The Inhuman Superhero Formerly Known as a Mutant*
Since the finale of Ms. Marvel there's been a few confused takes on the issue of comics!Daisy Johnson's origins, including mine.
So, let's clear things up.
It's true that comics!Daisy was thought to be a Mutant, but the keyword here is "thought". I suppose she could have been called one in the standard biological meaning but not in the specific Marvel meaning, as she didn't have the X-gene.
Daisy's first appeared in Secret War, a limited edition series by Brian Michael Bendis and Gabriele Dell'Otto published in 2004 and 2005, and there she already explicitly denied having the mutant gene.
Here's the relevant panel from Secret War #5:
"Technically, it's genetic damage, handed down from my jerk of a father. I don't have the mutant gene"
So, from the get-go, her powers were innate, the result of some genetic anomaly/mutation, but these anomalies were the result of the altered DNA inherited from her father (Calvin Zabo, the supervillian Mr. Hyde), not the mutant factor of the X-Men & co.
A decade later - issue #7 of S.H.I.E.L.D. volume 3, The Strange Case of Daisy Johnson and Mr. Hyde, published in 2015, a month after AoS had finished airing its second season - her mother was revealed as Inhuman.
This didn't really alter her origin drastically, since it was her father's experimentations with his own DNA that had triggered her genetic peculiarity, said peculiarity now being the Inhuman gene rather than genetic anomalies passed on by her father as previously established believed.
As a result, comics!Daisy hadn't needed to go through Terrigenesis to unlock her powers, which explains why nobody had thought she was Inhuman before.
(btw there's a narrative reason why she's so angry, this isn't normal)
In the comics, Daisy's mother isn't the leader of the Inhuman community on Earth, but a prostitute that Mr. Hyde frequented. Her name was Jennifer Kim Johnson, and, unlike her AoS counterpart, she was unaware of her Inhuman heritage.
She was also never tortured by nazis, and had simply given up Daisy for adoption rather than having her baby stolen by well-meaning SHIELD agents.
In the one holographic image of her, she still looks Asian, in line with comics!Daisy's new looks there were now closer to Chloe Bennet's than Angelina Jolie's.
Bonus
Here's Daisy's file from Secret War, her first appearance. There is no mention of her being a mutant. Note the part where she's said to be immune to the harmful effect of her vibrations. Comics!Daisy also has psychic shielding, strong enough to impede Emma Frost. And of course, blue eyes, because her first look was inspired by Angelina Jolie in Hackers.
Below is her file from Secret War: From the files of Nick Fury, the companion volume to the series, which calls her a mutant. This file also makes her 5 inches taller and 20 lbs. heavier, and her place of birth has moved to New Orleans (it's Portland in the previous file) 🤷♀️
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I wanted to work on a little comic idea, and @solobodor gave me the perfect prompt to have fun with: Our OCs, Daisy and Mark, during their first meeting! They are being very cute together and such. I love them so bad
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━ ✧ i'm flattered... and alarmed (welcome!)
rules ☾ taglist ☾ library ☾ wips ☾ recs ☾ AO3 ☾ ko-fi
━ ✧ how am I ever going to explain this in my prayers...? (masterlists!)
marvel ☾ the boys ☾ game of thrones ☾ tolkien ☾ hades ☾ brooklyn nine-nine ☾ disney ☾ one piece ☾ you ☾ baldur's gate 3 ☾ dungeon meshi ☾
━ ✧ don’t wear her out priest, I may have need of her (open to requests!)
the good place ☾ the vampire diaries ☾ the addams family ☾ dc comics ☾ alice in bordeland ☾ the fall of the house of usher ☾ the glory ☾ pushing daisies ☾ pride and prejudice ☾
━ ✧ you have to do more leg work before I commit to hip work (not writing for anymore!)
friday 13th ☾ carrie ☾ the bear
━ ✧ you don’t need to stick your hands in every hole you find (events!)
holiday specials ☾ taylor swift writing challenge ☾ birthday event
━ ✧ you can't cast a shadow without some light (reading project!)
notes on the hobbit ☾ #reading the hobbit ☾ notes on the way of kings
━ ✧ do you know why i love night orchids? (about me!)
i'm from brasil, graduating in journalism and finally got a job! still learning english. obsessed with baldur's gate 3, tolkien and lee pace.
@ madwomansapologist.tumblr.
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been having nimona thoughts for the past week or so since i watched the movie, just kind of reflecting on nd stevenson’s wider body of work and development as an artist and mulling over his statements about the movie having a more explicitly happy ending than the comic. and i think it’s so interesting and beautiful in a way that just makes me so fucking happy. like, nimona the movie is so nice. it is softer and warmer than the comic, rounding its edges (but not completely sanding them away) to turn into a kids movie, and what a kids movie it is! nimona the comic is cruel and gritty and complicated in much more uncomfortable ways than the movie, and its ending is so profoundly bittersweet and hopeful and just. deeply deeply meaningful to me. and then the movie’s like hey :) what if nimona saw ballister for who he was :) a friend :) and im like WAHHHHHHH. it’s so nice :’)
also just think it’s neat that goldenheart are overall a much happier, more stable couple in the movie, because whilst i personally prefer analysing crazy gay bitches (utena fan), watching gay people get to be gay in nice and fun ways is like :) like what’s a mainstream animated film with a gay protagonist who starts the film in a relationship and has that relationship be a central plot point throughout? and also they kiss and are in love at the end? it’s a big deal!!!! it’s awesome to see!! it made me incredibly happy !!!!! god fucking bless
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Alright, since i haven't to hand in anything else for college (yet) I'd figure I'd spend some time developing some fics I've had bubbling in my head for a while. I can't guarantee a length of time that they'll be written and published, but this gives me The responsibility to start working on one or more.
So i thought I'd place a poll of the different fic ideas i have to see which is more popular so i can decide which gets priority. The options are:
1. Agents of SHIELD S5 (and maybe 6&7) rewrite (includes Ben as a mainstay character and defocusing on Fitzsimmons among other changes that I'II happily elaborate if asked)
2. Tyler Lockwood/Josh Rosza fic (basically Tyler sticks around for all of S1 and he and Josh bond and get together, focuses on those two as protags)
3. Post TVD canon wherein Bonnie and Jeremy break away from the MFG and get some more exploration in terms of powers and romance Bonnie explores more uncommon types of magic and meets a female witch, Jeremy learns he can still see Tyler and now has a connection to a deeper afterlife
4. Young Justice Season 5 stories mainly focusing on the Outsiders (Cassie/Wonder Girl, Tim/Robin, Jaime/Blue Beetle, Virgil/Static, Bart/Kid Flash, Ed/ El Dorado, Courtney/Stargirl, Steph/Spoiler, Kara/ Supergirl)
5. Protean City finale in Apocalypse Sonata style tying up all the loose ends and character arcs that the podcast deprived me of (istg, if only one person votes for it I'll still write it, cause let's be real this fandom is basically an endangered species atp) (focuses on Night Owl, Puck, Arcana, Crosswind, Sohcahtoa and Frequency and the assorted ships within)
I can't promise they'll all have a single cohesive story, in fact there's a good chance it'll be anthology style, but I have not written before so this is completely new territory.
And one more reminder, i can't guarantee WHEN these will be made, this is just so i know what people want the most.
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