Secondary mutation?

[nevanna]

My sister, regarding Quicksilver: "So, super-speed, and... daddy issues are his other super-power?"

...Pretty much.

Comments

[andraste]

I think that's the most common secondary mutation of all. Even those who don't remember their fathers or were grown in vats have them. (Usually about not remember their fathers or about the guys who grew them in the vats.)

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

...I think you're probably right about this.

(also hi good to see you again)

[andraste]

Off the top of my head, I think the only major character who doesn't have any is Hank. He's too busy angsting about being fuzzy and blue. (Well, Erik's 'I lost my dad' issues tend to be subsumed by everything else.)

(Hi! I am not around livejournal much these days, but I occasionally swing by.)

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't think the "daddy issues" are secondary. Pretty sure those come up before other mutations, and considering people with no other mutation can have daddy issues I'm not sure if they qualify as a mutation or just one of the ways therapists stay gainfully employed. 8-)

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I was mostly being silly with that subject line. :)

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

Thanks!

I was mostly being silly with that subject line. :)

Oh, I totally got that it was silly. ;) I just couldn't resist thinking about the idea of "daddy issues" as a mutation. It gets into the gray "nature vs nurture" area. Some mental illness is genetic, or has a genetic component, and runs in families. Some are more... environmental, they may have a biological component, just not a genetic one. If I had the time, it might be fun to review a bunch of Marvel characters and see if "daddy issues" cut through all kinds of demographics, with super characters being like fairy tales princesses when it comes to having absent/dead parents, or if mutants do seem to have different "daddy issues" from other kinds of super characters. It's just as well I haven't the time. x_x