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In Wikipedia:
When young Shirow Ishihara’s mutant ability to secrete a will – sapping gas through pustules on his body first emerged, the Tokyo Thieves Guild, of which he and his elder sister Zoe Ishihara were members, placed Shirow in the care of a cadre of scientists.
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In Wikipedia:
In Uncanny X – Men Annual # 17, Shard is stated as having the mutant ability of “transubbing ambient light into concussive force”.
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In Wikipedia:
He and Luna first encounter Callisto and restore her mutant ability of “super sense”.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“You think you might have the mutant ability to state the obvious?
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In Wikipedia:
He has the mutant ability to control every cell in his body.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Just hope your mutant ability isn’t to become an X – Woman.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The girl is the third most powerful character on the show (I’m putting her after Peter and Sylar, tied with Hiro, in that order), her personal mutant ability was physically removed from her brain, she doesn’t even think she’s human, she has no companions, and then uncle Peter leaves her alone when she needs him most?!?
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In Wikipedia:
At an early age Adrienne discovered her mutant ability of psychometry: the ability to touch an object and instantly know the object’s history in terms of events surrounding its past, present, and future owners.
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In Wikipedia:
The five Tao – Yu brothers have the mutant ability to mentally synchronize the atoms of their bodies and merge themselves into a single superhuman being.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
To what do I owe this mutant ability * of not requiring much pillowtime? (* fans of The Middleman will pick up on that reference) The first real answer is training.
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In Wikipedia:
In the 1983 limited series “Magik (Illyana and Storm)”, she aged seven years while in a paranormal dimension called Limbo, became a sorceress, and developed the mutant ability to create “teleportation discs.
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In Wikipedia:
Her look has remained virtually unchanged, and she has the mutant ability to sprout a mass of tentacles from her eye which is covered by an eye – patch.
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In Wikipedia:
Another of their siblings, Jeb, has developed the mutant ability to project electricity from his eyes, as well as his sister Melody (Aero), were both de – powered during M – Day.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
With my luck, my mutant ability would be that my blood heals everyone except me.
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In Wikipedia:
Apocalypse possesses several superhuman powers rather than a singular mutant ability, unlike other mutants.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Kitty Pryde uses her mutant ability of altering quantum mechanical probability to pass through the wall like it isn’t there, which is what an electron that is undergoing barrier tunneling does.
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In Wikipedia:
A camera-like device is located in this socket that allows Basilisk to control his superhuman mutant ability to emit a pulse of high – frequency strobe light from his brain.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
She is possibly the bravest character in the series, since due to her mutant ability (to phase through solid matter, which is very useful in scouting and sneaking into places, since Kurt can *n’t risk teleporting to places he hasn’t seen) she winds up alone on missions in dangerous situations.
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In Wikipedia:
Puff Adder has the mutant ability to cause the epidermis of his entire body to engorge with blood and thus swell his body to a more intimidating size, upwards of approximately.
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