Children of Mutants
 

In Marvel Comics, when mutants have children who in turn have mutant powers, should those children really be considered mutants? I argue no. In fact, they should be considered mutants if they don't have powers. Because the DNA they were provided with contains the mutant information, those that are powered are "normal".

Now, I'm very stupid, so I may be wrong here.

*blinks*

But, they still belong to the Homo Superior subsection, nicknamed "Mutants", so yes, they are mutants. They're not mutants when compared only with thei Homo Superiors, but they are when compared to the full genetic pool of Homo S's.

Well any time two mutants with powers have a kid with powers, the kid turns out to be so fuckin' stupidly powerful that he ends up either getting killed to stop him from destroying all of reality or shipped into the future to stop him from destroying his own brain. So it doesn't really matter what you call 'em, cause what you're gonna end up calling 'em is "that guy we had to kill to keep him from destroying all reality / kid we had to ship off to the future to keep him from destroying his own brain."

As regards the technical aspects of the question at hand, the carriage of the mutated chromosomes that give Homo Superior their unique abilities into their offspring does not change that those chromosomes are a mutation of chromosomes originating in the Homo Sapiens species, therefore it is still probably more or less appropriate to refer to said offspring as 'mutants', at least, as appropriate as it would be considered to apply that term to their parents. In any case, the usage can probably be considered acceptable as a colloqualized term meaning simply 'person with non-human powers'.

Quicksilver had a kid with Crystal and that kid isn't superpowerful. She can see emotions.

Yeah, but come on, nobody cares about Quicksilver.

And then they got de-mutanted anyway. So now really nobody cares about Quicksilver.

And anyway that wasn't the kid of two mutants, that was the kid of a mutant and an Inhuman.

And no the Inhumans don't count as mutants. And I don't care what you, or Marvel's editorial board, have to say about it.

You're a very angry, bitter, cruel little person, no?

Actually, I'm pretty husky.

Speaking of current Marvel events, anyone else here following Civil War?

I would like to be, but after Decimation/House of Suck I kinda lost faith in Marvel, even more so after Morph from Exiles was possesed by Proteus.

You should really read Civil War. Unlike House of M, it wasn't made to compete with Infinite Crisis.