Thread:Undoniel/@comment-12714-20140131052230/@comment-1618941-20140212083556

Excerpt: Savage Land Mutates Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Deluxe Edition (1987) ISBN 0-87135-213-36


 * The Savage Land Mutates are a group of Swamp People from the Savage Land, a tropical jungle that existed within Antarctica, who, except for Vertigo, were originally artificially mutated through technological means by Magneto to give them superhuman powers (see Magneto, Appendix: Savage Land and Pangea). (Under a strict definition of the term "mutant," superhuman mutants are said to be beings who possess their unusual forms or abilities, or the potential for having them, from birth. Superhuman mutates, on the other hand, are mutated at some point during their lives. Hence, they did not possess their unusual forms or abilities, or the potential for having them from birth, but developed them later. An evolutionary offshoot of humanity called the Deviants uses the term "mutate" differently, to describe the Deviants who genetically differ from the majority of Deviants in extreme ways. See Deviants, Karkas).

I suggest, given the quoted text, that neither of these groups should be portrayed as a subset of the other.