Mother's Day: Mystique and Rogue

[flint_marko]

Rogue has been infected with the Strain 88 Virus, which enhanced her powers so that she instantly kills whoever she touches and is causing her immune system to collapse. Meanwhile, the X-Men and Sinister's Marauders are fighting over the first mutant baby that has been born since Wanda's decimation.

This is from New X-Men #46, by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Humberto Ramos, and X-Men #207, by Mike Carey and Chris Bachalo.

Comments

[icon_uk]

How on earth is glass, which is silicon treated to extraordinary heat, easy to synthesize for a carbon based life form?

[crinos]

Maybe she just makes the frames and not the lenses.

[icon_uk]

Then she wouldn't specifically refer to glass as a material.

[zachbeacon]

Comic book logic?

Actually. .. if she can make glass (and the frames imply she can make metal and/or plastic), what else can she make? I'm assuming she can't create diamonds because then she wouldn't need to resort to some of the things she does to finance her various agendas.

[silicondream]

Especially compared to fingernails, which all of us flatscans can already synthesize, albeit slowly?

There are quite a few life forms on Earth that make organic glass--grasses, diatoms, glass sponges--but they have to pull the silicon out of the nearby soil or water. If Mystique doesn't, her powers would have to include internal transmutation of elements.

Let's not even ask about Durlans.

[long_silence]

Maybe it's alchemically simpler? In a "there's only two periodic table elements involved in its creation" kind of way versus the keratin in fingernails which is a protein made up of more complicated macromolecules

[icon_uk]

If Mysique is capable of alchemy, that's one heck of a secondary mutation!