Bailey is a perfectly ordinary high school kid, until he has his "you're a wizard Harry" moment and learns he is a mutant. Unfortunately he has a power that can only be used once and then he dies, which is like having no power except kind of worse. The X-Men have always been about misfits and outc...
Because using bipolar as a means to give people superpowers - or insanity in general - seems to fetishize this quite a bit, and I'm not a fan of that. It's the way they did it - pills keep the superpowers/insanity down, while getting manic means superpowers. So if the MC - bipolar, and a drug add...