The X-Men comics have a very long history of mutants hooking up with other mutants and having little mutant babies that grow up to become badass mutants themselves. Confused? Don’t worry – this list explains the family history of ten of the coolest mutant offspring.
1. Nightcrawler
Real Name: Kurt Wagner
Parents: Mystique and Azazel
Powers: Nightcrawler is a teleporter, able to move across long distances. His three-fingered hands and two-toed feet are adhesive, allowing him superhuman agility.
History: Mystique was posing as a human being, the wife of a well-known man, Wagner. The pain of childbirth, however, revealed her true form. The child was also born with blue skin, and Mystique was forced throw to Kurt into a well (some sources say waterfall) once a large mob had discovered their existence, but Azazel saved him and left him with Margali Szardos. She took him in and raised him in the circus where she worked as a fortuneteller. He was recruited by Charles Xavier into the X-Men, and together they traveled to the United States.
2. Scarlet Witch
Real Name: Wanda Maximoff
Parents: Magneto and Magda
Powers: She has the ability to alter probability, increasing or decreasing the likelihood of something happening, which works likes hexes. She can also use chaos magic, meaning she can wield and control cosmic energy.
History: When Magda sees her husband use his powers for the first time, she is terrified. Already pregnant, she seeks refuge in the mountains and gives birth to twins, one of whom is Wanda. Mount Wundagore, where they are staying, is the prison of the demonic Chthon, who plans to use Wanda as a vessel for possession and alters her ability by giving her control of magic. Magda, afraid that Magneto would find the children, leaves Mount Wundagore but unable to survive the harshness of the elements, dies. Later, when Magneto discovers the twins’ existence, he saves them from a mob, recruits them, and they reluctantly join his team, but leave soon claiming that their debt to him has been paid.
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5 X-men Mutants