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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9643693" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Said difference is somewhat tenuous at times.  You can, for example, be born with superpowers inherited from your parents, and not be considered a mutant.  You can carry the mutant gene and be considered to be a normal human.  You can acquire mutant-derived powers from experimentation or Mutant Growth Hormone.  As a long time (nerd!) comic book fan, I don't think any official explanation for all of this weirdness has ever been put forth, but I do have a headcanon that's backed up by official canon.We know that some mutants (usually telepaths) have the ability to detect mutant minds.  I recall this once being explained as mutant brains generate more electricity than regular humans (let's just not discuss the science of that, lol).Somehow, many normal people (presumably not all) can feel that something is "off" about mutants, hence the reason they are targeted by seemingly irrational bigotry even when nothing is known about the mutant.Ben Grimm is an orange rock-man, and he has been the target of discrimination and fear in the past, but generally, he's considered a celebrity in the Marvel Universe.  Captain America is a super-soldier, but almost everyone respects him.  Of course, even this is inconsistent- Spider-Man is not a mutant, yet his reputation has been so poor at points that even the X-Men once believed he was a mutant!*And despite being half-Mutant Atlantean** (and having threatened the surface world a few times back in the day), Namor the Sub-Mariner owns his own corporation (well, at least he did), and generally has a decent reputation, lol.*Despite the fact that, if he was, Professor Xavier would have found him with Cerebro fairly quickly, lol.**Homo Mermanus.Basically, if there's some reason people might react to you badly in the Marvel Universe, if you're a mutant, it's that much worse for, um, reasons.</blockquote>

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