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Originally Posted by kylactus

Yeah I think Captain America's powers have been retconed to explain that the "serum" was in fact a virus, because a serum, as a drug would wear off and metabolize leaving him powerless. But adding to your point on radiation, spider, and cosmic ray poisoning, most people I've seen that were born "mutated" had well less than "Uncanny" powers, and more commonly severely debilitating handicaps. don't overthink it kids, Its fiction, its fun and it rocks. Plus who amongst us has not had the joy of being bitten by a painfully venomous creature and saying jokingly as the wound burns "maybe I'll get superpowers!"

I definitely agree with you but my point was mostly these days they can't get away with origins like that for new characters. We accept Superman and Spider-Man cause they've been around forever but with new heroes and villains other explanations are better. In the real world genetic mutation is usually bad for your survival but we still accept that changing DNA can make us better than we are. I know Stan Lee always says that X-Men was his best idea because after he when he needed to come up with a reason someone had powers he could just say there were a mutant and born with this random gene. Comic origins are always just ways of explaining why someone does the cool stuff you dreamed up for them as opposed to explaining what happens when you fall into toxic waste or something.