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Is Hulk a Mutant?

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Logan510

Logan510

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when a guy gets mutated he becomes a mutant. err, at least that's what I have been taught. But I went to public school. So not positive.

 

We're talking about mutants in the Marvel comics universe. By their definition Hulk is not a mutant because he was not born with those powers, same goes for Spider-Man or the Fantastic Four, they're altered humans. Franklin Richards on the other hand is a mutant.

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Although not all mutations have a noticeable phenotypic effect, the common usage of the word mutant is generally a pejorative term only used for noticeable mutations.[5] Previously, people used the word sport (related to spurt) to refer to abnormal specimens. The scientific usage is broader, referring to any organism differing from the wild type.

 

From Wikipedia. Draw your own conclusions.

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They never called Spidey a mutant, for example.

 

I say spiderman is a mutant. What Spiders have spider sence.

Maybey the bite just unlocked the powers

 

This Species Does:

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_20232_6-underrated-predators-with-mind-blowing-abilities.html

 

Spiders have an astounding and frightening array of abilities, like web spinning, jumping, and just ... generally existing at all. And now science is throwing another handful of meat into the Terror Jambalaya: Studies done on the hunting spider, Cupiennius salei, reveal that they can leap up and catch a bug flying past them ... while blindfolded. (Side note: We call "dibs" on not being the guy who has to tie the tiny spider blindfolds.)

 

C. salei accomplishes this feat by "feeling" the air around it with the sensitive hairs covering its body. They're so finely tuned that each hair can detect the direction and pressure of the airflow to accurately time and orient the spider's attack without the benefit of vision. It's not necessarily a new trick: Most mammals (including us) have hairs in their inner ear that detect sound vibrations, and spider hairs work on a similar principle, making their entire body a giant super-ear that can hear vibrations down to one ten-billionth of a meter ("roughly the width of an atom"). That's how sensitive their body beard is ... aaaaand of course they use it for murder.

But that's not the only molecular power arachnids possess. Most spiders use their hairy front legs for grasping prey, but some, like Palpimanus gibbulus, have incredible adhesive properties that make escaping intact literally impossible once they lay legs on something. But there's no webbing or glue involved: The microscopic hairs on P. gibbulus' legs are so small that molecular forces give them insane grip. Once seized, its prey, usually other spiders, can only escape by ripping off their own limbs. See? That's how terrifying spiders are: Even spiders are scared of them.

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