'So you don't have any bat-powers? So it's just an outfit?'

Joss imagines the conversation, should Buffy ever meet up with Batman, in an interview about comic books. Joss gets cooler all the time. like me, he thought Cypher's mutant power was cool (though i'd much rather have something with much more destructive capability).

Cypher's special gift was intuitive understanding of any language or code. he could learn a foreign language in minutes by listening to someone speak it. when the other members of the New Mutants can hurl cars, possess a person's mind, or create portals through time and space, though, most people think Cypher's powers are kind of lame, and not all that useful in battle, which is probably why he's dead now.

and "New Mutants" is a terrible name for a team or title of a comic book. who was the creative genius that came up with that?