I think there is one gene that codes for the superpowers themselves -- we'll call it the S-gene for the hell of it. Then I think there's another gene that activates the S-gene, so to speak, and this I believe is the famous X-gene.
OMG, that's been seanchai & my unified field theory for Marvel-verse superpowers for years -- that "normal" flatscan humans can be carries for the X gene, explaining why mutants can be born to human parents, and that there's one gene that encodes the potential for superpowers, which every Marvel superhuman carries, and then an X gene that activates that gene in mutants (with non-mutant superhumans like Spiderman and Daredevil and the Fantastic Four having their S-gene potential actificially activated by the radiation/cosmic rays/etc, explaining why radiation give some people superpowers when it ought to just be giving them cancer).
In fact, we were/are actually going to bring this up in the epic-length fic we're working on now, but you've explained it far more elegantly and made it a lot more complex and actual-science-containing. Would you mind if we borrowed some of this for the fic and credited you for it?
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Date: 2010-02-07 06:02 am (UTC)OMG, that's been seanchai & my unified field theory for Marvel-verse superpowers for years -- that "normal" flatscan humans can be carries for the X gene, explaining why mutants can be born to human parents, and that there's one gene that encodes the potential for superpowers, which every Marvel superhuman carries, and then an X gene that activates that gene in mutants (with non-mutant superhumans like Spiderman and Daredevil and the Fantastic Four having their S-gene potential actificially activated by the radiation/cosmic rays/etc, explaining why radiation give some people superpowers when it ought to just be giving them cancer).
In fact, we were/are actually going to bring this up in the epic-length fic we're working on now, but you've explained it far more elegantly and made it a lot more complex and actual-science-containing. Would you mind if we borrowed some of this for the fic and credited you for it?