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If mutations granting super-powers became evident at puberty you're going to try to tell me the "lucky" people wouldn't behave exactly like every other teenager out there?
But societies tend to be conservative. They resist change and reject, even fear, those who are different.
Not fan fiction but rather what things might be like if Marvel hadn't had to worry about the Comics Code.