How come Jason can stay safe when Professor X attacked mutants in X2?
In X2: X Men United, Professor X and Jason are in the cerebro where Jason tries to make him kill all the mutants. When Professor does this, all mutants starts to scream and squirm, but Jason doesn't.
Why does Jason, who is a mutant and connected with Professor's mind, stay safe from this?
Best Answer
There are three possible answer (one of which was already addressed in the comments.
- Cerebro is shielded, and any mutant inside Cerebro is safe from Charles' attack.
- Jason is a mutant with psychic powers, much like Charles. Not only that but he is (artificially) stronger than Charles, as he forces him to execute the attack. If Jason is capable of this, it's possible that he is capable of withstanding Charles' attack.
- Similar to point 2, Jason may be able to resist Charles' attack because of something that made him resilient during the process that made him the (freaky) psychic that he is in the movie. Much of Jason's power (and creepiness) comes from the fact that his own father experimented on him to turn him into a weapon. Who knows what they did to him.
Edit From the comments below, and the phrasing of the question, I thought of a 4th option.
When Professor does this, all mutants starts to scream and squirm, but Jason doesn't.
Jason is not normal, even by mutant standards. He does not talk, he does not even seem "human" (behaviorally). He is a psychic weapon more than anything else.
- Just because Jason wasn't seen screaming, does not mean he doesn't experience pain.
Maybe Jason did experience the pain, but he simply didn't show it externally as he is incapable of "normal" behavior. There is also no proof that Jason is even still capable of experiencing pain in general. The extent of the experiments that have been done with Jason could very well have rendered him either incapable of feeling pain, or given him the ability to ignore pain as an overriding emotional response. He was focused on forcing Charles, after all. And he possibly does not have a will to live, and therefore doesn't panic at the thought of dying.
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Answer 2
Flater's answer includes several excellent possibilities. Another possibility is that Jason's implication is to find "all mutants 'out there'." It's like if a bad guy tells his accomplice to kill everyone, the bad guy obviously doesn't mean to kill him too.
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