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The team was formed by Adam Kane (John Shea), a geneticist who used to work for Genomex. He now serves as the leader, tactician and moral center of Mutant X. It was his experiments that inadvertently created the hundreds of New Mutants. It is now his responsibility to save these innocent victims of society. It can be argued that he may be the smartest man alive, but he is not a New Mutant.
Shalimar Fox (Victoria Pratt) possesses both human and Feline DNA, giving her the strength, speed and cunning of a jungle cat. She is a panther-like Feral who has the most common Feral weakness, a fear of fire. Her Feral abilities were enhanced during a "Secondary Mutation" within her genes during the show's first season, giving her superhumanly strong senses.
Jesse Kilmartin (Forbes March) has the ability to alter his body's density, enabling him to pass through walls or to become as completely solid as stone. He is limited to about 30 seconds as an intangible state (or else risk not being able to reintegrate) and can only stay supersolid for as long as he can hold his breath. As a result of his secondary mutation, his powers were augmented so that he could also make any object he touched intangible or as supersolid as he was, allowing others to pass through the object or be as invulnerable as well. Though he initially was seen fighting in supersolid state, he eventually seemed to be less mobile in that form, perhaps due to the fact he significantly increased his mass. Jesse is the only known New Mutant to have surpassed his "Expiration Date".
Brennan Mulwray (Victor Webster) is an Elemental Electrical who can generate extraordinary amounts of electricity and control its direction and flow. His energy blasts are usually referred to as "Tesla Coils." His primary weakness is water. His secondary mutation allowed him to charge up his electrical powers into powerful energy jets from his palms, which if fired downward, could launch him high into the air.
Emma deLauro (Lauren Lee Smith) is a Tele-Empath, a Psionic New Mutant. She is able to read the emotions and feelings of others, alter them and broadcast her own emotions. Her secondary mutation gave her Psionic Blasts that she could fire from her forehead at her opponents, knocking them unconscious, erasing memories, or even killing them upon impact. Her powers expanded in range and scale as Season 2 progressed allowing her to broadcast emotions to a much wider range, though she could not isolate targets when doing this. She could also shoot Psionic Starbursts and Psionic Shockwaves. Emma died in the explosion at Naxcon (Nick Fox's Company).
Lexa Pierce (Karen Cliche) was the first member of the original Mutant X, but was unknown until Emma's death and Adam's disappearance. Has also worked for Eckhart at Genomex and The GSA and then for The Dominion before rejoining Mutant X. Lexa is a Chromatic Molecular and can bend light around her to become invisible, project flashes of light to momentarily blind others and focus light into laser beams which she can shoot from her fingers. After Emma died during the start of the show's third season, Lexa joins the team and sets herself up as the new leader. She did this at the behest of a mysterious organization which was secretly manipulating everything within the lives of the Mutant X team for their own reasons. Although many times disgusted over their orders for her, Lexa was forced to comply, as she believed they held vital information to the whereabouts of her long-lost twin brother. Eventually, Lexa had to kill her brother after his powers went out of control.
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