DARWIN AWARDS

Armando Munoz, aka Darwin, has one of the more unique gifts amongst the mutant race in that he can literally have any power, he just has to be in the right situation for it. Some of these are subtle such as super intelligence when taking a test, or enhanced strength when getting in a fight, but many are very more obvious and sometimes even comical in their outcome.

The below list aims to identify the specific enhancement as well as explain the trigger event for it. In some cases, whilst not stated outright in the issues, it can be inferred Darwin developed certain abilities, like regeneration after a particularly brutal fight, or super strength/durability when getting punched by Monet (an event which appears numerous times on the list).

Issue	Power	Cause
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2	Super Intelligence	The desire to please his mother during an IQ test
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2	Gills to breathe underwater with	Having his head thrust underwater
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2	Stone-covered hands	Attacking his bullies
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2	Fire-proof with wet-skin and an immunity to heat	Caught in a house fire
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2	Body mass grew lighter	Jumped off a building in an attempt to kill himself
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4	Fire-proof with wet-skin and an immunity to heat	Attacked with a flamethrower whilst undergoing tests with Moira and Xavier
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6	Turned into energy and absorbed himself into Vulcan, enabling both to survive in stasis	Both Darwin and Vulcan had sustained life-threatening injuries
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6	Regrow entire body from energy	After having his energy purged from Vulcan he needed a new body
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #476	Rubber body	Fell from a great height
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #478	Enhanced linguistic skills allowing him to speak and read numerous Shi’ar languages	Reading Shi’ar logbooks
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #478	Increased tissue density and shut down of breathing system allowing travel in the vacuum of space	Blasted out of a window into space
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #480	Super strength	Fighting Shi’ar soliders
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #481	Elastic body	Hiding in the ceiling of a corridor from soliders
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #478	Heat resistance	Touching a laser with his finger, allowing his body to become immune to it
Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #485	Body adapted to the cosmic energies inside the M’Kraan Crystal	Jumped into the M’Kraan Crystal
World War Hulk: X-Men #3	Energy draining ability allowed him to syphon gamma radiation from the Hulk	Fought the Hulk
World War Hulk: X-Men #3	Teleportation	After being hit by the Hulk his body removed him from the fight
X-Factor (3rd series) #33	Gills to breathe underwater with	Head thrust into an open fire hydrant
X-Factor (3rd series) #33	Rubber skin	Attacked with a knife
X-Factor (3rd series) #33	Super speed	Fleeing attackers
She-Hulk (3rd series) #31	Bulletproof body	Shot by Jazinda
She-Hulk (3rd series) #31	Being able to reveal a Skrull’s true nature with a touch	Being in close proximity to a disguised Skrull who had intentions to harm him
X-Factor (3rd series) #34	Absorbing energy blast	Attacked by Nogor the Talisman
X-Factor (3rd series) #34	Changed skin tone to fit in with social groups	Operating around different ethnicities
X-Factor (3rd series) #35	Super strength	Trapped in a containment pod
X-Factor (3rd series) #41	Body turned into a sponge, as sponges have no nerve endings	Shot with a laser gun
X-Factor (3rd series) #44	Enhanced metabolism to avoid getting drunk	Drinking large quantities of alcohol
X-Factor (3rd series) #46	Gelatinous body	Punched by Monet
X-Factor (1st series) #200	Rubber body	Punched by Monet
X-Factor (1st series) #205	Absorbing bullets into his body	Shot at by soldiers
X-Factor (1st series) #205	Teleportation	Attacked by a giant machine with a buzzsaw on it
X-Factor: Nation X	Fish-like appendages such as eyes, gills, webbed fingers	Diving into the ocean to retrieve a book
X-Factor (1st series) #212	Absorbed Hela’s power of death, briefly increasing his body mass and gifting him numerous abilities such as a death touch and the ability to see into someone’s soul. Many of these powers remained long after the fight with Hela.	Touched Hela, the Goddess of Death
X-Factor (1st series) #214	Hardened skin and super strength	Attacked by a dragon-like beast (potentially part of a hallucination so this might not have happened)
X-Factor (1st series) #214	Cellular regeneration. Head relocated to the torso due to extensive damage to the original head.	Shot by Tier (potentially part of a hallucination so this might not have happened)
X-Factor (1st series) #242	Body adapted for not sleeping	Hunting Tier across the country night and day
X-Factor (1st series) #242	Reverting Werewolf-by-Night into a human again with a touch	Battling with Werewolf-by-night
X-Factor (1st series) #242	Wings	Pushed off a cliff
X-Factor (1st series) #242	Rock-like body	Pushed off a cliff, but wings didn’t grow fast enough before hitting the ground
X-Factor (1st series) #250	Cellular regeneration	Hit by a car
X-Factor (1st series) #251	Enhanced durability and cellular regeneration	Punched by Monet
X-Factor (1st series) #261	Gelatinous body	Shot at by criminals
X-Factor (1st series) #261	Super strength/durability	Punched by Monet
X-Men (6th series) #18	Multiple eyes that function as scanning and recording devices	Entered the vault on a reconnaissance mission
X-Men (6th series) #18	Gills to breathe underwater with	One of the Children of the Vault formed a bubble of water encompassing his head
X-Men (6th series) #19	Cellular regeneration	Body severely damaged from an explosion; arm severed; atomised by the Children of the Vault
X-Men (6th series) #19	Slow aging process	Trapped in the vault and under the influence of altering time flows
X-Men (6th series) #19	Communicate with technology	Needing to understand the computers in the vault
X-Men (6th series) #19	Shedding genetic material of the Children, to fool sensors into thinking he, Wolverine and Synch were Children too	Staying hidden from the Children of the Vault and their computer systems
X-Men (6th series) #19	Armor-like appendages over his body	Unknown, however text in the issue mentions Darwin evolved for isolation