Well, Wolverine has had two sets of claws. Adamantium for the majority of his time and bone claws for a short time.
As mentioned by Sean, Wolverine had to go without adamantium because Magneto had a snit and ripped it out of him. This is when Wolverine discovered that the claws were a natural mutation and not simply the blades of metal that he thought they were.
“Ginsu claws” refers to the adamantium ones since they slice and dice nearly every thing.
Gotcha. Did he ever get his admantium back? Last I read, Genesis (I think, the guy who was Cables son and mates with Apocalypse) was trying to give it back to him and brainwash him, but he rejected it. Explosively.
///Snikt!
He does have it back. I’m not sure when though. I’m guessing Apocalypse put it back in him when he made Wolverine one of his Horsemen (Death not surprisingly). I’m kind of pulling that out of my ass though. The UXN site doesn’t have an in-depth profile of Wolverine.
Really? Cite?
AFAIK, Emma Frost just showed up in an early issue of Morrison’s New X-Men having turned herself into diamond. The X-Men were confused and then someone did some hand-waving about secondary mutations. There was no explanation or any suggestion that something triggered these, just that whatever mutates people can activate again in later life. The Beast appeared a few issues later in his more leonine form. I think that’s about it that we saw in Morrison’s run. I think he probably just got a great idea that depended on Emma being able to turn into diamond and figured out a way to allow for it.
–Cliffy
Didn’t Iceman become fully ice when Colossus’s brother kicked the crap out of him and then supercharge his powers?
I’m going by memory, but I think this kinda happened when the High Evolutionary “cured” mutant-kind by altering their genetic code. When he was defeated some mutants (toad) evoluted into more “mutated” versions of themselves with increased powers.
Regarding made-of-ice Iceman and made-of-diamond Frost Queen:
How the heck do they move? These substances don’t bend, they break.
Yes, I already know they’re just comic books.
Colossus had a brother?
(This is what I get for quitting my comic collecting in the late 1980s…)
Man, It’s threads like these that make me glad I stopped reading Marvel.
Emma must not have mutated until Morrison’s run, because her diamond skin is what enables her to survive the devastation at Genosha, and she has no idea what’s going on (when she gets to the X-Mansion, she has tests run on her by Beast to figure out why she’s a diamond, and, you’re right, he waves it away as a secondary mutation). If she mutated before that, I’d like a cite just for my own curiosity, since she certainly seems nonplussed by it at the beginning of Morrison’s run.
I have no idea about Beast, but he does start out the Morrison run feline form intact. They make a brief mention of the fact that he’s changed (Jean Grey says he looks more distinguished or something), but that’s all I remember. I think I read that he’s supposed to be stronger in that form, but I’m not sure where. Did they ever do anything with the fact that he told Trish Tilby (IIRC) that he was gay?
Angel has, imo, by far the stupidest secondary mutation. Of course, I think he’s been lame ever since they got rid of his metal wings.
Does the fact that Gambit is apperantly blind (I just read a random issue of X-Men the other day) have anything to do with this secondary mutation stuff?
No one of his cards exploded in Gambits face that blinded him. Gambit may have developed a secondary mutation because of this …I’ll explain.
Secondary mutation is something the Morison pulled out his ass early on in his run. Basically it boils down to this primary mutations usually occur when a person hit puberty there are exceptions (If anyone remember early X-factor Cable when in danger would form a force bubble around himself and he was like 18 month tops). There is a possibility the mutant can develop a secondary mutation usually sometime in their 20’s which is usually triggered by a traumatic/stressful event.
Emma Frost in developed her secondary mutation when Genosha was attached by ubber Sentinel: the genocide machine.
Beast was originally just a very well round physically gifted mutant but had a latent potential to “evolve” further. This potential was trigged when he drank that stuff which turned him blue the first time. Early in X-trem X-men Beast fought a guy named Vargas. Who mortally wounded Beast and in order save him Sage activated the rest of his potential. Later we see Storm ship Hank back off to Xavier’s to heal up. Next we see of him is in New X-men 114 (Morison’s first issue) and he comments on how he has recently changed. (Sorry that was a lot longer than it should have been)
Iceman his secondary mutation accrued some where in an Austen Uncanny issue (don’t have the bbr at the moment so can’t say which). He got in a fight and was bleeding badly and iced over the wounds to keep from dieing. It turns out the ice functioned just like the tissue he lost and he can’t revert the ice back to flesh. Some where in the much HATED Drago arch (by Chuck Austen) Bobby get hurt badly and looses all his fleshy parts and is left a walking talking ice cube. He is now able to form ice body parts from any available water this makes him damn near unkillable
Angel got jumped by some werewolves (Chuck Austen again) him and Husk were mortal wounded. He noticed he was healing quickly and thought if he shared his blood with Husk she would heal and she did. Angel now has a Wolverine speed healing factor but unlike Logan’s Warren can share his blood with anyone and receive the benefits of the healing factor. While it’s not as cool as having razor sharp wings that shoot knives he dose now have a useful power.
Rouge’s secondary mutation makes her just wrong. Rouge now has the ability to use ANY power she absorbed in the past. Once again Rouge has access to ALL of the powers she has absorbed in the past. Most notably she has her own set of bone claws. Her imprinting power was also strengthened to certain extent because she now takes on elements of the physical appearance of whoever’s memories/personality she taps into when she becomes really unstable
As I said gambit recently had a card blow up in his face blinding him. In the last issue he took is blindfold off and looked in a charged card and saw the new “Brotherhood of mutants” in the card. They will most likely be explaining this in a couple of issues down the road. So it is possible that Gambit has developed some kind future seeing power that involves card, I’ll call it “tarot sense” and once again this comes from the mind Chuck Austin.
Darned right they’re just comic books! Don’t forget that Colossus can move around just fine while in his armored form, even though his body is made of steel when in he’s that form. It’s because it’s “organic steel”, which of course explains everything. Emma Frost’s skin must be “organic diamond” or something.
He just said it to mess with her Trish’s head, apparently. He later said that he’s decided to only date other mutants, though, which I guess makes him a mutosexual.
Or, better yet, an X-sexual.
This is one that I can handle as I’ve actually read the issue in question.
First, you need the super skrulls used during the last Apocalypse run. It was the series where Apocalypse gathered “The Twelve,” a group of omega class mutants, in order to use them to channel near unlimited power into himself. After that ended, Xavier flew off with the mutant skrulls to watch over them.
A little while later the rest of the galaxy decided that Earth would make a good prison planet. Turns out they were a bit jealous of all the supers and wanted to put the hurt on the planet. Xavier sends one of the super skrulls to warn the X-Men. Said skrull touches rogue and due to a combination of her absorbtion power and the skrulls mental powers, Rogue gets an infusion of mutant skrull DNA.
That’s what allows her to reuse the powers of those she’s touched before. She’s like a hot southern super skrull.
Course, she recently lost those powers in battle with Vargas. For a while her and Gambit actually had no powers. They left the X-Men for a while but returned when their powers did. I haven’t been able to get any recent issues lately, so I don’t know if the skrull powers stuck.
Angel got bitten by a werewolf??? :smack: That’s kinda sorta really friggin lame.
Oh ok so it wasn’t “secondary mutation.” But she has to be one of the tuffest things in the 616. I mean up their with Cabel, Magneto and Phoenix.
Sage jumpstarted Gambit’s powers back up in the last issue of X-trem and while it hasn’t been planed how Rouge got hers back, i can only asume it was Sage did the same for Rouge’s lost powers.
In the last issue Rouge got in tussel with Black (the ubber tree) Tom and busted out her bone claws so i think she still has access to all of her powers
He got the sword from the *Exiles * Illyana during a crossover (that whole Havok thing?). She stormed out and left the sword behind in a huff, and Warren picked it up. When she showed back up he refused to give it back.
God, I am such a geek.
ROGUE ROGUE ROGUE
The U comes AFTER the G. That’s why it is pronounced “ROgue.” “Rouge” is pronounced “ROOJ,” and means “red” in French or is a type of cosmetic (blush, usually, although you can old-fashionedly refer to a lipstick as lip rouge) in English.
That bugs me, too.
Question: What happens to Iceman now that he’s permanently ice, if he gets too near a flame or heat source? Does he slowly melt away? What a horrible way to go! :eek:
I can see it now. He melts, goes down the drain, and re-forms as Sewage Man 
Don’t worry, Santa can fix him.
*"There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found…
for when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around."*