This article contains spoilers for X-Men #15.The X-Men's Resurrection Protocols are changing the very nature of the mutant race in Marvel Comics forever. The entire mutant race has gathered on the living island of Krakoa, hero and villain alike. For the first time in recent history, mutants are not fighting against one another; rather, they are cooperating and coordinating. They have learned to synergize their powers, working together as part of what they call a "circuit." These circuits have been used to plunder creation itself, obtaining the precious metal mysterium from a realm at the heart of existence itself.

But the X-Men's greatest achievement lies in the Resurrection Protocols. A circuit of five minutes have learned how to unite their powers with Cerebro technology to literally raise the dead, meaning the millions of mutants who have been killed in the past - including in the massacre at Genosha - are being resurrected. The Scarlet Witch recently used her magic to amplify this, meaning even mutants who died beyond Cerebro's reach can now be brought back.

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But it seems the X-Men's Resurrection Protocols are subtly changing their subjects. X-Men #15, by Gerry Duggan and Joshua Cassara, features an intriguing conversation between Forge and Professor X. Some past comics have implied that Professor X possessed minor telekinetic powers in addition to his standard telepathy, but this has generally been seen as a mistake by writers and artists. X-Men #15 reveals that's not the case; rather, he has always had low-level telekinetic abilities, and it seems the Resurrection Protocols are amplifying them. If this is the case for Charles Xavier, it stands to reason it will be true for others.

Mutant Powers Can Develop in Vastly Different Ways

Marvel Comics Professor X Telekinesis

It makes sense for the Resurrection Protocols to result in subtly changed power sets. Some mutant powers have been affected by physical trauma or psychological experiences; this is why Cyclops cannot control his optic blasts, for example. A new body, a brain that has not sustained damage and that has new links and connections, would potentially allow powers to develop in different ways. The interesting question is whether repeated resurrections have an increased impact. If that is indeed the case, then Quentin Quire - the Omega-level mutant who has been killed and resurrected the most times - has been transformed to a greater degree.

It is concerning, however, that the Resurrection Protocols are having unexpected repercussions. The X-Men have been tremendously creative, but they have no idea what the side effects of their actions really are; the mutants almost changed the nature of reality on an existential level, with the X-Men almost killing death itself. They are not even aware of this, because that particular side effect was dealt with by Jane Foster. Thankfully, Professor X's expanding power set - and those presumably being experienced by other mutants and X-Men - seem more benign.

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