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