The REAL X-Men

The newest X-Men movie, based on the enormously popular comic book, features a collection of human mutants who were born with extraordinary and sometimes bizarre powers. With such names as Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Magneto and Mystique, they bound around making blades spring from their knuckles, conjuring hurricanes from the sky or manipulating their environment through telekinesis. Would you believe there are real X-Men? They may not be genetic mutants, in the strictest sense, but they are extraordinary... not at all like you and me. Here's our own gallery of real-life super-powered characters.