Ah, one of my favorite areas of science. I’m not sure what led me to love studying evolution, but I’m fairly certain that dinosaurs had something to do with it.
Not that it matters to X-Men, cause they are all about pretending that they get evolution, and then not following it at all.
As cool as mutants are, they are not building on successive generations and weeding out what different adaptations are proving most beneficial to the species, thus altering it.
Nah, they’re popping out kids that are on fire, can do stuff with their minds, and every other thing a writer can imagine.
Guuuuuys. That’s really not how evolution works. Unless you introduce magic into human biology. Then it makes perfect sense. Wait, but that’s not science.
Never mind. X-Men, you’re ignoring some fundamentals here.
Though a few X-Men have already graced this list, I picked someone new to epitomize their failure to acknowledge evolution:
The original BAMF motherlover himself: Nightcrawler. And heck yeah, there are a billion X-Men that could have been featured, but Nightcrawler gained traction early on. I knew I wanted to spotlight his mutation in this list, and so I pushed my friends to figure some realm of science he butchered. Unlike many other superheroes, Nightcrawler’s power is so far removed from science that everyone was pretty stumped. Teleportation, especially with Nightcrawlers weird traveling through other dimensions, is basically magic. Since he was so frustrating, he almost earned the title, “#$%@ Science” but when evolution opened up, I just slid him in here.
There you go, you devilish little acrobat.
Thanks for stopping!