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Kage Kisaragi

08-06-2006, 03:55 PM

Zombienorthstar

08-06-2006, 03:56 PM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have? and What kinds of Powers you'd thjink they might get.. and most importantly what do you do!?

Be really envious?

Beast

08-06-2006, 04:08 PM

Wonder how the hell I managed to actually have kids. ;)

rilokyle

08-06-2006, 04:25 PM

I used to wish and wish and wish I would develop mutant powers when I was growing up. I always wanted to be a telepath or a telekinetic, just like my favorite character from the animated series.... Jean Grey! :)

Darkstorm5000

08-06-2006, 04:31 PM

Get ready to start dodging the huge, Sentinel-made potholes in the front lawn.

Wind-Breaker

08-06-2006, 04:41 PM

Spoil them to death, for fear of them vaporizing me ;)

Takusa

08-06-2006, 04:43 PM

Most importantly what do you do!?

Call an adoption agency.

Kage Kisaragi

08-06-2006, 04:47 PM

Call an adoption agency.

Really? I mean most mutations come about during the teen years, when teen are under the most stress. O_o I wouldnt wanna be in that house/neiborghood when that boy/girl comes home and finds out that her parents put her up for adoption.

Takusa

08-06-2006, 04:54 PM

Really? I mean most mutations come about during the teen years, when teen are under the most stress. O_o I wouldnt wanna be in that house/neiborghood when that boy/girl comes home and finds out that her parents put her up for adoption.

Stress? Man, I'm a teenager and I have no stress at all...

Kage Kisaragi

08-06-2006, 05:10 PM

nor was i when i was one, not saying that i didnt have hard times mind you.. but there are gonna be times... when...

anyway.. it was a funny notion. :)

fishtaco

08-06-2006, 05:11 PM

Huh? I have kids, and they ARE mutants.

Sparda

08-06-2006, 05:15 PM

I would just hug the kids and tell them Im proud of ya. Plus send them to Xavior's school so he can train them to use thier powers for good.

My naughty side tells me to send them off to join magneto for THE ANNILHATION OF HOMO SAPIENS!!!!!!! ALL HAIL HOMO SUPERIOR!!!!!

Affinity

08-06-2006, 05:20 PM

If I didn't read comics (specifically X-Men) and was a bigoted WASP (sorry, good WASPs of CBR) I would hate them and kill them and give them to people like Trask.

Not really though. I know people WOULD do that, especially if certain religious leaders denied mutants (and if the hatred was as bad as it is in 616, because it's really kind of scary to think you're normal kids could be shot and vaporized by these mutant fellows.) Senator Kelly made very good points in the movie (though Jean's rebuttals were quickly ignored).

But if I was me like I am, I would love them. And hide them. Hide them in my basement like the girl in Marvels. Not because I was afraid of them (a la Cessily and worried about my name) but because I was afraid FOR them. Seriously. People aren't ready for mutants just yet. Not in this day and age where we worry about even if getting on a bus that day may be safe.

Meta 05

08-06-2006, 05:38 PM

IF i had kids, which the very idea of me reproducing frightens me((being gay not gona happen anyway).I am a die hard liberal "live an let live"all that good stuff.I would be perfectly happy sending them I weeks thru out the year to xaviers for training in thier abilities.I would be damned if them being a mutant met i had to give them away an send them off to boartding school at the X-Mansion.

If they had abilities thou I would push them towardsa the idea of usi8ng them to help others early an hoping they got interested in criminal justice but thats just me.

ShatterStar

08-06-2006, 07:22 PM

i would mind a son thats ot the same powers as nat grey the X- man

ibrakeforchinwe

08-06-2006, 09:58 PM

Hope he didnt use his power on me...

steve2275

08-06-2006, 11:27 PM

i dont need no stinkin kids

Rachel Grey

08-06-2006, 11:56 PM

Teach them how to use them responsibly like I do.

Cracks up laughing.

caney

08-07-2006, 07:13 AM

I would send them off to be taught by the first creepy-bald-guy-in-a-wheelchair I meet of course!!

o1pickleboy

08-07-2006, 08:34 AM

See, my post on the purity website. Then understand they won't be any grandchildren.

barbariansheep

08-07-2006, 09:56 AM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have? and What kinds of powers do you think they might have. Most importantly what do you do!?

Given my luck, my children would have the power to obliterate the universe and, just to annoy me, all be female and be obsessed with their hair and clothes. For both of these things, I would blame their father and hide the credit cards.

I hope I don't really have kids. Having my mom VIVIDLY and repeatedly remind me of the things my brothers and I did growing up, they'd probably be able to destroy the world without mutant powers.

Borgish Replicant 2020

08-07-2006, 10:04 AM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have?

The number of borgish children permitted for the life-form designated as 'Replicant' is twelve.

What kinds of powers do you think they might have?

Their powers would be comparable to the great character known as 'Jubilee'.

Most importantly what do you do!?

Nothing.

Kage Kisaragi

08-07-2006, 10:07 AM

^

Now that is how you reply to a topic! lol

Tre Styles

08-07-2006, 03:09 PM

I would find an expert on mutants, such as Charles Xavier, and while I wouldn't send them off to the school, unless they want it, I'd require that they have training sessions on how to use their powers for the greater good....like doing the dishes, mowing the lawn, walking the dog, etc....:cool:

Rivka

08-07-2006, 09:26 PM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have? and What kinds of powers do you think they might have. Most importantly what do you do!?

My son seems like a mutant to me -- he's smarter than I am, he's more mature than I am, he's got more common sense than I do. If mutancy is measured by how different your kids are from you. :)

Seriously, I suspect that if the average American had a mutant kid, it would turn out more like that doomed Ohio community in Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life." (And the TWILIGHT ZONE episode of the same name.)

If you think about it, Little Anthony is a mutant. But his parents, totally unprepared for such powers in a child, have been unable to either understand what is really happening, or react appropriately to the boy's behavior. Could the average human being, given such enormous powers as we see in the Marvel Universe, really keep from misusing them for long? In the real world, could any human child thus be trusted with such powers? I don't see what a parent could do, if they realized their kid could start fires with a thought, and nothing you said or did would stop them, because they were just kids and despite their best efforts, they still got mad, had temper tantrums, and wished bad thoughts against people who upset them. In real life, maybe if your kid had already killed a few people or animals, you would seriously consider more serious steps.

In BABYLON 5, didn't the psicorps find psi-talented kids at a very young age, and take them away from their parents to be specially trained? In a way, Charles Xavier has that kind of idea, since mutants powers don't usually appear until puberty -- he wanted to take these young teens and properly train them in the use of their powers, and guide them ethically and morally to responsibly use those powers. (Or so he claimed.)

I think the predominant theme in the X-books and other books about super powered kids, tends to be, victimized kids with powers, and have parents who are prejudiced or don't understand them, or sometimes are cruel, and sometimes are understanding and supportive. The target audience of these comics is afterall teens and young adults. But in the real world, I wonder if the more accurate scenario would be, parents already blind-sided by teenage raging hormones and teenage angst suddenly confronted with incredible powers in kids who won't listen to them, have a poorly developed instinct for self-control and limit-setting, and are actually a danger to themsevles and others. Parents then would be faced with some tough choices, and from the kids' point of view they might look like ogres and tyrants and pawns of an oppressive state, or whatever, but what else could these parents do?

It's a good question, by the way, because it is related directly to Xavier and the X-Men when they were kids, and the Institute as a genuine school. I don't think these questions have been explored very well in the X-books. For example, Xavier gets along with the authorities (usually) and it's conceivable that his Institute could be appointed the MANDATORY facility where uncontrollable mutant kids are treated. Xavier's becomes more of a reform school, then some elite academy. What would mutant extremists then think of Charles Xavier and his "school"? But what would happen to the uncontrollable and uncontrolled mutant kids if there were no Xavier's? Far worse. This is also something the Civil War books might need to address. (As in, a part of mutant registration might be, removing mutant teens from their homes by force and sending them to a special "school" if their powers prove to be dangerous -- and under those circumstances, wouldn't it be better to turn Xavier's into that "school" and take these kids in, than let the government get ahold of them in other facilities and institutions.)

APEX

08-07-2006, 10:35 PM

I love spiderman powers and if my kid had them i would try to help them in any way i could like sending him the Xavier's school for training.

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estee

08-07-2006, 11:41 PM

I'd just hope he or she didn't have some lame mutation like Beak. Hell, I'd pick on the poor kid for being such a freak.

Citizen V

08-08-2006, 04:33 PM

If i had a son,i would encourage him to train and develop his powers.With balance,he can do anything he wants.

Delephynite

08-08-2006, 05:57 PM

Hope they have telekinetic powers, put my feet and ask them to send me a beer from the kitchen. :)

Cavalry Tanker

08-08-2006, 06:23 PM

Seeing as how I've been exposed to radioactive material a few times, it's possible I might!

I'm assuming it wouldn't be anything amazing though. Maybe glow in the dark urine, or an extra arm.

Kage Kisaragi

12-27-2007, 08:52 PM

I was looking through my old topics and I just came across this one and decided to resurrect it. Maybe get some new insight.

pryde15

12-27-2007, 09:30 PM

I would hope my kids didn't have telepathy or empathy, I don't want them reading my mind! Althought if I was a mutant those would be the powers I would want

RickyD410

12-27-2007, 10:51 PM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have? and What kinds of powers do you think they might have. Most importantly what do you do!?

I'd have 3 kids.

Nicholas - Some sort of passive brain power. Something like Prodigy's maybe?

Danielle - Elemental power of sorts. Offensive!

Max - Metamorphic power of some kind. Either Mystique or Mercury or something. Maybe he has a physical mutation too? Something ala Anole or Mercury.

What do I do? Be insanely jealous. Of ALL of them. And while I'm insanely jealous, I train them. I teach them all the wonderful things I learned from cartoons, comics, and sci-fi/fantasy movies. And I give them X-Men comics to read, so they can teach themselves. And I'd always be on the lookout for anyone that might want to hurt them.

And of course, as soon as they invent genetic splicing or manipulation and stuff, I'd have someone surgically give me their powers! :D

worstblogever

12-28-2007, 01:25 AM

I'd have to admit to the wife it was my fault for the time I dipped my **** in enriched uranium.

Which might be similar to some X-Men's origins, come to think of it.

Pro

12-28-2007, 02:33 AM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have? and What kinds of powers do you think they might have. Most importantly what do you do!?

I'd study genetics, invent a mutant power draining machine and suck their power out of them and into myself. Now let's see how easy you can steal cookies from the jar, you little pissants!

FroFroYo

12-28-2007, 05:30 AM

Hm. My kids were mutants you say. Well, as long as they didn't have some hideous disgusting mutation, I would love them and cherish them and fear them and all that good stuff.

Until I figured out how to pull out that little X-Gene and put it into me.

It isn't fair that they get to be mutants and I don't. D:

Come To Deathstrike

12-28-2007, 08:57 AM

They'd give me a blood transfusion.
And We'd start a superhero family.
=]

Push You Down

12-28-2007, 10:14 AM

Waterlily

12-28-2007, 10:39 AM

Hah... I actually thought about this once. In real life I want triplets. Three girls.

Molly, Chloe and Emily. Taking a page from Penn Jillete's book (His daughter's name is Moxie Crime Fighter) I want to give them each a superhero-y middle name.

Molly Firecracker, Emily Thunder, and Chloe Spiderpunch. Yes, I said Spiderpunch. I always liked the sound of that.

:mad: Damn it! I wish I'd thought of something like that before I named my kids! They actually don't have middle names at all.

This thread is really funny to me because when my son was little (around a year old) he would go up to random spots and place his hand flat on whatever surface it was and move it in a circular motion. He'd do this for about 10 - 15 minutes. It became a running joke between my mom and I that he was trying to find the portal to another dimension. Whenever toys, keys, etc would disappear my we'd joke that he put it into the portal.

If my kids were really mutants I really don't know what I'd do. I'd be really scared for them, there'd be all these people who'd want to hurt them and I wouldn't be able to really protect them. Xaxier's doesn't seem that great of an option considering how it keeps getting blown up.

RickyD410

12-28-2007, 11:30 AM

Mormel

12-28-2007, 12:07 PM

Honestly? If mutants existed today, I'm not sure they would be hated the way they are in comics. I mean, I know I wouldnt hate them. I'd want to BE them. I mean, everyone knows about X-Men. I dont think they would have the same level of hate that exists in comics.

Sure, people would definitely be scared of them, but I dont think they would be HATED the way mutants are in the MU.

Seeing as how there are plenty people in the real world who hate others simply because of race, religion, sexual preference, disabilities, et cetera -the very thing the mutant discrimination is an analogy for- I think the writers have accurately portrayed how some or a lot of people would respond to the emergence of superpowered mutants. Not everyone reads X-Men. And of those who do, it shouldn't be automatically expected that they're open-minded enough to accept mutants in their real life even though they read about them in comic books. As Nightcrawler once said: it's one thing to see a blue furry 'demon' on a T.V. show, something else entirely to meet one in person. Among the readers of X-Men there are narrow-minded ones, some even racists, sexists or homophobes, as seen on a few letters pages. They just read for the pretty pictures and the fights; but they don't really get the premise of the book.

On-topic:

Hmm... I'd have... two children. The eldest manifests her powers at thirteen. Her power is fire manipulation. Causes a couple of fires, but nothing that leads to death or disaster, and nothing the extinguisher can't put out. Overtime, she learns to control her powers, which doesn't go without growing pains, both physical and mental (as Kage Kirasagi pointed out already).
The youngest manifests his mutation at fifteen. Pyrokinetic girl is already seventeen then, and more experienced in the use of her power. However. The boy's mutation is that he has the appearance (and abilities) of a grasshopper. Exoskeleton, antennae, mandibles, overly developed legs, the works. I would feel forced to hide him to protect him. His sis could help him cope because she's been through discovering/accepting her mutant powers herself, but I'd imagine there'd be some frustration because she has more opportunities to go out into the world than he.

I realise I could have chosen two convenient, no-problem powers, but the world rarely works that way.

Mr.EZ

12-28-2007, 12:39 PM

As long as my child was happy and wasn't hurting anyone, I'd be cool with it.

Jimmy Starburst

12-28-2007, 01:45 PM

my kids are mutants and not me?? fuck that shit.

Novaya Havoc

12-28-2007, 01:50 PM

Okay lets say you have kids someday and one day you wake up and realize your kids are all mutants. How many kids do you have? and What kinds of powers do you think they might have. Most importantly what do you do!?

My child would be the adorable Hung-Chow, whom I adopted from Vietnam and rechristened "Cynthia."

She would have the power of being fabulous to the maxx.

frog

12-28-2007, 02:16 PM

If I had mutant children I know one thing for sure - if their power didn't involve something that require life support I couldn't provide they'd be home-schooled once I saw the academy required filling out a will!

ProfeZZor X

12-28-2007, 02:23 PM

I'd have 4 kids... And for practical reasons, they'd all be elemental mutants so they can help me out around the house.

And when they get old enough, I'd pimp them out to companies that can use their powers for whatever reasons, and charge a nominal fee.

Callisto

12-28-2007, 03:12 PM

Phil Hunn

12-28-2007, 03:31 PM

If I ever managed to end up anything other than alone, alcoholic and bitter (and hey, I've got two of those right now. All I have to do is start drinking again, and I'm halfway there...), I'd love my kids for what they were.

I mean, with me as their father, they'd have enough to worry about without any form of mutant-related prejudice...