Ever notice that some powers manifest in just the exact right way to save or fix a situation? Even though mutant powers are something that they are born with, they always seem to have just the right manifestation to save the day.
Take Cannonball for example. What if he never got trapped in that mine shaft? In that exact moment he need a cannonball or a wrecking ball or something destructive with forward momentum to save his own life so he became a human cannonball. However we've now seen in later year that that's not the extent of his power...what if he was in a collapsing building and had tons of debris falling on top of him? Would his power have activated then in the effect of a forcefield (which we now know he can do)? Or what if Sam Guthrie wasn't the good upstanding person he is and instead got into a drunken fight with someone much larger then him? Could his power have first manifested in blast field powered punch to save himself in the fight? These are all powers that he is now shown to have so I would think his powers could easily have activated in those ways first under the right conditions. Maybe he could only cannonball at first because that's the form his power first catalyzed in so he got stuck (much like mental blocks self-imposed by Rogue's powers and maybe Cyclops' but I don't know that we are sure about that yet).
Another good example may be Karma and her twin brother. We never saw much of Tran but Shan has often been noted for having such a very specific telepathic ability. Well when it first manifested it was in a situation where she needed to control somebody to save her brother...so that's how her power manifested. And since we are talking about psionic twins, its not such a stretch to think they had some link that caused his powers to react the same as her at that moment. Even with Jean Grey, her abilities first manifested to connect to her dying friend's mind and from then on her telepathic powers always seemed to have a very empathic feel to them, unlike Psylocke's colder more clinical seeming TP powers. Other psychics who maybe had no traumatic or specific event happen, such as Professor X, seem to have more general and well rounded powers with less specific features to them.
Even Dazzler to some extent shows evidence of this reactionary power pattern. One could argue that BECAUSE her powers need sound to create light, shes automatically a good singer (much like Banshee's exceptional hearing), but what if its the other way around? She grew up always being a good singer and wanting to perform so her powers kicked in while singing onstage at a high school dance the lights on her so she started glowing and then she needed to blind the audience to protect herself. What if she was just born to convert energy from one form to another but based on the situation when it kicked it, her body adapted to the sound = light combo.
This of course don't necessarily work in all cases. Some mutants have powers that they are just born with no matter what (for example claws, wings, or blue skin), but I think some mutants aren't born with a specific powers, just the potential for a type of ability. With this in mind, who knows if Illyana's life might have gone differently if her teleportation potential had activated somewhere where the link to Limbo was less potent? Maybe she wouldn't have been connected to stepping disc and she would have opened a different type of portal like Ariel or Blink.
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