Dear Johnny Fanboy,

In X-Men 2 it takes Professor Xavier some considerable time to locate every single mutant on the planet using Cerebro. However, when he is then forced to find every non-mutant human being on Earth, he seems to complete that task much more quickly.

Surely there aren't more mutants than "normal" humans on Earth in the X-Men universe? But then, what other explanation could there be?

Sandra Pickles

Johnny Fanboy replies:

I think a more logical explanation would be a process of elimination. To isolate all the mutants, the Professor would have had to scan most or all of the human population. Having done that, the task of isolating all the non-mutants would simply be a case of ignoring all the mutants he had previously scanned, and dealing with the remainder.

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