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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X Men]]'', has the concepts of ''Secondary Mutations'', [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], which are un-related to their primary mutations, and ''Homo Killcrop'', the informal term for the original pre-modern sub-species of x-gene-possessing mutants, whose powers manifest at birth/infancy and are much more chaotic—and thus more varied—than those of the modern sub-species of mutants, whose powers manifeset at puberty (stated to be the result of natural selection, as mutant babies tended to have an extremely low survival rate compared to mutant teenagers). A number of X-characters thus fit this trope, including:

** '''Wolverine''': healing factor, retractable claws, enhanced smelling and hearing, adamantium skeleton. It's explained that Wolverine is the [[Superpowerful Genetics|product of two mutant families]]. His mother's family has long been "cursed" with bone claws and mindless animal rages, while his father has the regeneration and enhanced senses. [[Lamarck Was Right|Wolverine gets all of them]]. The adamantium is added, much later in his life, by government experimentation. They'd been wanting to do it for a long while to produce [[Super Soldier]]s, but adamantium is poisonous—a test subject who could heal away the ill effects was perfect.

* ''[[Cerebus]]'': Parodied with the "reads" character Rabbi. He had hundreds of peculiar and highly specialized powers such as dextrorotatory breath - making the plane of polarization of light spin to the right by blowing.

* [[Darkseid]] was born with the [[Super Strength]] and [[Nigh Invulnerability]] common to the strongest of the [[New Gods]]. Then he killed his older brother to claim the Omega Effect, which is essentially a [[Green Lantern Ring]] (the trope, not a literal one) taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the form of [[Eye Beams]]. The Omega Effect allows Darkseid to teleport people, [[Agony Beam|torture them]], [[Twilight Zone|wish them to the cornfield]] and wish them ''[[Back from the Dead|back]]''. In ''[[Final Crisis]]'' he gained even more new powers. His new variant on the Omega Effect, the Omega Sanction, can subject its target to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] by sending that person into the past to live out a brutal cycle of reincarnation.

 

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