"Oh, this place again."
He walks in unhesitatingly and heads for the bar. It's fairly crowded today, but mostly at the various tables and not the bar itself.
"...I offered in haste, it'll take some fiddling, I'll still try it if you want. It's interesting working with new things, is why I asked, but I'm pushing a bit aren't I?"
"Like I said, long day, and rambling helps. What kinds of things do mutants do other than telepathy?"
"Lots of things. My dad and twin sister do magnetism, I have an aunt who's a blue shapeshifter, a cousin who is also blue and teleports, a friend who's also a telepath with added teekay, a friend who's basically invulnerable and shoots rays of plasma from his eyes, a friend slash ex boyfriend who has wings..."
"None of these things are too far out there to me, but all from the same system, and without magic... Huh."
"We don't see that kind of thing often. Most worlds that have people suddenly start developing special powers that aren't magic, apocalypses tend to follow... And now I'm worried for your world."
"Multiverse theory, the study of things like worlds with angels tend to also have demons, any gender-linked magic tends to be... The term is 'softer' but it has a different meaning, maybe I should turn my circlet back on. Anyway, nobody knows why these grand sweeping generalizations across tens of thousands of worlds hold so often, but statistics says lots of things and makes reasonable predictions a lot of the time, especially if you feed it to a good divination program. Why are there so many Earths? If you find one nonhuman species, be on the lookout for more. Suddenly develop superheroes? Watch out for apocalypses. And so on."
"We developed superheroes decades ago and haven't--well, we haven't had to deal with any apocalypses since we went public."
"And I'm not a statistician so take everything I say on the subject with a rather large grain of salt."
"Does an ex-Nazi trying to cause a nuclear holocaust count as an apocalypse, because that happened in 1963."
"...Yes, that's the sort of thing that tends to happen to worlds that suddenly develop superheroes. Do you want a Defense Division catalog? Fission suppressors run for only a couple thousand MTU."
"I mean it was a one-off and the guy is very, very dead now--I don't think we have any particular reason to think that if something else apocalyptic came up it would be similarly nuclear."
"Joining the multiversal economy can be a bit of a rocky road, too. Earth, nuclear era... Think cheap Chinese labor and colonialism on a planetwide scale?"