One that they forgot to mention is Tarzan, the fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs first published in , on film by , one of my favorite authors as a child. John Carter predates Tarzan by a year, and could also potentially count. Stuart Kelly at The Guardian calls Tarzan the missing link:.
He is an outsider to civilisation that incarnates its best aspirations. Phantom was the first movie I remember actually getting hyped for months in advance. Marvel started in as Timely Publications, transforming into Atlas Comics.
They became Marvel in while debuting the Fantastic Four. DC Comics also got started in the s. So my thinking is that perhaps the origin story makes all the difference, not the type of powers they wield. A superhero is often created, not born. Ones like Spider-Man suffer from some external force that bestows powers.
But even superheroes without superpowers, per se, also tend to be created in some way, like Ant-Man. Even though Wolverine is partially created, his true power is healing, not his wicked claws.
Magic is often learned through spellbooks, chanting, enchantments, or speaking the right spell. In many books, however, certain people are born with a gift for magic. This makes them more like mutants in a way, except they can learn to do the same magic that everyone born with magic can do.
These definitions break down in most universes at some point. However, if superheroes, mutants, or magic-wielders are established within a universe, any outliers will be grandfathered in. Even though there are plenty of superheroes that use magic in the Marvel universe, for instance, most people still think of them as superheroes, not wizards or mages or some such. Perhaps that makes him the best fit for the true meaning of superhero: beyond a demigod. What do you think? Mutants have an X-Gene that develops naturally when they hit puberty — at least most of the time.
The Inhumans are a cohesive group. They have their own society and hierarchies, which include a Royal Family. Prior to becoming known by humanity, the Inhumans had their own kingdom on the moon where they tend the Terrigen crystals and regularly interact with other interstellar species.
Mutants, on the other hand, are born into normal human families and are often persecuted. They've formed the X-Men and that school in upstate New York that keeps blowing up as a means of survival as well as helping humanity. Inhumans are a by-product of meddling with early Homo Sapiens. A million years ago, the Celestials gave humans genetic gifts. Just hundreds of years ago, the Kree set up an outpost on the planet Uranus.
Experiments by the Kree produced the Inhumans. The genetic material that leads to Mutants may have also been part of the Celestial tampering, but either way, their mutations come specifically from the X-Gene, which developed without Kree intervention.
They were looking to create weapons to assist them in their endless war against the Skrulls. They endowed ancient humans with specific powers that would make them into lethal soldiers. The Kree abandoned their Earth experiments after they came to believe the humans would turn on them. Some Mutant powers, on the other hand, are random or just bizarre — like Maggott, Eye-Boy, and Longneck. While Inhumans are an off-shoot of humanity known as Inhomo Supremis , they are still necessarily human — or humanoid.
While the Inhuman dog Lockjaw was an artificial creation, the X-Gene, in contrast, can be naturally exhibited by animals, among others. There are mutant crabs and spiders. For example, lightning struck The Flash, which then allowed him to move at unexplainable speeds even to other timelines or dimensions. Unlike metahumans, mutants are born with their powers. Mutants exist in the Marvel Universe. This is a common way to remember if a character is from the Marvel or DC universe by figuring out which group they belong to, metahuman or mutant.
Mutants have a gene, known as the x-gene. Mutants are born with their powers but they usually do not manifest until the individual reaches puberty. This can be a challenging time for mutants who most commonly live completely ordinary human lives up to this point. The most common example of mutants is in X-Men where Dr. Xavier gives mutants a safe school to learn and educate themselves. People often confuse mutants and metahumans, even though they live in different universes, and mislabel them as simply superheroes.
We all have the ability to choose to be heroes. Some of us are like mutants who are born with that hero gene and have the savior complex that makes us want to run into burning buildings or rescue kittens from trees. Others are more like metahumans, something occurs in us that makes us realize how they were a hero all along. Still, there are others we know that have no certain thing about them that makes them a hero other than their own heart to want to make our world a better one.
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