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<blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5432524" data-attributes="member: 42169">Well, during the Grant Morrison run of New X-Men back in 2001, it was revealed (and later forgotten) that humans have an &quot;<a href="http://marvel.wikia.com/Glossary:Extinction_Gene" target="_blank">E Gene</a>.&quot;&nbsp; This gene basically is genetic kill switch that was supposed to cause humanity to die off in a few generations.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was hinted that the &quot;mutant boom&quot; that has occurred in the Marvel Universe since the 1980s was a result of the E-Gene activating dormant X-Genes as a survival mechanism (and not marvel constantly creating new mutant characters for the X-men to play with).Immediately after Morrison's run ended, Marvel's editorial got fed up with the changes that Morrison made and they decided that the needed to start retconning things back, but how? How do you get rid of several hundred million mutants without resorting to Genocide (what happened in the beginning of Morison's run) or without making a 911 styled assault occur in New York's Mutant Town?They came up with one good answer.&nbsp; First they made the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Disassembled" target="_blank">Scarlet Witch snap</a>.... then in a follow up event, they had her say &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_M" target="_blank">No More Mutants</a>&quot; when all hell broke loose and as a result,&nbsp; Homo Superior was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28comics%29" target="_blank">decimated.</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Relique du Madde, post: 5432524, member: 42169"] Well, during the Grant Morrison run of New X-Men back in 2001, it was revealed (and later forgotten) that humans have an "[URL="http://marvel.wikia.com/Glossary:Extinction_Gene"]E Gene[/URL]." This gene basically is genetic kill switch that was supposed to cause humanity to die off in a few generations. It was hinted that the "mutant boom" that has occurred in the Marvel Universe since the 1980s was a result of the E-Gene activating dormant X-Genes as a survival mechanism (and not marvel constantly creating new mutant characters for the X-men to play with). Immediately after Morrison's run ended, Marvel's editorial got fed up with the changes that Morrison made and they decided that the needed to start retconning things back, but how? How do you get rid of several hundred million mutants without resorting to Genocide (what happened in the beginning of Morison's run) or without making a 911 styled assault occur in New York's Mutant Town? They came up with one good answer. First they made the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Disassembled"]Scarlet Witch snap[/URL].... then in a follow up event, they had her say "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_M"]No More Mutants[/URL]" when all hell broke loose and as a result, Homo Superior was [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28comics%29"]decimated.[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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