Mutants with Disabilities
The X-Men are a group of people born with magnificent abilities that they've been taught how to use over time and are trying to teach others to learn how to use their own powers better. But they always treated it like it was some rough horrible thing they had to go through. It was always like Mister Suave "I'm Iceman so girls love me but I have it so rough because I have a cool power that makes all sorts of stuff and regular people hate me although I can just choose to never reveal myself". Sure he has it "rough" learning about his "handicaps" but what about kids who already had disabilities that were adapting to new changes? Can you imagine how rough they had it? This is what I'll be examining.
Speedbump
The first mutant I thought about: how about if a kid was born with super speed and was born retarded? Sure, he'd move at the speed of light, but his mind couldn't comprehend it. The most basic of activities like running are difficult, but can you imagine not even being able to control the basic speed you move at? He'd be running into walls all the time. His mind would be fast, but with a learning disability it doesn't matter how fast your mind works if you don't understand something. Thus, Iceman ain't got nothing on this.
Above, this wall is soon to learn there's a stiff price to pay for loitering.
The Uncontrollable Blurt
In the Marvel Universe, there is a character known as Black Bolt. He's the leader of the Inhumans and his power is a devastating blast that comes whenever he speaks. To paraphrase a "whisper of his can destroy a mountain, a spoken word could level cities." Imagine a child born with this ability and Tourette's Syndrome? An entire town would be destroyed by one episode from this child.
The entire city of Tokyo, devastated by 4 year old Lester. A local resident, Ms. Chun Li, was quoted as saying "KIYAAA!! My poor poor dojo, you're next Lester!"
Lightshow Lad
Many people know of the X-Man Jubilee, a mutant who has the ability to show burst of light that look like fireworks out of her hands. This ability is generally used to blind or burn enemies and is pretty ineffective for the most part. How could a disability make it even less effective? If the owner of the power had epilepsy. Yes, that's right if Lightshow Lad uses his power he could have a seizure at any moment. Poor little guy.
The one debilitating weakness of Lightshow Lad: the use of his powers.
Miss Direction
Whenever you see a telepath in comics, you always hear them blurt their need to concentrate and then the villain of course is stupid enough not to try to screw with them at all. Usually the hero can use his mind powers and save the day with minimal effort by simple concentration. However, what if a girl possessing telepathy also had Attention Deficit Disorder? That would add a whole different element to the game, making her power pretty much useless. She'd be trying to read someone's mind and someone's else's thoughts would get in the way all the time. You can only imagine how long it'd take for someone like this to just go completely insane.
Miss Direction faces an overwhelming task of trying to read the mind of the guy halfway in the middle of the crowd who may or may not be a terrorist. However, it turns out that what he was thinking was exactly what he was yelling out constantly: "Show me your boobs!"
The Chair
Every super team needs a leader. Usually this person is a strong authoritative member with excellent battle plans. The leader of this band of misfits is in fact an extremely strong member although not quite as mobile as one would hope for. In fact he's confined to a wheelchair much like the X-Men's own Professor X. However unlike Professor X, he does not have an incredibly powerful ranged attack like telepathy. No this boy possesses super strength. Use your imagination and you can understand why he's really not that effective.
The evil Geriatric Germinator laughs at The Chair's feeble attempts to capture her. Not Shown: In next picture she craps her pants.
And there you have it, the "Special" Justice League of America. Hopefully everyone will realize that I do not have anything against anyone with any disability of any kind and that this is just mocking whiny super heroes in comics today. While they think they have it rough, there's always someone that has to triumph over something just a little bit more difficult.