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In the Marvel Universe there are humans, mutates (humans bestowed with powers), gods, aliens, Homo Superior Superiors (evolution's solution to the mutant problem), and mutants.

Are the X-Men an exclusionary group that will only take members who share the same genetic aberration as they do?

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Several1:

Members who have never been Mutants

Madelyne Pryor - Possessed no powers, served as technical support.

Associated with the X-men as she is a clone of Jean Grey

Longshot - A manufactured humanoid action celebrity from Mojoworld.

Fantomex - Escaped sentinal experiment from the Weapon Plus Program

Mimic - Dad's potion allowed him to mimic mutants powers.

Hepzibah - Extraterrestrial

Lockheed - Alien Dragon from Kitty Pryde's fairy-tale bedtime story. 'Nuff said.

Juggernaut - Ex-champion of Cyttorak

Omega Sentinel - Cyborg sentinel

Bamfs - Not Actually Bamfs. Non-mutants from an alternate dimension.

Sharon Friedlander - Enhanced by a Demon Bear. Acted as a nurse, joined Moira’s X-men.

Tom Corsi - Another Demon Bear victim/member of Moiras X-men.

Charlotte Jones - Detective member, given a suit by Forge. Warren's Girlfriend for a while.

Moira MacTaggert - Maid, Xavier's lover, M16 user, genius.

Members who did not see field work

Stevie Hunter - Kitty Pryde's dance teacher and physiotherapist to the team.

Members that temporarily lost their mutanthood

Storm - Went 41 issues in the mid-'80s without powers, even leading the team!

Members that permanently lost their mutanthood

Polaris - Lost her powers and X-genes on M-Day, regained facsimile powers via spinal implant

Magneto - Lost his powers and X-genes on M-Day, regained facsimile powers via special armour.

1. Names taken from here, and here other details from wiki/memory.

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  • Now I'm confused. Is there a reason you listed Magneto and Storm as examples of non-mutants? – Jack B Nimble Apr 04 '12 at 19:43
  • @JackBNimble Yes indeed. – AncientSwordRage Apr 04 '12 at 19:47
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    I was going to cite that Topless Robot article I wrote, but @Pureferret did it for me! Awesome! – Brett White Apr 04 '12 at 20:01
  • Wow, I didn't even see your name. Good list! (and you know it's accurate if @BrettWhite wrote it!) – AncientSwordRage Apr 04 '12 at 20:08
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    @Pureferret: Even if they lost their powers they still possess the mutant X-gene. I would say they are still technically mutants. – Jack B Nimble Apr 09 '12 at 20:21
  • @JackBNimble See my latest edit. – AncientSwordRage May 07 '12 at 22:06
  • Did I just get an unupvote? How can I improve the question? – AncientSwordRage May 08 '12 at 07:07
  • It's possible that Namor the Sub-Mariner belongs on this list; I don't read X-Men comics at this time, but I couldn't help but notice he's been an integral part of the franchise in recent years. – FoxMan2099 Nov 15 '13 at 22:58
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    Namor is a mutant. It's been established that not only is he a human/Atlantean hybrid, his human side carries the X-Gene. – Theoriok Nov 29 '13 at 10:43
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    To be fair, it's not correct to say that Madelyne Pryor was associated with the team BECAUSE she's a clone of Jean Grey. She originally started dating Scott (or vice-versa), THEN began supporting the team. It wasn't until later that everyone learned she was a clone, at which time she left the team, snapped, and became the villainous Goblyn Queen. – Omegacron Jan 27 '15 at 22:05
  • Are you sure Madelyne Pryor possessed no powers? I'm pretty sure she has all of Jean Grey's powers. – KutuluMike Aug 31 '15 at 20:28
  • @mikeenfield I'm confident for a long time she didn't. – AncientSwordRage Sep 01 '15 at 06:01
  • Wasn't Deadpool a in X-Men once? He's not technically a mutant – Gallifreyan Mar 07 '17 at 09:01
  • @Gallifreyan says who? – AncientSwordRage Mar 07 '17 at 09:07
  • It's been stated in some media (the game, the film, some comics) that he is a mutate, i.e. someone who was not born as a mutant but mutated after. At least that's what Wikipedia says, and this was my general impression. – Gallifreyan Mar 07 '17 at 09:13
  • @Gallifreyan I can't find anything one way of the other. I always thought it was a latent mutant power, nothing that happened to him gave him those powers (cf. spiderman's radioactive spider bite) but just activated them. Worth a new question. – AncientSwordRage Mar 07 '17 at 10:05
  • @Omegacron - While this is true, it's hard to argue that the reason she and Scott got involved has nothing to do with the fact that she turned out to be a clone of Jean Grey. – RDFozz Dec 28 '18 at 19:12
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Longshot is not a mutant; he is an artificially created humanoid life-form, with the ability to defy probability. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longshot#Origins)

He was an X-Man in the 1980s during the Outback era.

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Ink. Joined in Young X-Men, his mutant tattoo artist imbued him with super-powers through symbolic tattoos. He didn't find out he wasn't a mutant until a few issues into the series.

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A couple of additions:

  • Cloak and Dagger - both the result of a drug experiment
  • Danger - the Danger Room turned sentient, Shi'ar technology
  • Deathlok - cyborg
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