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rikebe · 1 year

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thoughts on x men evolution kurt?

i LOOOOVE evo kurt!!! i have a huge soft spot for evo in general (i love love love any animated version of the xmen and evo is so silly and whacky i cant help but adore it) and i think kurt is sooo adorable in that show.

i love how this version of kurt leans wayyy more into his mischevieous and silly pranky side than most other adaptations and i really appreciate that. i feel like its such an underutilized and underrepresented aspect of his character that it even kinda gets tossed to the wayside in the comics half the time, but it's one of the things that makes him such a fun, three-dimensional character. i think its awesome that evo chose to go with that side of him when other adaptations focus more on his melancholy, somber side (which i also love of course! but its not all there is to him!)

im also a huuuuge sucker for little brother and comic relief characters in general (bobby's always been my fave o5) and kurt rly kinda takes on his role of the silly team baby in evo. i adore a silly team baby. plus, kurt is ACTUALLY the youngest of three siblings in canon, so i can totally see him being the annoying kid brother who tags along with amanda and stephan and gets on their nerves.

i liked the more serious plot they did for him too with the whole thing with mystique. ill never get tired of that storyline i wont lie and i think evo manages to strike a good balance where kurt is funny and comedic relief, but you still care about him and when he has a more serious moment it works.

although i think he CAN be a little overexaggerated with his teen speak, i like to imagine that's due to his status as a non-native speaker so he awkwardly overuses slang to try and fit in. I gotta say that I think most of the time Kurt being a teen from germany coming to america is treated kinda weird (see: the reboot movies acting as if kurt doesnt know what a movie or a store is. like guys hes from berlin in the 80ies. hes not from fucking dorf schragensdiek mid-14th century he probably has done way wilder shit than suburban teen scott summers.) so i like to make up my own headcanons to make it make sense a little lmao. also as a german: we think american/english sayings are super funny and like repeating them as germanly as possible. its like a nationwide sport so kurt doing it for funsies would also be totally reasonable.

overall i tend to take a lot of inspiration from evo for my version of a teen kurt bc the way he's characterized could totally be a super young and immature version of the sweet calm fuzzy guy we all know n love. hes silly and pranky and kind of annoying, but he's also really caring and the way his relationship with kitty evolved from a silly crush to genuine friendship was SO sweet. i love when kurt is shown that way, flirty but ultimately completely unselfish when his affections aren't returned and totally glad to just be friends with someone he had a crush on. i do think it's really lame how he uses the image inducer all the time since kurt NOT using the inducer anymore is such a big part of his character arc, and him using it at HOME all the time too is really weird but... well, whatever. in total one hell of a lovable, great kurt.

plus his design is super cute. how can you not love that 90ies boyband middlepart??

#also this goes without saying but his transgender swag is off the charts.#xmen #xmen evolution #kurt wagner #xmen evolution nightcrawler #nightcrawler #x men #x men evolution

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spongebobafettywap · 5 days

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Hey Maz, all this talk about how "Claremont said this", "Claremont said that" and the selective memory his fans have for only one of the two to win arguments got me to remember a big Claremont fan who back in the day (2009) had a whole blog where he went over every hanging and abandoned plot thread Claremont wrote in his OG run and tried to piece together either whatever intended conclusion he seemed to be heading for with what clues were left behind or come up with his own by connecting the dots (he also talked about plotholes in X-Men Forever/X-Men The End and tried fixing them). At some point, he got to the question about Nightcrawler's parentage and came to the conclusion that Claremont's 2nd original plan couldn't have worked or been intended from the start with everything that was set up previously by Claremont himself in his whole creative process. He had three arguments :

1) The X-Men Annual where we got Nightcrawler's adoptive family (he theorized that this is where Claremont's original plan of having Nightmare be his father was going to be revealed). The Eye of Agamotto, which only shows the truth, got used before to prove that Nightcrawler wasn't a demon and in this issue, it showed his entire backstory down to the moment where Margali rescued him as a baby when he was an hour old. He explained that we have no reason to think the Eye's faulty or tampered with in any way, as such we should consider everything it shows to be true (and not be the result of an elaborate trick) including Nightcrawler being indeed "found beside his dying mother" (I checked my own paper issue and yeah that's actually what's written down). So by the time Nightcrawler is 21 (Nightcrawler's Inferno happened on his birthday/adoption day), his biological mother has been dead for 21 years and should not be around in the story

2) In 1983, Lady Grey and Mastermind chased Mystique in a dream sequence within Mystique's mins where the narrator (aka Claremont) dropped through elaborate prose Mystique's actual birth year. Her age at the time of that story would have been just 30... Nightcrawler's inferno happened when Kurt was 21 (another fan explained to the blogger that this could have been an abandoned origin idea for Mystique as Claremont retconned that age and birth year reveal some time later)

3) The way Mystique's gender identity and her powers were written as and described in interviews as well as the way she acts in regards to Nightcrawler. Female in base form and powers that are shapeshifting on a cosmetics only level. Cannot create matter and had to shift already existing cells around. Had difficulty maintaining some shapes like Nick Fury because he was taller than her. Mystique had difficulty killing a robot replica of Nightcrawler made by Arcade but decided to train harder so she would be ready to kill him any day to "rescue" Rogue from the X-Men. (I remember the blogger sounding genuinely confused at this part because with the "original intent" in mind, this means Mystique was ready to kill her own biological son to "rescue" her adoptive daughter... Which doesn't make sense)

The fan brought up that in 1984, when Nightcrawler recounted to Amanda and angsted about what the Eye showed, instead of talking about a "dying mother", Amanda suddenly talks about a "dying father/man" (who the Eye of Agamotto never showed or mentioned) as if Claremont is trying to retcon the "dying mother" part introduced in 1980

He also brought up that what Mystique said to Nightcrawler in Days of Future Past not only implies she knows Margali Szardos but that Margali knows her too, implying that they met in person at some point

Anyway, the blogger's name was Nathan Summers I think on world press ? He was one of the only objective Claremont fans I've seen back then, sad he no longer posts anything, completely dropped off the face of the Earth

This is interesting I really wish we has an archive or something of this blog so we could go back and read it. I think the wildest thing to me here is Mystique apparently not even originally being ancient or even Nightcrawler's mother which I thought was always the intention as Cockrum had that idea back even before Nightcrawler was a X-Men character for the legion of Superheroes at DC.

#Maz answers #X-Men

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thatsastepladder · 1 month

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I started listening to X-Men: The Audio Drama by Scyther Audio Dramas, and dang, it's good. But there's one moment I want to point out that I was really impressed by: in their adaptation of Uncanny X-Men #169-170, the first appearance of the Morlocks, there's an exchange that goes a little something like this.

the X-Men are walking through the New York sewers, in search of the kidnapped Angel

Kitty Pryde: "So, Piotr... I'm almost sixteen, you know! How old are you?" Colossus: "I am twenty-two years old." Kitty: "Well, that's not that big of a gap..." Colossus: "You are a child, about the same age as my sister. Not happening."

And all I have to say is thank god, because Kitty/Piotr was a weird Claremont thing that I don't particularly like.

Weirdly, that's not the only age of consent-related conversation in the episode, because it's also got the bit with Caliban kidnapping Kitty and Kitty going "I'm still a child!" Double standard, much?

(Also, shoutout to the audio drama for fixing Amanda Sefton, because Kurt/Amanda is a ship that I actually do like... there's just the fact that Amanda was his foster sister and started going out with him in disguise without telling him that. Making Amanda just some random flight attendant Kurt fell for is much better.)

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slasher-male-wife · 2 years

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Hey I'm Ziggy and this is my blog where I obsess over men and sometimes women. I use he/him and I'm 18. I really like fall stuff, vampires, Halloween in general, and my special interest is specifically horror movies. My favorite horror movie is Texas chainsaw massacre. My side account is @slashers-offical-boyfriend and my non fan fiction account is @living-dead-author. Below is the information on my request rules and info. Enjoy your stay <3

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racefortheironthrone · 3 months

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Seems like the Atomic Age inspired every second superhero to get his or her powers through radiation. The radioactive spider bite is probably the most well known example, but I saw some pretty wacky ones. Wondering if you know any other crazy or interesting ones too?

A lot of the Silver Age superheroes were radioactive, in no small part because Stan Lee was a nut on the subject and didn't particularly care about the actual science. So in addition to Spider-Man (and many of his rogues' gallery), you have the gamma bomb test that created the Hulk and many of his rogues' gallery (although Al Ewing invented a fascinating Kabbalistic mythology on top of the whole gamma radiation thing), the radioactive ooze that blinded Matt Murdock (and created the Ninja Turtles), and on and on...

The one you're probably less familiar with is the first origin story for mutants in the X-Men:

While the nuclear origin of Professor X and the 05 were eventually superseded by Chris Claremont's decision to shift from atomic radiation to genetic mutation, which would be formalized as the X-Gene, X-comics didn't completely abandon the Silver Age origin story for mutants. Building on Xavier's backstory of being the children of government scientists working at a top-secret project at Alamagordo, New Mexico (a clear allusion to the Trinity Test conducted at Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project), Fabien Nicieza, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and especially Mike Carey invented the Black Womb Project.

In a feat of paranoid conspiracy rarely seen outside of a game of Illuminati, the Black Womb Project was a secret genetic mutation research group using nuclear research as a cover story. Led by "Dr. Nathan Milbury" (aka Mister Sinister aka Nathaniel Essex) and the almost-as-evil Amanda Mueller (aka "the Black Womb Killer"), the Black Womb Project hired Dr. Brian Xavier (Charles' father), Dr. Kurt Marko (Cain Marko's father), and Irene Adler (working undercover to foil Sinister's bid for Dominion).

This project involved wildly unethical experimentation on thousands of children abducted by FBI agents Fred Duncan (who would become Professor X's FBI liason) and Carl Denti (the future anti-mutant villain "X-Cutioner"), including many of the Silver Age villains like Fred Dukes (the Blob) and Mortimer Toynbee (Toad), as well as experiments conducted by Drs. Xavier and Marko on their own children Charles and Cain. Supposedly, the Black Womb Project was designed to test a number of different methods of activating latent X-Genes...

But secretly, Nathaniel Essex/Mister Sinister was intending to use the Project as a springboard for his goals for immortality and ultimate dominion through something called the Cronus Device. This involved the implantation of Sinister's DNA into Xavier and Marko so that if Sinister ever died, a failsafe would activate that would wipe the minds of Charles, Marko, and their descendants and implant Sinister's mind and abilities into them.

While Sinister's plans were foiled by Irene Adler's precognition and Amanda Mueller's attempt to usurp the Cronus Device and replace Sinister's backup with her own (Mueller's mutant power gave her immortality but not eternal youth, so she wanted to use Sinister's backdoor to clone herself into youthful bodies), it did succeed in installing a Sinister backdoor into Charles Xavier and Cain Marko that Sinister would eventually infiltrate into the mutant DNA database at the heart of Krakoan resurrection. Sinister then used his backdoors to attempt to seize control of the Quiet Council and create an intergalatic mutant empire, which he would then sacrifice to fuel his ascension into Dominion.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that Enigma had gotten there first...

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robogart · 1 year

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Still slowly chipping away at this sort of bullet-point writeup of thoughts and headcanons/wishes for X-Men: Evolution and I'm already so sorry for anyone who will read it = w =;;;

ALTHOUGH! I have a very cute (at least, I think it's cute) headcanon for Amanda Sefton because I love that Kurt has a girlfriend and I wanted to explore a more fleshed-out character idea for her because She Deserves It!! 😭👏✨✨ I'll probably just make that it's own post because it's so much. 💖

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proxy616 · 1 year

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Legion of x#10: Margali pushing to be top of the leader board for Kurt’s worst parent. She raises Kurt to choose hope and joy and love only to use that against him and steal his very essence in the form a new powerful hope-sword.

Apparently Amanda attaching a soul-sword to Nightcrawler without his knowledge or consent left a gaping void inside him that he filled with hope. Thanks Amanda! Once again retroactively screwing Kurt over.

#legion of x #nightcrawler #Kurt Wagner #X-men

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kurtty-drabbles · 5 months

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This show is old now, 20 ish years (give or take) but still one of the best versions of X-Men and the reason I got hook for the story and even for this ship aka kurtty

Like it's so sad, really, that kurtty was ever a possibility in one version and forget about it forever? Kurt can have lousy "love interest" who don't give a fuck about him and ...Kitty shall date Peters.

I heard a rumour how the show (was cancelled of course) wanted to make Scouge a thing and I wonder if maybe they wanted to make Kurtty a thing too.

The scene of him dancing with Amanda but still looking at Kitty in the prom seems anything but platonic. But meh...

And kurtty is a niche ship anyway, maybe is for the best.

Still I do love this ship even if marvel is butching the characters

#kitty pryde #kurt wagner #kurtty #nightcrawler #xmen evolution #still wanna do a commission of them #next week will post a fic of them

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synergysilhouette · 9 months

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Remaking X-Men: Evolution (Season 3)

(Note: If this looks familiar, that's because this is a reupload. I've rewritten all 4 seasons, plus my own original season. Make sure to check them out!)

Continuing on with my X-Men: Evolution series remake, I decided to put all of the Apocalypse arc into this season rather than spreading it out through seasons 2-4. Take a look:

Day of Recovery--A chef’s kiss episode for me, so it’s mostly minor changes. It’s noted during the rescue mission that Daken, Polaris, and Colossus are not present, leading the teams to believe that Magneto is alive and has saved them, though the X-Men are still suspicious of the Brotherhood. Prodigy and Bobby are a duo (as Kitty has went with the Morlocks along with the rest of the New Mutants), and it’s Magik who rescues Wolverine instead of Spyke. Nightcrawler and Mystique have a brief bonding moment. Nightcrawler is disappointed that Cyclops left Mystique behind, though Destiny warns Scott that he will pay for his actions, and Havok supports him, despite having some misgivings. During her investigation with Toad, Wanda finds Psylocke and uses her abilities to revive her. While she awakens from her coma, Psylocke seems to feel more hesitant on being the Brotherhood’s side, but still uses her telepathy in order to allow the Brotherhood to live in Mystique’s house undetected by the police.

2. The Stuff of Heroes--Again we take some influence from my version of “Survival of the Fittest.” First off, Gambit goes with Rogue and Logan to the store, making out with Rogue to prevent her from being recognized and seriously injuring himself. However, they’re found out anyway. Magik accompanies Beast (who does most of the speech, being the only adult) and Storm to the summit. However, while the mutants watch, Iceman, Magik, Prodigy, Rogue, and Jean are transported into the Mojoverse and forced to battle Juggernaut and prevent him from destroying a dam–but they don’t realize they’re being televised on Earth and the dam is in their area. The rest of the X-Men are forced to defend themselves against the military. In the end, when the X-Men are transported back to Earth, Longshot attempts a failed rebellion against Mojo, who sends him and Shatterstar to Earth, though Longshot now has amnesia and the two are separated.

3. Mainstream--A few changes; Kitty is one of the students taken home, and being away from the X-Men allows her and Lance to still maintain a relationship. Bobby, like Kurt, is also unrecognized because he was in his ice form at the time he was on camera. Graydon works together with Principal Kelly (who doesn’t know about his heritage) and invites the Brotherhood back to school in place of Kelly, claiming he’s working for Mystique and has reconciled with her. Amanda becomes disillusioned with Kurt not sticking by his friends and threatens to break up with him if he doesn’t stick up for them, and Bobby decides to reveal himself as a mutant. Both Jean and David are accused by Kelly of using their powers to get achievements (which David did sometimes on tests, something he inadvertently reveals that gets him expelled, making him go to school online for the rest of the season). During the Brotherhood’s rampage, Nightcrawler tries to reconcile with Graydon, who only outs him as a mutant.

4. The Stuff of Villains--Combines elements of season 2’s “Mindbender” so that the Apocalypse saga fully occurs in season 3. Wanda is searching for Pietro, giving us flashbacks into her, his, and Polaris’ childhoods. Psylocke is trying to locate Daken, Polaris, and Colossus, but finds something blocking her. Destiny discovers Jean, Nightcrawler, Magik, and Gambit have been brainwashed to commit crimes, and Psylocke goes to the X-Men to see if there is a connection. The remaining X-Men and Psylocke rescue Quicksilver that evening before turning their attention to the brainwashed X-Men. After defeating them (but not before Mesmero gets the key), Psylocke is invited to join the X-Men, but the stress she’s experienced has her hesitant to engage in more battles. Xavier instead offers her a room at the institute with no obligation to join the X-Men (as long as she keeps going to school), to which she agrees to. She notes that for a second, she sensed the missing Acolytes and Brotherhood members, along with a powerful man she never met.

5. Blind Alley--Another great episode. In this case, Alex is kidnapped and Scott goes to find him. However, Scott is ambushed by Mystique, who steals his visor and abandons him in Mexico. Jean discovers both of the brothers are gone and a note from Scott. She rescues Alex first, during which time a man scares off Mystique, revealing himself as Mr. Sinister. He attempts to acquire a DNA sample, but is unable to do some before Mystique returns. When Mystique returns to finish Cyclops off, Jean and Havok rescue him from her. I know the episode is supposed to focus solely on Scott and Jean becoming a couple, but I thought it’d be a waste not to include Alex since he’s on the main roster in my version and he’s Scott’s brother.

6. The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe--This is where everyone will hate me. First off, the Pyro that burns the bridge is actually Simon Lasker, kidnapped by Magneto and brainwashed by Mastermind to be a “fill-in” Pyro for the Brotherhood while the OG Pyro remains an Acolyte. Bobby attempts to break though to him by referencing their brief romantic relationship, allowing time for Storm to douse the flames before any major damage is done. Psylocke stays out of the fight mostly, but attempts to read Pyro’s mind, only to find the brainwashing has left his mind a fortress. Pyro II tries to escape, but Wanda captures him and finds a card. She angrily questions him about it, but unlike Pietro in the original version, is unafraid of her, goading her to visit the ski resort. After getting pep talks from Storm, Iceman, and Beast about being comfortable in his own skin, Nightcrawler and Amanda’s evening with her parents goes as well as it did originally–which is not at all. Pyro II wilingly tells Wanda where to go, only for her to be captured by Magneto. Toad enlists the help of Nightcrawler, who brings Storm, Iceman, and Prodigy with him. They all chastise Toad, who angrily accepts blame and sadly says he doesn’t care about what happens to him, but wants to save Wanda. When they enter Magneto’s sanctum, they notice how empty it is, and ponder if Magneto didn’t rescue Daken, Polaris, and Colossus. Bobby attempts to break through to Simon again, but both of the Pyros outdo him and Storm subdues them with snow. Prodigy helps Toad and Nightcrawler rescue Wanda, who has been conditioned to let her hate of Magneto go. Toad apologizes for being a nuisance to everyone and almost deceiving Wanda into kissing him, and Wanda says that she was cruel to say he had to be someone else and has to learn to care about himself more–something she was going to work on. Amanda and Nightcrawler officially break up, with Nightcrawler realizing he��s not secure enough with himself to date a non-mutant and reveal himself to the world, and that he doesn’t want Amanda to suffer because of him. They part amicably, and Storm and Iceman join them for ice cream.

7. Self Possessed--One of my favorite episodes. While Rogue flirts with Scott, it’s purely platonic, as Gambit and Rogue are on the cusp of an official relationship. A lot of Rogue’s anxieties are quelled in this version–except for the obvious split personality. Gambit is weary of Risty, but doesn’t mention it to Rogue since he sees how well they get along. Gambit and Rogue go to the concert with Risty, as well as Scott and Jean, Storm and Nightcrawler (hinting at a romantic relationship), and Havok, Magik, and Iceman. In my version, Jean and Scott are a bit more comfortable about the concert being a date. After Rogue absorbs Mystique again, she has flashbacks once more of her childhood, albeit seeing it from her adoptive mother’s eyes. She realizes that Mystique is her adoptive mother, and criticizes her for always using and manipulating Rogue, Nightcrawler, and even Graydon. Mystique acknowledges that at certain times she was driven by selfish goals (saying the whole thing in “Blind Alley” with Scott was personal, albeit reckless). She says that being friends with Graydon and Rogue was something she wanted to do because she knew they wanted nothing to do with her–in contrast to Nightcrawler, who she planned to pick up the pieces with later, knowing he’d be more forgiving. Rogue runs away, memories of her childhood flashing around her. When she uses her ability to fly, she finds Jean taking over. While Gambit and Nightcrawler try to soothe her, it is still Jean and Professor X who quell her raging mind. Psylocke visits her out of sympathy while she’s healing, while Gambit kisses her forehead. In the end, Rogue notes a conversation Mystique had with Destiny, something about “Apocalypse.”

8. X-Treme Measures--A freebie episode. It premiered earlier, but I moved it around for narrative purposes. With Spyke gone, this episode still focuses on the Morlocks–specifically taking from “Uncanny X-Men #169-170”. Making Callisto a bit more comic-accurate, she finds Angel saving humans, and invites him to join the Morlocks. When he refuses, she captures him, intent on breaking his spirit (I do want some of the “he’ll be my mate” vibes, but it could be weird since he’s a teen in my version and Callisto is still an adult). Prodigy sees this and attempts to save him, but is struck ill doing so. Storm battles Callisto in order to save both Angel and Prodigy, coming out victorious. There is a brief moment where Storm is almost overcome with hatred, and Nightcrawler talks her down from it, sharing a brief kiss with her. The X-Men invite Angel to join them, and he says he will consider it.

9. Under Lock and Key--Essentially follows the same beat, except Mesmero uses Quicksilver to get the relic instead of Gambit, Beast goes with Wolverine to track down Mystique, and the bonding scene between Rogue and Nightcrawler lasts a little longer, with Mystique’s memories giving Rogue flashbacks to her and Kurt’s childhood and discussing it with him. Gambit quietly listens in the doorway, not wanting to ruin their moment. It’s hinted that Mesmero knows the whereabouts of Magneto’s missing members, making Magneto almost kill him. Banshee also appears, and while not officially joining the X-Men, tells them that they have his number. At the end of the episode, Angel joins the New Mutants.

10. Cruise Control--Occurs in a similar way, but switching up the characters; Beast takes Storm’s role as chaperone, Storm takes Kitty’s role in having fun with Nightcrawler, and Magik takes Boom-Boom’s role, which includes making a woman’s food come to life and exposing the group as mutants (Somnus attempts to make them think they dreamt it, but very few passengers believe that). Kurt also mentions he wishes Rogue could’ve been there to enjoy the cruise. Both Magma and Rictor feel the volcanic eruption, and they team up to save the day.

11. X23--I don’t have a lot of changes for this. Obviously make Laura look more like Wolverine like she does in the comics, and give Wolverine a cathartic moment where X-23 reminds him of Daken, and he ponders if he only exists to cause pain and how he could help them. Psylocke also recalls her time in the Mojoverse and that she was an assassin while under his control.

12. Dark Horizon (Part 1)--Happens similarly, with a few changes: it’s Magik at the beginning of the episode, Graydon taunts Scott and Jean with Principal Kelly, Rogue using her powers on Wanda inadvertently loosens some of Mastermind’s brainwashing on Wanda (which also happens when Rogue uses her powers on Pyro II), it is up to Magik and Nightcrawler to find Apocalypse’s hidden room. During the investigation, Iceman attempts to break through to Pyro II, who vaguely recalls Magneto’s imprisonment.

13. Dark Horizon (Part 2)--The teams split up differently: Magik, Nightcrawler, and Prodigy; Cyclops, Pyro, and Havok; Quicksilver, Pyro II, and Iceman; Beast, Magneto, and Professor X; and Storm and Jean. During their investigation, Prodigy suspects the missing mutants are somewhere in the pyramid, and Mr. Sinister appears briefly when Scott and Jean reunite. Other than that, the episode plays out pretty similar to the OG episode.

14. Impact--It's so emotional as-is! Though I do have changes: Wanda’s hypnosis is wearing off (which explains why she’s sympathetic to Rogue and Nightcrawler’s situation) though she doesn’t remember all the painful memories yet; Magneto doesn’t disappear and is just repelled by Apocalypse; and Nightcrawler has an angry “how could you?!” With Rogue before they both break down into tears, comforted by Storm and Gambit. But neither of them see Mystique’s statue repairing itself, slowly turning her back into flesh and blood (protected by the bargain she had made to help Apocalypse).

15. Cajun Spice--Deals more with the pain Kurt and Rogue feel, having them jumping between screaming matches and depressed interactions. Nightcrawler, being who he is, attempts to find some wisdom in the experience while Rogue goes with Remy to New Orleans. The rest of the episode virtually plays out the same, but now Gambit and Rogue become an official couple while Rogue and Nightcrawler reconcile. Kurt apologizes for making Rogue feel as though her pain wasn’t justified, and Rogue apologizes for demeaning his wish to bond with his birth mother and taking away the chance. They agree that Mystique is easy to despise and love, and they wonder if she has the same feelings about them. Mystique secretly listens to this conversation.

16. Ascension (Part 1)--Remove Storm and Professor X being taken away by Apocalypse, instead they're only injured. The Four Horsemen are revealed: Daken as Death, Colossus as War, Polaris as Pestilence, and a new mutant known as Vulcan becomes famine. Mr. Sinister reveals that Vulcan is the brother of Havok and Cyclops, who he saved following the airplane crash that happened to the Summers family. Mystique reveals she’s alive to the X-Men and states that she will assist them take down Apocalypse. Everything else is the same.

17. Ascension (Part 2)--The teams in different corners of the world: Storm, Magma, Jean Grey, Multiple, Somnus, and Rictor face Death (Daken) in Egypt; Prodigy, Beast, Havok, and Cyclops face Famine (Vulcan) in China; Magik, Sunspot, Wolverine, Psylocke, and Angel face off against War (Colossus) in Mexico; and Magneto, Professor X, Gambit, Scarlet Witch, Nightcrawler and Mystique go to face Pestilence (Polaris) at the Sphinx. There’s A LOT going on–like 1 hour of stuff going on. I’d want there to be brief “Dance with Death” and “War of Swords” sequences (inspired by “X of Swords” parts 3 and 13), Magneto and Wanda trying to break through to Polaris, flashbacks to Vulcan’s (who almost wins before running out of energy) manipulation under Sinister’s tutelage and descent into madness, and a real apology from Mystique to Nightcrawler and Kurt about how awful she’s been to them. In the wake of saving the world, attitudes towards mutantkind shift a bit more positive, allowing for Jubilee, Shadowcat, and Wolfsbane to return to the New Mutants, and Prodigy being allowed to return to school. Along with this, Psylocke and Colossus join the New Mutants. It should be noted that Mr. Sinister and Vulcan survive, with Vulcan flying into space to escape Mr. Sinister.

Lemme know what you think! Be sure to tell me what your favorite episode(s) is!

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The Uncanny X-Men #178 - Hell Hath No Fury...

Colossus has been turned to cracking, fragile stone due to Pyro super-heating him followed by Avalanche exploding a liquid nitrogen truck, covering Colossus in liquid nitrogen which instantly freezes his super-heated body. It's not pretty, folks. Kitty cries out for Professor Xavier.

And the Professor hears her, telepathically. Xavier telepathically contacts Wolverine and Storm and sends them to help Kitty. The Professor doesn't tell Rogue anything, knowing that Rogue has only recently defected from Mystique's Brotherhood. During all this telepathic communication, the Professor senses a psychic "scanning wave" that was looking inside of him for something. He doesn't who was scanning him or why...

Back at the construction zone where Colossus's stone body stands, Kitty decides to contact the Fantastic Four to ask for help against the Brotherhood. She hails a taxi and heads for the Baxter Building.

Elsewhere in the city, Callisto and two other Morlocks, Masque and Sunder, stumble upon a dead body in an alley. Callisto makes a plan to get back at the X-Men for taking over leadership of the Morlocks. Masque uses his power to alter the face on the body, making it resemble Kitty. Weird.

Back at the ballet, Kurt and Amanda are still waiting for Peter and Kitty and they're starting to wonder what's taking so long to park the car. Suddenly, they see a huge pink/red dragon made of fire in the sky and it's coming towards them! Kurt teleports away with Amanda, refusing to put her in harm's way. Unfortunately, they teleport near Avalanche, who makes the ground lift up and throw them into the sky. The fire dragon comes after them again, and Amanda casts a protection spell to counter it. Then the Blob tries to jump on them and crush them! The Blob grabs them both by their necks.

But that's when Storm and Wolverine arrive. Storm demands that the Blob release Kurt and Amanda. He does, but then he throws a HUGE piece of concrete at Storm. Stupid idea though, because Storm simply uses her powers to create a powerful wind that blows the concrete right back at the Blob. It smashes on top of his head.

Kitty arrives at the Baxter Building. It's empty except for a robotic receptionist. Kitty phases through the receptionist to short circuit it (her powers do that to electrical equipment). She heads to the third floor to find Dr. Richards' "Alpha Heat Source Module," which she previously read about in a newspaper article (last issue, I think). The robotic receptionist recovers and activates a security alert. Kitty finds the device she's looking for and heads back to the construction site. She tries leaving from the roof, phasing on the air to walk on it. But she falls!

Meanwhile, Storm, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler are fighting the Brotherhood. It's an intense battle with claws, wind, rain, teleporting. Suddenly the Brotherhood just... gives up. The Blob says the fight was just a diversion and that they'll either have to find themselves a new teacher or learn to raise the current one from the dead. The Professor is in danger!

Back at the mansion, Xavier realizes he recognizes the scanning wave from earlier. He last felt it when Mystique was jamming his powers. Rogue comes in to bring the Professor some tea. AND THEN SHOOTS HIM! It's not Rogue at all! It's Mystique in disguise! The real Rogue rushes into the room as Mystique transforms back into herself. Mystique tells Rogue she's come to save her from Xavier and the X-Men and their brainwashing. Rogue says she's here on her own free will because she needs the Professor's help to control her powers.

Mystique contacts the X-Men and the Brotherhood. She says she won't hurt Xavier as long as the X-Men stop fighting her Brotherhood. Storm agrees. Destiny warns the X-Men that Kitty is in trouble. Back at the Baxter Building, Kitty lies in the street, bloody and unconscious, the Alpha Heat Source Module is in pieces around her.

#kitty pryde #professor xavier #mystique #rogue

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