Board Thread:Site-Related Tasks/@comment-4651179-20171229190208/@comment-3406131-20180212021906

AnnabellRice wrote: Undoniel wrote: As far, Molly has been classified as a mutant, and she could be one even if her parents aren't true mutants (Homo superior). Ah, but can she truly be Homo superior without the X-Gene? Homo superior/"human mutants", except stated otherwise, are humans with the X-Gene (as stated in the Neo's entry in ) (or other "mutant gene(s)" in some stories). Other cases of mutants are usually explained.

I don't recall Franklin Richards being explicitly stated to have an X-Gene, but his status as a mutant is well established, and there's no need for an explicit X-Gene statement (that would be like requiring to know the sexual chromosome of a character to confirm him to be male or female), as the classic definition of mutant is the X-gene.

She can be a mutant with an X-Gene, without her parents apparently having it. There's a multitude of possibilities, depending on how Dr. Hayes tampered on Alice, Gene, then maybe Molly, and how Alice and Gene's status resulted in what Molly is.

As far, in Runaways:
 * Alice and Gene were experimented on + (seemingly due to those experiments) were or considered themselves to be classified as Homo superior.
 * Their status might be like the Fenris: mutants experimented on (That could explain why they considered themselves mutants); or simply humans with X-gene grafted to them.
 * Molly was tested as X-gene negative, yet activated. She is listed as a mutant, and (to be verified) registered as a mutant on Cerebro.
 * She could be like Francis Klum (Mysterio): A mutant born from "artificial mutants"/people grafted with an X-Gene

I think we should stick to what is known so far (cf. the points up here), and wait for more issues of Runaways (and maybe the next handbook?) to have more answers. Apart bringing more material, there's mainly a risk of extrapolating unrelated cases when there's not much rules set as far. By the way, the article Mutant_Biology needs more content to built up to some kind of generalities, even if each case is to be treated using the issues related to it (to avoid speculation and over-interpretation).