In over 35 years of continuity, Kitty Pryde is the only mutant in X-Men ever to come down with the common cold. And anytime the rest of them have been sick it has been Brood eggs or the Legacy virus.
Mutants don't catch "homo sapiens sapiens" viruses as a rule!
They have hyperevolved immune systems*
>/sarcasm>
Actually, there are a significant number of mutants whose powers are actively hostile to germs:
Storm - electricity in the metabolism. The brothers Summers - metabolize star/sunlight into energy Gambit - energy Wolverine, Angel, and Icarus - healing factor Jubilee - plasma energy generated from the cells. Juggernaut - Cyttorak probably magically protects him. Rogue - DNA soup includes a healing factor.
See, and you think Kitty'd just phase the germs away here...
In over 35 years of continuity, Kitty Pryde is the only mutant in X-Men ever to come down with the common cold. And anytime the rest of them have been sick it has been Brood eggs or the Legacy virus.
I suppose it's because they can come down with a really bad case of metaphor the Legacy virus. Weeeird. Though humans can catch that too now, I heard. Didn't they hit Moira McTaggert (winner of the Most Long-Suffering Human To Hang Out With The X-Teams award twenty-zillion years running) with that a couple of years ago?
There's a new character from DC Comics just introduced in the Green Arrow series that is HIV positive. Perhaps Marvel will follow suit eventually, and eschew the types of "viruses" like Legacy.
Mind you, if Marvel Comics were interested in showing "reality" like this, I'm sure there are hundreds of characters that should be running around with a nasty case of crabs or herpes at least (*eyeballs Gambit*).
The link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3743318.stm) here gives more details of the DC character Speedy.
Speedy has been going by Arsenal for about ten years now, and is currently heading up the Outsiders with Nightwing. (Judd Winick/Tom Raney. Go read it. It's awesome.)
heh. I seem to recall Captain America dealing with one of the characters getting Aids. Right before Mark Waid took over... And then it was dropped (and I only remember it because people talked about it in the letters column)
I thought I remembered somebody telling me there was a plot thread with Jean-Paul coming up HIV positive. Or being afraid he was, or something. Not sure, since I quit reading before they even decided to make him openly gay.
Either way, this "mutants can't get it" thing is one of the dumber notions I've heard in quite a while. I can see, as indigoskynet pointed out above, where there are a number of specific individuals who might be protected by the nature of their powers. But a blanket pronouncement is just lame.
Yeah, but they backed out of both of those plots. I don't know if they ever did anything about him being gay, but the HIV positive thing turned into a "mystic/magickal" thing. I forget if he was offed, put into a reduced catagory, or what?? But I do remember that they made him an elf (literally, not like they call Nightcrawler Elf), and either he or his sister did something to their powers to kill the whole united powers thing. (Did that have something to do with the magickal backlash? Damn, brain, WORK!)
Oh, that's right. I forgot about the elf thing. Which I was actually semi-OK with, considering how much Asgard-related plot they did with Alpha Flight. (They did make them Norse-type elves, right?) I also vaguely remember something about the disconnect with Aurora, which I was also semi-OK with, just because, hey, obvious angst target.
Giving him HIV and then dropping it, OTOH, is obnoxious. Bad Marvel, no cookie. But then, that's why I stopped reading over a decade ago in the first place...
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In over 35 years of continuity, Kitty Pryde is the only mutant in X-Men ever to come down with the common cold. And anytime the rest of them have been sick it has been Brood eggs or the Legacy virus.
Mutants don't catch "homo sapiens sapiens" viruses as a rule!
They have hyperevolved immune systems*
>/sarcasm>
Actually, there are a significant number of mutants whose powers are actively hostile to germs:
Storm - electricity in the metabolism.
The brothers Summers - metabolize star/sunlight into energy
Gambit - energy
Wolverine, Angel, and Icarus - healing factor
Jubilee - plasma energy generated from the cells.
Juggernaut - Cyttorak probably magically protects him.
Rogue - DNA soup includes a healing factor.
You get the idea.
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In over 35 years of continuity, Kitty Pryde is the only mutant in X-Men ever to come down with the common cold. And anytime the rest of them have been sick it has been Brood eggs or the Legacy virus.
*dies laughing*
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Uhhh, that's weird.
metaphorthe Legacy virus. Weeeird. Though humans can catch that too now, I heard. Didn't they hit Moira McTaggert (winner of the Most Long-Suffering Human To Hang Out With The X-Teams award twenty-zillion years running) with that a couple of years ago?Re: Uhhh, that's weird.
And then a mean alien cured Colossus of being dead.
Works out.
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Dude, they killed her before I was even collecting comics... Of course, it depends.... Which Majyk? ;)
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Mind you, if Marvel Comics were interested in showing "reality" like this, I'm sure there are hundreds of characters that should be running around with a nasty case of crabs or herpes at least (*eyeballs Gambit*).
The link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3743318.stm) here gives more details of the DC character Speedy.
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Keen. I've been cold turkey longer than that. ;-) And not planning to change, as tempting as it may be sometimes.
Dick's running the Outsiders, huh? Guess they've changed a touch since I was reading them at the very beginning (what, 20 years ago)? *g*
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Either way, this "mutants can't get it" thing is one of the dumber notions I've heard in quite a while. I can see, as
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Giving him HIV and then dropping it, OTOH, is obnoxious. Bad Marvel, no cookie. But then, that's why I stopped reading over a decade ago in the first place...
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Or, y'know, they make them into fracking Phoukas.
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