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** There's also "the Nuclear 90", "90 children from around the world all born in one year with an unusual mutation that gives them natural magnetic nuclear fusion reactors for hearts, and the ability to channel energy from their internal reactor for a variety of super powers." The only one of these who's currently a character in the game is the [[NPC]] Fusionette. |
** There's also "the Nuclear 90", "90 children from around the world all born in one year with an unusual mutation that gives them natural magnetic nuclear fusion reactors for hearts, and the ability to channel energy from their internal reactor for a variety of super powers." The only one of these who's currently a character in the game is the [[NPC]] Fusionette. |
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** A story arc included in Issue 12 notes that the first mutants appeared after 1938, corresponding to the earliest human-controlled nuclear fission. |
** A story arc included in Issue 12 notes that the first mutants appeared after 1938, corresponding to the earliest human-controlled nuclear fission. |
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** There's also the Meta Origin of the Origins themselves, and the apparent web that connects and entangles all super-powered beings—meaning that there is, apparently, a reason that going through [[Training |
** There's also the Meta Origin of the Origins themselves, and the apparent web that connects and entangles all super-powered beings—meaning that there is, apparently, a reason that going through [[Training from Hell]] doesn't give everyone superpowers, or that scientific accidents don't always cause powers... |
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*** Many players prefer to ignore that explanation, especially with it being [[Retcon|shoehorned in]] after several years of having no explanation for how origins really work. Plus many didn't like the implication that all origins, even [[Training |
*** Many players prefer to ignore that explanation, especially with it being [[Retcon|shoehorned in]] after several years of having no explanation for how origins really work. Plus many didn't like the implication that all origins, even [[Training from Hell]], were really all due to some form of magic. |
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* The mostly-forgettable video game ''Lionheart'' had King Richard the Lionheart's aggressive hoarding of [[Religion Is Magic|holy relics]] during the Third Crusade result in an [[Phlebotinum Overload|explosion of magical energy]], the "Disjunction", that caused human beings to begin manifesting magical powers, significantly altered the geography of western Europe, and turned ordinary animals into mythological beasts. |
* The mostly-forgettable video game ''Lionheart'' had King Richard the Lionheart's aggressive hoarding of [[Religion Is Magic|holy relics]] during the Third Crusade result in an [[Phlebotinum Overload|explosion of magical energy]], the "Disjunction", that caused human beings to begin manifesting magical powers, significantly altered the geography of western Europe, and turned ordinary animals into mythological beasts. |
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* Most of the characters in ''[[Freedom Force]]'' got their powers from a mysterious form of energy imaginatively called "Energy X". This energy is explained as the "secret weapon" of the multiverse-spanning empire known as the Domain. Their leader, Lord Dominion, thinking that Earth, the only place he hasn't conquered, won't prove to be a challenge, orders his underlings to give Energy X to the most evil people on Earth in the hopes that they will destroy Humanity and each other. However, a rebel named Mentor steals all the Energy X canisters and tries to bring them to Earth, so he can give them to the most ''heroic'' people on Earth... only to be shot down by the pursuing fleet, causing the canisters to rain down on Earth, and giving powers to those who happened to be in their vicinity. |
* Most of the characters in ''[[Freedom Force]]'' got their powers from a mysterious form of energy imaginatively called "Energy X". This energy is explained as the "secret weapon" of the multiverse-spanning empire known as the Domain. Their leader, Lord Dominion, thinking that Earth, the only place he hasn't conquered, won't prove to be a challenge, orders his underlings to give Energy X to the most evil people on Earth in the hopes that they will destroy Humanity and each other. However, a rebel named Mentor steals all the Energy X canisters and tries to bring them to Earth, so he can give them to the most ''heroic'' people on Earth... only to be shot down by the pursuing fleet, causing the canisters to rain down on Earth, and giving powers to those who happened to be in their vicinity. |
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