Today I'm introducing a new feature of the site: Mutant Generations. There are many families in comics that seem more prone to producing mutants then others. To get this brand new ball rolling, I thought I would start with the family of the current leader of the mutant race (at least for the next two months...)
Corsair (Christopher Summers) of the Starjammers and his wife Katherine Summers had 3 children, Scott, Alex and Gabriel.
-Scott developed the ability to absorb solar energy and convert it into optic blasts of pure concussive force powerful enough to blow through almost anything in its path. Due to a childhood injury (or possibly a mental block, yet to be confirmed), he is unable to control his optic blasts with the help of a visor or glasses made of ruby quartz.
-Alex developed the ability to absorb cosmic energy and convert it into white hot plasma blasts capable of melting or destroying everything it touches. He has been shown to have varying levels of control over his power over the -years, often having to resort to a special containment suit to harness them.
-Gabriel originally developed the ability to absorb and manipulate energy on the electromagnetic spectrum, but after M-Day his power levels were supercharged to Omega level when he was awakened from suspended animation from absorbing a vast amount of lost mutant energy.
Scott Summer had several women who are very important to him, and several times these unions have produced powerful mutants.
-When he married Madelyne Pryor (a clone of Jean Grey), they had a son, Nathan, who was infected with a techno organic virus that ravaged his body, so he was sent to the future to be healed. He grew up to be the warrior Cable, who possessed telekinetic and telepathic powers, the majority of which he used to keep his lifelong struggle with the TO virus in check.
-When Nathan was first brought to the future, the Clan Askani wasn’t sure if they could save him so they cloned him. This healthy baby, who had no trace of the techno organic virus in its system, was kidnapped by Apocalypse and raised to him to be the mutant terrorist Stryfe. Without the TO virus to hamper his abilities, Stryfe’s TP and TK powers grew infinitely stronger then Cable’s.
-In the Age of Apocalypse, Sinister took samples of Scotts Summers and Jean Grey, and he used them to create the ultimate mutant weapon against Apocalypse, Nate Grey the X-man. These DNA samples coupled with Sinister’s genetic manipulation gave him gave him telepathic and telekinetic powers with virtually no limit.
-In the world where the original Phoenix never died, she and Cyclops were married and had a daughter, Rachel Summers. Like her mother, Rachel developed powerful TP and TK powers and she also developed the ability to send her own consciousness through time. When she later bonded with the Phoenix Force, her powers expended to an incredible degree allowing her limitless TP and TK as well as the ability to travel physically through time.
-In a version of the Days of Future Past storyline, where the Sentinels rule, it is shown that Scott and Emma Frost had a daughter together. Her named is Ruby Summers and she developed the ability to shoot powerful optic blasts from her eyes like her father, but she also inherited an invulnerable ruby form from Emma Frost (similar to Emma’s diamond form). She has been able to stay in her ruby form for decades but isn’t sure what will now happen is she turns back.
Cable, while growing to adulthood in the future, married Aliya Jenskot, and the two had a son, Tyler Dayspring. Despite being the child of two telepath/telekinetics, he developed the very specific ability to mentally connect to another person and project their memories as solid projections.
Mystique first had a son with (who she thought) was a baron in Germany. The “baron” turned out to be the biblical mutant Azazel who possessed the ability to project fire, control dark magic and control his own progeny. When this child came out with blue fur, two fingers per hand and a long tail she threw it over the falls. This child survived to be raised by the Szardos family (a family of magic wielders) and grew up to become Kurt Wagner, the teleporting X-man Nightcrawler. As he grew older he also developed the abilities to blend into shadows, stick to surfaces, and control his tail as a prehensile appendage. Nightcrawler also has many half-siblings from Azazel including the living Darkforce portal Abyss and the bio-energy conducting Kiwi Black. It’s worth mentioning that, since she is Mystique’s adopted daughter, Rogue and Nightcrawler consider themselves siblings despite Rogue not being a blood relation.
On the other hand, when Mystique coupled with Sabretooth, an equally powerful mutant in his own animalistic right, the result was quite different. In this instance, the pairing of two fairly potent mutants gave the world the mutant hating Graydon Creed, a baseline human with no potential for mutant abilties. In a reaction to his lineage, which was not confirmed until he was much older, he became the founder of the anti-mutant organization the Friends of Humanity and much later (after his death and resurrection) he became part of Bastion’s inner circle.
