Here is a subject for discussion: Early on in his career, old skeletons-in-his-closet Charles Xavier realized that mutants were doomed if they tried to match human numbers.
This was during the first X-men, when Angel was considered quite a good mutation. Power levels were not high, and humans with bullets were a threat.
Xavier decides on a two-prong strategy: in addition to the strategy of peaceful coexistence backed up by X-men, the numbers of available mutants must increase.
30 000 children are born to artifical fertilization each year in the USA. With Xaviers powers, switching the samples is childs play. The only problem is, whose genetic material does he replace it with?
Obviously it should be someone fit, bright and very powerful. Good candidates are far between, though.
The females are out because sample extraction would be too much surgery to conceal.
Magneto: Recoils from the idea in horror, he has had enough of breeding experiments in his youth. His powers are not genetically stable anyway, his kids could have any level of mutation.
Havok and Cyclops: Borderline minusvariants, their powers are too uncontrollable.
Angel: Not exactly an omega.
Iceman: Does not appear powerful.
Beast: An unfortunate potential for genetic devolution.
Mimic: Not a mutant.
The best candidate is in fact Xavier himself.
However, this would lead to a situation 15 years later where Xavier is having the disquieting realization that between Legion and Cassandra Nova, his family tends to unravel worlds like yarn. And there are about 10 000 potential omega-level psychics coming of age in the next two years....
Thoughts?
This was during the first X-men, when Angel was considered quite a good mutation. Power levels were not high, and humans with bullets were a threat.
Xavier decides on a two-prong strategy: in addition to the strategy of peaceful coexistence backed up by X-men, the numbers of available mutants must increase.
30 000 children are born to artifical fertilization each year in the USA. With Xaviers powers, switching the samples is childs play. The only problem is, whose genetic material does he replace it with?
Obviously it should be someone fit, bright and very powerful. Good candidates are far between, though.
The females are out because sample extraction would be too much surgery to conceal.
Magneto: Recoils from the idea in horror, he has had enough of breeding experiments in his youth. His powers are not genetically stable anyway, his kids could have any level of mutation.
Havok and Cyclops: Borderline minusvariants, their powers are too uncontrollable.
Angel: Not exactly an omega.
Iceman: Does not appear powerful.
Beast: An unfortunate potential for genetic devolution.
Mimic: Not a mutant.
The best candidate is in fact Xavier himself.
However, this would lead to a situation 15 years later where Xavier is having the disquieting realization that between Legion and Cassandra Nova, his family tends to unravel worlds like yarn. And there are about 10 000 potential omega-level psychics coming of age in the next two years....
Thoughts?
