WORLD’S ULTIMATE BUMMER:
In Spiderman, when Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider his genes are mutated and he gets cool powers.
In the X-Men movie that came out in 2000, Magneto invented a mutation machine to give non-mutants cool powers.
In real life, you can only inherit mutations to get cool powers. So if you mutate your eggs or sperm, maybe, MAYBE, you could have a kid who secretes silk. If you are an adult, however, you really can never hope to just acquire a mutation that leads to some new cool function. If you do acquire mutations as an adult, you will most likely just get cancer.
Sorry to crush everyone’s super hero dreams. Batman is still a workable option though so, um, if you are a fabulously wealthy orphan your day could still come?
