[Iceman]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MADREVJACK

I agree that marvel uses mutants, mystic or ancient magic, and alien intervention too often in explaining powers.
But I don't know what I would rather they use? I mean we are explaining super powers, it seems like there is a finite amount of ways to get flashy powers.

And the whole "mutant" DNA thing is still an easily accepted explanation for super powers in any fiction. I mean, a gamma bomb turns Bruce Banner into the Hulk? No, he dies from the radiation. Fall into a toxic waste and get super powers? Nope, you get cancer. Radioactive spider bites you? Probably doesn't end well. Comic "rays" in space? Your ship explodes or you die from exposure. The things that we have a better scientific understanding of don't really hold up anymore as origins. DNA, magic, super advanced robotics/tech, and alien influences all still hold that "yeah, I guess that's how it could work" feel since we don't have those thing documented and cataloged. For all we know people could evolve to have DNA that allows them to read minds and such or maybe people like that exist on another planet. Sure, the fact that mutants almost all have these random powers with little overlap is really unlikely but at least we aren't saying radiation made the Hulk or Godzilla.