Why did the X-Men lose their invisibility to electronic scanners?
After the X-Men died in Dallas during Fall of the Mutants (UXM #227), they were resurrected by Roma via the Siege Perilous. One of the gifts Roma gave the X-Men was that they were invisible to electronic scanners, television cameras, and so forth, to better help cement their reputation as “legends”. This power served the X-Men well enough during their Australian days (although, for no explained reason, the computers at the Reavers base were capable of detecting them, and the X-Men themselves wondered why), but soon after they went tumbling through the Siege Perilous for a second time it became apparent that the X-Men had lost their “invisibility.” There being no other explanation for this power loss in the first place, it’s generally assumed by the racmx crowd that Roma’s spell wore off. Of course, there’s a more logical explanation of why and when the X-Men lost their invisibility to scanners, as explained by Chris Claremont at the 2000 Wizard World Chicago convention: They lost the p
