Mgoblue201 said:
Some of those points I don't see. If you choose to give your life for a loved one yet you don't die, does that make the act of sacrifice any less poignant? Who lives or who dies is irrelevant.
Exactly! God I say this so many times in "Jean Grey not staying dead at the end of the Dark Phoenix saga "ruined" her sacrifice" debates...morons.
Anywho, for those complaining about the "Save the cheerleader, save the world" thing, who's to say this isn't what it's about? The explosion in season one wasn't a worldwide thing, it was pretty much contained to NYC...obviously fallout would be greater, but still...this outbreak on the other hand kills 93% of the WORLD population in just a year or so, and it's now being theorized that Claire's healing ability could counteract the virus, and possibly any mutations/variants of it. "STC,STW" now fits a broader objective.
And please, Matt doesn't have "new" powers, he's just(finally I might add) expanding the USE AND APPLICATION of his EXISTING power. This is the benefit of having a broad, versatile power such as telepathy. First "reading" minds, then "projecting" his own thoughts into the minds of others, now "manipulating" minds in the sense of casting sophisticated illusions directly into someone's head...and as stated, he can also manipulate someone's senses, and he'll probably be able to manipulate their bodily and metabolic functions eventually.
Anywho, regarding Claire and just tossing this out there, perhaps it's no coincidence that she has the same healing power as "Kensei/Adam". If he's the "start", she could be a more evolved and "perfected" version of him, honed through generation after generation of mutations, and perhaps matching with "ideal" genes from the other part of her lineage. Maybe she has the potential to not just heal herself, but heal others as well, perhaps on a mass scale(like Linderman, but better), maybe her healing makes her immune to forms of mental manipulation(I would assume this would be true for Adam, otherwise how would he get papa parkman under his dominion). Given Claire's role, I would hope that the "healing" thing is more than just a coincidence, and that somehow her genetic makeup makes her a true, undiluted genetic successor to Adam.