Mutants

**Mutants** (also known as **Homo Superior** or **Homo Sapiens Superior**) is the term for a diverse group of mutants which exist in Marvel Comics, most famously affiliated with the *X-Men* franchise. They are humans who naturally develop superhuman physiologies from birth, puberty, or particularly traumatic experiences in their lives. In the Marvel universe, mutants are a historically discriminated against minority group with less granted human rights, which is often fear-mongered against, and often forced to live in secret when possible for their own safety (allegorical for the treatment of people of colour and LGBTQ+ individuals; with many notable mutants being of said groups).

Due to Fox having owned the copyright to X-Men for much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's run, they are largely omitted or retconned from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and subsequently the parks. Despite this, some references to mutants and mutant characters have made their way into the parks.

## Appearances

### Avengers Assemble: Flight Force

The mutant Takeshi "Taki" Matsuya AKA, "Wiz Kid" appears in the *Worldwide Engineering Brigade* section of Tony Stark's files. The files also contain a profile for Deadpool, who while not truly a mutant in the comics is often identified with them, or made into a mutant in adaptation.

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

In the Collector's Fortress are artifacts from Earth's ocean referencing Namor the Sub-Mariner from Marvel Comics. In both the original comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Namor was revealed to be a mutant. The Collector's Office also has the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, indirectly referencing the X-Men villain Cyttorak who is the source of mystical power for Professor X's step-brother, the Juggernaut.

### Hollywood Land

The 15th Precinct had an air-conditioner labelled, "Drake Cooling Ltd.", a reference to founding X-Men member Bobby Drake AKA Iceman.

### Super Hero Headquarters

The map in this SHIELD base makes reference to the Children of the Vault, a group of radical mutants from the comics.

### Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure

One of the members of the Worldwide Engineering Brigade is Takeshi "Taki" Matsuya AKA, "Wiz Kid", a mutant from the comics who can telepathically control electronic machines.

## Trivia

* Wanda Maximoff AKA Scarlet Witch makes many appearances in the parks. In the comics, the classic Avengers members Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were not only mutants, but were founding-members of the extremist mutant-rights organization *The Brotherhood of Mutants*, and are the children of the prominent mutant leader, "Magneto". In the MCU, the two had their mutant status omitted, their connections to Magneto omitted, and instead of being former members of the Brotherhood of Mutants, they were made members of the Nazi organization HYDRA.
* The name of the, "X-Periment" drink in the Pym Tasting Lab might be a reference to the X-Men.
* Disney Traders has a poster for the Savage Land, a location from the X-Men franchise. The X-Men's Savage Land ally Ka-Zar is indirectly referenced on the poster via his pet smilodon, Zabu.
* While not appearing in the Disney parks, various mutants such as Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops and Rogue appear at Universal's Marvel themed area at *Islands of Adventure*.