User blog comment:Lord Caesar/Radioactive Spider/@comment-3406131-20130718125121/@comment-4652104-20130718180254

1. True. The only green "radiation" is visible green light 2. I always think of the X gene as a trigger gene - it causes you to have powers, but the nature of these powers is determined by your other genes. However, it has to be more complex than that, since you cannot determine who is a mutant until they hit puberty and get powers. 3. There are animals which can survive being frozen and the process theoretically replicable in humans. 4. I think that in fact the current pseudo-science in marvel is that it will kill most humans, apart from those who have a particular genetic make-up allowing them to somehow absorb the energy and develop super-powers. 5. I think it has been retconned to not simply being an irradiated spider, but a spider subjected to some special form of energy used in cross-species whatever. It's still bull, but more convincing :)