Mutant X

***Mutant X*** is a science fiction television series created under a Marvel Comics license, but with no connection to the *Mutant X* comic book series.

## Synopsis

A fugitive geneticist and four of his "creations" search for others of their kind while attempting to stay a step ahead of a morally ambiguous government agent.

Unlike the comics in this series there are only four types of mutants:

* Feral: Mutants with animal-like abilities.
* Elemental: Mutants able to control some type of element found in nature.
* Molecular: Mutants able to control their molecular structure giving them unique abilities.
* Psionic: Mutants with some type of telepathic or psychic ability.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Jesse Kilmartin (Forbes March) can alter his body's density at will becoming hard as steel or intangible. He can only maintain these forms for as long as he can hold his breath, and is able to extend his powers to people or objects through physical contact. He serves as the technology and computer expert of the team.
* Shalimar Fox (Victoria Pratt) has a feline-like mutation giving her great strength and agility, healing ability, and superhuman senses. After further mutation, she develops a sixth sense which allows her to anticipate incoming danger to herself.
* Emma DeLauro (Lauren Lee Smith) (seasons 1 and 2 only) is a "tele-empath" who can communicate feelings and emotions to, and receive them from, others around her. She has limited precognition, and also has the ability to induce hallucinations into the minds of others by drawing upon their own emotions and feelings. Emma later developed the power to project blasts of pure psychic energy which she uses to knock her opponents unconscious, alter and erase memories, and even kill. DeLauro was killed in an explosion at Naxcon Corporation Industries at the end of season two.
* Brennan Mulwray (Victor Webster) is an "elemental electrical" mutant with the ability to generate electricity, enough to power a small city. He can shoot electrical bolts from his hands. Before Adam Kane found Mulwray, he had been a thief; Mason Eckhart captured him and used him to hunt down the other new mutants. However, Mulwray escaped and managed to join Mutant X along with Emma DeLauro.
* Adam Kane (John Shea) (main seasons 1-2; recurring, season 3) is the strategist and moral center of Mutant X. Head chief bio-geneticist of the scientific experiments that led to the creation of the new mutants, Kane created Mutant X to atone for his mistakes. The group seeks to protect new mutants and help them control their powers. Viewing the new mutants as his responsibility, Kane is looking for treatments for their various conditions. To this end, Kane has stolen the creator's database, which can be used to track other new mutants. At the end of season three it's revealed that Adam Kane is actually a clone, and the real Adam Kane is the leader of the Dominion.
* Lexa Pierce (Karen Cliche) (season 3 only) was the first member added to the original Mutant X team. As a "chromatic molecular" mutant, she can bend light to make herself and anything she is touching temporarily invisible. In addition, she can shoot beams of light from her fingertips and can project blinding flashes. She is searching for her long-lost brother, and her methods and motives leave her untrusted by her teammates. She acts as a liaison between the Dominion and Mutant X.

### Recurring

* Mason Eckhart (Tom McCamus) is the former head of security of Genomex and the current head of the Genetic Security Agency (GSA). After an accident involving Adam and the production of the new mutants, Eckhart's immune system has been severely weakened, forcing him to wear a white wig, synthetic skin, and thick gloves. He formed the GSA to protect the public from what he deemed as a threat from the new mutants, capturing them to perform further genetic testing to find a "cure". He is put into stasis after being double-crossed by one of his agents and Dr. Harrison, allowing Ashlocke to rise to power. Some time before the season 2 finale, he escaped his imprisonment and convinced Shalimar's father to fund his research to cure Eckhart, but he is ultimately killed by Brennan. Mason Eckhart is the main antagonist of season one and is a recurring antagonist in seasons two and three.
* Gabriel Ashlocke (Michael Easton) (four episodes; seasons 1 & 2) is patient zero of the new mutants. He possesses the abilities of all known kinds of new mutants, particularly the Mutant X team. In the past, Adam was hired by Genomex to attempt to hamper the young Ashlocke's powers and psychopathy, but he failed to prevent the boy from killing his parents in a powerful rage and only damaged the young boy's genome. To prevent his death, Ashlocke was put in stasis, only to be freed by a member of the GSA to usurp Eckhart's power. Ashlocke takes his revenge against Adam and Mutant X in his attempts to prevent his own death, but is ultimately unsuccessful. However, his loyal followers known as the "Links" use the genetic material of four similarly-powered new mutants, including Brennan, to produce a child that would effectively be Ashlocke's second coming. Another new mutant whose DNA was used to make this child took the boy into her own care to raise him to be a kind person instead of the monster Ashlocke turned out to be.
* George Buza plays Lexa's unnamed Dominion contact who gives Mutant X their missions. He appears in season three.

## Trivia

* *Mutant X* features guest appearances by some actors that previously appeared in *X-Men*.
	+ Cedric Smith as Paul Breedlove (Episode: The Shock of the New)
	+ Jennifer Dale as Wendy Stone (Episode: Crime of the New Century)
	+ Philip Akin as General Sutton (Episode: No Man Left Behind)
	+ Christopher Britton as J. K. Bergman (Episode: Sign from Above)
	+ Rod Wilson as Corbin Valentine (Episode: Crime of the New Century)
	+ David Fox as Gerald Gilbert (Episode: Crossroads of the Soul)
	+ Lawrence Bayne as Sam Raymond (Episode: Once Around)
	+ Nigel Bennett as John Warren (Episode: Final Judgment)
	+ George Buza as Lexa's Dominion Contact (12 episodes; season 3)
	+ Leon Pownall as Victor Palance (Episode: Shadows of Darkness)
	+ Shannon Lawson as Dr. Bellows (Episode: Wasteland)
	+ Stuart Stone as Einstein (Episode: Divided Loyalties)
	+ John Blackwood as Dr. Arnot (Episode: She's Come Undercover)

## External Links

* Internet Movie Database
* Wikipedia
* Mutant X Wiki
* Marvel Database