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10 Mar 2010, 5:04 am

I was wondering who else here is a fan of the X-Books or can relate with the characters. I personally some similarities in having great abilities due to a being genetically different from mainstream humans. Also having hyper-sensory abilities I see some comparison to fictional mutant abilities or even how telepathy is portrayed.



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10 Mar 2010, 7:39 am

I never followed them closely, but the X-Men series of comics are often popular because all teens feel out of place as they try to fit in with the world, and I suspect that most comic fans tend to be the outcasts of the "popular" culture. NT or AS.



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10 Mar 2010, 8:17 am

In the most strict Darwinian sense, I am a mutant. I do not have wisdom teeth, whereas both my parents do (as did their siblings and parents as well) My appendix also does not seem to show up on typical imaging scans (and is likely non-existent, but until they decide to cut me open to see what falls out.....)

Since wisdom teeth and the appendix are largely vestigial, and not terribly useful, the are slowly being phased out of humanity.

So, no super powers, nothing really cool....but just one more partial rung up the evolutionary ladder I guess. (Make that more like "the tip of a hair from the knuckle of my pinkie finger above the current rung of the ladder)



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10 Mar 2010, 8:38 am

I'm a fan of the X-books but I don't really think much about how I relate to the characters...


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10 Mar 2010, 9:21 am

Darksideblues42 wrote:
In the most strict Darwinian sense, I am a mutant.


If I remember it right, everyone has around a couple of hundred mutations, though of course the majority don't do anything spectacular or visible. Losing the appendix seems like a good thing though!

I used to be a fan of the X-Men (and very few other comics, they're not really my thing) but find them a bit corny now. Not really big on subtlety, and the fastball special starts to grate after the twentieth time they do it... :)


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10 Mar 2010, 10:08 am

I'll have to check those comics out.


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10 Mar 2010, 10:45 am

I have no xiphoid process. Yay, I'm a mutant :D No, I know what you mean. I do love the X-men movies, never seen the comic books though.


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10 Mar 2010, 11:15 am

Darksideblues42 wrote:
In the most strict Darwinian sense, I am a mutant. I do not have wisdom teeth, whereas both my parents do (as did their siblings and parents as well) My appendix also does not seem to show up on typical imaging scans (and is likely non-existent, but until they decide to cut me open to see what falls out.....)

Since wisdom teeth and the appendix are largely vestigial, and not terribly useful, the are slowly being phased out of humanity.

So, no super powers, nothing really cool....but just one more partial rung up the evolutionary ladder I guess. (Make that more like "the tip of a hair from the knuckle of my pinkie finger above the current rung of the ladder)

Those were the physical mutations associated with Lazarus Long, the Oldest Man in the Universe, in Heinlein's "Future History" stories:

"He was born without wisdom teeth, without vermiform appendix, and apparently without a conscience." - from the "foreword" to Time Enough For Love, written by Howard Families Chief Archivist Emeritus Justin Foote XIV


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10 Mar 2010, 11:23 am

I don't read the comics, but I love the movies. I see what you mean though about relating to them. If we are in fact the next step in evolution it would make a lot of sense.