The sad thing was that all it would have taken was one sad sack human with a club or gun to take Mimic down as long as he wasn't near any mutants with hpuefll powers. Another thing that I don't get is that they always make a point to talk about how the X-men have spent all this time working out and getting into peak physical form and simply because he has their powers, he's instantly able to take them all down. I get that he can shoot eye beams, but how does he automatically know how to control them, that and they give the X-men here (and in other situations) no credit for their actually proven fighting ability. All it takes are the powers, nothing doing for the actual knowledge of how to use them most effectively. That's not only a specific indictment of this story, it's a story element that I see too often and it drives me crazy.