It's possible.
Why is this scary? Oh right. Because immortal super genius mage that's used to getting his way.
While we readers might know that Author Ex Machina means that Paul can just facepunch his way through this if he wants.
There's also the fact that Ahri'ahn brought Atlantis up, so even if Paul did kill him, which he can if he does something like merge with the Ophidian, there's a chance that Ahri'ahn set things up so that Atlantis would sink again if that happened and that would be devastating.
He might absorb any kids he sires that have an X-gene. Better to find out like this now rather than compared to the doctor handing you your kid and his power eats it.
The x gene thinks closely related mutants are the same person. Multiple Man has powers that already operate on him having multiple, separate bodies that may complicate the x gene mechanism that Paul has hypothesized here. MM can create duplicate bodies and then absorb them back into himself, and the alternate bodies have a certain amount of psychic connection to his main body. So, his children might end up psychically connected to him before they're even born, preventing them from ever being a person, or he might accidentally absorb a child into himself. As such, he might either overwrite his children or kill them in a moment of carelessness if the x gene mechanism isn't understood and prepared for.
Thank you, corrected.
I read the storyline about that. That was a horrific thing for him to learn. Though he does later end up having a kid that he couldn't absorb, though that might be because his wife relied on magic to protect their son.
He and his friends were partying and got drunk.
Wouldn't it make sense that if the zygote doesn't have the x-gene then it doesn't take getting implanted in the uterine wall and so there's no pregnancy? Because, thinking about it, all her eggs should have the x-gene, but an specific fertilized one might not because instead it copied that section of DNA code from Paul... or something like that. Been a while since I studied this part of biology.
The way the x-gene behaves has little to nothing to do with how biology actually works, so its definitely a concern.
I guess things went well with Gambit, then. Hopefully she's not wearing a typical medical gown, or at least had underwear on under it... Then again, her normal suit is practically like a second skin anyway, so Hank might be able to get the usual diagnostics through it fine.
Far too soon for the Miss Marvel stuff to be kicking in. Then again...
Okay, not the Miss Marvel stuff, so it's more likely that she's already thinking of children...
...Yup, there we go. And since she has life-force-absorbing powers, we can guess her big worry.
There's always the question of whether her absorption power actually works internally.
That answers a question I wasn't sure needed asking. I'm guessing they didn't check beforehand whether... Insertions count. Then again the skin contact needed for that sort of thing, well.
Joy of being the tall one in the couple. And poor Hank, having to deal with this sort of thing. Wonder how he looks when he blushes through his fur?
Never mind the fact that she'd probably lose its capabilities for any other use if she did, and the difficulty of maintaining the mental focus to do so anyway.
Plus, he probably tends to feel anxious when he's unable to wear it.
Ah, yes. The way related mutants cannot affect each other with their superpowers. At least for those with flashy directly physical effects, anyway.
Having met as part of Paul's little rush-around in earlier chapters. I presume they discovered that in a Danger Room training session.
Or Scott's eyelids when he closes his eyes. Or when he puts his hands in front of his eyes when he looses his visor or glasses. His power doesn't turn off, after all. Unless that little bit of brain damage got repaired.
Cain isn't a mutant, after all. Despite the tendency to make him one in adaptions, his power is drawn from an ancient god, Cyttorak (Also known for his 'Crimson Bands', as used by Doctor Strange.)
Though it would mean that Rogue couldn't touch her own child without protection, depending on x-gene interactions.
Oh, hey, been a long time since we saw an Alt!Paul have performance issues due to conflicting emotions.
I imagine he's very careful about feeling that way in combat situations.
That's one way to do it. Much to Hank and Rogue's amusement, I bet.
...And I though Gambit's Lousiana mushmouth was hard to understand sometimes.
What is it with female mutants and being incredibly beautiful, barring oddball power expression...
Just pick an X-man to clone their skin? Seems a bit wasteful.
Three tries, three failures, yeah. I can see it getting her down, even if she's not getting any mental impacts from it.
Well, that's a good sign.
Because that's entirely possible, especially with his extra-universal origin.
Or even go so far as to make use of Ring-based IVF and implant it manually to be certain.
No need to sound so eager, Paul.
Ah, yes... The infamous story in which he reabsorbed a child because his power has a phenomenally bad sense of separation.
Remind me, has this alt!Paul worked out transitions yet?
...Kind of, it seems. I guess he panicked enough that he didn't think to call ahead.
Since even if none of them isn't the original, he'll know when they reintegrate with him.
Not a known factor in the animated series, but it's not unreasonable to assume he's already started the cycle of sending duplicates off to learn skills and return.
Case in point. I guess this one got lucky with someone, or simply had a different train of thought, which the dupes do.
At least he knows to be careful now.
I hope Madrox will explain it to his teammates, rather than leave them in the dark. While none of them have powers that might cause issues like that, better to know than not.
And then make your apologies for busting in. I'm sure they'll understand that your 'power' is emotion-based, so they might excuse the intrusion.
You could also just make her a power dampening necklace to wear for 9 months.
That could work, or it could easily cause a lot of problems.
There are no negative side effects to X-Men 97 power dampeners.
Has anyone on that show worn one for months on end?
It was designed by Forge, a mutant who's power is that they can make anything technology related they want.
Neat.
No, it does, that's why he only shows up for brief cameo's and then leaves.
It was made to be perfectly safe, so yes.