Thread:Undoniel/@comment-5448995-20151210150124/@comment-3406131-20151210191446

That's the problem with Marvel vs. science:
 * A mutant is supposed to be an individual who suffers a modification of his genetics, or inherit it from his parents.
 * In Marvel, mutants were characters born with new powers, absent from his parents.
 * But in fact mutants are Homo sapiens with an X-Gene, who was stated to be a compound assembled from bricks present among the parents (cf. Endangered Species at the Guthries), and is possibly artificial in nature due to the Celestials tampering (even if you check the Humans' history, they have a long past of being tampered by aliens (and I assume I missed many other occurrences)).
 * This presumably led to the word "mutate": Human with a mutation but born with it, not a mutant.
 * Again (it was the example of Quake or Spider-Girl), mutates parents don't automatically make mutant children (this belief is due to the "born with new powers=mutant" simplification). More on this page.

The name is given: "Firedrakes". There is no need to label it mutant, until it is done there too. As far, they're like mutants or inhumans. As I said, the policy is to not use the word if it isn't used in comics, due to the specific meaning of it in Marvel.