Of course, the answer was no.
The X-gene certainly did not regress toward the mean, much less work like some synthetic watermelon game where merging things made them stronger and stronger. If that were true, the universe would have exploded from increasing entropy long ago.
After many years of human research and analysis of the X-gene, they had ultimately discovered that there was nothing special about it. It was purely random.
Two ordinary people might have a child with the X-gene. Two Mutants might have an ordinary child. An ordinary person and a Mutant might likewise have either an ordinary child or a Mutant child.
Two powerful Mutants might have an ordinary child, an Epsilon-class disabled Mutant, or a powerful Mutant.
The only somewhat credible rule circulating internally was probably that powerful Mutants and ordinary people were more likely to have powerful Mutant children.
This rule mainly came from Magneto and Professor X. All three of Magneto's children were powerful because his father had been a powerful Mutant while his mother had been ordinary.
One of Professor X's sons was very powerful because his father had been a powerful Mutant and his mother had been ordinary.
Besides that, quite a few students recruited by Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters had been born from unions between Mutants and ordinary people. The Mutant parent simply had not been as powerful, but at least the children born were not disabled.
Thus, these relatively powerful Alpha- and Omega-level Mutants generally believed that unions with ordinary people could produce stronger children. As for Mutant-Mutant unions, no two sufficiently powerful Mutants had yet paired up, making it difficult to establish any pattern.
But from the perspective of the lower strata of society, many discriminated-against Epsilon-class Mutants found it difficult to marry ordinary people. Most paired with