I think the most plausible scenario involves some sort of pathogen that was delivered to multiple regions on the plant at relatively the same time. For what purpose is probably not so important. Even with the walking dead universe being premised on 'zombies' not being culturally known, it would be pretty self evident pretty damn quickly that people that got bit died and turned into zombies. Given that the gestation period for the virus is up to 8 hours (according to the TV show at least), it is pretty impossible to imagine a scenario where the virus managed to make a trans-atlantic or trans-pacific hop. In fact, given the vast tracts of land that separate many areas of North American generally, in order for the virus to spread beyond the ability to contain would require not only much more active zombies than we have seen, but a more widespread initial outbreak.
It just feels weird having Harley being apart from the Joker more than having the Joker be apart from Harley. Harley's character, after all, was in personality and design is parasitic to the Joker. The Joker has been his stand-alone character as long as he's been around, so in terms of his character, he isn't missing anything without Harley.
It is perhaps this design dependence and psychological dependence within the universe of the comics that makes Harley an interesting character both with the Joker, and with him. While she is with him, she is simply window dressing who serves to further the persona of the "Clown Prince of Cime". Without the Joker, Harley is left with an existential crisis as to how she can be her own comic book character, and how sher, as a person, can survive without the person upon whom her entire fantasy world of her mental illness is dependant.
I'm pretty sure that fine motor skills don't negate the physics involved with exerting massive force on a comparatively tiny component of a massive object. You couldn't pick up a strawberry by spearing it with a single noodle of spaghetti, even if your fingers didn't break the spaghetti.
I think in the marvel universe mutants has two meanings: 1) x-gene, simple.... 2) those born with a mutation. In the marvel universe most 'mutants' fall within both of these categories. However, as I mentioned earlier, I think that the children of 'mutants' with powers identical to their parents would only be a mutant in the first sense that they have an x-gene. Not expressing dramatic genetic mutation from your genetic parents would mean that you have not actually mutated and consequently, are not a mutant. Hence spider-man's children, if they had powers, would not be a mutate or mutants (in either sense) they would just be genetically distinct from humans generally. They would not have the x-gene... unless spider-man's mutation (or even human genome) or Mary Jane's (or whoever he has kids with) genes would result on him or her passing on the x-gene as part of their genetic material... a possibility not explored I think by writers so far.
I think it would be super interesting to see spider-man's child be a mutant in the x-men sense, with powers totally unrelated to spider-man being a mutate. Try dealing with that peter!
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