Category:Evolved

"To change or develop slowly often into a better, more complex, or more advanced state : to develop by a process of evolution"

• Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary

The "Evolved" label is adopted by many mutants with a particular investment in drawing a distinction between unpowered (and artificially or "unnaturally" powered) humanity and humans specifically empowered by hereditary mutations. Supporters of the term cast the more common "mutant" as reductive and othering, even a slur, usually used to frame mutants as something other than human, in contrast to the more inclusive notion of an Evolved human; critics usually object to the inference that non-mutants are somehow "unevolved" or "lesser", or simply feel it's pretentious. Today the term is most strongly associated with the Evolved statehood movement Nation, who further define the Evolved as a distinct species of humanity from its "Sapiens" forebears, but it predates that organization and exists independently of it. The term's history of use in metahuman activism circles dates back several decades, and it has many proponents in the broader sub-culture of Evo pride.

This category was added for Nation and its characters, but is intended to be available for anyone who wants to use it as a signifier that mutant identity politics are a major part of their character, whether they play with Nation or not.