"It ain't even e'erybody. Can't remember how common it was at de highest, but not e'veryone dat had de gene would develop powers. But it was more an' more common as time went on." At least until M-Day, but that's not anything she needs to know about. "Seemed mos'ly random, includin' some powers dat were definitely evolutionary dead ends."

Really. Ask him about his ex-girlfriend's powers. Or, you know, don't.

"Could kinda predict de secon' generation, if deir parents were mutants, too, but it don't always work. Know a woman who inherited her father's powers over magnetism, but her half brother an' sister had completely different powers. An' all of dem only had deir father with de gene, near as I know." And he really wasn't up on the Lehnsherr family at all. "Ain't always been like dat, though. Only in de pas'..." There's a moment of calculation because Marvel's sliding timeline because he's trying to remember things. "Fi'ty years? Sixty? Well, since de big boom in dem. De gene's been 'round for a long time in my world, jus' didn' switch on wit' mos' folks 'til after de nuclear testin' started in the forties an' fifties."

And then what she's saying kicks in and he blinks. "Goblin...ization." Magic, no problem. He's from a place where magic is practically part of the fabric of life. Goblins, on the other hand...that's a bit weirder. Even for the X-Men.