Studies show that we superior mutants with the power of red hair feel more pain according to new research published in The Journal of the American Dental Association.

Researchers concluded that we redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in our gene that affects hair color. In you mundane humans with normal hair, the gene for the melanocortin-1 receptor, merely makes melanin. But a red-headed mutation in the MC1R gene results in the production of pheomelanin which results in red hair, fair skin, and being afraid of going to the dentist… which I certainly am.

While I consider the fear of psychotic dentists who want to stick things in my mouth to be a survival trait, that will not get me cast in a superhero part in the next X-Men movie. Not unless they need a mutant hero to scream the first time the dentist opens my mouth to look at my teeth.