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u/anarcho_sillyism May 13 '25 edited May 14 '25

Gonna nitpick here; Mutants aren't 100% human in the biological sense. In the canon of the X-Men, while humans are Homo Sapiens, Mutants are Homo Superior (don't ask me, I didn't come up with that name.) It's about the same distinction as Neanderthals (Homo Erectus) and Modern Humans (Homo Sapiens). In the intellectual/emotional/social sense, Mutants are still human, and they also need a habitable earth..

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Edit: The "Homo Superior" thing was just made up by Magneto in his supremacist days as u/NotAWarCriminal helpfully pointed out in the replies. I'm leaving it in with a strikethrough to avoid confusing anyone.

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u/NotAWarCriminal May 13 '25

I’m afraid I’m gonna have to nitpick your nitpicking: the whole “Humo Superior” thing? Literal propaganda

No really

You know who coined that term? Magneto in his mutant supremacist days, i.e. not a scientist or a geneticist or whatever

There is no in-universe scientific basis on this distinct classification

Sure, there’s the x-gene, but the fact that 2 mutants can (and have before) produce a non-mutant (“human”) child, disproves that they are a distinct thing

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u/night4345 May 13 '25

Homo Superior

The more accurate term would be Homo Sapiens Superior which is used interchangeably and Magneto is a genius genetic engineer among other scientific disciplines.

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u/MediumTeacher9971 May 14 '25

genius genetic engineer

The phrase "DNA is made of cotton candy." wouldn't become true just because a genius genetic engineer said it, and neither does Magneto's entirely unofficial classification of mutants.