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I hope you have been enjoying these newest mutants lists cause we have another one coming
your way.
This time I’ve opened it up to include some mutants from the early 2000s as well as the
20-10s.
Twenty-tens!
Sounds so weird to say that still.
Today we’ll be taking a look at a variety of mutants.
Some are super powerful, some are super important in regards to story, some are super cute and
others are super tragic.
Basically all the things that you could possibly love about mutants!
A little bit of everything for you today as we countdown the top 10 newest mutants part
3.
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So if you enjoy this list, be sure to go back and check out our part one and two as well.
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10 Kid Omega - 2003
Kid Omega aka Quinten Quire has also been described as an omega level telepath and telekinetic
before.
He joined up with the Xavier Institute later in the New X-Men series, in issue 134.
Quickly Quinten became a prized student of Xavier’s who saw within him great potential,
as brilliant and talented as he was.
However over time and with the revelation that he had been adopted, he became more rebellious
and egotistical.
He questioned Professor X and the professor’s dream for the world, for humans and mutantkind
to coexist in harmony.
He began using the mutant drug, kick, and created a gang called the Omega Gang which
set out attacking humans.
Eventually he was beaten down by the Stepford Cuckoos and be reformed.
Though he would continue to be known for having a bit of an attitude and rebellious streak.
9 Prodigy - October 2003
Prodigy is David Alleyne, a mutant who is often associated with the X-Men and who attended
the Xavier Institute.
He came to the famous mutant school after trying to hide his powers.
David had always been a smart kid but he started noticing one day that he knew things that
he simply couldn’t have, that he didn’t remember learning.
It turned out that David had been telepathically absorbing knowledge and skillsets from the
minds of those around him.
Feeling bad about his ability, like it gave him an unfair edge and was cheating, he sought
to hide it and doubled down on studying to improve his knowledge naturally.
Unfortuantely the mutant hate group, Purity, ended up uncovering his secret and outting
him as a mutant, causing him to turn to the Xavier Institute.
He would lose his abilities on M-Day but still remain a valuable hero with all of the knowledge
he retained later becoming fully accessible again.
Being a mutant with studious telepathic abilities, I also love that he was originally depicted
as needing glasses.
Though of course in a land of magic in superpowers, he later was cured of his need for corrective
lenses by mutant Elixer.
8 Elixir - November 2003
Josh Foley is an omega level mutant.
He found himself at the Xavier Institute after being rejected by his friends and his family
because of his mutant status.
Originally he was part of the anti-mutant group, the Reavers but discovered during a
fight with some mutant students that he actually was a mutant himself with healing abilities,
which he used to heal one of the fellow Reavers.
He tried to hide his powers as long as he could but eventually got found out and outed.
His powers allow him to manipulate the biological structure of organic matter within a certain
proximity to him.
He can use his powers to heal or to harm others and is also able to sense one’s life energy
and even transfer life energy from one being to another.
Most recently we saw him in House of X as a member of the Five, a group of mutants whose
powers join together, allowing them to resurrect other fallen mutants.
He made his first appearance in New Mutants volume two.
7 Abigail Brand - 2004
Abigail Brand was created by John Cassaday and Joss Whedon and made her comicbook debut
in Astonishing X-Men volume three.
She is a no-nonsense badass who is half mutant and half alien.
One of the first to show us that even those with alien heritage can be mutant too.
Brand is best known in affiliation with SWORD, a division of SHIELD that seeks to guard the
world against and deal with extraterrestrial threats.
SWORD stands for Sentient World Observation and Response Department.
And Brand serves as the commander of the organization.
Her mutant power is contact pyrokinesis.
She can produce blue or red flames on her hands and use those to burn through almost
anything or anyone that gets in her way.
6 Oya - 2010
Despite making her first appearance in Uncanny X-Men, the original X-Men series, Idie still
didn’t end up joining the group until 2010.
Yeah, that original series went on for a long time.
Idie made her first appearance in issue 528.
Idie’s powers involve thermal manipulation.
She can convert thermal energy into extreme hot or cold.
But she does need thermal energy in order to be able to do this.
She can’t just create flames or ice on her own.
Idie was discovered by the X-Men through Cerebra.
When her powers activated she accidentally killed her family by burning down her village
in Oyo State, Nigeria.
The military showed up, seeking to stop and destroy her but Hope and Storm rescued her.
5 Broo - 2011
So Broo has to be one of the cutest mutants on this list, just fyi.
Broo is a mutant and member of the Brood alien race.
Brood are typically born with an urge to kill and consume.
They do not understand compassion and empathy in the same way humans do.
But Broo was born with compassion which made him a mutant of the race and also helped him
to become independent, separating himself from the hive mind and developing his own
sense of self with the ability to make his own decisions.
While you might not think of compassion as a mutant ability, for the Brood it very much
is.
In fact when young Brood are born with such mutations, they are usually deemed as a reject
and killed but do the dwindling population of the Brood, the Brood Queen allowed Broo
to live.
He studied at Jean Grey’s mutant School for Higher Learning.
4 Genesis - 2011
Genesis was created by Fantomex using the World, a research facility created by the
Weapon Plus Program which had been shrunken down to a portable size.
Think Hank Pym’s lil Quantum lab in the Ant-Man and the Wasp MCU film.
But smaller.
Genesis aka Evan Sabahnur is the clone of young Apocalypse.
Fantomex created Evan to help overthrow Angel who had become Apocalypse’s Horseman of
Death and sought to replace him.
Evan was raised to be basically a good version of Apocalypse, what the X-Men villain would
be like as a hero.
Evan has already shown that he possesses some of the original Apocalypse’s powers and
abilities, including super strength and durability, matter manipulation, and energy manipulation.
And it is likely that as he grows he will develop even more in his abilities.
3 Sprite - 2012
Not to be confused with the Eternal Sprite, this Sprite is also known as Jia Jing.
In fact she got her codename from Wolverine, who gave it to her in reference to not the
Eternal Sprite but to Kitty Pryde who once went by the same codename.
Upon having her mutant abilities manifest, Jia became determined to become the greatest
X-Men ever to honor her family and her country, China.
Jia’s mutant abilities are tied to her appearance.
She has wings and resembles a fairy.
Her skin is also durable and rock-like.
And her body is somewhat morphable.
2 Shark Girl - 2013
Shark Girl was originally Iara Dos Santos, a young girl from Brazil who one day noticed
an intense craving for fish.
This was the first sign of her powers manifesting which eventually resulted in her becoming
a mutant wereshark.
She ended up enrolling in the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning but takes weekends off
to return to her home in Brazil.
Her powers allow her to resemble a shark while maintaining her own mind and memories.
And not resemble a shark to the point that she can’t walk.
She is more land shark, part humanoid, still able to stand and walk around on her legs
and use her hands.
This form also enhances her physiology, giving her increased strength and speed and allowing
her to breathe both under water and on land.
She was already a great swimmer but her mutant powers enhance her ability even more.
While in her shark-form however she is also susceptible to going into a blood frenzy,
like most sharks are known to do on occasion.
1 Amy - 2014
And we’re going to finish it off with a sob story, to remind us of all the mutants
we have both gained and lost over the years.
Though with the Five existing in House slash Powers of X, maybe we’ll get all the lost
mutants back eventually.
Amy was a mutant who was trapped in the Red Skull’s concentration camp on Genosha.
She made her first appearance in Magneto volume 3, issue 9.
Amy had illusion based powers that became warped after suffering the horrors of the
camp.
When Magneto freed her, these powers started wreaking havoc.
She ended up creating monsters and nightmares from others’ fears and haunted pysches.
Amy’s powers also allow her to create 3D constructs and when these nightmarish constructs
started to kill it became apparent that either her or those whose nightmares she possessed
needed to die in order to put a stop to her malfunctioning powers.
Amy decided to sacrifice herself, not finding much reason to live anyways as tortured as
she was.
Poor Amy.
Didn’t even last ten issues!
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top 10 Heralds of Galactus.
Saimeren comments, “That wink though.
Amanda knows what she’s doing.
Lol.”
Do I?
I have been told that I am terrible at winking actually.
But thank you.
Glad you can appreciate my passable winking skills.
*wink* Glitch King says, “Dazzler is my favourite Harold, if she ever fully committed
to training instead of just using her powers for concerts she would be one of the mutants
when it comes to destructive power.”
I would definitely agree that Dazzler is super underrated.
She has a lot of power and a unique skill set to boot.
But I feel like the conflict within her of just being herself versus being a hero as
well is always such an interesting part of her character.
Still I hope we get to see more of her being the powerhouse, we know she can be.
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