Re: Inconsistent 'Decimation' of Mutants (spoilers)

On 29 Nov 2005 17:13:12 -0800, "The Black Guardian" <blakgard@xxxxxxx>
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>> Apart from the obvious question of 'why certain people kept their
>> powers' there also seem to be developing a further issue.
>>
>> Why do some of the mutants get shafted when their powers are taken away?
>>
>> Beak gets turned into a human. Iceman gets turned from ice back into a
>> human. Most of the students in the x-mansion seemed like normal boys and
>> girls etc.
>
>Iceman still has his powers. :)
>
>> Polaris keeps her green hair.
>> Blob gets turned into a skinny guy with shedloads of tough skin?
>> Chamber gets his bio-energy (and I assume his telepathy) removed but is
>> left without his internal organs or a large portion of his face and chest???
>>
>> Why didn't these two get turned into normal humans? Did they piss Wanda
>> off at some point?
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>It's all highly debatable. We don't really know what the X-Gene does or
>how it does it. The green pigment in Lorna's hair could remain
>unaffected, even if the gene were removed. It's a byproduct of her
>mutation, not the mutation, itself.

This doesn't help with any of the others here (btw - I totally agree
about Chamber), but consider this possibility:

Lorna was starting to get grey hairs and, prior to losing her
mutation, she was dying her hair green to over them up.

Hal.

I don't wear no Stetson
But I'm willing to bet, son
That I'm as big a Texan as you are
- Robert Earl Keen, "Amarillo Highway"
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