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[X-Men] How representative of the general mutant population are the X-men and their foes?

Ok, so you've got the ridiculous guys- your Pheonixes and your Magnetos who could singlehandedly level cities. But they're explicitly called out as Omega-level supermutants. They're abnormalities so we can ignore them  


But what about the rest? People like Shadowcat and Blob and Colossus and Mystique- not city killers, granted, but powerful enough to hold their own in the superhuman community. Pretty solidly more powerful then a normal human by quite some margin.   


Is that what most mutants are like? Do most of the mutant community have the power to become superheroes/villains if they wanted to? Or are most mutants, like, able to control cheese or something and the X-men and foes are just the cream of the crop?  


The comics seem to vary on this and i was wandering if there was a more definitive answer.
gpt
I'd say that the X-Men are to regular mutants what professional athletes are to regular people.

The X-Men will be the best of the best, for for every one that makes the cut there will be countless other mutants that have powers that are useless, extremely limited in use, or even detrimental.