WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Here is Lenore zan aka Road. It's cal Don here, voice of Wolverine 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.199 from X Men, the animated series, Balba. Join me at the Uncanny 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:14.039 Experience, the ultimate destination for X Men fans just like you. You will 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:19.039 become a mutant student at Xaviers and be able to explore the school campus, 5 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:23.320 shop the vendor hall, and meet the creators and stars of the X Men 6 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:29.839 universe. Get your tickets now, Sugar at the Uncanny Experience dot com. 7 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.840 Hi, everybody, This is Chandler. This is Chris, and this is 8 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:50.320 Danielle. And you're listening to X the Podcast. All right, welcome on, 9 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.520 and yes, we're so excited to have Danielle Silverstone with us on our 10 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.320 one hundred and third episode. Welcome Danielle. Hello Danielle. Hello, Hi 11 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.640 of all, I will I will lay the ground. You're an amazing comic 12 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.920 book commentator on TikTok and Instagram and we are very excited to have you on 13 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.719 the show. But yeah, tell us a little bit about yourself and what 14 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:15.120 you love about the X Men. Okay, so um as people on TikTok 15 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.879 and and Instagram and the internet know me as and I even have the sticker 16 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:27.079 here. She was dead Stephen. I started TikTok in I think twenty nineteen, 17 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:32.640 but I didn't really like post anything till twenty twenty. And the first 18 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:34.560 things I was posting about the first series that blew up was like if queer 19 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:40.920 Romance was a loud and it started with they would a fucked don't don't, 20 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:42.599 and then I have sense of bold to they would have been allowed to be 21 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:49.159 together. But starting there and then morphing into talking about why I hated Avenger's 22 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:55.000 end Game so much led me to Marvel TikTok, and that's how most people 23 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.519 know me. But I actually got my start with superheroes two different ways. 24 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.480 The first one was when I was younger and like fifth grade, I had 25 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:07.599 a Superman backpack but it was pink, so I called it Supergirl, but 26 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.120 it was definitely Superman and it had just had a logo on it. It 27 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:15.159 was the S and S for Silverstone. Obviously, I didn't realize that I 28 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.080 was right, and I didn't realize that I was like drawn to this iconography 29 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.400 because of like all the Jewish origins and everything, but like I just knew 30 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.560 I liked it right, and like the only superhero movies my mom would let 31 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:30.560 me watch was like Superman because like they were PG. And then I remember 32 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:35.199 the first PG thirteen movie I ever watched was X Men, and I still 33 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.800 remember so many of the scenes they lived so vividly in my head of all 34 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:44.240 three movies, the scene in the Tower before I before Storm goes off, 35 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:49.759 all the Nightcrawler stuff, and the bridge scene in the third movie that is 36 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.120 literally one of the most iconic things ever. Like the third movie, I 37 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:57.800 like, okay, I do, I like X three, but I just 38 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:02.400 remember it being like the first superher thing that got me into what the heroes 39 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:07.039 are and what they can because Superman was solo, and then I was like, 40 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.599 look at this team of heroes. It's so cool. I was obsessed 41 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.479 with Kitty, I was obsessed with Rogue. I was obsessed like obviously Logan 42 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.479 was my guy, like Hugh Jackman may not be a short Canadian, but 43 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:22.919 man, he was so funny, and I was just like, I love 44 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:28.680 Logan. It's also my daddy issues, but that's for another time. But 45 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.800 I just remembered how much I loved the X Men, and I didn't even 46 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.240 know that Marvel DC was really a thing. I didn't know that Superman was 47 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.719 like separate. I didn't consider it, you know, I didn't think like, 48 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.199 oh, everyone has their own universe. But X Men was just so 49 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.159 fun and like it opened, I was like when I saw it, I 50 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.919 was about like eight or nine or ten or something, and so it opening 51 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:57.520 on a concentration camp didn't really hit me because like, I grew up surrounded 52 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.159 by all that imagery and like in Hebrew school, it had been given to 53 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.080 us, so it didn't feel like out of place. But it also I 54 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:10.280 didn't realize the significance and how. And I'm going to use this word because 55 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.360 I think that we were absolutely spoiled by the X Men movies. That two 56 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.439 movies in the X Men series open on a concentration camp, and the MCU 57 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:26.160 can't even acknowledge characters Judaism without having a goy play them. So to have 58 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:30.920 grown up with that was a privilege that I no longer take for granted. 59 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:35.399 And it's definitely because Brian Singer. He sucks, but he is a gay 60 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:41.399 Jewish Man, and so that informed the movies that he made. He's also 61 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.920 disgusting, but he is a gay Jewish Man and that did influence the way 62 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.800 that he did things. And I didn't realize that then, but I know 63 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:55.120 it now that the reason I loved them so much is because it felt like 64 00:04:55.199 --> 00:05:00.480 home. It wasn't just hey, these weirdos find each other. It's these 65 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:06.680 weirdos who are clearly queer and Jewish, and I didn't know where my home 66 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:12.839 was. And then I started discovering later like all the origins of these characters. 67 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.120 I got into Smallville because I was mad at my friends one day and 68 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.000 so I went over to my other friends and they were watching Smallville. So 69 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.959 I ended up watching every single episode and I was like, oh my god, 70 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.120 I love Clark Kent. My first tattoo is a Superman tattoo. I 71 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:30.120 was like into super into DC. Then I discovered Stucky on the internet because 72 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:34.360 I was on Tumblr, and I was like, oh, well, let 73 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.120 me read some fan fictions. Stucky wasn't the first fan fiction I read, 74 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.120 but we don't need to discuss which members of one direction. My first fan 75 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:46.879 fictions were the first time I've ever admitted that out loud anyway. So I 76 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.879 was drawn to Stucky. And then I discovered this character, Kate Bishop, 77 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.639 who was like always yelling at them, and I was like, oh my 78 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.800 god, be so funny if in the Avengers, I think it was just 79 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.319 in Just Infinity War at this point. If if Infinity War, if Kate's 80 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.920 the one who looks at Stephen, Bucky is like you two like each other, 81 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.519 right, And then I started reading all her comics. And now I've 82 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:13.079 read so many comics, but I've never, other than Children's Crusade because Wanda 83 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:15.439 isn't it, have never actually read an X Men comic till today, And 84 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.160 so I'm really excited because I love them. I love them so much. 85 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:24.720 I don't know why it's taken me so long, Like I just I love 86 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:28.600 the X Men, right, well, especially because you've had a conversation with 87 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:33.879 Chris Claremont, so yeah, you have a bit of inside information about kind 88 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:39.639 of Claremont and Katie and everything. Uh huh. I was at Emerald City 89 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:41.519 Comic Con and he was there, and I was like, first of all, 90 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.279 I love you. You are like a Jewish icon, like I hope 91 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:47.959 you realize that. And he's like, oh, I'm just a dude, 92 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.360 and I'm like, well, okay, I could see where this conversation is 93 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.000 going to go. But and the first question I asked was like, well, 94 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.279 because I was like the kind of questions I'll be asking, So I 95 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:59.360 wasn't even recording it. I was like, like, I'd asked, like, 96 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.319 how's it being a Jew named Chris? And he's like, well, 97 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.079 I'm a person named Chris. I'm also Jewish. And I was like, 98 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:10.079 Okay, I see where the banter's off here. But you know, it's 99 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.519 fine. It will just keep going. He revealed to me in this interview 100 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.720 that I still love and posted. He told me that he originally also wanted 101 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.399 to make Kitty gay and that was not allowed to happen. He I don't 102 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:23.279 remember if he told me or if I have seen this on the internet, 103 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:27.160 So do not quote Chris Claremont on this because I don't remember if this is 104 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:31.319 true. However, he apparently originally wanted to make Nightcrawler Jewish like I think 105 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:36.079 Orthodox, and that was shut down. It wasn't Daredevil, it was Nightcrawler. 106 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:44.800 He did confirm that Magneto and Charles Xavier's rivalry is based on and their 107 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.560 characters are based on Menachem Began and David Ben Gurion, who were prime ministers 108 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:53.319 of Israel, not MLK and Malcolm X. So that was also confirmed. 109 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.680 But the thing that I thought was funniest, which I think everyone's gonna love, 110 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.800 is that we were talking about Charles and Magneto because I was like, 111 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.519 you know, it's a little gay, right, and he's like, well, 112 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:05.600 I mean they're best friends and their rivals. I was like, okay. 113 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.639 He's like, well, there was a universe where I thought of we 114 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.480 could make one be a girl and they can get married. And I looked 115 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:15.959 at him and I said, but but why couldn't you just do that normally? 116 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.040 And he's like, what do you mean? I was like, don't 117 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.279 swap the genders just just to have them be married, and he's like, 118 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.959 what I mean? I was like, uh huh, yeah, you see, 119 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.680 like there's no need to swap it. He's like, but they always 120 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.080 had girls, and I'm like, okay, so do I That doesn't mean 121 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.960 I only like girls, because I don't only like girls. Kitty should and 122 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.919 I'm out. I will say in the issue that we read her in Colossus 123 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.679 are a little they're they're they're cute, right, but the way she talked, 124 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.679 they know for interact in in this issue, and and she's really sweet 125 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.840 with Ilianta, So I'm like, this the opportunity was missed, but you 126 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.879 know, and and and knowing that Chris wanted to originally make make Kitty gay 127 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.840 did help me a little bit. So yeah, well, and now that 128 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.279 we have a very out and proud Rachel Summers, Kitty and Rachel have a 129 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.480 very tight relationship as well, So maybe once she's you know, if she 130 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:11.759 breaks up with Betsy, she can get with Kitty and then everybody can have 131 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:16.799 the pairing that they want. Though I do agree that Magic and Kitty do 132 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:22.320 belong together. However, my headcanon is that Magic is asexual because and a 133 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.720 romantic because she grew up in Limbo and she wants nothing to do with romance 134 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.360 or body parts. She's just like, I'm just me and you know, 135 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.879 like I don't want to deal with anything else. That makes a lot of 136 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:39.279 sense. Yeah, So anyways, before we go further into the X Men 137 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.720 world, I just want to touch upon Barbie a little bit. Barbie she 138 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:48.120 should. She should because in every single Barbie movie she has a girlfriend. 139 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:54.440 So like, I literally every well besides besides Rapunzel and but that's just anti 140 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.320 semitic and the Nutcracker, So like, besides those, almost every single Barbie 141 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.559 movie she has a girl friend. It's like can she just yeah one or 142 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.480 maker Polly or whatever hand sexually like we could, we could, we could 143 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.480 go all over with Barbie. But no, you obviously love Barbie. You've 144 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.200 been doing a lot of Barbie commentary on your channels. Your big thing, 145 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:20.720 of course is that Barbie is Jewish. Yes, and so give us the 146 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.360 give us your your run on that. So the original Barbie is based on 147 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.440 a German doll as well as a different doll. But the creator Ruth Handler. 148 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.120 I was about to say, Barbara Handler. That's her daughter, Ruth 149 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.679 Handler, the creator. She was in a furniture making business with her husband. 150 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.559 Is it Matt or is he the l One of them is Matt and 151 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.639 it might be the last name, and one of them is Elliott, because 152 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.240 I think her I don't remember her husband's name. Why do we care about 153 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.759 the men? No offense. But she was making a furniture business and she 154 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.159 noticed that like it was declining and was like, hey, let's make some 155 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.480 toys. Because she noticed her kids playing with paper doll and she's like, 156 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.279 they don't have any like physical dolls to play with, So she's like, 157 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.919 let's make this. And the original Barbie looks more like Marilyn Monroe. It's 158 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.759 very much fifties because it was made in the fifties and the sixties, and 159 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.480 then it has since evolved into what it became. But she named the doll 160 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.559 Barbie after her daughter Barbara, So not only is it a Jewish creation, 161 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.799 she's also based on a Jewish person. And if you watch a lot of 162 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.080 the Barbie media, a lot of it screams jew anyway, except Rapunzel and 163 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.720 Swan like, which are some of the most anti Semitic things I've ever seen. 164 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.440 But you know, you take, you take, which you can get, 165 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.200 I guess. But she's very Jewish in the new stuff with her and 166 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.919 Brooklyn Barbie, both of them scream jew and it's just it's well Brooklyn, 167 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.039 especially because she's constantly saying like schlep and like they're having bagels in the morning, 168 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:54.240 like I'm sorry, She's definitely Jewish and Malibu Barbie's always been Jewish. 169 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.960 Yes, they celebrate Christmas. I don't care, Like I know jewsus celebrate 170 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.960 Christmas. It's fine, and I do wish they lean into it more. 171 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.519 But it's gotten to the point in America where Christmas is a secular holidays. 172 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.639 It's not at all. But in the Christian normative society we live in, 173 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:16.799 it is the secular holiday. So because of that, Jews and Jewish characters 174 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:22.200 are frequently forced to celebrate it or are celebrated. Like I love Christmas, 175 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.879 I do, but I'm not gonna skip Chronica for it, and I'm going 176 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:31.039 to acknowledge that I'm Jewish on Christmas and all of that. So Barbie's history 177 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.720 started with Judaism, it should absolutely lean into it. More Brats, by 178 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.879 the way, bratstalls are also Jewish. They were created by a Jew as 179 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.360 well, and then they got in trouble for ripping off some Barbie stuff. 180 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.799 But Barbie has always been a Jewish icon, even though her name is Barbara 181 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:52.639 Millicent Roberts, which doesn't sound Jewish at all, but you know that's her 182 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.639 full name, Millicent. Yeah, and then they gave her an aunt, 183 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:01.720 Millicent as well. Wow, oh my god. And also she's from Willows, 184 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.879 Wisconsin. Oh really? Oh yeah, yeah, I knew you would 185 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.600 have all the all the t on barbeing Yeah. I want to know, 186 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.039 though, if Barbie were in the X Men universe, what would her mutant 187 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.240 powers be? Like, maybe she's a consciousness that was implanted into a living 188 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.440 dollm ooh, that's an interesting one because the only thing I could think of 189 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.200 as like the ability for her to do like seventeen thousand careers at once, 190 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.840 Like can she duplicate? Or like is she like because I mean, a 191 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:37.639 sense of style isn't really like a superpower, except like sometimes it is. 192 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.960 I guess it's like constant confidence and also being a nice person. That's really 193 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:45.559 a superpower. Okay, Like how you mean that confident and that nice? 194 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.000 That's that's the real superpower? Or the ability to turn people gay, because 195 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.960 I mean, yeah, that correct. I also feel like maybe she has 196 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.399 shape shifting powers, but not on her body but her clothes, so she 197 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:05.799 could just cheer out. That's like there we go. The smartness that she 198 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.120 can she can take on any career and succeed, you know, so she's 199 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:15.519 super intelligent. You know. My favorite Barbie media is Life in the dream 200 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:20.240 House, where she's absolutely an idiot, but I love her so much. 201 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:26.360 She and Ken together, clearly it screams compet especially because Ken has Ryan and 202 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:30.120 Barbie has Raquel. But it's just so funny because the way they are with 203 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:35.440 each other. But like, Ken, why would we Oh, it's just 204 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.360 so funny because like there's not a single brain cell between them, and I 205 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.519 love that. Yet she's still been able to be president, a doctor, 206 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.559 a pilot, raised three kids by herself, which is funny because she literally 207 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.919 has an aunt in France and grandma in Willows, Wisconsin, and in some 208 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:58.679 iterations her parents are still alive too, So it's just very interesting. In 209 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.519 fact, I did just learn recently Skipper, the first of her sisters, 210 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.919 was brought in because they didn't want to make Barbie a mom. They were 211 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.799 like, Okay, she can be a feminist without being a mother. Stop 212 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.679 this. So they brought Midge, who was pregnant, and then they brought 213 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.919 Skipper to be your little sister so she could babysit her. And then later 214 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:22.679 brought in Stacy and then Kelly, who then later became Chelsea. So she 215 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.960 just raises them even though she has people who can help her. I think 216 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.320 it's really interesting, but you know, self sufficient and amazing. That's why 217 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.559 we love her. Yes, I'm back when I was a kid. This 218 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.600 is a confession, but I have an older sister so and she's close in 219 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.360 age, so we used to play together a lot, and she was Barbie 220 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.720 obsessed Barbie, this Barbie that she had the Barbie Dream House Manshian, You 221 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:48.960 know the one I'm talking about about from way back when with the convertible and 222 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.279 everything. I used to play X Men action figures up in that mansion, 223 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.279 and it might as well love that the X Mansion in my childhood, Barbie's 224 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:04.120 dream house was the X Mansion. I love that I had the Barbie Dream 225 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:08.639 Hotel. It's funny because I critique the choices to make Barbie raised her sisters 226 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:12.960 now, but then I literally every single baby or child I got belonged to 227 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.080 my favorite Barbie. Yeah, and it was hers, and and like Ken 228 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:23.240 was there, it was sure whatever, but like I was there for Barbie. 229 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:26.120 I was like, this is my girl, like in the in the 230 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:30.440 fantasy worlds, like I played with Barbies like until we moved pretty much in 231 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.159 twenty eleven, so like I was still fifteen playing with Barbies, which really 232 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:40.480 helped my brain with like writing and all of that. Like I'd create these 233 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.639 worlds and sometimes they'd be the famous ones, and sometimes they'd be in a 234 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:48.399 world where Danielle Silverstone was the famous one. I remember begging my mom to 235 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.559 get me a callie girl doll because as a jew, of the wasp ones 236 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.360 really didn't represent me. So I was like, well, this one has 237 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:00.080 a tan, so she's probably Jewish. And that's that's how that went. 238 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:04.960 And so like I named her Brittany, and her sister was Brianna, and 239 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.000 it was it was just another calliegirl Barbie. It was the same goal. 240 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.359 It's just it was her sister. And they were raising kids. And then 241 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:17.240 I didn't like Ken. I liked Blaine because he had better hair, and 242 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.839 and I was I was a special kid. And then it's like I think 243 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.720 I remember that. It's like technically they were there kids, but Blaine was 244 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.880 never there. It was all about Brittany. Brittany was the one in charge. 245 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.599 She's the one who did everything. Like I was very much a yeah 246 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.519 men exist sure kind of person, and Barbie unlocked all my creativity and I 247 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.319 would anytime, like there was any other kind of doll, they would join 248 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.240 in too, and always always love it. I love it. Well, 249 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.680 let's go back to the X Men. We're here to talk about Kitty and 250 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.960 this amazing adventure that's coming up. And I'm Kenny Xman one seventy nine. 251 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.400 But we're gonna set the era. First, let's set the era. Yeah, 252 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.359 we are going back to March of nineteen eighty four, back who when 253 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.720 I was a wee infant. The top film at the time was a very 254 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.920 famous mermaid film. Not The Little Mermaid, you guys. It was Splash 255 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.839 with Daryl Hannah. M hmmm, did you see this movie. I have 256 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.480 not seen this movie, but I need to because I am obsessed with mermaids. 257 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.480 Oh well, yes, this is pivotal eighties mermaid you know. Fun 258 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.440 so yeah, Daryl Hannah and I believe Tom Hanks and yeah, it's a 259 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:29.440 it's a it's a fun comedy. Also very cute romantic movie as well. 260 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.640 So heray Splash top box office. I'm getting a flashback to when they threw 261 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.759 her the bathtub and quick in her wet. Yeah. Yes, oh my 262 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:44.240 gosh, yeah they do that in H two O two and Marine. I 263 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:52.039 see the tropes. Yes, the top song was Jump by Van Halen da 264 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.240 Hey, they did it on Glee too, and I knew it before Glee. 265 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.160 I did know it before Glee because my mom. It's funny because like 266 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.480 you asked me what my favorite music is, it's definitely one direction. Little 267 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:07.160 mix and Barbie. I was raised on eighties rock. I do know it, 268 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.440 and people are always shocked or like you like that. Yeah, I 269 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:15.759 know things might as well, Joe. That means right, perfect, awesome. 270 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:21.240 Another thing that happened in March of nineteen eighty four is that Andrew Lloyd 271 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:26.119 Webber and Richard still Goes musical Starlight Express premieres. Now. This is a 272 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.160 musical that ever became super famous, but it's iconic because all the cast are 273 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:36.720 on roller skates and they do a roller skate ring in the theater and it's 274 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:42.119 all about eighties sci fi magical roller skating, and Dazzler makes an appearance basically 275 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:48.559 she should. Yeah, it's funny because if they staged that musical today it 276 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:53.799 would be a hit. But Andrew Lloyd Webber can't because Broadway's gone woke now, 277 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:57.359 so you know, right, no more shows for him. I think 278 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.599 it didn't quite succeed because I didn't. I think they thought it through that 279 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:06.319 the sound of roller skates kind of is constant, and so you know, 280 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.599 it's harder to hear the songs as they're singing and stuff, So it didn't 281 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:15.799 quite take off. But I love I love the ambition the xanaduness of it 282 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.279 all. They really went for it, but unfortunately didn't land. But you 283 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.319 can listen to the Broadway recording if you guys want to check it out Starlight 284 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:26.680 Express. All right, well let's get into this issue unkinny Xpan One seventy 285 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.680 nine. This was written by Chris Claremont, art by John Remida Junior and 286 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:37.039 Dan Greene, titled what Happened to Kitty? Ooh and on the cover, 287 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:38.920 oh my gosh, we have quite a cover. There's a lot going on 288 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:45.240 here. We see a bride and it's going. Yes, they're standing in 289 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.079 front of an open book that's called Morlock Law Ceremony of Marriage. It is 290 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:55.119 on a podium, so this is definitely their nuptials. And this book is 291 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.839 big. I wonder who wrote the Morlock Law. Yes, like which one 292 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:02.319 of the Morlocks sat down to pend this out? Good calligraphy, yes, 293 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:07.440 absolutely, But yeah, we see that Kitty and Caliban are the bride and 294 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.079 groom to be. Caliban looks a little deer in headlights, the very kind 295 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:15.240 of shock that this is happening. He's wearing a top hat, a bow 296 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:21.119 tie and you know, traditional tuxedo, and Kitty is wearing a bridal gown 297 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:26.720 with veil but as well as her redhead band and is crying correct. Correct. 298 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:33.279 Her facial expression to me reads that she is very sad but accepting of 299 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:38.200 her fate. And I love the artist, the cover artist here with the 300 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:45.240 the see through veil effect. M That's one thing I love about comics, 301 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.960 the way that that that they can innovate a way that you can see everything. 302 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.400 And I see this in manga too, But like you can tell because 303 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.680 of the way that the like the white on it looks like reflections, you 304 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.160 can still tell it's there, but it doesn't obscure her face to the point 305 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.400 you can't tell who she is. Beautiful art, yes, all right. 306 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.960 Jumping into the issue, we see that we are down, of course, 307 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.400 in the depths of the Morlock Tunnels underneath New York City, and they are 308 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:18.839 gathering for a celebration. They are celebrating a new arrival to their community and 309 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:26.039 a wedding. We see Callisto and a number of Morlocks getting a brunette. 310 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:29.119 Ready. We don't know who this is just yet, but we quite know 311 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:33.599 from the cover this brunette is getting a makeover by the Morlocks, and we 312 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.839 see one of them combing her hair, and we see these The fashion of 313 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:45.640 these ladies that are giving her makeover is very sexy, almost stripper like. 314 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:49.279 I guess, yes, I see fishnets. I love it. But look 315 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:53.799 at that arter on one of them. I'm loving it. The higher to 316 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:56.640 Heaven or what's the saying, the higher to Heaven, the closer to God. 317 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.400 Yes, and I love that they don't even give her a name's just 318 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:06.720 like she's the one who's doing the hair. They have Calisto have her name, 319 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.680 but they don't have the hairdresser's name. Yes, I would love to 320 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:14.440 know this hairdresser's name. And I wonder if their mutant power is fierce hair 321 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:18.200 like that they always oh, well it actually says they are. Then by 322 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:23.759 all means Joe, maybe her name is Joe. Joe. Well, Joe, 323 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:26.559 you are a mutant I want to see in current day comics. So 324 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:32.119 for all those Marvel writers listening in on this podcast, please bring back Joe 325 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:37.599 the Morelock hairdresser. Hey, yes, please? Then we see an expectant 326 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.200 crowd. Oh, they are a gagged. They are a gag. There's 327 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:47.160 so much fashion going on, Morelock fashion. It's everywhere in this panel and 328 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:49.079 I want to give a big special shout out to the guy on the left 329 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:53.279 that's a Morlock. I'll take on a date to who he's wearing like this 330 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:57.359 green jump Suti type shorty shorts. I don't know, but it's a fun 331 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:02.759 belt to fun all the way over there. Yeah. I like his hairstyle. 332 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:06.079 It's kind of in right now. I agree, that's my Morlock boyfriend. 333 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:08.880 You guys, I like the guy with the X on his face and 334 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:14.359 the yeah, the shoulder harness. Yeah, there's a lot of like fetish 335 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.519 were going on down here, which you know I'm all about. And then 336 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:22.480 beaniecaps. It's beanie cap fetish wear Morlock fashion. So it's a gathering of 337 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:27.079 queer people because this is how all queer people dressed. In a group. 338 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.559 You get somebody with their ass out, you get somebody in a harness, 339 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.279 you get someone with just a beanie in a sweatshirt. This is this is 340 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:40.880 queer culture. Go to our sporting event, you're not going to see this. 341 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:44.839 You go to a Pride Press festival, you'll see this. M hmm. 342 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:48.160 On the next page, we have my favorite page of the entire issue 343 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:53.720 because it is gorgeous artwork and there's lots of garter belts going on. Oh 344 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:59.200 yes, we turned the page slash page and it says what happened to Kitty? 345 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.039 And the red in the background is a pocket of of danger and you 346 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:10.599 know, passion. And that's contrasting the whiteness of her dress, which symbolizes 347 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:17.039 innocence and purity. Whilst I mean she looks really sexy though, the juxtaposition 348 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:22.960 there between what she's going through and what she's supposed to be conveying here with 349 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.599 the it's white, she's innocent, but no, no, no, no, 350 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:30.799 no, no, she is about to go through some shit. Yes, 351 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:36.720 this kind of spells something that is uncomfortable. But she's supposed to be 352 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:40.359 fifteen or not even fifteen or something like that. I can't remember. Storm 353 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.400 says it in a little bit. I think so, I think, so, 354 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:47.799 yeah, she's fifteen. Yes, so that you know, I think 355 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:51.640 everybody in this era, especially the artists, wanted Kitty to be older. 356 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:56.960 And I remember Chris Clermont telling us profusely that he did not want her to 357 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.799 age up too fast because that he didn't want to, you know, have 358 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:07.039 her, you know, in sexual relationships with people at fifteen. But yeah, 359 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.559 we could see the morlocks are are dressing her up very sexy, and 360 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:15.319 but I want to just talk about these two ladies that are they're holding her 361 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.480 by the arm. She looks a little out of it, like she's drugged 362 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.839 or or some sort of something's going on. Yeah, we later learned it's 363 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:25.440 a mind trick. But yeah, let's talk about these ladies. So Joe 364 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:30.160 we see with the curly red hair on the right, wearing her fishnet gloves 365 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:34.119 and her garter belts and a chain as a belt. Oh my gosh, 366 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:38.839 who does their their nails because they're faroche they have a good man is a 367 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:44.400 good question. Those nails are just completely icon and Katie as well. Katie's 368 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:51.400 usually on the surface, so obviously one of those queer uh morelocks there. 369 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:55.160 I was going to say, quirk, like my hero Academia. Their mutation, 370 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:00.039 thank you, that's for X men. Their mutation is clearly being able 371 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:07.400 to yasify people. Yes, yeah, yes, this one on the left 372 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:12.039 with the dark skin in the purple mohawk. She's got a spike collar and 373 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:18.640 she's wearing like a cut out bathing suit number with also garters and belts and 374 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.960 straps and everything, and she's also looking super fierce. I'm really digging all 375 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.119 of the garters from the straps. I really am. Again, this is 376 00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:27.880 queer culture. Thank you, John Amida Junior. I really appreciate that. 377 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:33.920 You know, we're talking about Andrew Lloyd Webber earlier, and he did this 378 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:37.799 little musical that maybe you may or may not have heard of, called Phantom 379 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:45.599 of the Opera. What's that? This is a joke, I swear to 380 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.599 you. Like this whole issue was giving me Phantom of the Opera vibes with 381 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.480 Christine Die and her white dress as she goes down into the tunnels beneath the 382 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:56.240 opera house to meet the Phantom, which is like Caliban. Yes, and 383 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:03.960 speaking of Emmy Rossum would have made a great kitty Pride. Oh yeah. 384 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:10.240 And she's Jewish and she's Jewish so and Elliot Page was not. So yes, 385 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.480 I love that Christine Diane was also sixteen, I believe at the time. 386 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.599 Yeah, that sounds about right. So yeah, that's a lot of 387 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:22.079 similarity. Indeed, and when Emmy Rossum got cast I think she was sixteen 388 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.759 or seventeen in jo our butler was like forty, so like perfect, right, 389 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.200 perfect, there's that It's basically, they just did this issue. That's 390 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:36.559 what happened. Yeah, correct, Oh my gosh. Okay. So then 391 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:40.640 the next page, we're at Bellevue Hospital and we see that we're in the 392 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:45.640 morgue with Wolverine, Storm and Rogue and they are looking at the deceased body 393 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:52.000 of Kitty Pride. I love Logan so much. He genuinely like my first 394 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.759 favorite superhero. Besides like Superman, which is always on the back burner, 395 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.279 Logan Wolverine was what got me into superheroes. I just love him. He's 396 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:07.880 just so ridiculous and like he's so like I am like not gonna, you 397 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.039 know, care about you. Why don't we care about No, you don't 398 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.599 shut up. You are everyone's favorite person and you know that you're also the 399 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.680 coolest one. But that's that's different story, right, Yeah, exactly. 400 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.279 Well, and like deep down he just wants to be a dad. He's 401 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.440 just absolutely energy the whole time, but trying to be cool the entire time. 402 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.039 But no, I also love Logan. I'm a big Wolgreen fan as 403 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:33.279 well, so high fives over the internet for that. And in this era, 404 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.000 we see a lot of him wearing cowboy hats and I think that they 405 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:42.720 need to resurrect the cowboy hat and Wolverine more often. I agree, looks 406 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:47.720 really good on him, giving, especially when he's with Cyclops. Because we 407 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.160 all know, yes, we know, we all know, we know. 408 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:56.039 So does Marvel. They do know. They just I don't know why they 409 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:59.640 don't allow, like, they don't even allow Venom and Eddie to explicitly say 410 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.440 we are in love and in a relationship. They have to metaphorize it, 411 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.839 and I like, literally have to keep showing people wrap those tentacles around me. 412 00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:10.759 Baby. I'm like, that's not platonic. Stop it, like Marvel, 413 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:14.160 just say it, just say it. It's fine. I know we 414 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:19.400 did a thing with Marvel and we were calling Wolverine, Geene and Cyclops a 415 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.000 throuble and they said, we can't use that word, but we could say 416 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:29.319 that they're in a relationship. So it's like they know, they know. 417 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.400 Anyways, Yes, So they are there at the Morgue to identify the body 418 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:38.240 of Key Pride. This is a body that they discovered on the streets that 419 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.160 fell from the Baxter building. So in the issue prior there's a big battle 420 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:45.559 with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. All the X Men are distracted. Kitty 421 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.799 is going through the Baxter building to try to get a cure for Colossus, 422 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.440 who is frozen, which we'll get into later, and she falls off the 423 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:57.559 top of the Baxter building and then cut to this body on the ground. 424 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:02.920 So the last page we see in the issue prior as her dead Dotty on 425 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:04.599 the ground. So this is them going to the morgue. Yeah, and 426 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:08.319 they meet up with the doctor who lets them in, and the doctor's all 427 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.599 like, yep, this is the girl that we found. And Wolverine's all 428 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.880 like, yo, bub, I want to spend a little alone time here. 429 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.079 You need to skid down and go to the roof or something. And 430 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:21.480 he's like, wait a minute, that's like illegal. Oh you know what, 431 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.119 y'all look like nice people. You're like, you look fine, Okay, 432 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:26.960 you know what. I'm just going to be gone for five minutes. 433 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.400 Oh my god. I hope I'm gone for more than like ten minutes, 434 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:32.119 so that when I get back, they're gone. I really hope they're gone 435 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:33.880 when I get back. I'm scared. Yes, it's so funny, but 436 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:38.000 he's just that intimidating because like, there are plenty of X men who would 437 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.960 be able to get him to do that, Like even Charles, he could 438 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.519 probably do it from the freaking X mansion. He could do it from there. 439 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:47.680 But no, it's just Logan being like I need a minute, and 440 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.559 he's like okay, yeah, doesn't even know he has claws, and the 441 00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:56.319 short Canadian still manages to do it. Yep. One moment that I love 442 00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.519 in this issue is when Storm look at all regal with her leather. She 443 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.759 has her hand up and she's kind of lamenting over the body of the supposed 444 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:08.720 kitty Pride, and it says storm Space is a stoic mask, the depth 445 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:13.880 of her grief, betrayed only by a trembling hand and a bolt of lightning 446 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.519 that turns the night sky to day fall by a boom, a thunder that 447 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:22.960 shatters windows and shakes buildings to their very cars. Yeah, like she's just 448 00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:28.279 her hands shaking, and also there's a giant storm going on outside and everything's 449 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:32.400 exploding, but like she's fine, it's fine, totally fine. I just 450 00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:37.160 want her powers to have dramatic effects because can you imagine like instead of having 451 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.640 an argument and going well fine and then like leaving and slamming the door behind 452 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.519 you, you get to be like well fine, and then the summoning of 453 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.920 the reins and the thunders and the lightning shadows and shakes everything in the howls. 454 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.839 Again. That was one of my favorite parts of the X Men movies, 455 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:57.799 with seeing storms powers. I was like, they're just so cool. 456 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:00.920 I love. She probably could do without even saying words. You could do 457 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:04.480 with the look and you know what she's thinking. You'd be like, oh, 458 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.160 oh, I see the sky is darkening. Okay, I said something 459 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.880 wrong. Yeah, one raised eyebrow and it's a lightning crack and a thunder. 460 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.559 Oh my gosh. Well, anyway, so Wolverine talks the guy out 461 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.400 of the room and with one sniff he tells everybody that this is not Kitty. 462 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.079 He's like, looks like her. You know, we cool anybody, 463 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.559 even down to the fingerprint. However, this is not her. This is 464 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:31.359 such an iconic frame that they do this kind of thing into so many different 465 00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.720 forms of media, and it's always one of my favorite things. And I 466 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.960 love exit lines, that's what I call them. And I've been criticized for 467 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.039 like making exit line choices and they get the most laughs, you know, 468 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.319 but it's like sense wrong, smoke, This conversation's over, I'm done, 469 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:50.799 like I just He's like, yeah, no coin argument with me? Sense 470 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.480 wrong, and it's exactly. I love him. I love him. Yes. 471 00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:59.200 Oh, and then Storm puts the pieces together and she goes, oh, 472 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:01.960 you know, uh, finding her body after the battle made it would 473 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:06.119 have made us like chase down the brotherhood. She goes, but clearly this 474 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.159 is a diversion tactic, and I have an idea of who caused this diversion. 475 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.199 And then we cut to the mansion, Barbie's dream house, Barbie's dreamhouse 476 00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:22.320 exactly. I mean everybody in there is a friend of Barbie, so essentially, 477 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:25.280 yes, aren't we all? And yeah, she uh sorry now she 478 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:32.400 Barbie's not there. We see Nightcrawler working on a frozen colossus. He was 479 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:37.280 he was heated to the point of almost melting point from Pyro and then Avalanche 480 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:44.119 caused liquid nitrogen to explode on his body and it froze him solid. Solo. 481 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:49.679 Yeah, he's solo. Oh my god. We go, Jew, 482 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:53.840 Jew there you go. Well, you know, obviously we know we are 483 00:34:53.920 --> 00:35:00.440 eighty four. I don't know when Empire strikes. Yeah, let's look this 484 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:06.079 up because we know that X men in Claremont nineteen eighty Yeah, so so 485 00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:12.079 yeah, obviously, so it came out before and Claremont generously borrowed and I 486 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:15.800 think he got yeah Frozen earlier in eighty four. So anyway, obviously the 487 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:20.320 Brood are the alien movies. You know, it's like, we can see 488 00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:23.679 this is definitely a Hanselo moment. So tell me why is Nightcrawler the de 489 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.239 facto doctor of the group? See, you know, I don't know what 490 00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:32.760 a question? Yeah, because he is. He is often utilized as medic 491 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:40.679 medici and then and then interestingly enough, Beast is usually like he's the smart 492 00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:45.360 one. He's the liaison with like normal people, but like I say normal, 493 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.719 because mutants are more than normal. They're better. It's interesting because it's 494 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:55.440 like you wouldn't expect Nightcrawler. It doesn't he like teleportation is not also growing 495 00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:58.760 up in the circus, I don't know when he had time to go to 496 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:04.119 medical school. But right, wait, wait what about monkey ears? Monkey 497 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.280 ears? Right, he was a monk? Wasn't he a monk? Ears? 498 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.920 Like when he was a monkey? Oh yeah, maybe that was maybe 499 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.159 maybe we'll have to look at it this through faith. Well, here's here's 500 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.599 something that and I think I think I did mention this earlier? I don't 501 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:25.039 remember that. Originally Nightcrawler was supposed to be Jewish, which means obviously he's 502 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:32.280 a doctor. There you go. That explains that this is just his Jewish 503 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:42.360 ruts showing mystery salved so um. We have Eliana and Professor Xavier and another 504 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.800 blonde lady in the background who I didn't recognize at first, but then I 505 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:50.840 realized, Oh my gosh, that's a Manda Sefty. Look at that hair. 506 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.800 Oh she is glorious. Yes, that is so eighties. We got 507 00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.800 a lot of feathered Look. Can you remind me what was the big bombshell 508 00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:05.679 about Amanda sef did we discovered on a past episode of X ray, Yes, 509 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.440 the big reveal. Right, well, so we should point out that 510 00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:14.000 Nightcrawler and Amanda are in a relationship, and then we find out later that 511 00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:20.360 Amanda is the adoptive sister of Nightcrawler that he was not aware of. What 512 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:27.599 the fuck she Louise they this is how you know that that the Comics Code 513 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:32.199 Authority and literally every single thing that was like don't allow queerness is so messed 514 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:37.079 up. You end up getting relationships with people who get revealed as half siblings. 515 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:43.159 Instead like what, Like, the one good thing about the Comics Code 516 00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:45.280 Authority is that they were like, we're going to stop with the child sidekicks, 517 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:49.519 let's age them up. And that's that's good because then when Bucky came 518 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:53.760 back later, wonderful, he's an adult. But it's it's in the what 519 00:37:54.360 --> 00:38:00.559 yes, I know, So as you're reading along in the issue, just 520 00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:07.719 know that that about a mad accept in our background character. Wow. And 521 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.559 the look on Nightcrawler's face when he finds up this information in this issue we're 522 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:17.800 referring to is priceless, where he's just like, ah, so it isn't 523 00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:22.480 just an anime thing where siblings are ridiculously close. It's an everything thing, 524 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:31.079 corat, it's an all media wait a voil right, and queer romance is 525 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:37.679 a problem, right, literally they can have like I'm watching Dragon ball Z 526 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:42.480 right now, and apparently in super there's a character that's like forty or fifty 527 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:45.880 who makes a wish and gets d aged and ends up with a character who's 528 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:50.679 seventeen when well, this version of the character doesn't really have goten, but 529 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.639 he's best friends with a dude, and it's like they'd rather do that than 530 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:04.320 queerness but okay, sure. Something that bothers me about this whole background seeing 531 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:08.119 going on with Amanda and Iliana is the fact that she seems like she's wounded 532 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:14.320 and that she needs comforting and care from Amanda, like Amanda is taking on 533 00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:21.400 a maternal role over her in this moment of intense grief, and I just 534 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:27.719 don't see Aleana post Limbo needing that comfort. I think she's playing because this 535 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.880 isn't this is when she was hiding the fact that she was a demon sorceress. 536 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:35.199 Oh, she was a secret. I think she's playing like I'm I'm 537 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:39.280 ingenue. Oh that brings a whole layer to this. Yeah, because we 538 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:46.639 also, Yeah, I also really like that she's worried more about Kurt and 539 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:50.960 his feelings, So I think that may also play into that that it's not 540 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:54.599 really that she needs comfort because she's like poor him. I know he and 541 00:39:54.639 --> 00:40:00.880 Peter were close, which definitely screams roommates, But you know that's I think 542 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:04.760 that may be partial to it, not just because she's hiding it, but 543 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:07.239 also like she's like I'm fine, yeah, well why don't you read that 544 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:10.679 bubble whereas she says it's easier for me because it's kind of like, it's 545 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:15.000 great, it's easier for me. Death and I are old friends. I 546 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.639 saw the other incarnations of the X Men slain in Blasco's demonic limbo when I 547 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:22.639 was a child and killed the two I cared for most to myself. So 548 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:25.719 she's like, oh, help me, Amanda, I've been here people. 549 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.880 She just wants to hug a pretty girl. That's what it is. She 550 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.039 wants to be held by a pretty woman. And there you go. That's 551 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:38.679 okay. But yeah, they have discussed that lossus. They cannot reach him 552 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:42.840 psychically, they cannot figure out medically, they don't know what's going on. 553 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:49.159 He's in this you know, stasis mode. Iliana is unbothered because she's like, 554 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.280 listen, I've killed these people in my limbo held dimension, so I'm 555 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:58.400 just going to take care of Amanda over here and worry about Kurt. Anyways, 556 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:02.719 Storm pops into Xavier's brain, explains everything what's going on and how Kitty 557 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:06.519 is not Kitty. Yeah, I love this art. Right here, we 558 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:12.119 just see Storms like the top of her head appearing on top of Xavier's forehead 559 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:17.000 in shadow, So artist, I love you. Yeah, and then we 560 00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:22.079 get this moment that's happened so often in comics, especially with Xaviers, that 561 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:28.920 he gets a mental attack, psychic psychic attack and all the magneto could make 562 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:34.480 if magneto could make a helmet. Why hasn't Charles learned how to do something 563 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.599 like that yet? Like I'm I get that it's because they need plot devices, 564 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:43.119 right, like when like this happens short, but also like practically you 565 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:45.800 should have something, right, was just a headband? Yeah? Yeah, 566 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:50.239 this is not the first time that he's been psychic, right, So it's 567 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:52.719 like you would think he would know. Does cerebro protect against psychic attack? 568 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:57.280 No? No, at least not in the movies. I know for a 569 00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.320 fact, because like while he's wearing it, he gets like controlled while wearing 570 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:05.320 it, and then it like seeps into him walllet's on him. So yeah, 571 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:10.599 no, But like Chris, if you're listening, I don't know how 572 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.519 much Xavier you're writing right now, but an idea, yes, that would 573 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:22.199 help well. And in current day comics he wears a perma cerebral kind of 574 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:24.360 on his head. He might have seen this artwork, right copers up, 575 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:30.039 you know, everything but his mouth and he recently was corrupted by sinister so 576 00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:34.440 we know even now to this day, he has not learned how to protect 577 00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:37.840 I think it's because he's so confident, because he's like, I'm the most 578 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.760 powerful mutant brain on earth. Why would I ever need anything to protect myself 579 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:47.840 the ship, that's definitely what it is. He walks around with a big, 580 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.079 a big freaking thing on his head and can't even be like because like, 581 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:52.880 I get it if he's like, I don't want to wear headgear, 582 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:57.000 like people who like ride scooters don't want to wear headgear shore whatever, but 583 00:42:57.039 --> 00:43:00.960 like you already look like a dorkman, Like, oh my gosh. So 584 00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:05.519 yes, this psychic attack, it causes psychic bolts to shoot out of his 585 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:09.840 hand yard. Yes, and if any one of those bolts would have touched 586 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:15.320 anybody, they would have fried their brain to a crisp. But Nightcrawler teleports 587 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:21.760 to him to his rescue. Amanda and Eleana go to the floor and yeah. 588 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:27.760 Xavier says that there's a scanning wave of extraterrestrial origin encountered it before, 589 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.400 yet still hasn't made the head gear to protect himself, unable to pinpoint its 590 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:37.159 source, focuses on me. Don't know why won't respond to my attempts to 591 00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:42.239 make contact, its force increasing with each encounter, effects more debilitating, unable 592 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.320 to defend myself, and then he passes up. There was a lot to 593 00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:50.760 say in the pain. I wouldn't yeah, but like I'm in a lot 594 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:58.880 of pain. Get me some ivy profen exactly Well. Elsewhere, the bride 595 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.800 to be enjoys the evening of her life, and her fellow, Mora Locks, 596 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:06.920 is happy to welcome her as she is to be welcomed. We see 597 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:10.480 kitty pride in address and it looks like a fantasy scene because those aren't moralocks. 598 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:15.800 These are handsome gentlemen in topped hats and in suits. And she is 599 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:22.079 a untattered wedding dress. Oh yes, she's got laurel leaves in her hair. 600 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.960 Now, from a Jewish wedding perspective, how are you feeling about this? 601 00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:32.880 Love? Well, knowing after reading it that this isn't like and also 602 00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:37.400 seeing in the first page, knowing that this isn't something like that she actively 603 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:43.280 wanted. It's it's not a Jewish wedding at all. There's no glass, 604 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.039 there's no cup. Those are kind of like the necessary parts the veil. 605 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:52.280 The veil is important too. But this isn't really a Jewish wedding, but 606 00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:58.840 that's okay because it's not supposed to because it's not Kitty's actual wedding, but 607 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:04.239 it's not not Jewish. Yeah, no one's inn a keepa, right, 608 00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:07.239 I was gonna say, because well, this is her mind, this is 609 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.119 her vision that is being controlled through. I don't know. They call it 610 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:14.239 mine tricks, so I don't know who's actually doing the mind trick. But 611 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:19.400 yeah, I was wondering if there was any sort of Jewish wedding element because 612 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:27.000 because of I mean, maybe the long sleeves, because like in some Orthox 613 00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.280 Jewish weddings, like like you'd have to wear long sleeves because like modesty and 614 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:36.400 all of that. So maybe the gown itself. But the fact that no 615 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:42.880 one's in a keepa is an interesting choice. Indeed, maybe they aren't having 616 00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:46.760 her control what she wants to see, but rather they're just like, let 617 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:52.320 me just put a wedding in your mind, perhaps a secular wedding. Yeah, 618 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:57.360 we see that some of the Morlocks are also dressed up. Callisto is 619 00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.480 in like an officer uniform with a bullets and a hat. We have Sunder 620 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:06.880 back there with his big top hat on and mask with always looking like mask. 621 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:13.320 And then her handsome heroic prince comes down the stairs. He's wearing a 622 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:17.320 I'm gonna be so honest. Yes, seeing that outfit, even just the 623 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.920 back, the silhouette in shadow and all of that, my first thought was 624 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:27.960 not so uniform. Absolutely, that kind of through me. It is very 625 00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:35.280 though. Do you think it's a conscious choice. It is German militaristic uniform, 626 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:39.400 Germanic Austrian, which is funny because Kurt's the German here. Thank you 627 00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:45.679 agreed? So yeah, she is bowing to her groom and we look at 628 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.119 her face flushed with excitement, eyes a light with joy. Kitty looks up 629 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.760 to behold the man who's won her heart, only to have the words of 630 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:58.920 greetings gagged in her throat as the last vestiges of a Morlock mind spell. 631 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:02.639 Drop away and see Morlocks. I'm sorry. Caliban's true face, yes, 632 00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:07.800 transforming fantasy into reality, and she's like, get away from it, and 633 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:13.960 he's like, Kitty pride. Don't I feel that for Caliban? Because Caliban 634 00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:16.239 is a sweet, sweet boy. He just wants to do what's best. 635 00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:22.320 There's nothing malicious about his maneuvers, you know, he is under the impression 636 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:25.599 that Kitty actually likes him, because she played up to that to help her 637 00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:30.519 friends. And so I really, I really feel for Caliban in this moment. 638 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:34.199 And it's like almost a very in this specific moment. Obviously, because 639 00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.639 Kitty turns drumpat in this specific moment. It's a very unex men thing to 640 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:42.000 do, to turn someone away of how they're born, you know, that's 641 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:47.039 their whole thing, is that they are want to be accepted in society as 642 00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:52.559 they are. And this is Caliban and Kitty is shoving him literally over the 643 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.639 edge of a stage. You know, I think this whole concept is still 644 00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.320 relevant today. I mean, look at the X Men elections, and who 645 00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:02.559 are the nominees to be in the X Men? Are they physically nutated? 646 00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:07.599 Who won? Well, it's usually obvious, Yeah, the most popular, 647 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:09.519 like the one who's been around the longest. But yeah, yeah, they're 648 00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:17.280 humanic, pretty people that win. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, like even 649 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:21.480 within the X Men, and that actually is very true for a lot of 650 00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:27.320 marginalized groups. Within these marginalized groups, there's still a hierarchy, and whoever 651 00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:32.719 assimilates the most usually ends up winning. Again, Magneto was right Magneto is 652 00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.519 always right. So she's awake from her mind spell. She shoves Caliban off 653 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.880 the stage, get away from me, and she starts realizing that she is 654 00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.800 in the Morlock Tunnel. She she she didn't even know she was down there, 655 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:45.760 because you know, the last thing that happened to her is she was 656 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.320 up in the Baxter building. So she's realizing what's going on. So I'm 657 00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:54.840 giving her a pass because she literally doesn't know what's happening. So she gets 658 00:48:54.920 --> 00:49:00.559 captured by Sunder. She cannot phase. She is forced onto her knees and 659 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:06.639 she is confronting Callisto, and Callisto is reminding her of all of her receipts 660 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.159 of what she said to Calibam, and she goes, did you not say 661 00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:14.119 this? And did he not do what you agreed to? And now are 662 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:19.239 you going to fulfill your end of the agreement? M. She's like, 663 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:25.000 oh crap, well yes, yeah, yes, yes, Callisto trapped her 664 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.559 with logic, I know, M. And the thing is is it's so 665 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.199 important, like like then, Callisto talks about over and over the deal we 666 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:38.599 have with the X Men that we won't attack if these treaties are honored, 667 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:44.480 right, and then it turns out, m technically, we did nothing wrong, 668 00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:49.760 so we are just bringing you to court too. I got to go 669 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.639 through the whole process of what you agreed to. And then when she realizes 670 00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.639 that, you know, she has a moment of like, I need to 671 00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:00.320 go rescue Colossus, like that's what I was doing. You don't underst stand, 672 00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:02.320 Like the key to his survival is with me. You need to let 673 00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:07.480 me go. And even Callisto says, absolutely, as long as you promised 674 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:13.000 to return and fulfill your end of the bargain. Yeah, we're seeing Kitty 675 00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:16.440 to marry because a quote unquote would it be proper to have them living in 676 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:21.880 zin Oh right, it's correct because she didn't agree to marry him. She 677 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.519 just agreed to be with him, to return to him. That was the 678 00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:30.719 agreement, not marriage. So Callisto was pushing the whole marriage. Yeah. 679 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:37.559 M hmmm, straight people. So anyways, Kitty was just like, no, 680 00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:39.679 I can't, I've got to run it. So she tries to make 681 00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:43.679 run for it. She's lost in the tunnels. This is the phantom moment 682 00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:52.320 where I was like, and she's running through the tunnels. But then Christine 683 00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.039 agree like it was her decision to go with him into the tunnels. Like 684 00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:00.000 she wasn't captured and woke up. Wasn't it Kitty's decision to agree to return. 685 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.480 No, she agreed to return, but she was captured, drugged and 686 00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:10.280 brought back. Yeah, but she still like made the agreement the lie. 687 00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:15.320 She lied about it. But the point is is that Christine, he says, 688 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.360 follow me, and then and then they go down the stairs and then 689 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:21.400 they're on the boat and everything like that. Anyways, because so Kitty wakes 690 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:23.199 up in the morl like town. So she's running. Yeah, close ups 691 00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:28.760 on the shots. You know, this is snow white running in the running 692 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.199 in the forest, betting, caught by the you know, all of the 693 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.800 horrors that are in there in case we see rats. I did just look 694 00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:40.320 it up, because of course I did. Phantom's first performance was in eighty 695 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:49.800 six, so he definitely writes the Shoe then writing Phantom and was like found 696 00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:54.599 it all, especially the creepyge thing. M yes, yes, there we 697 00:51:54.719 --> 00:52:00.599 go done. Yes, what he means, this is what Andrew Webber means 698 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:04.199 when it's like it's too woke to write more media because they won't allow me 699 00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.440 put a sixteen year old with a forty year old anymore, I know. 700 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:09.679 I mean, I really feel bad for Lloyd Webber. I mean, in 701 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:16.320 all of his millions. I'm really like. The next thing is the grossest, 702 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.239 absolute grossest thing that ever happens in the entirety of the X Men. 703 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:27.320 She falls into the water. You guys, she ripped face first into the 704 00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:37.119 sewage water. I am grossed out, so yucky. I would simply jump 705 00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:42.840 off the Baxter Building for real. Yea, that happened, because you don't 706 00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:49.400 even know what's swimming in your body at this moment. Anyway, So she 707 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.119 is defeated. She's like, what's some X Men? I am? I 708 00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.360 can't even leave these tunnels. I can't face I can't do anything. And 709 00:52:55.480 --> 00:53:01.960 the Leech shows up and says lost, lonely, scared. Leech looks like 710 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:07.679 a kid alien, like you know, the ones with the elongated football heads 711 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:13.039 and kind of have the gray green skin. So think that in your head. 712 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:17.440 And he is actually a really good card in Marvel Snap, because if 713 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:22.119 you play Marvel Snap and you put him down, he takes away the powers 714 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:27.199 of every mutant or you know, superhero or villain that is in your hand. 715 00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.079 So I love to have Leach on my team in Marvel. Snap. 716 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:35.280 Yes, that's why you play against Kate Bishop. She doesn't need powers. 717 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:43.639 She'll just kick your butt anyway. Yeah. Yeah, yes, So Leech 718 00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:47.079 grabs her by the hand and she agrees to return. So now she is 719 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:52.119 making the conscious decision to agree to her word, go back, fulfill what 720 00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:57.079 she promised. She's back with the Morlocks, and we'd get this group shot 721 00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:00.920 with more fashion statements here, and I want to give us special stat shout 722 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:07.119 out to the shorter guy in the front with the yellow and the yellow harness 723 00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:12.599 and the foot rats. You know, I mean, he's he looks like 724 00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:16.320 he loves his life. Yeah, ever since he said queer culture. Yeah, 725 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.920 ever since you said Morlocks are queer culture, I'm here for it. 726 00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:23.119 I like, I don't know if you saw that meme where it said Pride 727 00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:28.039 month and then it distills down to demon and somebody made it like a rainbow. 728 00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:30.360 Yes, so yes, I love it. I bought it as a 729 00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:35.719 T shirt because I want to accept all gay demons into this household. So 730 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:40.599 if it's yeah, it's like I've always said, the real winners always have 731 00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:45.840 been and always will be the Jews, the gays and the monster fluckers. 732 00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:52.039 Let's put that on a bumper sticker, right, Oh my gosh. Yeah, 733 00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:57.880 so I'm all about the Morlocks. I love their counterculture life, and 734 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:00.119 yeah they're queer culture like I love it. But yeah, so more fashion. 735 00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.599 I'm trying to see if there's anybody that really jumps out to me. 736 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:07.119 This really tall, I want to say. I hope it's a woman in 737 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:12.239 the back with the white shag hair, because I feel like tall women never 738 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:14.960 get their time in the sun. So let's give a shout out to this 739 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:17.480 tall woman in the back with her white shag dude and her black pink top, 740 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:22.119 because I'm all about her, beautiful, I love her. Anyways, 741 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:27.159 kitting got roughed up when she was running away, and Callisto says, oh, 742 00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:30.159 sweetheart, you know we take care of our own. So she fetches 743 00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:36.880 healer to heal her cuts and wounds, and then she summons Mask to help 744 00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.679 her get ready. I can't I don't even want to turn the page. 745 00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:47.280 You guys like Mask before because so gross. He could be the one thing 746 00:55:47.320 --> 00:55:51.800 I want to point out though, the the red dude and then the dude 747 00:55:51.840 --> 00:56:00.440 next to them with basically a harness and a chalk strap and nothing else. 748 00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:05.840 I am obsessed with this, Like they really said, let's make them all 749 00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:10.519 leather daddies. I love. I love this so much, wholesome, street 750 00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:16.519 fair realness, and I love it. I love the more locks, the 751 00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:21.159 more and more that I'm like, now I'm now into them, except for 752 00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:27.239 Mask guy, so I can't. I just know with Mask I'm getting chills. 753 00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:31.719 Yeah. So, masks power is to change other people except himself. 754 00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:36.440 So like a shape shifter can shape shift their body, he can shape shift 755 00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:40.280 other people but never himself. And he is permanently scarred kind of you know, 756 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:45.000 God has a quote unquote ugly face. Yeah, he's like reverse clay 757 00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:49.000 Face from Batman, one of the Batman villains, you know, because he 758 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:53.000 can kind of exactly like morph his face, but this is opposite. He 759 00:56:53.079 --> 00:56:58.280 moreph other people. Oh yes, and so um you know a little bit 760 00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:01.039 of backstory. He's the one that more a body of the of a dead 761 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:06.000 girl into Kitty. And the dead girl they found as a homeless, like 762 00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:09.360 overdosed person in the streets and they're like, she's perfect. Make her kitty. 763 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:14.239 Anyways, that poor girl is dead. Anyways, Mask is working on 764 00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:16.639 Kitty's face to get her ready for the wedding, and he says, let 765 00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:20.880 me help you, presto, you can look like me, And so he 766 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:25.000 uses her fist face on her and that's like a melty face with like veins 767 00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:29.480 that are popping out over the left eye. And then he says, what 768 00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:34.000 about or callisto and makes Kitty's face into Callisto. I like how he can 769 00:57:34.039 --> 00:57:37.280 also make an eye patch. Yes, you know, like it's not just 770 00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:39.679 the face. He can actually, you know, transform your face into clothing 771 00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:44.320 though, you can transform into anything, as we're about to see or caliban 772 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:46.719 hah, real cute. This is pretty kitty face suits you, and so 773 00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:51.159 it makes you know, the face that she's scared of. He puts it 774 00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:55.079 right on her face now or would you prefer storm and makes her into store 775 00:57:55.079 --> 00:58:00.599 where she screams, no, oh my god, it's ultural appropriation. No, 776 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.199 yes, I know, I love that. No, I can't be 777 00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:07.280 storm ooh. And then he got on the next one. He goes bothers 778 00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:13.239 you huff, thought you or her were real lovey dovey little girl and her 779 00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:16.760 mom No problem, you can always look like nothing at all. And then 780 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.719 she just has a thumb face. Yes, and you know. This is 781 00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:28.119 actually a trope that I see a lot in comic books, and it's very 782 00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:34.440 dangerous. If y'all have seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Awanda 783 00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:38.639 does this to black Bolts, and it has deadly consequences. Yes, indeed, 784 00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:45.039 yes, She screams, stop it, and her face reverts back to 785 00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:47.360 normal. Leave me alone. I'm not some toy, a doll for you 786 00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:52.519 to play with. I'm a human being. What's that make me something different? 787 00:58:53.480 --> 00:59:00.760 It's it's so gross. Emorphs her into like her face becomes like bubbles 788 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:06.440 and like blipsters, and like, I it's funny because I can say that 789 00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:09.440 because I have a disease where I have subcutaneous life homeless right under my skin 790 00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:14.000 and so like I have like bubbles and lumps all over me, but not 791 00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:19.519 on my face like that. And he turns her into and in thankfully Collisto 792 00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:21.920 steps and it's like, yo, she needs to breathe, man like, 793 00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:24.440 let her go for a second. But OIV a void. That is, 794 00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:29.840 they don't do body horror in comics the way they used to. Oh no 795 00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:32.440 kidding, no kidding, Yeah, he's like, I like her better this 796 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.480 way. Closto says it wasn't a request. She can't Breathe fix her before 797 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:44.599 she chokes. This is also a cool early dynamic of how Mask eventually takes 798 00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:47.599 over the Morlocks, how he stands up to Callisto and like challenges her, 799 00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:55.039 So you can kind of see his early early leader tendencies or whatever his his 800 00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:58.760 way that I want to stick over. Okay, back to this crowd shot 801 00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:01.800 and all of the leather and all of the piercings, all of it, 802 01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:06.960 all the studs. I'm liking the one on the right with the yellow skirt 803 01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:13.519 very Mortal Kombat. M oh my god, the one with the red mohawk. 804 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:15.840 There's a lot of the mohawks here, a lot of mohawks, red 805 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:22.960 mohawk or red just singular ponytail as also in a harness. Yes, everybody 806 01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:27.440 is literally just and then the one with the long hair and the mini dress 807 01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:35.719 and those huge boots, that is that is wow. Yes, this is 808 01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:40.599 literally a crowd you would see in a ballroom like legitimately, yes, well 809 01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:50.880 these people are fashion is not a mullet insight. Yeah. So yeah, 810 01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:54.079 So Callisto is ready to go on with the ceremony. She's got her Morlock 811 01:00:54.239 --> 01:01:00.159 law book in front of her, and she is about to read the the 812 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:05.920 ceremony Rites of Marriage, and then off panel we hear at Callisto and everybody's 813 01:01:05.960 --> 01:01:08.800 like, oh shit, here they are, you know, because Callisto, 814 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:14.760 what's the line if I hear any objections to the pretty kitty and this wedding, 815 01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:16.559 speak now or forever hold your piece. I always feel like that is 816 01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:23.039 the trope of all wedding scenes. Mmmmmm do you brace yourself at weddings when 817 01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:27.960 that line happens? Because I do. Sometimes I feel like this is the 818 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.920 moment somebody's going to turn around and like, did come running down the eisle? 819 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:36.559 They are there to break up the wedding. But well, Kitty Pride 820 01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:38.920 is like, no, stay out of this. I'm not being forced. 821 01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:45.519 I'm doing this my own free will. But Storm has like some beef to 822 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:49.960 pick with Callisto. Yeah, she says a girl is dead because of you, 823 01:01:50.079 --> 01:01:55.559 Callisto, deny the simple decency of her own face. And it looks 824 01:01:55.559 --> 01:01:59.320 like she's zapping her with lightning, but really she's lifting her in the air. 825 01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:02.559 Yeah, this is not good for Storm because she is going on autopilot 826 01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:07.280 doing the thing that she does. Thus but Callisto already knows this play. 827 01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:10.840 This is something that Callisto keeps in mind and says, Okay, this is 828 01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:15.960 her style. I'm gonna have seventeen different ways to get out of this because 829 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:19.719 now I know she ain't gonna keep me in off guard again. Yeah. 830 01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:23.079 So she summons Leech to drop from the ceiling, negating her powers, and 831 01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:27.559 Kitty is like screaming at them, no, no, don't come any closer, 832 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:30.320 even the proximity within Leech, You'll lose your powers. And Rogue and 833 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:35.440 Wolverine, trying to charge into battle, loses her flight. They dropped to 834 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:39.039 the ground and Wolverine is like, yo, my claws are not my superpower. 835 01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:46.679 SI gave these. I love rogues line though, Oh being invulnerable spoiled 836 01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:50.920 me. I'd forgotten what it was like to hurt myself. So the fact 837 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:54.960 that she's written in an accident is just so peak, and like, I 838 01:02:55.119 --> 01:03:00.280 just just picture Kekey Palmer doing this, and like I do declare, I 839 01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:05.400 do talk like this. I'll leave in this out because Rogue is definitely a 840 01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:10.239 Southern accent, but as one hundred percent exaggerated on purpose to be a caricature, 841 01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:14.840 and it's written that way on purpose, and I just I love it. 842 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:20.599 I love it too. And then Storm and Closto are like tossling, 843 01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:23.400 and Clisto is just like, oh, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna 844 01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:28.079 get this leadership back. And Storm was like, I needed no powers to 845 01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:32.159 beat you before Calisto and I was a gentler woman. Then this is when 846 01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:35.679 she had all of her hair. This is when she was, you know, 847 01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:38.719 in her classic cockroom uniform. This is before the mohawk transition which she 848 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:44.119 is in now, which I would never want to go up against Storm. 849 01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:46.039 We say this all the time, all the time. You never go against 850 01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:51.480 Storm. The crowd is getting rowdy, and Katie Pride is just like, 851 01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:54.199 all right, y'all, you better calm down, like we need to. 852 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:58.039 Just She's like, I'm ready to join the gays and be a part of 853 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:08.559 this counterculture society. Did you ever consider asking if I want it to be 854 01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:12.199 rescued or is this just a convenient excuse to bash in some skulls. This 855 01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.719 mess is my fault, my responsibility, and it's up to me alone to 856 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:18.840 resolve it. I've brought enough people pain. I won't be party to causing 857 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:23.199 anymore. Colossus is what's important. With the Morlock's help, we might have 858 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:26.400 a way to save him. But if he doesn't matter, if you'd rather 859 01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:29.480 rip each other's hearts out, what the heck? Go right ahead? Oh 860 01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:34.199 yeah, and storms are like, Oh Katy, forgive me I calissos all 861 01:04:34.239 --> 01:04:41.280 like your temper last. Your temper happens to the best of us, dear 862 01:04:41.360 --> 01:04:45.239 hearts. We have an agreement with the kid x men. We mean to 863 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:49.920 keep it so so because Katy Pride is one of them and Morlock take care 864 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:56.119 of their own, she is willing to send Healer up to the mansion to 865 01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:00.239 see if they can revive Colossus, and so through the power of rogues ability 866 01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:05.800 to absorb make him deep power down from metallic form and hopefully that their skin 867 01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:14.679 underneath. We see that he is covered in cracks because of the heat and 868 01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:17.679 chill effect, and so he would have died instantly if not for Healer's effect 869 01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:21.360 to seal his wounds and kind of help him recover so that he can have 870 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:26.159 a little healing factor of his own. I've shied away from people whose powers 871 01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:30.719 involve major physical transformations, like Angel or not Crawler, because I wasn't sure 872 01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:34.159 what they have changed due to me, I like my looks the way they 873 01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:40.360 are. I'll deal with you every step of the way, Rogue, monitoring 874 01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:44.400 and if necessary, augmenting your abilities with my own, says Professor. I 875 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:48.760 appreciate that, prof I wonder will I wand up looking like this boy's supposed 876 01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:55.280 to be all shiny steel or like he is, And then she touches him 877 01:05:55.360 --> 01:06:01.559 and we get this cool art effect of her absorbing all of his metallicness and 878 01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:04.639 she takes it on into her own body and then yeah, we see him 879 01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:10.159 deep power into normal skin form. You know, this is very This is 880 01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:15.480 kind of like another example of what we're talking about earlier, about the pretty 881 01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:19.840 mutants versus the quote unquote ugly mutants like Rogue has this fear inside of her 882 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:26.679 that she will turn into an ugly mutant. You know, do you feel 883 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:31.199 as if we've grown from that in the in the world of the X Men, 884 01:06:31.239 --> 01:06:34.719 well, Rogue, especially because she has taken on physical mutation powers and 885 01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:40.239 comics multiple times and she actually does it later in this run, you know, 886 01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:45.000 with this team, So yeah, I would say it's gone beyond that. 887 01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:48.480 Yeah, the Rogue, I don't know, as a society like therehen 888 01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:51.639 society that's a good question. Yes, well, crect Cohen Society. It's 889 01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:58.440 so fascinating because as readers, as a business of Marvel comics, you get 890 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:00.159 all the pretty mutants all the time on the teams, and you get all 891 01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:03.360 the face mutants that you recognize. But if you look in the backgrounds and 892 01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:10.519 Crackoa, everybody's mutated. Everybody looks like a squid or a green person or 893 01:07:10.599 --> 01:07:15.000 somebody with wings or whatever. It's it's like they really are realizing that the 894 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:17.079 core team that we all know are very human looking, and they're like, 895 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:23.159 we need to bring in some sort of you know, physically mutatedness to the 896 01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:28.159 mutants again, and they're trying that. Funny. It's funny because they do 897 01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:31.840 that, but then decide that Nazis are okay having a seat at the table 898 01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:44.519 instead of a physically mutated mutant. Yeah, but you know, but steps 899 01:07:44.519 --> 01:07:49.639 bit by bit, I guess. So that scene concludes, Colossus's healed and 900 01:07:49.719 --> 01:07:55.679 Kitty is getting ready to say goodbye to her family and her friends and go 901 01:07:55.760 --> 01:07:58.480 join the Morlocks and the Tunnels, and she has a very sweet scene with 902 01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:03.239 Ileana the next day on the corner of seventy second Street and Central Park West. 903 01:08:03.239 --> 01:08:09.199 They're outside of the subway stop and Iliana says to Kitty, do you 904 01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:12.840 have to go? I gave my word, Iliana, What am I if 905 01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.119 that means nothing? Wolved to understand. It's a matter of honor. These 906 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:19.079 are for Peter and my folks. I try to explain. He won't like 907 01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:21.680 it. He'll try to come after me. You mustn't even let him, 908 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:26.840 Miliana, even when he's better. The heck with him. I want to 909 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:32.079 This isn't fair. And she's handing Iliana letters, one to mom and dad 910 01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:39.399 and one to Peter, and Kitty goes down the subway stairs. No, 911 01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:41.840 but it's right. I gotta go. You're my best friend, Iliana. 912 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:45.600 I miss you already. I'll always remember you again. Feels very saphic to 913 01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:48.199 me, but you know, she's still wearing her wedding her beat up wedding 914 01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:51.520 dress, by the way, She's not changed since the whole time. And 915 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:57.439 Caliban comes around the corner from the tunnel area. She made it all the 916 01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:02.800 way down and he basically it feels bad, and he's just like, you 917 01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:05.960 really shouldn't feel pressured to stay with me. I love you, but I 918 01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:09.520 can tell you don't love me. The same. This isn't going to be 919 01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:13.920 a great dynamic, and I relieve you of your obligations and you should go 920 01:09:14.039 --> 01:09:16.800 be with the people that you want to be with. And it's so sweet. 921 01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:21.680 And I love Caliban because he is the sweetest boy ever, and yeah, 922 01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:27.039 just because he looks all crazy, it's just kind of kind of funny 923 01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.439 because he's all like, I want you to return to me with of love 924 01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:34.039 of your own free will. And she's like, yeah, that probably won't 925 01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:42.880 happen, but we'd call your friend. We're friends friend. Yeah, in 926 01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:46.800 Caliban's like, Caliban is glad. This keepsake was his wedding gift. When 927 01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:50.640 you look at it, remember him kindly, not as the Morlock monster, 928 01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:56.279 but as the prince. And she opens her hand and it's a beautiful rose 929 01:09:58.279 --> 01:10:02.600 and he goes off. That's really sweet. It's super this This turned me 930 01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:05.880 into a Caliban fan. I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, I was like, 931 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:13.159 that's actually really really sweet. It's super sweet. Yeah, So UM's 932 01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:17.119 a keeper. He is a keeper him over Claus is any day, kitty, 933 01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:24.239 I don't know. Yeah, literally, yeah, anyways, well that's 934 01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:28.000 the issue. And then it says next, next we have whose life, 935 01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:33.520 is it anyway? And then I get it? Yes, okay, So 936 01:10:33.640 --> 01:10:38.199 next we have X mail. We were people writing letters, of course, 937 01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:42.600 and but this time it's a little different, Yes, because this time I 938 01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:48.079 guess who's answering it. It's a rogue herself answering X mail. My name's 939 01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:50.680 rogue. And I never should have, like Katie talked me into this is 940 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:55.239 y'all probably know she's been corraling various X Men answer our fan mail. I 941 01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:57.800 figured, being a new member, I was safe at least for a while. 942 01:10:58.239 --> 01:11:00.199 No so much. Look there I in mine, in my own business, 943 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:02.239 when all of a sudden, the stack of mail as tall as the 944 01:11:02.279 --> 01:11:05.600 Peachtree Plaza that gets a dumped in the lap, and there's Katy grinning at 945 01:11:05.640 --> 01:11:09.640 me and saying, it's my turn. What better story for me to answer, 946 01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:13.039 she says, than the one telling how I came to join the X 947 01:11:13.079 --> 01:11:19.840 Men. Our first letter is from Tom Long from Illinois, and he writes 948 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:24.920 Louise, Danny, and Chris. So the plot thickens, the tail unfolds. 949 01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:29.279 It is so refreshing to have a character like Aurora who feels compelled by 950 01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:32.680 internal and external emotions, and then to have her enter into a monologue to 951 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:36.199 discuss these feelings. It is true, though, that she will never again 952 01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:41.520 be what she was. The serenity that she held has been tainted, her 953 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:45.399 peace shattered, and that is the greatest tragedy. It's becomes sort of like 954 01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:50.600 a corruption of innocence after the fact, it can never be regained. Obviously, 955 01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:55.399 you have big things planned for virtually every major character in the book. 956 01:11:55.600 --> 01:12:00.600 I can only question the wisdom of continuing so many subplots on a continue basis. 957 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:03.720 This issue alone alluded to several On the other hand, at least things 958 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:09.640 don't get boring. Walt's artwork was terrific as always, This filling issue is 959 01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:14.199 the most compatible I've seen, looking very similar to previous issues, which is 960 01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:17.319 nice considering the difference in artistic style between him and Paul Smith. All in 961 01:12:17.399 --> 01:12:21.520 all, X Men has come back to the top of the heap without a 962 01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:26.199 doubt. From Tom Long, Tom Sugar, how can any book with me 963 01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:29.760 and it be anywhere but on top? Kitty is a rogue? Is the 964 01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:32.920 top confirmed? But just to set the record strate, Aurora isn't the only 965 01:12:32.920 --> 01:12:35.840 one going through some heavy changes. I never imagine I'd be an X Men 966 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:40.840 or that I'd like it last phone to throwing new curves almost always just when 967 01:12:40.880 --> 01:12:45.239 you think you've got it figured out and everything's going peach akin. Some people 968 01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:47.279 can handle that kind of disruption, others can. I am to be one 969 01:12:47.319 --> 01:12:53.119 of those who can, and so I'll bet the storm next letter to the 970 01:12:53.239 --> 01:12:56.800 editor, I just finished reading X Men one seventy one for the twenty fifth 971 01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:00.680 time, and I'm a little puzzle. Perhaps you can straighten me out. 972 01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:03.119 First of all, where did Storm get that jacket from? Did she take 973 01:13:03.159 --> 01:13:08.840 it from Calisto? Does the jacket somehow represent power like a mantle of a 974 01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:13.520 queen? Second, by all appearances, this story occurs shortly after one sixty 975 01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:16.920 nine to one seventy. Kitty seemed to recover from her illness rather quickly. 976 01:13:17.319 --> 01:13:21.840 Is it within plagues capabilities to withdraw disease as well as transmitted? And what 977 01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:26.800 about the Angel? Are we never to find out how he's coping with the 978 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:30.359 awful trauma of having his wings clipped? Third? What is happening to Storm? 979 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:34.640 Why has she suddenly begun acting more toward her dark side? Fourth? 980 01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:39.880 What is Kitty's problem? Ever since the X Men returned from space, she's 981 01:13:39.880 --> 01:13:43.840 been throwing temper tantrums, and why does she hate the new Mutants so much? 982 01:13:44.520 --> 01:13:47.760 Fifth? Where's lockeed? I thought the kid and her dragon were fairly 983 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:54.159 inseparable. Sixth, why is Rogue getting such a raw deal? Kitty and 984 01:13:54.199 --> 01:13:58.359 Coloss has never met her directly, so all they have is secondhand knowledge, 985 01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:00.960 yet they hate her. Peter, who is normally so understanding, isn't even 986 01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:05.000 willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. I can't fathom Nightcrawler's extreme 987 01:14:05.079 --> 01:14:10.359 feeling against Rogue either. She only fought him for a few minutes. The 988 01:14:10.439 --> 01:14:14.520 only X men truly justifying and hating Rogue are Storm and Wolverine. And like 989 01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:17.199 the Professor told Storm, the potential for good is what's important, is it 990 01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:21.359 not? And if Rogue is willing to help, willing to ask for help, 991 01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:25.640 doesn't that mean she's willing to try it for the good guys? Doesn't 992 01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:30.399 forgive and forget mean anything anymore? Only Binary should harbor deep hatred for Rogue 993 01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:34.000 from roxand Caldwell's from New Rochelle, New York. This, I guess, 994 01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:38.119 is where the bullet gets bitten. But first I'll byance through the earlier easier 995 01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:42.840 questions. One the jacket was Collissos, who evidently evidently has more than one 996 01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:45.840 and does convey an element of leadership status among the Morlocks, or also liked 997 01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:49.920 its looks. Two plague, I'm told cannot cure those she infects, but 998 01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:54.439 the X Mansion's hospital is equipped to handle any disease in almost any injury. 999 01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:57.920 Once Katie reached there, she was cured fairly quickly. Angel meanwhile, is 1000 01:14:57.960 --> 01:15:00.439 convalescent in New Mexico. That store be told in the upcoming issues of Marvel, 1001 01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:04.600 Fay and Fair by Chris Claremont, Bill Mantlow and Rett Bloodin's three, 1002 01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:08.039 I don't know what's happening in a storm, and considering her mood lately and 1003 01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:11.800 how she feels about me to begin with, ain't about to ask for Kitty's 1004 01:15:11.800 --> 01:15:15.359 a teenager a teenager stor Tantrum's fact alife. I certainly did when I was 1005 01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:18.159 her age, and Misty had no compunctions about paddling mom butt when I stepped 1006 01:15:18.199 --> 01:15:23.119 too far out of line five. Lockkeids around fix the Biggie. It's easy 1007 01:15:23.159 --> 01:15:25.720 for an outsider to look at this story and think I got a raw reception 1008 01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:29.680 from the X Men, but I understand I possessed Carol Danver's memories, including 1009 01:15:29.720 --> 01:15:31.800 her feelings fool of Vereen, and they were pretty strong. I destroyed her 1010 01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:34.479 as a person. I stole her identity. I didn't need to, but 1011 01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:38.600 I did it, just the same with Professor Xavier and the other X Men's 1012 01:15:38.600 --> 01:15:40.880 health. Carol came back a long way, but she could never be the 1013 01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:44.000 woman she was. That's my fault. And they thought I'd done it on 1014 01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.479 purpose. Add to that, Add to that the fact that as far as 1015 01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:48.960 the X Men knew, I was still part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. 1016 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:51.640 I could have been sent to learn their secrets so the Brotherhood could more 1017 01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:55.640 easily destroy them. But given forget means a lot to them as well as 1018 01:15:55.640 --> 01:15:59.800 me. But it isn't to be had simply for the asking. I have 1019 01:15:59.880 --> 01:16:01.840 to earn it in my place on the team. I really like how they 1020 01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:05.159 made her answer that, so it's she's taking responsibility, even if it's in 1021 01:16:05.199 --> 01:16:10.000 the X mail. And then it's like, I'm going to explain why this 1022 01:16:10.079 --> 01:16:13.960 is the right choice for rogue through her own voice. I like that choice. 1023 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:18.600 M yeah. And the next letter says this is from Chuck from New 1024 01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:24.720 Jersey, who writes dear people in charge, are you whackle? There is 1025 01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:29.560 no way that you can possibly make Rogue into an X Man. The X 1026 01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:33.239 Men hate her, Buyinary hates her. Half of the Free world hates her. 1027 01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:38.960 I hate her. Don't do it to us suffering X Men fans, 1028 01:16:40.159 --> 01:16:42.640 to which there was no response for Rogue. She's like, I'm not even 1029 01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:46.359 going to respond to that. So the next letter is from dj Ought and 1030 01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:51.279 right from Las Vegas, Nevada, who writes, Dear X writers, I 1031 01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:57.319 think you people are great. I'm thoroughly glad that Locke he'd is still there. 1032 01:16:57.439 --> 01:17:00.199 He's great too. There's only one thing I regret. I think that 1033 01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:05.920 when Binary hit Rogue, Rogue should have kept on going. All I ask 1034 01:17:06.039 --> 01:17:10.680 readers is that you give me the same chance the X Men or oh my 1035 01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:15.680 gosh. And then this is from Delroy Lewin, Dear Marvel, I just 1036 01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:18.479 finished reading X Men one seventy one, and I have a few things to 1037 01:17:18.600 --> 01:17:21.960 say. The story was great. I also have to say that while I 1038 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:26.479 was reading the book, I thought Storm was becoming more savage and murderous. 1039 01:17:26.680 --> 01:17:29.359 I hope she doesn't do anything she will regret in the future. Before I 1040 01:17:29.399 --> 01:17:31.319 go, I would like to ask a question, when will Paul Simon be 1041 01:17:31.359 --> 01:17:40.319 back whenever our golf uncle, let's him Delroy Sugar and then rogue as a 1042 01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:45.479 closer. She goes, ooh, I think I'd sooner go another few rounds 1043 01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:46.920 of binary. Some of you people can be very harsh on the girl, 1044 01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:49.920 but others were as generous as the summer day is warm, and I appreciate 1045 01:17:49.960 --> 01:17:53.800 it from the bottom of my heart. I hope to prove myself worthy of 1046 01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:57.319 your faith and trust and Pixie Dust, it doesn't say that. I added 1047 01:17:57.319 --> 01:18:00.760 that because I'm annoying. Thanks for your time, pay and Cinelettuce. It 1048 01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:02.319 was fun reading them. Let's do it again sometime. Yeah. Well, 1049 01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:04.399 I love how at the beginning she was like, I can't believe I was 1050 01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:08.880 rolled into this, and at the end she's like, okay, yeah, 1051 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:14.279 cool, Well that's the issue and that was a lot of fun. Thank 1052 01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:17.479 you so much for being a part of the show. Course, thank you 1053 01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:20.039 so much for having me. It was so much fun. I got to 1054 01:18:20.039 --> 01:18:27.000 talk about my girl and my superhero history ish yeah, yes, and Barbie 1055 01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:30.600 and do you think all that stuff? I love it. Yeah. What 1056 01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:35.119 was your favorite part of the issue. My favorite was the splash page of 1057 01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:44.720 Hittie being getting ready and all the garter belts everywhere. My favorite, oh, 1058 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:46.640 I think it was one Wolverine. Yeah, it was just like sense 1059 01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:58.239 different. I had two favorite parts. My first favorite part was when we 1060 01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:00.520 got to see the entire group of everyone being queer, like, it's just 1061 01:19:00.680 --> 01:19:04.279 clearly queer culture, Like every group shot, it's just clearly that. But 1062 01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:09.079 my second favorite part was at the end when Caliban is like and ignoring the 1063 01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:12.279 implications of I don't even know how old Caliban is saying this to a sixty 1064 01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:15.920 and fifteen year old, but like the fact that he's like, I am 1065 01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:19.319 not going to take your life away from you, and I shouldn't have even 1066 01:19:19.319 --> 01:19:25.159 thought that that was right because my favorite thing ever in fiction is when people 1067 01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:28.720 take responsibility for their actions and their behavior and they apologize and they work to 1068 01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:30.960 make things better. And that's how you know it's fiction because people don't actually 1069 01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:34.640 do that in the real world. So yeah, right, right, So 1070 01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:41.600 tell us where can we find you on social media? On Twitter? Which 1071 01:19:41.760 --> 01:19:47.920 I it's definitely a thing Danielle ag st One that is complicated because it spells 1072 01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:54.319 silverstone. It's just in like, ag is silver st one O n E. 1073 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:57.439 So yeah. Anyway, So that's Twitter, and then everywhere else is 1074 01:19:57.479 --> 01:20:00.600 Daniel Silverstone at Daniel Silverstone on TikTok, on Instagram, AM, and those 1075 01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:03.359 are pretty much the platforms that I use. Um, the easiest way to 1076 01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:09.760 get my attention is commenting on something on TikTok because I have notifications off on 1077 01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:15.760 Twitter. Don't get notifications correctly on Instagram and so you know, so go 1078 01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:20.560 to TikTok. Watch some of her gay commentary on Venom, which is how 1079 01:20:20.600 --> 01:20:27.880 I first discovered we're just like gay. And here's some reasons why. In 1080 01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:31.359 fact, Sony, I'm the reason people went to see let their be parnage 1081 01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:36.520 in theaters. You're welcome. I would appreciate acknowledgement and like working together for 1082 01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:42.439 the three nom it'd be nice. Yes, gets you into the Craven the 1083 01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:48.520 Hunter promo. M hmm have you seen that poster seen? Oh yeah, 1084 01:20:53.640 --> 01:20:58.760 all right, well, thanks again for joining us and we cannot wait to 1085 01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:03.199 see what you review next online. Thank you so much. X Reads is 1086 01:21:03.239 --> 01:21:06.960 recorded in the United States. 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