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The actor-writer-director labored with love for seven years on this mutant hybrid of The Fountainhead, The Conformist and The Godfather movies, and it should be met with an equal amount of awe and admiration.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
Truth is, Deadpool really is too cool to hang out with those mutant nerds.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 July 2024
For Lucca, Cronenberg’s trademark anatomical derangements — all those slimy, mutant body organs, guts and intestines spilling out of his characters like slinky toys — are how the director makes a character’s anxieties manifest: the deliquescing body as a metaphor for spiritual imbalance.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Deadpool assures audiences that Wolverine can’t really be dead because of his mutant power of accelerated healing.
—Richard Newby, Vulture, 26 July 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Latin mutant-, mutans, present participle of mutare
First Known Use
1903, in the meaning defined above
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“Mutant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutant. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
mutant
1 of 2 adjective
mu·tant
ˈmyüt-ᵊnt
: of, relating to, or produced by mutation
mutant
2 of 2 noun
: a mutant individual
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