Blacksword said:
And as I said she had no reason to. It's already been established that the trained telepath's don't walk around reading the minds of everyone they're areound, at least those trained by Xavier. Jean or Xavier might pick up something screamed in thought, or in jean's case pick up something from Scott casue of their bond, but as a rule there's never been the impression that Jean or Xavier are perpetually readin the minds of those around them. All indications and dialogue has been to the contrary. The only time they read minds is when the set out to do so on purpose.
Pfft. Xavier is full of it. When Beast left the team and Scott asked him if he sensed something that could explain it, he said he didn't snoop in his student's brain because it was unethical.
But hey, when Bobby came back from a vacation with his old girlfriend a few issues earlier, Xavier checked his mind. A good move since Bobby had spilled the beans about the school and he then had to erase his mind and that of his girlfriend. But he sure didn't ask Bobby's permission before scanning his thoughts.
Bottom line, Xavier checks into people mind whenever it suits his purpose. He didn't check Beast at the time because he had no reason to suspect him, that's all.
As for Jean, she is constantly picking up things that people "scream" in their mind. Xavier who is a more powerful telepath than she is never does. Weird huh? Most logical explanation is that Jean checks surface thought as a matter of fact and whenever she get caught snooping she blames the victim and say he/she was being too obvious or "sreaming" the thought.
As for Emma, I wouldn't expect her to be more of a straight arrow than Xavier. She obviously has an incoherent moral code. For example, she claims to be more of a pacifist than Xavier yet she is for the death penalty while Xavier isn't. Not exactly kosher, for a pacifist. I don't see why she'd be more solid on the ethics of mind readings.
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As an aside, it occurs to me that Emma would never have been chosen as a replacement for Xavier by the president if she was a telepath. The whole problem in New Mutant was caused by the fact that the hardliners were convinced that Xavier was mind controlling the president.
So if Emma is a teleptah, she fooled the US government and all the checks they are sure to have made on her.
