles]

AS much as I want to agree with you Dizzy, I think that the point that Marvel is trying to make, is that there will be no other mutants focused on other than the ones that they've mentioned in 198 files, X-Men, or Deadly Genesis. There will be no "new" teens with powers, since they have "enough" in New X-Men. Right now, the whole focus and core of the X-Men is survival. It's not to protect the world from evil mutants, it's not to teach the next generation of X-Men. Right now, it's all about survival, and helping each other.
But you may be right in some instances, for example, Ororo just mentioned in X-Men that there were some African mutants who were struggling, so perhaps we haven't seen them yet, but my bet is we won't be seeing them for awhile. I think that this trend isn't going to last, and whenever Queseda hands over his "crown", you can bet that this will change too. But for right now? Marvel's just focusing on thier cream of the crop mutants, the X-Men. It's amazing how they were convientely saved, and only the lower tier, and the ones who have been underused thoroughout the year were the ones "decimated".

[milly3cat]

As far as writing story's go, is there really a difference between 198 or 3000 mutants, because you can only have a few in a book at the same time.

Where not going to see 198 mutant stories being told. So is there really a difference ?