Re: Inconsistent 'Decimation' of Mutants (spoilers) --



On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Fallen wrote:

Jon J. Yeager wrote:

Blob gets turned into a skinny guy with shedloads of tough skin?


It wasn't specified that the skin was tougher than normal skin... only that
if the metabolism changed overnight and he lost all that weight, the extra
skin would be expected and actually rather alert on the writer's part.

He was trying to cut it with a knife and failing. If his metabolism reverted to a normal humans overnight then he wouldn't suddenly lose 20 stone of fat. Wandas spell/hex/wish/whatever obviously physically transformed many mutants but for some reason left Blob's skin.

Yeah, that's my big issue - Beak is the big counter argument to that. Beak and everyone like him, that is. Presumably Beak transformed at puberty, and yet when he's demutanted he's got a perfectly normal human body, a full head of hair and everything - if Blob's example was the one to hold, he should have had weird facial folds from excess skin when his skull went back to normal but the skin didn't, and be mostly bald except perhaps for a tiny tufy of hair at the top. Likewise, almost any obvious mutant with no powers would still be obviously mutated (just no longer a mutant)... if their power is to 'grow horns', the horns themselves probably aren't mutant, so if reverted to normal, they should still have horns - just not grow them any more (or, if not, have big gaps in the skin of their head where the horns once came out).

Peter Dimitriadis
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