"Often, yes. Fear, and often knee-jerk anti-mutant hatred. And thanks to a very... ah, interesting life, there is no shortage of footage of me in some sort of life-or-death battle that can be creatively edited to provide a very threatening face to put to the phrase Mutant Menace. I suppose that is the only part that truly bothers me. I can dodge some rocks and torch-bearing mobs easily enough, but not all mutants are so lucky," and he means that mob part both literally and figuratively.

"It's not exactly good for the ego when your image is used to make people afraid of others, but in the end, it's still making people afraid. It's very easy for some to justify hating a child when you can associate him with a man who looks like some sort of blue demon."