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* It's also notable that men are far more likely than women to have powers that leave them hideously deformed. The [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] spin-off [[Generation X]] notably featured a team of three girls (all extremely attractive) and three boys—two of whom had powers that left them physically deformed. Which didn't stop them being considered attractive by many readers, of course—but when the series' primary [[Mr. Fanservice]] has ''no lower jaw'' (when he took his mask off), while his girlfriend is a generic all-American blonde it smells a little like a double standard.
** Seen in earlier X-Men teams, too, where the physical mutations seemed to pop up only in male characters—Beast and Nightcrawler are visibly abnormal, Angel has hard-to-hide wings, Wolverine had claws. The only female X-Men character of that period who had a visible mutation was Polaris, with easily-dyed green hair (technically, Storm's white hair and blue eyes are physical aspects of her mutation, but they only add to her exotic beauty). Even today, the X-Men have not had a female member who wasn't at least a [[Cute Monster Girl]].
* From ''[[Spider-Man]]'' comics, the Black Cat. Her nose has been broken ''three times'' and while she has frequently been beaten up with her costume reduced to shreds and noticeably wounded a few times, she rarely has any lasting damage, with no scars at all. Given her [[{{Stripperific}} taste in costume]], they'd likely show.
* While [[Incredible Hulk|Bruce Banner]] gets grotesquely muscular and [[Clothing Damage|rips his shirt]], depending on the artist, his [[She Hulk|female counterpart]] merely gets two feet taller and turns green, or bulks up some, but nowhere near as much as Bruce.
** Averted by the female versions of the Abomination, Abominatrix and Aberration, who mutate exactly like Abomination.
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