SPOILER WARNING for Heroes Reborn: Magneto & The Mutant Force #1!
The X-Men have an impressive selection of telepaths, like Professor X, Jean Grey, and Emma Frost, but it’s been revealed that a common household material can be used to completely negate their powers. According to Steve Orlando, Bernard Chang, Clayton Cowles, and David Curiel’s Heroes Reborn: Magneto & The Mutant Force #1, porcelain is a psychic’s greatest weakness.
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time that the common substance has made one of Marvel’s telepaths powerless. In Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, Fantomex makes his debut appearance wearing a mask that includes ceramic panels meant to help keep psychics out of his head. Sure enough, Jean Grey and Professor X are unable to use their telepathic abilities on him. Though this is a huge discovery, the telepath-resisting capabilities of the material have been largely forgotten over the years, but in Marvel’s new reality, porcelain is used once again to keep a major mutant at bay.
Heroes Reborn: Magneto & The Mutant Force #1 opens with Magneto and his team of mutants breaking Emma Frost out of a “porcelain prison.” Having been placed there after a mutant protest on Capitol Hill was ravaged by the Squadron Supreme of America, Emma is completely incapable of using her psychic powers while cooped up in her cell. Quickly after their arrival, the mutants are ambushed by Fantomex-like troops wearing the same kinds of ceramics in their masks. While well built for Emma Frost, the prison isn’t designed to withstand other mutants' abilities, and the jailbreak is ultimately successful despite one or two casualties.
Having porcelain act as a telepath’s Kryptonite may seem embarrassing and absurd considering how common the material is, but considering the outlandish weaknesses that have appeared throughout comics history, it’s nowhere near the worst. Two of the most notorious weaknesses in comics came from DC’s Green Lanterns, who at different points in time were powerless against the color yellow and anything made out of wood. Some other hilarious weaknesses that have graced the pages over the years include the Human Torch’s vulnerability to asbestos, Mr. Fantastic’s uncontrollable ticklishness, and the Riddler’s addiction to getting caught by Batman. Having powers that stop working in the presence of ceramics may not be great, but compared to some of these other heroes and villains, Marvel’s telepaths could have it much worse.
The X-Men’s telepaths are some of Marvel’s most powerful heroes, having accomplished some unbelievable feats, so it’s a bit surprising to see how easily their powers can be resisted. Professor X alone can use his abilities to create illusions, cloak himself, take over people’s minds and bodies, form psionic shields, and so much more. Emma Frost, who’s about as powerful as Xavier, shares many of these same capabilities, and Jean Grey outclasses both of them as Marvel’s greatest psychic. Still, none of them are able to overcome the power-blocking effects of porcelain. On the bright side, however, anybody looking to protect themselves from a psychic attack can do so pretty easily by just sticking their head in a toilet. Heroes Reborn: Magneto & The Mutant Force from Marvel Comics is available now in stores and online.
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