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:

Arachnidor, a "girl with the mutant power to smell like spiders".

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 life live 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.

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:

Arachnidor, a "girl with the mutant power to smell like spiders".

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 life 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.