The Mutant Normals

[Tre Styles]

Which mutant introduced in the x-verse seems the most "normal" to you? Which one can you really relate to?
I was sitting here thinking about these questions, why, I don't know....but among the X-folk you got weather goddesses, time traveling telekinetics, cosmic entities, and feral berserker men....not exactly screaming "normal", y'know? So as I thought about it, here are the ones that came to my mind immediately:

1) Kitty Pryde: I think she was the first X-Man, not to be introduced in some awe inspiring way. She was just you know your average teenager who we could see the X-Universe through....she just wasn't introduced as "SHADOWCAT(sprite) THE WOMAN WHO WALKS AS A GHOST" or anything foolish like that....she was the first x-character who I saw as a "normal" human being....yet she was intelligent, funny, and caring.(not that any of the others weren't...). So, I think she is still the standard when introducing mutants who have powers yet aren't tripping on the superheroics of it all.

2)Cecilia Reyes....she came into the books at a time when all there were was these fantastic beings. She was my "round the way" girl. She was from the boogie down Bronx, a real boriqua. She made Operation Zero T, seem a little more realistic....she didn't dress in a fancy suit or anything like it. She was a med student...just realistic touches that made her humanity come forward.

3)Everett Thomas (Synch)--yeah, he was part of GenerationX, so those who know me by now, know just how much I liked Everett. He was the everyday kid, he was normal, had regular dreams like everyone else. You knew that he has these great powers, but at the same time....he wasn't larger than life like some of his teamates....you just got the feeling that he was like one of the guys you knew all your life.

These are just a few examples, what mutants have stood out to u as the most "normal"? The ones that you can relate to? Why? Have at it. ;) :cool:

[Novaya Havoc]

Dazzler.
Ambitious, assertive, honest, yet -- at times -- very vulnerable. Subject to scrutiny and bigotry. If you read her series, you'll see the gal was ahead of her time in terms of "real-life" settings and stories for mutant characters.

... of course, she was then FUBARed with Mojoworld, but... c'est la vie.

PS. And Cecilia Reyes -- at her inception -- was such a "Dazzler" clone. :P

[DDM]

Lila Cheney

She's still a popular rock star with a music career, but no one knows--outside certain circles--she's a mutant.

[For the Good of X]

I always related to Cannonball because of our similar country upbringing. That different way of thinking about the world that seems to take your along well once you step into that bigger picture of the city. Sure, his mutation was a bit out there, but his inability to control it was humbling and kept him from being the big man on campus he wanted to be.

[atoningunifex]

I'd have to say that Stacy X is probably one of the most "normal" mutants to me. She wasn't trying to be a hero, wasn't trying to change the world. She had a set of circumstances that put her outside the norm and she did her best to use them to get by.

[The Shadow]

Peter Rasputin. He's always trying to do the right thing, hates hurting people, can get nasty when he needs to and is loyal to his friends (and surrogate family) and would do anything to help them, even if it meant harm to himself.

[Tenebrae]

I think quite a lot of X-Men come from fairly normal places, its the stories they go through that take them away from that. All five of the original X-Men had fairly normal backgrounds and personality types (some moreso than others, granted) but stories since have pulled them away from that. Jean Grey couldn't really be described as an example of a normal mutant, for instance. Of the originals, only Iceman has remained a fairly normal guy who happens to have superpowers, the others have been twisted around a couple of times too many to be called normal.

As for characters who started normal and stayed that way, Doug Ramsey would be a good example of that, and David Alleyne, from what we've seen of him, seems to be a regular guy too.

[jeangreydp]

I think I relate mostly to Kitty and Jean.

Kitty is super normal and I think that is a lot of her appeal to me. She's not like a supermodel with crazy powers and I like that- she's just your cute average girl next door.

Jean while she is the supermodel crazy powers type, I relate to because I think I have a similar personality. A long fuse, but when it reaches it's end a nasty temper ;) Also I view Jean in the same girl-next-door role as Kitty.

[tk421atpost]

Doug Ramsey.

[newscott]

I have related to Havok in the past. He just wanted to be left alone, and when he was dragged back to the team (just before X-Factor was formed), he always seemed like he was in over his head. He seemed really human in those issues.

And does it get more normal than Cannonball? The mutant Peter Parker, I say.

[Ayo]

Doug Ramsey.

ding ding ding!

[MrBiggs7]

Considering that I was sent into the future soon after I was born because of rare disease that I had that could only be cured in the future and I was raised by an elderly couple who actually ended up being my biological parents (well my 'mom' held the original dna that helped create my biological mom) and I grew up to be a mercenary leading a revolution against an all powerful immortal shape shifting mutant...I most relate to Squidboy and Sunspot.

[Squila Lord]

Cypher and Prodigy

[Nyssane]

Famine. She struggled with her weight and had a habit of acting like a spoiled little wench, just like me. n.n

[Tre Styles]

I always related to Cannonball because of our similar country upbringing. That different way of thinking about the world that seems to take your along well once you step into that bigger picture of the city. Sure, his mutation was a bit out there, but his inability to control it was humbling and kept him from being the big man on campus he wanted to be.


I did think about Sam too. When he was first introduced, he was such a "country bumpkin". Most of the New Mutants were fairly normal type kids, like Rhane, Dani, and Roberto. The only one who had a really far out there origin was Amara. But each of them had some refreshingly normal personalities.... and as some of you mentioned, David (Prodigy) from Academy X is too....as well as a couple of other kids there. :cool:

[MrBiggs7]

The New Mutant characters were created for the sole purpose of relating to teenagers and children at a personal level. Amara was off but everyone else was pretty good. This inclues the new New Mutants. Everybody knows Prodigy,Josh, Cannonball, Sunspot, or Wallflower in their lives.

[Rachel Grey]

1) Kitty Pryde: I think she was the first X-Man, not to be introduced in some awe inspiring way. She was just you know your average teenager who we could see the X-Universe through....she just wasn't introduced as "SHADOWCAT(sprite) THE WOMAN WHO WALKS AS A GHOST" or anything foolish like that....she was the first x-character who I saw as a "normal" human being....yet she was intelligent, funny, and caring.(not that any of the others weren't...). So, I think she is still the standard when introducing mutants who have powers yet aren't tripping on the superheroics of it all.

I like how CC put her power last in her intro. "She's 13 year old, cute, bright, spunky & she can walk through walls."

hehehe I allways find that line utterly charming. :D

[Tre Styles]

That was a charming line.....

Now that Decimation has hit, the Mutant Normals takes on a whole new meaning I think. We are seeing how some deal with it. Who are you most interested in seeing who handles being normal now?

I'm most interested in Dani right now, because her "decimation" was the only one I think was the only real one , besides Jubilee and Chamber of course, that hit home for me. I'm really interested to see what her role is in Generation M.

[The Lucky One]

Madrox. I mean, I identify with Longshot's personality and basic outlook on life, I feel like I would relate to Doug Ramsey's feelings of awe at being in the presence of people as superpowered as that, but as for which character is most like me? Jamie. He really is one of the most relatable characters in the X-stable, and it's amazing it took them as long to cotton on to that as it did. (On the other hand, maybe they just don't like relatable... look at Doug.)

-D

[AceOfSpades]

I always thought Cannonball was a pretty normal kind of guy. He grew up in a small town and wasn't super used to all the big things happening in the world. He also had a good set of morals that guided him

[jawbreaker]

Chamber- he was just like all the other normal teenage self absorbed goth kids that thought the world revolved around them...


:rolleyes:

[atoningunifex]

I think Dani Moonstar was the one I related to the most.

She was awkward and really a fish out of water at the beginning. She was kinda pissed off and scared and not sure of herself. And horrified of what she did to Shan by accident. She just seemed like a normal person dealing with some seriously messed up stuff.

[Tre Styles]

Rhane was kinda normal now that I think about it and her past. She really exemplified a character who had that strict Catholic upbringing, which was even more surprising in latter years when she found out that Rev. Craig was her daddy.

[Mariah]

I'd have to say Dazzler...cause I've always wanted to be famous, and am currently following...well, not as fervently as I used to but I still want to become famous. I even have the famous person wave. Plus her relationship with her father is something I can totally identify with, cause my dad and I used to be so close, when I was a baby I would cry at the door if he left, or even went to the bathroom, but as I got older, we became more distant, and he thinks I'm just chasing silly dreams, and need to do something different with my life.

[Dizzy D]

Madrox. I mean, I identify with Longshot's personality and basic outlook on life, I feel like I would relate to Doug Ramsey's feelings of awe at being in the presence of people as superpowered as that, but as for which character is most like me? Jamie. He really is one of the most relatable characters in the X-stable, and it's amazing it took them as long to cotton on to that as it did. (On the other hand, maybe they just don't like relatable... look at Doug.)

-D

I would agree with you on Madrox in the first X-Factor series. As he is now, I don't relate too much to him, because he's become a product of his own powers. Interesting to read about certainly, but I find it hard to relate to somebody who has trouble deciding what to do, because his powers allow him to do anything.

[Metallurgique]

Doug. Doug was really just a normal kid with a fantastic intellectual ability. It was a "power" but it wasn't a conventional offensive power. He was one of the first Mutants to essentially have no battlefield ability at all. He was always very self-conscious about his vulnerability relative to the others, and in the end that was prophetic, because he was killed in a very "human" way.

Callisto. Yeah, okay, Callisto's rough and tough, always has been. But aside from her agility and heightened senses, she really didn't have any fantastic abilities that weren't basically human (strategy, fighting style, etc.). She was also often portrayed as being a very dissaffected character, who at heart was not happy being herself. I think everybody can identify with Callisto on some level.

Speedball. Unlike these others, Robbie had some serious power. Unlike them, he was totally torn betwen life with a hero team and his "normal" life in suburban Connecticut. Robbie seems very normal because throughout his existence in the MU, he's had alot of interaction and development with his family. After the incedent with Nitro and M-day, it's unclear what's happening with Robbie.

[DDM]

Callisto. Yeah, okay, Callisto's rough and tough, always has been. But aside from her agility and heightened senses, she really didn't have any fantastic abilities that weren't basically human (strategy, fighting style, etc.). She was also often portrayed as being a very dissaffected character, who at heart was not happy being herself. I think everybody can identify with Callisto on some level.

Callisto was a successful super model before her mutant powers changed her body. She lost her eye hence the patch. And her bitterness is understanable because she was once part of the exclusive elite glitteratie brought low by simply being a mutant. Callisto has heightened senses of taste, sight, smell as well as a gifted athlete; she also has above normal reflexes & speed.

[HellFrost]

...Emma, Rogue and/or Jubilee...

I asked Nick... he said all this stuff that I don't really feel like saying but yeah... he said Emma and Rogue most and some times I can be really hyperactive and immature like Jubilee...