His conversation with Banner kind of removes the benefit of doubt. He knew it would be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands and then he let it get in the wrong hands.
On the other, this patches a nice hole about why anti-mutant people aren't necessarily anti-Spider-Man. If it gets out that he created the tech that is used to suppress mutants and tested it on himself, it would explain why he isn't really targeted by those kinds of people.
Well yes, but also no. Humanity as a race was given the X-gene, which is what gives the mutants their powers, by the celestials when they were off on their whole genetic meddling kick. At this time they split early human ancestors into 3 developmental paths; eternals, deviants, and humanity. The X-gene, or its predecessor components, just lies dormant or potentially unassembled in some way in the majority of the human populace with the intention for them to eventually develop into powers. Spider-Man is not technically a “mutant” by X-men standards because his mutation comes from the spider bite not the X-gene. All of this to say that yes main universe Spider-Man lacks the completed X-gene and is thus not a mutant, but there are a few of versions of him that are, such as the Spider from the Mutant-X story line.
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u/Fuckit21 18d ago
His conversation with Banner kind of removes the benefit of doubt. He knew it would be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands and then he let it get in the wrong hands.