Marvel Mutants With Drastically Changed Superpowers

What You Thought He Could Do: Robert Drake began as a friendly snowman. He lobbed snowballs at the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Iceman later gained better skills: covering his whole body in ice, freezing objects, and making ice-slides to zip around.

What He Can Do Now: Iceman got a second mutation.and Iceman found his Omega Mutant potential. This made him an X-Man. He moved far past snowballs. Drake still freezes things, but now he controls things down to the molecule. He controls all moisture, not just ice and cold. His second mutation turned his whole body into organic ice, making him nearly indestructible. If you break Iceman, he reforms. If you melt him, he condenses back fast. He can spread his mind into multiple "ice golems." Iceman can jump into the ocean and instantly move across by turning himself into water molecules on the other side. Simply put, Iceman can do almost anything.

What You Thought He Could Do: Remy Lebeau converts stored energy in objects into motion. He uses molecular acceleration to charge items, like playing cards, readying them to explode. Also, Remy can subtly hypnotize people with his mutant charm from the start, though people rarely mention that power.

What He Can Do Now: Gambit once blinded himself with an exploding card. During that time, he gained the ability to see future glimpses by holding his cards. This power vanished before anyone knew where it came from. When Remy Lebeau became the Horseman of Death for Apocalypse, his powers changed. As Death, Gambit could turn air into poison, infect others with his touch, and use molecular acceleration on living things, instantly breaking their marks. Though Lebeau left Apocalypse, he kept and suppressed the power to turn into Death.has been a while.

What You Thought He Could Do: Magneto masters magnetism. Through absolute control of magnetic fields, Max Eisenhardt manipulates metal. He creates force fields, flies, and fires electromagnetic pulses. That is why an entire X-Men team usually beats him.

What He Can Do Now: Magneto uses his magnetokinesis on the entire electromagnetic spectrum. This opens up many new uses. Magneto can defy gravity. He absorbs radiation. His constant link to Earth’s magnetic fields gives him a global view. He can even bend light to make himself or others invisible. Magneto saw Dazzler punch herself with her light powers. He seems ready to trick the X-Men.

What You Thought She Could Do: Since her teens, Rogue has the mutant power to soak up memories, life force, and powers from anyone she touches. This grants her access to many powers. It also stops her from ever touching people she loves. Fans who know her from X-Men: The Animated Series know this.X-Men: The Animated SeriesPeople often link Rogue to the flight and super-strength she once took from Carol Danvers. Rogue later gave those powers back.

What She Can Do Now: Rogue did not change her powers much. She learned to control them. Working with Professor X, Rogue now turns her absorption on and off. This lets her show physical affection to Gambit, whom she married. Rogue once absorbed Wonder Man completely while both were in the Uncanny Avengers. Rogue keeps much of his power set after he left, replacing skills she got from Captain Marvel.

What You Thought He Could Do: Josh Foley became a Reaver-turned-New Mutant. He has the ability to heal others with his touch via biokinesis, a simple but useful power. This is like Wolverine, but for sharing.

What He Can Do Now: Elixir shows greater power evolution than other mutants. First, he healed himself, turning his skin gold, possibly a second mutation. Foley then learned his Omega-level biokinesis could attack. This became the “Death Touch,” which turns his skin deep metallic black when used on an enemy. Last, Elixir found he could bring the dead back, including himself. This makes him nearly un-killable. He uses these resurrection powers with the Five, a group where mutants achieved functional immortality.

What You Thought She Could Do: Jubilee Lee, once thought to be one of the X-Men’s weaker members, possessed two superpowers: shooting fireworks from her hands and wolfing down chili dogs. These abilities allowed her to distract and confuse enemies.

What She Can Do Now: Jubilee can now generate outright explosions, including subatomic ones. She has blown up enough stuff to stop being a pushover.Over time, Jubilee developed control over "lumikinetic explosive light blasting." She can now do much more than make fireworks. She generates outright explosions. She can generate subatomic explosions.

What You Thought He Could Do: As Angel, Warren Worthington III founded the X-Men despite his limited powers: large feathery wings letting him fly. Then, Worthington became Apocalypse's Horseman of Death, transforming into Archangel with techno-organic wings shooting razor-sharp, poisonous barbs at enemies, plus other powers. This form brought the character peak popularity, but it wasn't his final change.

What He Can Do Now: Angel learned about his healing factor. Violent events showed him his blood could heal others via transfusion. Worthington worked as a full-time blood donor at a children’s hospital. An encounter with a Life Seed helped Angel bring people and puppies back from the dead. These powers are gone now. He can still switch to Archangel mode, though he prefers not to.

What You Thought She Could Do: Emma Frost, needing no codename or setup, moved from Hellfire Club villain to X-Men leader fast. She is the Marvel Universe's top mutant psychic, not Charles Xavier or Jean Grey—though style would give her that power.

What She Can Do Now: Cassandra Nova, Xavier’s kind of twin, caused a second mutation in Frost. This lets her turn her body into a tough, flexible organic diamond. In diamond form, Frost can lift two tons. She resists psychic attacks. She cannot use her telepathy or feel emotion. She does not need food or drink then. She might be immortal because diamonds last forever.

What You Thought He Could Do: Roberto da Costa joined the New Mutants. He was born a billionaire before his X-Gene activated. Sunspot absorbs solar radiation. He redirects this into skills like super-strength, flight, and intense waves of light and heat. His charisma is also a skill.

What He Can Do Now: M-Pox hit Sunspot. This illness made his powers shoot toward uncontrolled levels. Da Costa used his massive wealth. He funded tech advances. This let Sunspot harness his new power. He reached strength levels matching the Hulk. Scientists told Sunspot using his powers fully meant death. He pushed his abilities to save his teammates. Da Costa returned on Krakoa. He was free of M-Pox, but his strength stayed nearly limitless.

What You Thought He Could Do: Henry McCoy is unique. His secondary mutation shows more than his first. The Beast began as an X-Man with large hands and feet. He also had the standard powers: strength, durability, speed, stamina, and agility. Hank is very smart, but that is just Hank.

What He Can Do Now: After leaving the X-Men, McCoy worked for Roxxon Oil Corporation. He developed, then drank, a hormone extract that caused mutation. Beast changed shape. He became hairy, blue, with sharp claws and fangs. McCoy gained a healing factor. A second mutation changed Beast to look like a lion. Another change made him even more ape-like.

What You Thought She Could Do: Lorna Dane is Magneto’s daughter. The resemblance is hard to miss. Like her father, Polaris masters magnetism. She manipulates all magnetic fields. She uses this power to move metal, make force fields, fly, and more.

What She Can Do Now: A fight with her half-sister Zaladane caused a mutation in Polaris. Dane gained negative emotion absorption. This lets her turn bad vibes into super-strength, invulnerability, and size changes. When Scarlet Witch weakened most Earth mutants, Polaris lost those secondary powers. She kept her magnetic set after spinning as the Horsewoman of Pestilence. She also learned to make electricity from her hands.A fight with her half-sister Zaladane caused a secondary and metaphorical mutation in Polaris. Dane gained negative emotion absorption. This lets her turn bad vibes into super-strength, invulnerability, and size changes. When Scarlet Witch de-powered most Earth mutants, Polaris lost these secondary powers. She kept her magnetic set after a brief spin as the Horsewoman of Pestilence. She also learned to generate electricity from her hands.

What You Thought He Could Do: Quentin Quire was the arrogant bad boy at Xavier Institute. He had a huge power set. He called himself Kid Omega. Quire showed great telepathic and telekinetic skills. He produced a psionic shotgun. Then, he became addicted to the mutant drug Kick and lost control.

What He Can Do Now: Kick eventually induced a secondary mutation in Quire, and not the good kind. His brain transformed into faster-than-light energy, putting him into psychic contact with everyone on Earth at once, but also seemingly ending his life. But Kid Omega, as it turned out, was actually able to transform his entire being into psionic energy, and so he was able to manifest himself back into existence on a couple of occasions - mastering the skill just in time to enroll at Wolverine’s rebooted school for gifted youngsters. Since then, Quire has maintained his corporeal form, and gone back to his old habits of firing psionic shotguns and rebelling against authority - though he still has enough power within him to wield the Phoenix and fight alongside the Mighty Thor.

What You Thought He Could Do: Black Tom Cassidy is a usually villainous mutant best known for being Banshee’s cousin and the Juggernaut’s best friend. Initially, his powers were limited to thermokinetic blasts that he had to channel through wood, usually in the form of his trademark shillelagh. If his powers were notable for anything, it’s that they could not be used against his cousin - other than that, he was pretty run-of-the-mill.

What He Can Do Now: A grievous injury led to Black Tom undergoing a secondary mutation - actually, make that two secondary mutations - that turned him into a sentient plant-form. With much of his body now composed of wood, Cassidy’s powers grew immensely, to the point that he became capable of controlling all plant life. Like many, Cassidy was de-powered by the Scarlet Witch but has since regained some of his former abilities, including something known as environmental symbiosis. This has made him a perfect partner and protector for Krakoa, the living mutant island that has recently become a sovereign home for all mutantkind.

What You Thought She Could Do: Rahne Sinclair was a founding member of the New Mutants with a superpower unique among the X-Men, but not at all among the ranks of fiction: the ability to transform into a wolf. Wolfsbane doesn’t even need a full moon to do it, and the transformation comes with a whole host of enhanced senses and abilities.

What She Can Do Now: Wolfsbane has been through a lot since her early days with the New Mutants. She’s perished multiple times, and she’s also enjoyed a romantic relationship with the Asgardian god of wolves. Tragically, her child was caught up in a gang war between devils, and ultimately slain. After all that, Sinclair underwent a secondary mutation that lengthened her claws and allowed her to transform into not just one, but up to five different wolves at the same time - though she usually requires an assist from her pal Magik to pull it off.

What You Thought He Could Do: Mortimer Toynbee received more mutant powers than the average X-Gene holder, yet he still got the weak side of the superpower issue. Toad stays squat and flexible like his name suggests. He leaps far distances with real force. Toad sticks to walls. His tongue acts like a prehensile organ, stretching up to 30 feet long. He is powerful, and he is gross.

What He Can Do Now: He can now generate intense heat.Acidic saliva and paralytic resin showed up over time. Toad gained a new superpower after a secondary mutation while living in the short-lived mutant nation of New Tian. Now, Toad can light his tongue on fire whenever he wants. This is an upgrade, certainly, but not in coolness.

What You Thought He Could Do: You thought he could manipulate time.“Nothing moves the Blob!” During his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants days, Fred Dukes was a huge, invulnerable guy. His impenetrable, rubbery skin withstood any hit. The Blob survived bullets, missiles, and punches from Colossus—though he still got knocked down. Plus, the Blob had super-strength.

What He Can Do Now: He can now generate intense heat.Miss Sinister used genetic experimentation called the Mothervine process, employing technology from another universe, which triggered a secondary mutation in Dukes. The Blob’s new abilities moved the skin's stretchiness to his whole body, letting him stretch all his limbs like Mr. Fantastic. Dukes first could not control these new powers; he became a fleshy puddle on the floor. Eventually, the Blob mastered his stretchiness and became stronger than ever, just before the Scarlet Witch permanently de-powered him. Now, he hangs out on Krakoa.