BONDING PROCESS & MUTATES LIST

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26th September 2007

The details of the mutate bonding process were explained in Uncanny X-Men #237 and X-Factor (1st series) #89. In a first step, a colorful skin-tight suit is bonded to the mutates flesh, so that they will be instantly recognized as mutates. Additionally, the suits were sealed systems, protecting their wearers from the elements and injury, and re-processing all bodily wastes. Over the course of several sessions, the subject’s genetic potential was then brought fourth and shaped, to ensure that the mutate would manifest the most useful abilities. At least one session of the procedure also included psychokinetic conditioning, during which a mutate’s will was bound to a specific Magistrate in a master/slave relationship, so that they would never disobey. Finally, the mutate’s head was shaved, and their designated number was branded on their forehead.

Mutates List

This is a list of all mutates by their registration number. A few of them are very prominent characters, other have only been seen for one or two panels.

Mutate 01 (Edgerton)
All appearances: X-Men Prime [imploded, triggered by Sugar Man]
Powers: unknown
Note: Edgerton is the first recorded Genoshan mutate ever.

Mutate 6
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #28
Powers: unknown

Mutate 9
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #28
Powers: unknown

Mutate 15
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #28
Powers: unknown

Mutate 018
All appearances: Excalibur #86
Powers: unknown

Mutate 20 (Storm / Ororo Munroe)
Captured by the Magistrates: Uncanny X-Men #270
Underwent treatment: Uncanny X-Men #271

All mutate appearances: Uncanny X-Men #270, New Mutants (1st series) #95, X-Factor (1st series) #60, Uncanny X-Men #271, X-Factor (1st series) #61, Uncanny X-Men #272, New Mutants (1st series) #97

Powers: control over weather

Fact: As revealed in New Mutants (1st series) #97, Storm was only faked to undergo the mutate process. Instead the Genegineer installed her the ability to return her teammates' powers.

Mutate 21
All appearances: Magneto Rex #1
Powers: unknown

Mutate 29
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 31
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #27
Powers: unknown

Mutate 35
Number was planned for Boom-Boom in New Mutants (1st series) #95, she escaped before undergoing the mutate process.

Mutate 55
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 56
All appearances: Magneto Rex #2
Powers: unknown

Mutate 57
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #83
Powers: unknown
Note: Mutate 57 belonged to the X-Patriots.

Mutate 65
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #22
Powers: unknown, purple skin

Mutate 71
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 089
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown, green skin

Mutate 146
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 161
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #27
Powers: unknown

Mutate 163
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 178
All appearances: Excalibur #87
Powers: unknown

Mutate 201
All appearances: Magneto Rex #1
Powers: liquifies the ground

Mutate 202
All appearances: Magneto Rex #1
Powers: unknown

Mutate 230
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 238
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown, pale yellow skin

Mutate 243
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 263
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 270
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 282
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #83
Powers: unknown
Note: Mutate 282 belonged to the X-Patriots.

Mutate 315
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 337
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 358
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 360
All appearances: Uncanny X-Men #272, New Mutants (1st series) #97 [killed in an explosion]
Powers: burned himself through stone and solid steel

Mutate 370
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #61
Powers: unknown

Mutate 374
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 376
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 407
All appearances: Magneto Rex #1
Powers: unknown

Mutate 416 (Piecemeal)
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #90
Powers: absobs energy to fuel his shapeshifting ability

Mutate 490 (Wolfsbane / Rahne Sinclair)
Captured by the Magistrates: Uncanny X-Men #270
Underwent treatment: New Mutants (1st series) #96

All mutate relevant appearances: Uncanny X-Men #270, New Mutants (1st series) #95, X-Factor (1st series) #60, New Mutants (1st series) #96, X-Factor (1st series) #61, Uncanny X-Men #271, New Mutants (1st series) #97, X-Factor (1st series) #62, 71, 83-84, 88-91, 93-96, 99

Powers: shapechanger, can transform to a wolf or any inbetween form

Facts:
- After the X-Tinction Agenda, Storm could only partially restore her. As long as in wolfen form Rahne had her free will, but if she ever returned to human state she would be the mindless mutate again.
- Eventually it was discovered that the Magistrate that Rahne had been bonded to during the psychic conditioning of the mutate process was none other than Havok. This bond affected many of her decisions both on a conscious and subconscious level.
- In X-Factor (1st series) #99, the enigmatic woman called Haven reversed the effects of the mutate bonding process, restoring Rahne to her former self.

Mutate 49* rest of number not fully seen (Michael)
All Mutate appearances: New Mutants (1st series) #95
Powers: unknown, seen right before undergoing the mutate process

Mutate 504
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 523
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 527
Number was planned for Rictor in New Mutants (1st series) #95, he escaped before undergoing the mutate process.

Mutate 530
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 537
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 628
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 633
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 642
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 650
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #61
Powers: unknown

Mutate 665 "Zealot" (Thomas Moreau)
All appearances: Magneto Rex #1-3
Powers: manipulates the earth
Fact: Zealot is the son of the Genegineer, David Moreau, and the brother of Phillip Moreau.

Mutate 682
All appearances: Avengers (1st series) #368 [sacrificed herself to explode Avengers mansion]
Powers: shapeshifting, explosive power

Mutate 687 (Taylor)
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #83-84
Powers: creates sculptures of solid cold-fire

Mutate 722
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 740
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 742
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 808
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #27
Powers: unknown

Mutate 831
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 888
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #27
Powers: unknown

Mutate 910
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 913
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #27
Powers: unknown

Mutate 918
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #26
Powers: unknown

Mutate 965
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101
Powers: unknown

Mutate 967
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #27
Powers: unknown

Mutate 973
All appearances: X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate 985
All appearances: New Mutants (1st series) #95
Powers: unknown, is seen helping to build a house

Mutate 1147
All appearances: Uncanny X-Men #262
Powers: creates holographic pictures, called a "reference module"

Mutate 1585
All appearances: Excalibur #87
Powers: unknown

Mutate 4817
Note: the number 4817 is sometimes falsely used for Jenny Ransome, who is Mutate 9817.

Mutate 6171
All appearances: Excalibur #87
Powers: unknown

Mutate 7781
All appearances: Uncanny X-Men #236
Powers: heals / repairs plants

Mutate 7875
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #60
Powers: unknown, works as a scout for the Magistrates

Mutate 8321
All appearances: Avengers (1st series) #369
Powers: unknown

Mutate 8711
All appearances: Excalibur #87
Powers: unknown

Mutate 8765
All appearances: New Mutants (1st series) #96
Powers: mutant tracker

Fact: He was with a Magistrates team that was defeated by Jubilee, Rictor and Boom-Boom, who used him to enter the citadel. Surprisingly, he returned to the Magistrates, but did not reveal the mutants‘ presence to them.

Mutate 9212
All appearances: New Mutants (1st series) #95
Powers: unknown, is seen helping to build a house

Mutate 9601
The number was planned for Wolverine in Uncanny X-Men #236, but he escaped before undergoing the mutate process.

Mutate 9602
The number was planned for Rogue in Uncanny X-Men #236, but she escaped before undergoing the mutate process.

Mutate 9817 (Jenny Ransome)
Captured by the Magistrates: Uncanny X-Men #235
Underwent treatment: Uncanny X-Men #236-238

Powers: size, strength, mass, enhanced upper body musculature, epidermal resistance against heat and pressure (was planned to work in the mines)

Note: Check the Characters page for more Genosha-related appearances of Jenny Ransome.

Mutate 9818
The number was planned for Madelyne Pryor in Uncanny X-Men #236-238; starting to develop her Goblyn Queen powers she destroyed a lab, killing the whole examining team.

Mutate 24601
Infected with Legacy virus
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #90-91
Powers: stretching, telekinesis

Fact: 24601 is the prisoner number of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables".

Unnumbered Mutates

Garbage truck driver
All appearances: Uncanny X-Men #236
Powers: stretches arms

Telepath among examining team
All appearances: Uncanny X-Men #237 [killed while probing Madelyne Pryor]
Powers: telepath

Two laundry men
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #60
Powers: unknown

Telemutate
All appearances: New Mutants (1st series) #96
Powers: three-dimesional projecting

Two X-Patriots
All appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #83 [besides numbers 57 and 282 at least two more mutates are seen in this issue]
Powers: unknown

Seven mutates working at a governmental building (one of them is named Alice)
All appearances : X-Factor (1st series) #89
Powers: unknown

Two mutates infected with Legacy Virus
All appearances : X-Factor (1st series) #90
Powers: unknown

The Unforgiven (Skelter, Syth, ?, ?, ?)
At least five mutates formerly working in the mines, who were employed by Fabian Cortez to serve as his bodyguards.
All appearances: X-Men #26, Avengers West Coast #101, Avengers (1st series) #369
Powers (Skelter): null-grav ray
Powers (Syth): wears blades on his wrists
Powers (?): force-blast
Powers (?): shapechanger
Powers (?): ?

Besides the numbered mutates listed above, there are hundreds of mutates seen in the rebellion
All appearances: Avengers West Coast #101, Cable (2nd series) #26-27
Powers: unknown

Besides the mutates listed, there are a few more mutates captive in Sugar Man's base.
All appearances: Cable (2nd series) #28 and/or X-Man Annual '96
Powers: unknown

Mutate army used by the Acolytes
All appearances: Quicksilver #1 [and possibly also in Magneto #1-4]
Powers: one has stretching powers, at least one or two fly, one has "flashy eyes", rest unknown
Theory: This mutate army might be identical with the horde of no-name Acolytes from the Magneto miniseries see Acolytes entry

Mutates living in refugee camps in Tansania
All appearances: Fantastic Four (3rd series) #21
Powers: unknown

Many unnumbered mutates in the Zealot's group, in street scenes or in Legacy camps during the Magneto Rex series and afterwards
Powers: unknown