Justin worked on Marvel's Infinity event a few years ago. In that series, a bomb explodes which spills vast amounts of Terrigen into Earth's atmosphere. Formerly, Terrigen was used in controlled settings, usually for helping children of the Inhumans complete their metamorphoses. Now Terrigen travels around the globe in storms. When a Terrigen cloud appears, ordinary people are encouraged to take shelter.
The reasons for this are obvious. Everyone carries a vast number of unutilized traits in their recessive genes. The Terrigen works on those recessive genes. If a person unknowingly carries an Inhuman trait, the Terrigen transforms the ordinary mortal into an Inhuman with special powers. Of course, as Stan Lee taught us, with great power comes the need for great responsibility.
In Civil War II Issue 0, Brian Michael Bendis asks this question: What if a person is given great power all at once, and is not able to control it?
It's an interesting question to ask at any time, but even more so in an election year.
Dragon Dave
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