Kate remarked, her tone very casual, "Actually? We used to have a lot of mutants, and I mean a lot. But something happened a while back and a lot lost their powers for some reason. Not sure why. And the remaining ones are being monitored by government owned robotic devices called the Sentinels. And no, it's just regular people are afraid. They're even afraid of us, and think we have to be controlled."

She thought about his question, "As for bald masterminds, there's Kingpin? But he's just a gangster more than anything else, and the only people he cares about himself. I wouldn't call him any kind of mastermind either. Causes problems in Lower Manhattan sometimes."