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    The X-Men are a superhero team of mutants founded by Professor Charles Xavier. They are dedicated to helping fellow mutants and sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.

    Do the Xmen really need to study/practice when...

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    Any of their telepaths can inject their minds of what they need to learn/know?

    Like for example, if a mutant doesnt know how to speak english, a telepath will do something to the mutant's mind and voila! the mutant knows how to speak english in an instant. If they all need to know kung fu, the telepath does something to their brains and voila! they all know and master kung fu.

    So do they really need to study/practice when their telepaths can inject the knowledge/skill to every mutant?

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    #2  Edited By god_spawn  Moderator

    Realistically, no, but they would be boring. Let’s make an entire team of superheroes and mentally inject every fighting style, subject etc into their heads. There would be very little depth and no growth and development on their part. They’d just be good at everything.

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    For pure practicality, sure, telepaths could do that.

    Then again, it's also about characters acknowledging that they have to want, train and struggle to achieve the academic and physical aptitude that goes with being a better version of yourself. It's also the writers not wanting to make everyone ubiquitous, and having their personality and background show through their skillset. It's also probably very daunting for a telepath to open themselves, or for the recipient to be improved, for it to happen commonly. Telepaths only really do it out of necessity, though I can imagine how much damage telepaths could really do if they went full on Axis like the Red Skull with Xavier's telepath brain, or when Xavier simply danger room'd a bunch of X-Men through his mind so they could 'rescue' the original 5.

    So yeah, hero's journey, uniquity, stingy telepaths.

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    Not really. They would still have to train to get physically in shape something a telepath can't just telepathically do. They can give them the knowledge but they would still have to practice and train to perfect that knowledge.

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    For pure practicality, sure, telepaths could do that.

    Then again, it's also about characters acknowledging that they have to want, train and struggle to achieve the academic and physical aptitude that goes with being a better version of yourself. It's also the writers not wanting to make everyone ubiquitous, and having their personality and background show through their skillset. It's also probably very daunting for a telepath to open themselves, or for the recipient to be improved, for it to happen commonly. Telepaths only really do it out of necessity, though I can imagine how much damage telepaths could really do if they went full on Axis like the Red Skull with Xavier's telepath brain, or when Xavier simply danger room'd a bunch of X-Men through his mind so they could 'rescue' the original 5.

    So yeah, hero's journey, uniquity, stingy telepaths.

    i heard if telepaths doe that.......it wont last very long........

    look at xavier when he was a teen .........he use tp to get good grades........he should be a genius level but isnt......(same with emma frost)

    i also had a theory what if a telepath absorb all the smart people like stark, beast, reed, even dr doom(who is a genuis) then that telepath would temporary know how to solve everything ever<<<<<that would be pretty boring

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    @cosmiccelest: This Guy is correct.

    A telepath can pass knowledge, but not the physical strength. The exception is when they are amping their teammates powers, which even then isn’t permanent and leaves the subject noticeably weakened. The other exceptions are telekinetically, who can simply accustom their actions with a telekinetic push or cushion to absorb the blows or increase the force of attacks. Still not permanent and can leave the user exhausted, though much less since this can either be a gradual change or just a set pace they can handle, rather ramping up their abilities automatically to eleven as if they were injected with adrenaline.

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    @god_spawn: not to mention the fact that it would be wrong in so many different ways

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    They could do that, and prob would if it was real, since they are always in danger and stuff. But yea it would make for a more boring read if they were perfect at everything.

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