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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 53076, member: 3864"] It's probably all relative to when you grew up reading them, in the 80's they bounced between space opera and incursions from hell, wall to wall epic plots; the 90's leaned more pop science, with a particular love of time travel. I want to say the origin you're talking about is from the Ultimate timeline in the 00's, which is slowly making a return right now, while the mainline continuity spiraled out of Grant Morrison's X-Men, with a more radical look at being a racial minority in the Marvel Universe. (Morrison did incorporate some of the WW2 experiment angle into mutants though, making Weapon X "Weapon 10", in a line of anti-mutant experiments going back to Captain America and the super-soldier program...actually, he might have inspired the Ultimate universe origins, I can't remember which came first now.) It is kinda weird when they get particularly mystic, like Magik or whenever Storm is an actual witch. They already have fantastical powers, when they start flinging spells as well it feels like a hat on a hat! I think Magik and Pixie are some of the only characters I don't mind dabbling in the dark arts, and they've had years of stories setting that up. [/QUOTE]

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