X-Men Mutants
"We're mutants. Born different from baseline humanity, with an enhanced genome that gives us super-powers. You piss us off at your peril." - Shadowcat
Nature
Human Mutants have many distinctive traits in regards to biology, physiology and genetics from other humans. Mutants can have wildly varying biologies depending on the nature of their mutation.
Mutation is caused by the X-Gene in the mutants' DNA. Mutations normally manifest themselves during puberty, often as a result of a traumatic event. Some mutants exhibit their mutations at birth, however, while others do not manifest their powers until adulthood. Secondary Mutation is a phenomenon in which an existing mutant gains additional powers, or a change in their appearance due to a second mutation.
Mutant breeding has notable implications, regarding the transmission of the mutant genome, or to hybridisation with others of human or extraterrestrial species.
Mutant Culture
Clothing
Jumbo Carnation and the X-Factory.
Tee-shirts can be created by some like Quentin Quire to demonstrate their beliefs, among them the well-known Magneto was right.
After joining the Avengers Unity Division, Wasp launched a cloth line named "Unity" based on mutants to promote mutants with the young and help fund the team.
Music
Juggernaut, Sentinel Bait, Cerebrastorm, and Dazzler.
Collectibles
Some people enjoy collecting objects related to heroes and villains. Briar Raleigh was used to going to such markets, where her friend Henry (who had worked some time for the Mutants Among Us show) had a stand based on Magneto, where he sold "Magneto was Right" t-shirts, a helmet of his (or a replica), a book called Holy Magneto, action-figurines in the effigy of the Master of Magnetism, and videos of his attacks. Among Skrulls, Red Skull, and other non-mutant villains, Mystique and Apocalypse collectables could also be found.
Television and Cinema
Some projects focused on mutants, like the Mutants Among Us of GNN Television, a show focused on sensational and anti-mutant aspects,[7] X-Force, later renamed X-Statix, a team of violent and media-driven mutant heroes,[8] and a show featuring the New Warriors.
Mutants are also, in many ways, a source of entertainment for the Mojoworld.
Based on the eponymous team, X-Statix: The Movie, directed by The Director and featuring Lennox Capriati as Phat/Billy-Bob Reilly, Rimi Withnail as U-Go Girl/Edie Sawyer, Jenny as Dead Girl, El Guapo (Robbie Rodriguez) (an added character), and other unnamed actors. Most of the crew was slaughtered by Sharon Ginsberg,[11] but the film was eventually released, with an unknown cast, and Doop possessed a copy.
Mutant Town
The rise in Manhattan's mutant population, coupled with racism among normal humans, led to mutants forming their own community in a ghetto established in the Alphabet City area of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.[2] District X was the official title for the region; however, the region was more commonly referred to as Mutant Town. Mutant Town was very similar to, and served much the same purpose as, other minority ghettos in New York City like Chinatown, Harlem, Little Italy, or Greenwich Village. Soon the neighborhood was primarily populated by mutants, although some humans lived there as well.
The neighborhood was poor, overcrowded, and violent, with a high rate of crime, narcotics use, prostitution, burglary, and warring mutant gangs. It was once described as having the "highest unemployment rate in the United States, the highest rate of illiteracy and the highest severe overcrowding outside of Los Angeles."
Gang wars, such as the one between Daniel Kaufman and Frankie Zapruder, were frequent.
Many of its inhabitants possessed physical mutations that prevented them from blending in with human society. It also had a large underground population, inhabiting tunnels beneath the neighborhood similar to those of the Morlocks years before, or the Tunnel Rats.
Mutant Town was particularly notorious for the street drugs Kick, Toad, and MGH, sold by dealers such as Jazz and Charlie Hustle, or by Shaky Kaufman's and Filthy Frankie's gangs.
Center of Mutant Art & Culture
Despite the poverty and crime, Homo superior culture thrived here more than anywhere in the world outside of Genosha. Mutant Town quickly became a cultural center and population hub for a disenfranchised minority.
There was a range of mutant-owned businesses, clubs, and restaurants, including The Double Helix restaurant, X-Factory clothing, Café Des Artistes, Frankie's lounge, The Power Plant bar, and Mutatoo tattoo parlor.[3] Mutant bands such as Sentinel Bait, Juggernaut and Cerebrastorm,[3] along with nightclubs such as Daniel's Inferno, Wildkat Klub, Shakespeare's, and Wannabees created a vibrant, mutant-oriented nightlife. Many mutants used to work at such night-clubs, using their mutant powers or appearances, such as Lara King, Lorelei Travis, or Patricia Hamilton.
Mutant artists began to emerge, such as Nemesio Pietri, while mutant fashion designers like Jumbo Carnation became celebrities and mutant clothing line like BuFu were founded.
Mutant Town also gave rise to mutant spiritual leaders, such as Mr. M and Gregor Smerdyakov. X-Factor Investigations was founded to help fight crime, and X-Man Lucas Bishop was commissioned to police the area.