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SunnydaleClassof99

#SundayRundown I wasn't paying too much attention to comics stuff when the first movie came out. I was all aboard the hype train for this one though. I saw it a packed midnight show & it was amazing. That opening Nightcrawler sequence hit so unbelievably hard.

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen #1

Gonna have to watch to see why The Bannister look sinister and Supermarket looks disgusted in the thumbnail!

Royal Chandler

Due to the massive abundance of them, I’m not really one for ranking superhero movies. However, every once in a while, on a random whim, I think X2 may still be my favorite. Seeing it for the first time in a theater was an unforgettable experience. Happy to give it another watch with the couch :)

Jon Mercano

Ooh I got a super name for Pat. Down Pat. It means having something memorized or having practiced something so much they can do it without mistake. He can be like Taskmaster from Marvel who perfectly copies someone’s fighting style immediately just by watching/studying them

Royal Chandler

#SundayRundown Twelve years after this movie, Bobby Drake actually did come out as gay in the comics. So the queer-coded scene with his family was pretty fitting.

Thanatos

I know you guys said you don't plan on watching x-men first class but i really hope you do that and days of futures past are some of my favorite x-men movies

Macs

Chris - "we did this live" uh well sort of lmao something most certainly was done

Jon Mercano

Please tell me you guys did/are doing Wolverine Origin. I need it actually Is Navi watching X Men Evolution currently? Or does she just have good memory? Because I need y’all to react to it. Also the old 90s show ofc. Stryker is different in the comics. He was an anti mutant reverand and he had no connection to Wolverine “I joked that if Storm existsed she’d be other people’s religion” In comics she legit was worshipped as a rain goddess in Africa before joining the X Men Damn, Pyro got the live action Avatar firebending. Control but no creation. Jean stopped Kurt from teleporting before in the church. I think she was basically putting a barrier around him Wolverine’s powers are the healing factor, bone claws (that get coated in adamantium with the rest of his skeleton) and heightened senses, that’s why he be sniffing, he can track For Chris, in comics power classes have changed a bit over the years, take this with a grain of salt I’m finding different descriptions •Omega level is the most commonly brought up, it used to just mean the most powerful, Alpha level was also used to mean that. Currently(?) Omega means their dominant power has an undefinable upper limit •Alpha is very powerful but not as high as Omega •Epsilon is the lowest class, usually powers that aren’t for combat, maybe only changes appearance. Like if mystique couldn’t shapeshift and was just always blue •Beta is more practical compared to epsilon. Like if Rogue could only absorb memories but not powers

Macs

That intro is also the best superhero sequence he ever did and I mean it surpasses time in a bottle which is also amazing.

SnapGrapplePop

Ooh, Famke Janssen sighting, which means it’s time again to suggest you watch The Faculty

Sickleweed

Still wish you would treat franchise movies like tv series and give them their own slot during the week. Nothing against XMen or any franchise movies in general, but your Saturday movie slots are so precious, wish you would keep them for all the standalone movies you haven't reacted to since every time you start franchise movies that's like a couple of weeks gone.

Sickleweed

"The PatDown" might actually work better for him . 😄

Maurice Gray Jr

#SundayRundown If you're dumb enough to come to the X-mansion looking for trouble, you deserve what you get. My favorite scene was Colossus- he caught those Stryke Force guys trying to steal the ginger girl and put them through a wall. Fun fact: Ginger girl was Siryn. In the comics she is the daughter of Banshee and has the same sonic scream he does. I love how they sneaked her in and then showed Remy LeBeau's name (and other X-characters from the cartoon and comics) on the screen when Mystique was hacking the computer.

BindingofNack

Where's that gif of Sabrina the teenage witch being assaulted with plates of food and wondering where to start. Because the options are *plentiful* today

SergeTroy

People upset about Jason being crushed can most definitely suck it. As aside, this remains my favorite X-Men Movie after the Old Man Logan storyline with Laura / X-23. Lastly, do people believe that when Jean shoved back hard against Cyclops and her eyes flared red that that was the first reveal of the Phoenix under the surface, or just foreshadowing?

Paul T Hewes

This was the Wrath of Khan equivalent of the first wave of sup movies. It was mind blowing to see Logan just straight out kill fools.

Raleigh

I mean.... He didn't "come out" so much as Jean Grey read his mind and outed him to the rest of the team without his consent 🤷‍♀️

Chris K.

Not only a perfect superhero movie, just a perfect movie in general and it has aged like fine wine. "Too much iron in your blood" and Erik's whole breakout scene is one of my fave scenes. McKellen was so damn cool in the role and hopefully he gets to have a good moment one more time in Doomsday. Yeah and you NEED to watch First Class in order to get Days of Future Past.

Royal Chandler

Didn’t she pull him aside? But yeah, so true, Jean did the outing. Terrible execution as a storyline but also kinda tracks for Jean as a character imo.

Nabeshin

33:00 - Part of Storm's comic backstory is that she WAS worshipped by the Serengeti village where she grew up. --- Actually Chris, Wolverine DID have to practice. Yes he has insane healing and an indestructible skeleton, but that doesn't make you good at fighting. For that, he needed decades upon decades of battle experience. This is something you see portrayed in "X-MEN ORIGINS: Wolverine", which I HOPE y'all watch after the trilogy. 😉 --- The deaths of Jason and Lady Deathstrike haunt me to this day. 😢 Both tragic, both super unfair. Deathstrike's is more justifiable, since Wolverine didn't know about the mind control, and couldn't think of another way to stop her in the moment. Jason, however...Yeah, not so justified. Those characters would never have abandoned that poor dude, but the writer said "This character served his purpose, and we can't have THREE super-powerful-mind people around. Two is already too many." 😈

Raleigh

Actually, yeah I think your right that she pulled him aside.. Hadn't read it since it came out... Memory holes!

Unstablebeast

Could you guys turn the movie volume up just a bit on the uncut version? Like I understand you dont want it overpowering the couches voices but it feels a little too quiet

James W.

Mystique isn't Rogue's birth mother but she did raise her, just wanted to put that out there. You can't put Rogue on her like that, Mystique may be a "Hoe" (your words!) but she adopted Rogue. She loses some points for then weaponizing Rogue and indoctrinating her into a radical movement but still, she did kinda save her. I never liked the way they retconned Mystique into Kurt's mom. It was 20 years after the fact and felt corny. Hits different when you have been reading the comics, and all of a sudden they just toss that in there and hijack 2 semi-established origins just for the sake of drama. At the time they released the comic that debuted in (XMen Unlimited 3 or 4), all of the mutant books were just messy crossovers and the continuity went to shit. As a reader who was hundreds of issue deep in the various X-books and hella invested, it was a bummer to see them just toss continuity out the window. It was a fun read though, makes me want to dig through my comics. Ain't looked at them in like 20 years. I really hope we get Rogue's OG Avenger's Annual #10 style origin, when they bring her into the MCU, with her and Mystique, and Rogue's fight with Carol Danvers. Bree Larson vs Indie Navarette?

James W.

To Chris' power-scaling question/observation, there is no hard and fast rule. Some mutants like Franklin Richards are born powerful and don't have the typical power awakening at puberty thing that used to be the most common way for powers too manifest, at least when I started reading the comics in 1986 and 87. That's why Charles has the school. Sometime in the 90s runs, when time travel and reality warping power became more common, all the rules kinda went out the window. The OG X-Men line up was Jean, Scott, Bobby (Iceman), Hank (Beast), and Warren Worthington (Angel not Archangel, that version doesn't come until much later). The "New" X-Men that most people are familiar with, is Jean, Scott, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, and Thunderbird, but TB dies in the first outing I think. Then they bring in Banshee for a bit. Then Kitty Pride was the new POV character for a bit, the same way that Jubliee was used in the cartoons, and the Rogue in the films. To the comments on why didn't they do XXXX to save Jean: Nightcrawler's teleportation powers, at least at this point, are limited. He needs to see the place or know the place well to BAMF around. He says that earlier in the movie iirc. Jason's wheel chair was a whole ass life support system and mind-control juice extraction setup, Kurt couldn't grab that whole thing. Also, fuck that dude. It is messed up what Stryker did to Jason but he did drive his mother insane and made her kill herself and was doing similar to his father. Stryker, bad but Jason also bad. He wasn't being experiment on at that point, he was just casting nightmarish illusions into his parents heads because it was entertaining to him. In the comics he wasn't Stryker's kid, he was named Jason Wynhgard, his was called Mastermind, and he was a villain for context on his origin. Jean's sacrifice is 100% for drama, but, they did spend a lot of screen time talking about how her ability to control her powers being unpredictable and unreliable. Part of why the second missle hit their Blackbird is because she couldn't focus her abilities properly to get rid of it. So I guess she was worried if she was inside of the jet with all the tension and roiling emotion, it would distract her, so she decided to sacrifice herself to keep those she loved alive. Is meh from a writing perspective but perfect comic book logic. Also, to clarify her power set, even at this point, when she is on top of it, she is a psychic like Xavier but she is also a powerful telekinetic, which Xavier is not. So in that moment of her sacrifice she was powerful enough to suppress Xavier and all of the other X-Men's abilities basically. A hint to her potential if she could control it. Rogue's flight powers are not innate, they are something she "acquired", and if Rana is watching X-Men 97 them she has definitely seen Rogue fly around a bunch. Pretty sure she has her comic accurate powers and origin in the 90s X-Men animated series and X97.

James W.

I have like 40 years of resentment for Scott Summers, he is a baby-back beeyitch, Fight me!??!? (He is a bit cooler in X-Men 97)

James W.

In the X-Men comics from the 60s, I'm pretty sure that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby weren't making any deep political statement or drawing any correlation to Malcolm or Martin. That is something that came later with Chris Claremont's run that started in the mid/late 70s and ran all the way through to the mid 90s. No shade to Stan, but he just kind of adopted that narrative after it became the more successful identity of the franchise but he had no authorship over that part, or Magneto becoming a holocaust survivor; that was Claremont. I got into X-Men specifically because of a Graphic Novel called "God Loves, Man Kills" (1982) which is a very heavy-handed analog for the civil rights movement but super dope. IO still recommend it. I read it in like 1990 and was blown away by how relevant it was. I was a 13 year old mixed race kid, getting civil rights movement history mainlined into my skull my whole childhood by my dad so it hit different.

Richard Kors

Lmao he said "she put cement in him" lmaooo

Eddy

How can I watch the whole thing with out the blur? Or can I not?

The Normies

There shouldn't be any blur on the X2 uncut. Or are you trying to watch something else?