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Pretty much. There are generally 3 types of mutant in these stories you can rank on a scale.
1-9: Mostly passive powers, often utterly pointless and never, ever going to be a threat to anyone or thing. Like Beak who has the powers to... look like some nightmare anthropomorphised chicken. Or for an even more useless example:
So does she smell of spiders or can she smell in the way spiders do? Either way, utterly useless to anything and that's before even getting to the point that there are so many spiders out there there will be drastically different scents or detection methods. Unless she smells like all spiders! 😯 Which is still stupid.
10: Has a power that can actually cause damage. More often active use than passive and the precise danger can depend on training. As per recent retcons this is where the "Omega level" mutants reside but many non Omegas can also be considered, like Manifold.
11: Spelled "ELEven" because these are walking Extinction Level Events. Either active use powers where someone has trained to hone their ability in a way it can end all life on the planet, like with Magneto. Or worse; either a passive deathfield like Jay from the Ultimate 1610 Universe [who really was localised enough in aoe he would better be described as a 9], or Peter/Orphan Maker who is forced to wear a containment suit because if he doesn't he simply ends the planet.
When you have characters like that in a story all allegory goes out the window, while the window still exists, because even if they are the best person to ever
lifelive the fact their basic existence is a threat to everything means either by mistake or villainous act something can happen to kill everything alive.Ritualistic suicide would ironically be the most sensible option from someone who was "good" with that kind of powerset.
Ediot: wordz.
I meant to include something like that in the 11 category, Legion and Franklin Richards would also fall into that list although Franklin isn't a mutant anymore because Dan Slott decided so.
Instead I was going to name Matthew Malloy since he only comes into his powers during adulthood due to Xavier putting various mindwhammies on him prior to that. His powers awaken and he causes the equivalent of a nuclear explosion turning the local area into a crater. When SHIELD ends up trying to kill him, and does kill Cyclops and Magik in the attempt, Matthew survives, reconstitutes himself, takes out the SHIELD helicarrier, then ends up accidentally killing Emma Frost and some others when he visits the X-Mansion after.
Prior to all this Maria Hill talks about how Nick Fury only ever had 1 "worst case scenario" which was "Man wakes up with the power of God", which is precisely what happens with Matthew.