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    Character » Mimic appears in 684 issues.

    Mimic is a super-human with the ability to copy the powers and abilities of others. He was the first new recruit to the original X-Men team and later a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Excalibur and Norman Osborn's X-Men team before rejoining the X-Men at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

    How is Mimic different from Rogue?

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    How is the Mimic different from Rogue(apart from obviously gender)? Have they even met(or at least know of one another)?

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    @paracelsus: Mimic isn't a mutant, at least not in the main continuity. He also just is able to mimic a mutants powers when in a certain vicinity and can usually control them pretty easily.

    Rogue needs to have contact, has the unfortunate side effect of sometimes not being able to control the power she absorbs, and also absorbs other things like memories and personality traits, Mimic just gains powers.

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    @paracelsus Yes, Rogue and Mimic know of each other and have even worked together once or twice.

    @cattlebattle Actually Mimic in 616 can also mimic the knowledge and abilities of anyone he comes into contact with though it's rarely shown

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    Also Rogue steals '' life force'' of people she touches. She almost killed Ms. Marvel to keep her powers. Mimic only needed to spend a long period of time with the original X-men to gain their powers permanently.

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    Rogue: she can absorb the life-force of whomever she touches, she also takes parts of that person for a short period of time depending on how long she touched them, potentially permanently at the risk if killing them.

    What this means is that she not only takes their power if they are a mutant, but she also takes their knowledge, skills, memories, and even possibly their personality traits.

    So while this let's her get the powers of other mutants, it can also make her crazy as she can practically become someone else, as it's even hard for her to discern what memories are hers and what are someone else's.

    Mimic: he just has to be within a certain range to copy someone's powers and skills. No touching, no time-limit (just a proximity limit), no becoming schizo. He also has the potential to permanently copy someone's abilities if he is around them long enough, as shown with the original X-Men.

    So Mimic can basically become a god depending on what room he's in, but he is bipolar and is afraid of losing control his powers. Rogue on the otherhand is much more flawed and compelling.

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