December 27, 2024 • 60 mins
What if the X-Men traded Cerebro for Mjolnir? This week, we’re tackling one of the wildest "What If?" scenarios ever: What if the X-Men had stayed in Asgard? When Rahne Sinclair decides she belongs with her wolf prince boyfriend, Cyclops takes a vote that splits the team—literally! Loki, never one to miss a chaotic opportunity, rewrites the rules and sends the losers back to Earth. Meanwhile, Storm is out here living her full goddess fantasy, Mirage embraces her destiny as a literal Valkyrie, and Nightcrawler? Oh, he’s swashbuckling his way through the Nine Realms with a grin. This story is a Shakespearean mess of loyalty, betrayal, and mutant drama (just the way we like it).
Oh, and did we mention What If...? Season 3 just dropped? We’re serving up unfiltered takes on the first episodes, including Agatha Goes to Hollywood. Does it enchant or hex our expectations?
Mutants, gods, Loki-level chaos—this episode has it all. Ready to answer the ultimate question: Asgard or Earth?
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Oh, and did we mention What If...? Season 3 just dropped? We’re serving up unfiltered takes on the first episodes, including Agatha Goes to Hollywood. Does it enchant or hex our expectations?
Mutants, gods, Loki-level chaos—this episode has it all. Ready to answer the ultimate question: Asgard or Earth?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody. This is Chandler and this is Chris and
you're listening to hex read the podcast. We are here
(00:20):
with episode one thirty five, and we are here to
celebrate the holiday season talking about what f oh ho ho.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Happy holidays everybody. We are at the end of twenty
twenty four. It is nice and warm here in southern California.
What's it like over there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's well, it's nice and cold, not too cold. It's
there's snow on the ground. It's very white Christmas. It's lovely.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah. I saw on the Uncanny Experience our immercy X
Men Bank Convention social media the photo of the Minneapolis
club covered in snow, and it's so gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, imagine looking Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, something very special came out this holiday season, and
that is a new season of What If. We're in
season three now, and to celebrate, we have decided to
go back into the archive of comic book issues to
unearth a special alternate universe story featuring the X Men
(01:25):
in these what If comics. And originally, what would I
wanted to do was when Storm becomes Thor. But then
to my chagrin, I discovered we already did it we did.
It was great, it was fun, it was magical, it
was as Guardian.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, you can listen to us gush about the storm
got us of Thunder issue X Men Annual number nine
back in episode seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I remember when they were first announced seeing things about
what If when we had an adventure over at D
twenty three the Disney Convention in Anaheim, and we got
to go backstage and hang out with all the celebs
and creators and stuff, and one of the things they
were announcing was what If. And here we are today.
(02:19):
It is premiered currently at the recording of this podcast,
there's three episodes that have dropped because it's kind of special.
They're doing it one a day as opposed to dropping
it once a week, you know, which is great. It's
kind of like an advent calendar for Marvel fan and.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It is indeed, and I like that it's over this
holiday break because there's not a lot of conflict, so
it's easy just to be like, what am I going
to do? I'm just going to watch an episode of
what If? So I have only seen the first two episodes.
I've not watched today's episode, so to speak. As of
this recording. Let's be honest, Chris, We're here for one
(02:57):
character debut, and one character debut only in one.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
If and that and Who's that is?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Storm got us a thunder the teaser. We've seen her
in the trailer, we've seen clips of her. We know
she's coming. We know that she's voiced by Alison Ceely Smith,
the voice of Storm and X Men, the animated series
in X Men ninety seven, And I personally am thrilled
to see this episode when it does come out. I'm
positive it's going to be one of the last episodes
(03:24):
they're going to make us wait. Hold on to that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, I think like the last episode is called what
if Dot Dot what If? So you know, who knows
what it's gonna be. But you know, I'm kind of
enjoying what I'm seeing so far. I got to host
another watch party with Kevin Winston from Digital LA at
the Scum and Villainy Cantina in Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard,
the number one nerd bart in the Los Angeles area.
(03:50):
Please come check it out. And it was so mad
at to see the Agatha Goes to Hollywood episode there.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh, I bet as you're a boulevard.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah exactly. And I the first episode was kind of
like Power Rangers, and you know, I love the Power Rangers,
but I wasn't like too into the episode for whatever reason.
But that Agatha episode that was a banger. That animation
was beautiful. I love Agatha. I love the animation in
her face, so her facial expressions and all that. So
(04:22):
I'm looking forward to Storm. Yes, they are going to
do her justice in this, I think.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I did enjoy the Agatha episode.
I loved King Go because I liked the eternals and
so it was fun that they were able to incorporate
them into what if and the celestials and all that
sort of stuff, so that it was a good episode.
And yeah, I was, you know, having lived in Hollywood
for twenty years and obviously going there frequently throughout the years,
(04:53):
seeing all the locations that, you know, the Chinese Man
Theater where they have the premiere, all these like location
stuff above the Hollywood Land Sign, you know because it's
back in the twenties, and.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
The grip at the Observatory, yes, Griff, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All the place is that we have been to our
go to many times. I've been to the Griffith Observatory
countless times on hikes, so it just was fun to
see these locations in the Marvel universe in this kind
of outrageous episode where Agatha becomes all powerful in a
fun way.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, and I mentioned this on the podcast, but what
If hold a special place in my heart because I
believe and I could be wrong, but as memory serves
me now, I believe that what If the Juggernaut became
Professor Xavier or something was my first comic book issue
(05:47):
I've ever owned.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Wow. Yeah, well, ironically it's the issue after this one
that we're about to x Read by the way. Yeah,
when we got to the end and it said next
issue is and it's that one, it's we have what
If Professor x became the Juggernaut? And I know that
early days of x Reads the podcast, you know, and
(06:12):
back in the twenty nineteen we were going to recap
that issue and it never aired. So there is some
lost episode out there that only Patreon subscribers can get
to know. We don't have a Patreon, but what if
dot dot dot we had a Patriot, We had a
Patriot and you could listen to that log lost episode
of what If Professors became the Juggernaut. If you guys
(06:33):
want to hear that episode, hit us up on social media.
We are happy to take requests.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, that's all right. I just remember like having nostalgia
for that issue, but then reading through it, I realized
that they literally jam packed every single Marvel X Men
into it. But it's an alternate universe, so they all
had different code names and they all had different costumes.
I was like, I can't figure this out. It's too easy,
too weird, it's too weird, it's too what if.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, this issue what if number twelve is what if
the X Men had stayed in Asgard? What this is
a what if to the what if that we already covered.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, basically, well, no, that actually happened. The X Man
Annual did happen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wait a minute, that wasn't a what if.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
No, it was an X Man annual, So that all
really happened. They all did go to Asgard.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I was cannon this whole time.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yes, and now this is the what if if they
had stayed rather than all returned.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute,
I'm having a memory lapse. Here, So that wasn't a
what if? So what if the what if episode that's
going to be coming out is going to be about
this issue?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh maybe maybe?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, this issue is what if the X Men had
stayed in as guard and after the as Guardian wars end,
the X Men decide to make a new round their home,
but Loki's nefarious streak might mean doom for the X Men.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Ooh yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
This was published April first of nineteen ninety and let's
set the era, Chandler, all right, top song?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, our top song was black Velvet in that slow
Southern style by Atlanta Miles, Black vel re Engine bring
you to your knees.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Black vel black Veilbert, if you please. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, I love that song. You know what that song
reminds me of is American Idol Season one.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yes. I was just about to say that, Chandler.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Because they in the finale with the top three. You know,
we got Kelly Clarkson, who we know is our winner,
just Guariano Guadrino, I can't remember his last.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Name, Guarini.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And number three was Nicki Adler.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't remember Nicki Adler.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I know, no, she's the one that sang this song.
She's sang oh shoot, okay, So everybody, all you American
Idol fans out there, let me know if it's Nicki
Adler or whatever her last name is, but either way,
she sang black Velvet in the finale of American Idol
Season one. That's why I love the song.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's awesome, And you're making me nostalgic for Justin and
Kelly movie where they go to the beach. No, no, no, okay,
we got to revisit, dude. It's just I just it's
twenty twenty four now, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I can't I can't even imagine watching that now because
I hated Justin Guarini so much. I thought he was
so annoying and I did not like that he kept
progressing and then he did a movie with Kelly Clarkson,
who I thought was fabulous, and I was like, no,
I don't want to watch this. I don't want to
see this. All right, Well to Justin with Kelly from
Love or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right, Well, Justin Guarini used to live in my apartment
building I lived in, yes, and I always wondered if
I'm going to see him at the washing machine did
you never did?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Never did?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh, that's I just I just always heard stories of
like he lives in the building, well like when and where.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was a huge fan of American Idol season one,
watched it, you know, with the world while it was happening,
and then when they all went on tour. I went
to the tour and I was a big Ryan Star fan.
Ryan Starr I think got out around like round five
or whatever, and uh, she was voted off because she's
saying last Dance by Donna Summer. Anyways, I still have
(10:54):
the headshot that I bought of hers from that from
that tour.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Used to watch it though, like is it still on
the air, Like are you still doing it?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, it's I've never I have not watched it since
like season three, Like you know, I just eventually just
got stupid. I yeah. So that was the Clake and
Ruben Stuttard, you know, season two and then season three
I think was I know there was a there was
a Taylor Hicks season oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but it
should have been Chris Daughtry that one, I think, because
(11:24):
Chris Daughtry actually has a giant career.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Wasn't there like Carrie Underwood she had a good career.
Oh wait, best career out of American Idol.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, Kelly Clarkson, I think. I mean she has a
talk show and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, but so does and dam Tay Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh oh oh of like all contestants. Yeah, Jennifer Hudson
is an Oscar winner, so she definitely is the most
successful probably American Idol contestant. I thought you were talking
about winner winner.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Specifically Jennifer Hutt. She didn't win.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
No, she did not win. She did I don't even know.
I think she made it much that deep into the finales.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Wow, oh that's crazy. Well, you know everybody's all about
the voice now.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, I know, and I've never really seen that, but
I know that people love it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, let's talk about the top movie on April first
of nineteen ninety. This was a classic that I hold
close to my heart. Why because I had the full
on bed sheets and the curtains in my room. This
is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where four teenage mutan ninja
turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City
(12:37):
from a gang of criminal ninja.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah. Life changing this movie obviously, like not only were
it was. I a giant Ninja Turtle fan for the cartoon.
You know, the cartoon is what I was living, video games,
loving the video games. And then they did this risky
movie of live action and it was like a dark
drama version of that. And I was watching one of
those Netflix documentary series of like, you know, the movies
(13:03):
that made are the Toys that made us or whatever,
and they were talking about the risk of this movie
coming out because it was done by an independent company.
This is not a studio feature film. Oh really, Yeah,
it was done by an independent company that fund raised
and shot it and then it became a giant hit.
And then we got a Ninja Turtle Secret of the
(13:23):
Ooze number two, you know, and that was a big
highlight because we got Super Shredder.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh wow, that's right in Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yes, that's when it got a commercial. But you know,
but the truth of number one, you know, that's worth
a rewrop. Will I will rewatch that over from Justin
to Kelly any day.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, teenage Bechun Ninja Turtles is. It was great. And
then they came out with something that I wish I
could memory wipe from my mind. We've talked about how
in the past, like some mutants want to keep their
trauma memories. Some people, Yes, I want to erase them.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Which ones do you want to erase?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I just want to erase from my mind? What was
it Michael Bay who did Ninja Turtles the first movie? No,
there was a reboot. Oh yes, yes, the turtles look
like actual turtles.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yes, it was called tmn T. How dare right? I
think that's what it was called TMNT.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Aren't there like equals to that? Like somebody said, not
only is this is a good idea, let's continue on
with this.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Look yes, oh, now you're making me realize. No, it
was it was teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. They TMNT was
also another rendition. You know what, It's crazy about Ninja
Turtles as while they came out in the eighties, they
are still relevantly coming out consistently decade after decade after decade.
(14:58):
We're like forty years into Ninja Turtles and they're still
hyper relevant to people.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They still get movies, they still get TV shows, They
still they have comics, they have toys, they have everything.
There's still a viable entity all because Kevin Eastman and
the other guy who I forget because they've bought and
now they're no longer friends. But they did a mock
comic off of Daredevil.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It was just a wacky spoofy idea.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Wacky spoofy turtle ninja book, indie indie indie zion kind
of book, you know, comic and how it became what
it is now is insane.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Okay, Hollywood, I want you to listen to me because
sometimes we say things and then Hollywood does it, so
they obviously everybody in Hollywood must listen to X read the.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Podcast, correct. I mean, why wouldn't they.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I want to see a live action mash up movie,
not making them look hideous, but making them look cute
like original Ninja Turtles and not like this, you know,
newer version. I want care Bears, my Little Pony, and
Rainbow Bright to team up to save the universe.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Are the Turtles involved in this or no?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I want them to be secret.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Cameos, secret cameos.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes. I wanted to be like they get to a
third part of the movie where they're like, you know,
going to some far off land to collect their allies.
Kind of like Deadpool and Woverine when they go to
the trash Dimension. I don't know what it's called. Yeah,
but I want the Ninja Turtles to be there. I
want there to be an easter egg to that crazy
(16:50):
mashup movie about don't do drugs, terror or whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There was a Dare movie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh Channa. We talked about this before.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh, I don't remember. I remember for the commercials, of course, but.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It was a whole, full on movie thing where every
pop culture character from our childhood came together and said,
don't do drugs, kids, Hollywood, make it happen.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Hollywood, make it happen. Yes, let's do it all right.
Well should we read this issue. We're an x Men
podcast after all?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh yeah, let's do it all right. What if the
X Men had stated as guard on the cover? We oh,
By the way, this is written by Jim Valentino and
the art was also by Jim Valentino.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Is all's fault, That's what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's all Jim Valentino's fault. You know, there are people
that are guilty by association, like Sam de la Rosa,
who was the inker on this, as well as others.
But on the cover. We have something pretty epic. We
have Storm with all of her Thore regalia on, because
(17:59):
in this instant she has the power of the god
of Thunder. But yes, she's battling.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
She's battling for or Throg or whatever is the the
frog version of Thor, which I love.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
He's so cute, Throg the frog. I'm into it. I
want all pop culture character frogs. Yes, Hollywood, don't steal
my idea. I know you're listening. I'm gonna take this one.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And market it good, go for it. Well, yes, so
they're battling. It's a bright pink background. It's very dynamic
and uh and I love storms. For Look her Goddess
of Thunder is so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It sure is. And it's so interesting her head piece.
They are wings on the side of her head. But
is that hair feathers? What's going on? Is that a
head feathers?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And she's got her she's got a mohawk hare.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh, it's the mohawk hare. That's what we're looking at. Oh,
I love it it. Yeah, she is so fierce as Thor.
So we uh turn the page and we get into
this issue. And of course, as with all what if properties,
we begin with the Watcher, who is given us all
the exposition.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Mm hmmm, yes, he's just basically cueueing us up for
what had happened. You know, the X Men were in
as Guard. They did a big grand adventure. Some of
them came out you know, positive, some of them came
out negative. And Loki left it to them and he said,
(19:45):
if one of you decides to stay, you all must stay.
And there's a moment where Rain decides she's she's wobbling
because she she met a wolf boy of her dreams,
the Wolf Prince character, and she he doesn't want to
leave him because she's in love with him. And she
has a little waffling moment where she might say, I'm
(20:07):
going to stay, therefore force all the X Men to stay.
But you know an X man, Annuel, she eventually says, okay,
I'll go home. They'll go home. But what if she
said I'm going to stay, and therefore they're all doomed
to stay with her? And so Loki says, ha ha,
one of you has agreed to stay there for you
(20:28):
all must stay. And Wolverine, who I forgot was in
a very slutty outfit in this issue, he says no,
we all have a flaman saying this, But yes, Wolverine
is wearing Go Go boots, a yellow yellow briefs, a
little collar and that's it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, and these briefs are all tattered up. So yeah,
there's a gust in the wind. Who knows what things
we might see.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Exactly for that. Yes, he was a little minx in
this issue.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Indeed. Well, a lot of them are serving up some
serious fashion lukes as Guardian style up in here. And
I want to say my favorite is Kiddie because she
has this, you know dress, but there's a little peekaboo
on the side.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, she's serving a side thigh hip rather she's serving hip. Yeah. No,
these are all great looks. These are all the same
looks that they have in the episode. So if you
guys want to hear our hot takes on these outfits,
go all the way back to episode seventy nine and
you can hear us dish on all of these looks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, I have to say I do not like Brain.
I don't think I ever have. I really try to.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, you know, but she just.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Cries a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
She's she's yeah, she's the youngest, she's like thirteen. But yes,
she's a bit overwhelmed with everything at all times, at.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
All times, and in this issue, I hate her the
most because it's just like she is making a decision
for everybody. But thank god, at least they put it
up for a vote.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, yes, yeah, because they start arguing about, well, how
dare she make this decision? And then people like Danny
moonstart that are just like, well, actually, I kind of
want to stay, and they get into this whole discussion
of like all right, all right, all right, all right,
let's put it to a vote. As Chris says, so
how does the vote go down?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Sunspot is staying because he's fabulous and as Garden, everybody
loves him, so he loves the attention.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Karma is not. She's saying, I've seen enough of this place.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I would leave Storm. Oh, she's contemplating, let's come back
to Storm.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We'll come back to Storm, Wolverine. This place is a
lot of things, but it ain't home. So he wants
to go home. He wants to go.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah. And Cipher, who has got some ripped sleeves, by
the way, look at those guns. Cypher says, there is
so much to learn here. Languages, unspoken, books, unread for millennia.
I must say, Cipher is just like I want to
read book.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, exactly, I have much to learn. Warlock, he says,
self would expire here. No food stuff, I mean there's
no electronics because they're on Asgard.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So Warlock, there are people that are still going to
vote yes, even though one of their teammates is going
to die of starvation.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Rain she'sady for her wolf boy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh god, Rain, So anyway, Rogue, She's all like, I
could live here, maybe even love here. And we'll get
a little bit more into that, you know, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Cannibal says, I too have a home here. I'll stay
why because he's into the Dwarfs. He's got a Dwarf girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah. Storm, Oh, she's looking down. Let's come back to her,
back to her.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We'll come back to the story to her. Shadow Cat. She says,
there's no place for me here. Let's go home. And
her arms are crossed. She's very very upset.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, Colossus is saying, never to see Mother Russia again.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, taubash, And then Nightcrawler says, dah, they still use
sods here. It is the land of mine dreams and
he's so excited.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Magma says, the sooner I leave, the better. She ain't happy, no, because.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
She got transformed into this kind of elf eared, crazy
looking thing and she's not happy with her Look.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, she needs to also like visit the eespetition and
get those eyebrows fixed a little bit. They are just
out of control all over the place.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Magic says, I'm the new Enchantress. I belong here. So
she's like, I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, I have all the power now. Phoenix says, my
place is with you. I won't lose you again father,
So she stays for Daddy.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I guess. And okay, we're back to storm.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
The break.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
By the way, you gotta answer us now. You can't
look away sullenly and put off the decision. Were you
just doing this to be dramatic to you know? Yes,
she wants to be the center of attention.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
She does. She's like, okay, all eyes on me because
my say is the one that actually matters. And she says,
I will stay.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Uh And you know she seems very firm about that. Yes,
nine to stay, an eight to go. Yes, thus the
tide be broken. But to show the all that Loki
beefair and just I shall reverse mine own edict, and
that's why, to win the favor of those who sit
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above and shadow and allow those who woulds to belong. Oh,
be gone, sorry, gone, and allow those who woulds to
be gone.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And he sends back those eight X Men and new
mutant characters back to Earth and they form a new team.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Okay, I'm Loki. What a douche? I mean, Okay, fine,
he is the trickster god. Fine, he can go back
on his word and do other things than from what
he said. But I'm just like kind of annoyed that
he's so flip it about it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yes, I know, he's kind of like I made you
all right over this. Well guess what I'm changing my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Haha.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Everything's fine, You're going home see later. But what upsets
me about this new team that we see because all
the characters that just said they want to go home,
they go home and they form a new team, and
Angel Beast and Jean Gray joined the team and Nice Man. However,
Warlock is nowhere to be seen. He wanted to go home,
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but I guess they didn't want him on the team.
So Warlock kind of loses b This is like, sorry,
you're going home, but nobody cares about you. Bye.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh my god. Maybe Loki didn't give him a say
because he didn't consider him to be essentialate being and
that he and robots don't have a decision.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh no, well he's not a robot, he's a failings.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But yes, damn it. Anyways, we hold on, hold on,
hold on failings. They feed off of technology, right, So
they're organic techno beings. Correct, they're part and they're not robots.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, they're not a robot. They are part organic and
part technology beings.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Do you think that we're going to evolve into being that?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
No, I think so. I think humans are going to
want to integrate with technology so hard that you know,
we're going to get all those bio tech implants and
we're going to be like half technology and half human.
We're going to be techno organics.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well that's okay with me, But I don't think a
reproductive system can pop out a techno organic baby.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
True, but if you had a techno organic implant, like
the first one, what's your first one that you would get?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I haven't really thought about it. I mean, I mean,
the two things that I feel like, are gonna be possible?
Are implanting like communication device into your skull or whatever
so that you don't have a phone, you just kind
of like answer and talk, you know. And then one
that is like implanted on your wrist or hand that
it's just like your your credit card, so to speak,
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so you just wave your hand and then it pays
for things and you know, grants you access or you know,
your ID or whatever all that sort of stuff. O.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh, I don't know, we'll see. I think I'm gonna
be one of those guys that are like, I can't,
I can't, and then everybody does it, and then I'm like, oh,
I guess I can't.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Anyway, One thing about the costumes from the X Men
that get sent back to Earth is that Gene Gray.
I've never seen this luke on her she is. She
is wearing like pull on baby suit with boobed out
mm hmmm. So I don't know, I'm into it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh, I like it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And I also like the phoenix has kind of like
the phoenix boob window. I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she has she has a phoenix cutout
of her top.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That's cute.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, everything's cute. Karma's got you know, her look. She's
worn this kind of look before for like two seconds.
But yeah, I know this is this is fun. But
you know the X men that stay on on asgard,
you know, we get a little glimpse of their life.
We get to see Rain running around with her horny boyfriend,
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wolf boyfriend thing. We get Cipher in his library reading.
He's just very excited to read lots of scrolls, lots.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh wait, people might not understand when I say scrolls,
not the aliens that shape shift. I'm talking about the
things that you unravel and you read. And then we
have Cannonball, who looks like he's getting married to the
love of his life, his dwarf bride.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Let's see. We get sun Spot and Nightcrawlers swashbuckling in
this little like tavern. They're just having a great time,
just beating up people.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Ooh, and Rogue, she gets to hook up with this
dashing man that kind of looks like Robin Hood. Oh yeah,
they're touching.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
They are, yes, he gets to touch her chin ever
so fondly, and that a big smile.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Rogue found a pleasure in the gentler arts.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Indeed, Danny Moonstar, she's flying around on her Pegasus as
the new role of Valkyrie.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, oh fuck man, out of all these people, and
you know, Magic is enchantous and she's a badass, and
she has even more power and knowledge than all before
and that's wonderful and great. Now, if I had any
of these people's lives, Oh man, I want to be Mirage.
I want to ride a pegacy so bad. I want
to be up in the air with that ring winged horse.
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Mm hmmm, oh yeah, Which who would you be?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You know, that's a good question, because I I think
I want to be the Magic user. I feel like
Magic being an all powerful sorceress kind of person would
be so cool. That's a very doctor strange in me.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
So why in Asgard do they have to have headwear
that is so.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Huge, so big? Like does isn't it counterproductive to have
so much headwear? Like you're battling and you're just like, sorry,
oh no, my head my headwear is so heavy. Oh
I'm dead.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, But what about just every day like they have
their costume on and they're just trying to do their
regular business, and it's just like, oh, I have to
go get a cup of coffee. I need some more
caffeine in me. Let me get up, go over to
the ow. I hit my head piece on the of
the door frame again. They just have to like walk
sideways everywhere. I don't know how Magic isn't like she's
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dangerous with those pointy things on her head. She is.
You can poke an eye out with that thing. By
the way, I know that we're reading a digital issue,
but on the physical issue, the Watcher's head is in decrease. Okay,
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it kind of looks weird. The Watcher's head looks a
little weird there.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Above all, this does look a little weird. Yes, but
you know, after all these recaps, where is Storm.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
In the arena? Of course? Ye amphitheater of the all thing.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yes, this is where Loki summons her to be his guardian,
to fight on his behalf so that he can become
a remain the ruler of as guard And then we
get really complicated.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Well, yes, I want to make a speech, makes my fellow,
as Loki addresses the crowd, my fellow as guardians, I
have come to ask thee to select my champion to
rule the Golden Realm. The goddess of thunder storm for Iron,
as she hath taken Thor's place as the Lord of
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the living lightning in his absence for a perhaps store
in the form of a humble frog in mid guard.
I say to the that's so too. Should she take
odins Iron as Thor Shirley would were he. But here
I feel so Shakespearean.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yes, indeed, I know the language is very thick, thickly Shakespearean.
But I don't know anything about Carnilla this kingdom. Sorry,
her name's Carnilla. The kingdom is No.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I don't care what this com book says. In my head,
this is Rita freaking repulsa totally bring up Power Rangers again,
because she is literally watching from her fortress on a
TV a close up of storm space in the amphitheater,
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and she has her cohort with her, and then they
get to give a little bit of exposition.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yes, indeed, the exposition being that foul trickster twas my
beloved bald. They're supposed to win the all thing, not
this usurper to the hammer of four. Still the loyal
host would ne'er champion yon eben skinned mortal, were.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
They not Carnela you Hella, oh I norm Queen, and
now set aside thine magics and heed my words. Loki
hath cast a spell a believability upon the iSER. They
will accept his word as truth, and they may well
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grant you on mortal his boon Iron. As thou dost
wish to see Balder sit upon the throne of Asgard,
so too, do I wish to repay the mortal woman
for denying me a soul? Ooo?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yes, because Storm, it says Asterix Storm saved Wolverine soul
in X Man Annual number nine. So so Hella has
some hell to pay m h.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
So they form a truce.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yes. But while all this is going on, a red
caped crusader comes flying into the arena and Storm yells
to arms as guardians. A demon half seized thy prints
because he grabs Loki. He flies into the Airstorm flies
after him, and we get a gathering of warriors because
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they're going to go after this red caped demon.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
For Odin for as God.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, and then we cut to this storyline. What I
don't understand why this giant man with a red beard
is carrying this tiny little girl who is sick because
apparently she touched a sword. I don't know his hat.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
His hat is some sort of plant that you own.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, it's a Hoovian hat. He is from the Doctor
seuss Land. He looks like a Hoovian indeed. Well, anyways,
we get a little exposition that he's trying to save
this little girl. We cut to Magic lounging in her
layer with all sorts of gargoyle statues, instruments, crystal all stuff.
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That this is quite a layer.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
She thinks she emma frost right now, but she ain't.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
But she ain't. Yes, she's watching this whole thing like tea.
She's like, oh, they're forming a pact. Oh, they're fighting.
So she is just basically watching TV.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So back to storm by the Goddess.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Oh yes, who's got the red capon? But a six
foot six inch frog wearing the rare mint and wielding
the hammer of Thor and Loki is saying, 'tis a demon?
Storm slay it?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
So this frog Thor, I don't know, cute or scary?
Haven't this thought yet?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Well, I want to say cute, and sometimes in this
particular panel is scary looking.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, yeah, this is totally reboot Ninja Turtle right here
in this panel.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Absolutely absolutely, and then we get our cover art redone
in the comic of Thraw and Storm fighting each other
with Loki looking like Professor Xavier in the background.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I was just about to say, like, what is up
with that?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yes, but yes, we learned that Loki turned Thor into
a frog in this moment to make everybody fear him.
But still in frog form, Throg is able to overcome
Storm with a katoom.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Katoom, and then the warriors they are approaching very fast
in the background.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yes, all the as Guardians have showed up and Throg
is pummeling Storm and he is about to take around.
Hell is like, oh no, no, no, no, this lady's soul
is mine, Like, back off.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Woman, I would have thy mortal so in retribution for
the one thou stole from me.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And Sunspot does not like this because he comes charging
in all flamed up, saying no. But then what happens, Chris, Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And then but with the slightest gesture, the merest wave
of her gloved hand, Hella robs him of that life
he held so dear, and she literally just like sucks
the life out of him until he becomes a skeleton
and the dust. By the way, I just saw this trope.
I finally bit the bullet, and last night I watched
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a beetle juice. Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh I watched this too. Yeah, it's entirely unexciting. Sorry
continue beetlejuice, beetle juice.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah you didn't think it was just okay?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Sure it was, Okay, it was. I fell asleep watching it.
We'll say that.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Oh wow, Well, you know what spoiler alert. I'm a
big fan of Bob. Now, Bob is an icon, and
Bob did not deserve what he got.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I agree. He he deserves to stick around in the
afterlife forever. And how dare this woman the suck you
bus take hisn.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Hell the Hella of beetled you the hell with her? Okay,
so Sunspot is composed dead.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
He's dead dead. We cut to our big Hoovian guy
and he has found a machine that is sucking the
eldrich musical or magical energy out of a sword that's
laying on the ground. This sword is huge, massive, massive,
massive sword, and some sort of machine is there and
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he clumsily pushes some rocks and it comes crashing down
and the machine is broken. The sword is broken, and
therefore the spell on Throg is broken, and we see
that he's indeed Thor.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I love how this whole thing got sold by a
little bit of a stumble act.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, this guy going.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh, I'm dizzy.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
The whole thing falls apart.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Thor's back and all of his six foot six hot
honky glory.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yes tis done, Thou true form be restored.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Oh my gosh, I'm getting Princess and the Frog flashbacks,
and like, I don't know if that six foot six
Thor frog came out to me and say, hey, bro,
if you make out with me right now, I'm going
to turn into Thor. Thor, I get all my tongue
all up in that slimy green mouth.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, get it. Well, Now even more armies are showing up,
because now the Dwarf and Army led by Cannonball has
shown up.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
The Mistress, she gives her signal, and now Hella has
her Army of the Dead rise out from the north.
And these are all the people that were in Purgatory
that want to get out of Purgatory from under Hella's grasp,
and they want to go to Valhalla, going to fight
this battle and Hella said, if you fight in this battle,
you can go to Valhalla. Yes, so they are energized,
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and in this scenario, I think they have more motivation
to win in the dwarves do I agree?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
I agree? And also I misspoke earlier. The dwarves will
come later. These are the giants that come.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
So oh, a complete opposite.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yes. Yeah, So Hella is taking her opportunity to take
out Storm for robbing her of the soul of Wolverine,
but Mirage gets her shot in and she says, and
once again, Goddess, I say the nay, I claim this
woman's soul for the Valkyrie.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
She's mine. Oh have athe varlets and stories. Is just
flying in with that hammer.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh yes, Loki's trying to sneak away, but he gets
stopped by a giant shadow of a hand, which we
don't know what this hand is. All we know is
that if you want to know who Loki's assailient is,
you'll just have to wait. Right now, we've got four
armies to deal with.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I shall top by head.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yes, because Valkyrie stopped her and she's she's not having it.
We get all sorts of action on the battlefield, and
then the dwarves show up.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Mm hmmm, Cannonball and led by Cannonball. Yes, poor ask God.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
And of course while all this is going on, you're wondering, well,
what's going on with Magic? You know, what has she
been up to? Oh? Well we find out.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
So, Chandler, of all these dwarves, who would you marry,
who would you hook up with? And who would you kill?
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Oh my gosh. Okay, so we're looking at we're not
including canniball obviously in this.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
So I'm.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Gonna say I'm going to marry the one that, oh
my gosh, there's so many to choose from. I'm going
to marry the blonde, bearded one with the baraids and
the horned helmet.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I'm going to hook up with the bald one because
he looks like you can get it. And I'm going
to kill this one in the very front with the
purple with a very messed up face and teeth.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
You know, he needs some moisturizer.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Yes he does, what about you?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Okay, Well, you know the one in the center. I
think I want to marry him because he the one
that's bald. He kind of looks like the monopoly man.
And of all the people that are there, he probably
has the most.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Well.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Okay, and I'm going to hook up with the braids, dude,
m and I agree, let's kill that guy that needs
mores sturizer in the front.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Okay, okay, moving on back in the realm of magic,
we've got magic who is being ensnared by the norn queen.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Oh yeah, let's do these because it's just so dramatic.
Nor and Queen. She yells, insolent, cur thou darest to
pit thy puny magics against Tarnilla, the greatest sorceress in
the nine worlds.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
My puny magics were enough to take out the enchantress.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Brazen mortal Amra was there an over confident fool. I
shall have thine eyes for such impudence.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
And then we hear off off panel, stay thy hand,
what who dares? And it's balder Her love.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Boulder is basically saying, let the mortal child go, recall
thy warriors, and you know what, I'll marry you. I'll
be your king. It'll be a foreverything me and you, babe.
And it's so interesting. I loved this take on this
trope because usually we see them are the woman saying
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I'll marry you, don't worry. Let's stop the war and
I'll be your bride. Not this one. We've got boulders
stepping up.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Yes, back in the battle, the wolves have arrived, so
we've got more people, more battlers hitting this war and
there's all sorts of mayem as. People are are fighting
to the death, and Hella still has not claimed the
soul of Storm.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
I shall have my soul. And more thunderstriking, you know,
between characters. Then a giant face.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
The Queen of the Norns got it, so she's basically saying,
Balder's here, you guys can back off. But while they're fighting,
I realized that the dwarf that we both agreed to kill, Chris,
is actually the king of the Dwarf, so he's the
rich one. So maybe we should be marrying the king.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
You know, I'm not married. You're gonna get him a
subscription box to Keels. You know they got the eye
repair cream elsewhere on the battlefield, says Rain and wolf form.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yes, oh.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Horrible, Yeah, he died. Now her love lies dead in
her arms, and the girl will spain howls in her
paint and she is just devastated. This This is like
the love of her life. And this is young love too,
because like you know, the first love is always the
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most dramatic. Yes, right, Yes, And then if she were
adult rain, like you know, forty plus years old, looking
back on that first love, she'd be like, oh my god,
I stayedd as guard to roll around in the wood. Right,
there's streaming platform televisions now, and there's like you know,
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creature comforts and beds with linens, and I to go
with some wolfman in the forest.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Well. Magic enters the battlefield using the psychic eyes in
the sky maneuver that we're very familiar with with Jeane
and Betsy and everybody. But now Magic she summons Thor
to the battlefield because they are all going to care
bear stare Hella into oblivion.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Yes. I love this analogy because it's perfect for this moment.
All those Valkyries are surrounding Hella in a circle. They
have her enclosed.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yes. With the power of Thor storm Valkyrie, all these
people surrounding she doesn't stand a chance and she's like,
you can't kill me. I am death. But actually she does.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Die, Yes, a blinding bolt of eldritch energy is loosed.
So loud is it that it's reverbrations will echo in
the valleys of the Nines worlds for all eternity. So
powerful is its force that it claims the very life
of the Goddess of Death.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
And it kind of shocks everybody to the point of
where they all see and they're like, oh damn. They're
like wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They're buddy, I know.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
But so while the armies are, you know, in confusion,
they steal Cipher and they bring him to give this
proclamation for everybody so that they understand. And what we
learn in this process is that Danny Moonstar, as the
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one who smited down the Queen of Hell, now must
take her place.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
I would she have thought twice? No, would she be like, hey,
one of your other valkyries, can you like do the
finishing blow? Like she's on the ground right now. You
just got to poker with spear or something. She's just ready.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Just do it.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
You do it, you do it, you do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
So we get a giant in proclamation at the very end,
so that we learn everything that has happened all right
here is Thorm. Much thought have I given to ruling
this noble land. And though I have been called the
heir to the throne of Asgard, I stand before you
today to renounce my claim of birthright.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Listen the voices in the crowd murmuring.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
Listen that I might explain. I am a god of
two worlds. Though asguard born I have ever been the
guardian of mid Guard, kingdom of my mother Gaia, 'tis
a burden I would not lightly lay down. Since my
chosen successor, balder hath become the king of the Norns,
I have chosen a second to rule in my stead,
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the sommortal born her courage and valor be like unto
one born in this realm. Twice did she stand against Hella,
that she might deny the goddess of Death, the souls
of her comrades and arms. Twas she who led the
battle and made possible our victory in that hard pressed war.
Twas she who disposed of Hella herself.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Wait, I thought it was Valan, I thought it was
Verage that took down Hell. Anyways, it was she who
disposed of Hella herself, And it is through her powers
and her enchanted mallet storm Bringer that she shall Air
be in special contact with me and Molnia. I think
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that Molnia should mead Air be needed. Tis thy choice,
my fellows, wilt thou accept as thy sovereign Storm, Goddess
of Thunder.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
And then on the next page we see the fallout
of all of these things that happen. For instance, the
or sign of Voted did return to his beloved Earth,
there to protect her people, either with the Avengers or
on his own. Oh he gets a steep sub mariner anymore.
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She Hulk and Captain America with him.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Mm hmmm, yes, And then we get to see Storm
on the throne of Asgard with her royal page transcriber
boy cipher.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
Ooh, Cannonball is having a baby.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
And they're expecting our big pink Hoovian guy apparently is
part of a warrior trio and one of them died
in a previous issue, so no Nightcrawler is the third.
He's a well of the three Musketeers, we'll say.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yeah, And Rogue is happy because she can get some
d yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
And then we see Mirage living in Hell, but she
is a good hell ruler.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Bald de Brave took. Then the throne of the Norns.
Never again would his bride Cardilla wage war on the
Golden Realm. So now that she's married, she's happy. Yes,
that's all she needed.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yeah, I guess so. And then we see Rain and
she has had ups. So Rain and the Wolf Prince
were doing it and doing it and doing it. Well,
no wonder why she didn't want to leave. She was
getting that wolfdie. Yep.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
And I'm just terrified of having shape shifter children toddlers
running around. Can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
That? Sounds like chaos, total absolute chaos. Well, and then
we get to the end and the gods above, the
gods above all gods have decided to give Loki a
reward for some reason, and they give him his deepest
desire to be the ultimate ruler of the nine worlds.
But they make it at the end of time, and
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so he is the ruler of all nine worlds at
the end of the Regnarok when they're all collapsing into
a black and hole and he is laugh crying himself.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
Yeah, because it's just like what, it's the ultimate gotcha?
Speaker 1 (55:16):
Yeah exactly? You wanted this? Yeah, yeah, he didn't set
up what time you wanted to rule? All nine realms.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, it's very like the end of a Twilight Zone episode.
Mm hmmm, Like that guy who alls he wants to
do is read books and he hates people, and then
everybody on the planet dies. But he was in a
safe in the bank when it happened, so he got
to live and he got out of the safe and
he's like, OK, everybody did I got my wish. I'm
going to go read a bunch of books. And he
(55:45):
gets the library or wherever and he steps on his
glasses or they fall off his face and they crack
and he no longer has his prescription glasses and all
the glass and all the world is broken because of
all the bombs, and he can't read anymore because he
can't see book. That's all you want it.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
That's all you wanted. So now he just lives by
himself in a world where he can't see. Yes.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
So Loki, on the other hand, lives in the last
fractions of the second of the of the universe and
he gets to see everything explode and he rules nothing.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
Well that was fun, you know. In preparation for the
coming of storm, got us of thunder and what if
Season three? Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
I guess this is the last of the what ifs
that we are getting because this is season three, is
the last season. You know, it would be fun if
they did more.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
Maybe maybe they'll do holiday specials.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
All right, what what is your pitch so Hollywood for
a what if episode?
Speaker 1 (56:52):
I'm gonna say what if aeth I went to Hollywood? No,
I'm just uh, oh, I don't know, there's so many
there's I mean, what if the thing is is that
could be? What if? Literally anything? Yeah, let's say what if.
Speaker 4 (57:15):
Uh and name Moore and Medusa were married and ruled
Atlantis and the inhumans?
Speaker 2 (57:27):
Oh wow, all right, I'm going to be selfish and
I'm going to say what if Christian Chandler went to
the Hall Fire Gala?
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Oh but not the third one, not the third one,
the first one, the first Well, no.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
No, what about us? What about us? Though?
Speaker 3 (57:46):
Well?
Speaker 1 (57:46):
I think we are moving on to our uncanny News segment.
Speaker 2 (57:51):
Let's do it. Uncanny news news news. Hey, they're true believers.
Welcome back to the Uncanny News, where we bring you
all the latest updates on the Uncanny Experience. If you
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Speaker 1 (58:05):
And today we're here with some massive news. The countdown
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Hi, everybody. This is Chandler and this is Chris and
you're listening to hex read the podcast. We are here
(00:20):
with episode one thirty five, and we are here to
celebrate the holiday season talking about what f oh ho ho.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Happy holidays everybody. We are at the end of twenty
twenty four. It is nice and warm here in southern California.
What's it like over there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's well, it's nice and cold, not too cold. It's
there's snow on the ground. It's very white Christmas. It's lovely.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah. I saw on the Uncanny Experience our immercy X
Men Bank Convention social media the photo of the Minneapolis
club covered in snow, and it's so gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, imagine looking Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, something very special came out this holiday season, and
that is a new season of What If. We're in
season three now, and to celebrate, we have decided to
go back into the archive of comic book issues to
unearth a special alternate universe story featuring the X Men
(01:25):
in these what If comics. And originally, what would I
wanted to do was when Storm becomes Thor. But then
to my chagrin, I discovered we already did it we did.
It was great, it was fun, it was magical, it
was as Guardian.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, you can listen to us gush about the storm
got us of Thunder issue X Men Annual number nine
back in episode seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I remember when they were first announced seeing things about
what If when we had an adventure over at D
twenty three the Disney Convention in Anaheim, and we got
to go backstage and hang out with all the celebs
and creators and stuff, and one of the things they
were announcing was what If. And here we are today.
(02:19):
It is premiered currently at the recording of this podcast,
there's three episodes that have dropped because it's kind of special.
They're doing it one a day as opposed to dropping
it once a week, you know, which is great. It's
kind of like an advent calendar for Marvel fan and.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It is indeed, and I like that it's over this
holiday break because there's not a lot of conflict, so
it's easy just to be like, what am I going
to do? I'm just going to watch an episode of
what If? So I have only seen the first two episodes.
I've not watched today's episode, so to speak. As of
this recording. Let's be honest, Chris, We're here for one
(02:57):
character debut, and one character debut only in one.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
If and that and Who's that is?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Storm got us a thunder the teaser. We've seen her
in the trailer, we've seen clips of her. We know
she's coming. We know that she's voiced by Alison Ceely Smith,
the voice of Storm and X Men, the animated series
in X Men ninety seven, And I personally am thrilled
to see this episode when it does come out. I'm
positive it's going to be one of the last episodes
(03:24):
they're going to make us wait. Hold on to that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, I think like the last episode is called what
if Dot Dot what If? So you know, who knows
what it's gonna be. But you know, I'm kind of
enjoying what I'm seeing so far. I got to host
another watch party with Kevin Winston from Digital LA at
the Scum and Villainy Cantina in Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard,
the number one nerd bart in the Los Angeles area.
(03:50):
Please come check it out. And it was so mad
at to see the Agatha Goes to Hollywood episode there.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh, I bet as you're a boulevard.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah exactly. And I the first episode was kind of
like Power Rangers, and you know, I love the Power Rangers,
but I wasn't like too into the episode for whatever reason.
But that Agatha episode that was a banger. That animation
was beautiful. I love Agatha. I love the animation in
her face, so her facial expressions and all that. So
(04:22):
I'm looking forward to Storm. Yes, they are going to
do her justice in this, I think.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I did enjoy the Agatha episode.
I loved King Go because I liked the eternals and
so it was fun that they were able to incorporate
them into what if and the celestials and all that
sort of stuff, so that it was a good episode.
And yeah, I was, you know, having lived in Hollywood
for twenty years and obviously going there frequently throughout the years,
(04:53):
seeing all the locations that, you know, the Chinese Man
Theater where they have the premiere, all these like location
stuff above the Hollywood Land Sign, you know because it's
back in the twenties, and.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
The grip at the Observatory, yes, Griff, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All the place is that we have been to our
go to many times. I've been to the Griffith Observatory
countless times on hikes, so it just was fun to
see these locations in the Marvel universe in this kind
of outrageous episode where Agatha becomes all powerful in a
fun way.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, and I mentioned this on the podcast, but what
If hold a special place in my heart because I
believe and I could be wrong, but as memory serves
me now, I believe that what If the Juggernaut became
Professor Xavier or something was my first comic book issue
(05:47):
I've ever owned.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Wow. Yeah, well, ironically it's the issue after this one
that we're about to x Read by the way. Yeah,
when we got to the end and it said next
issue is and it's that one, it's we have what
If Professor x became the Juggernaut? And I know that
early days of x Reads the podcast, you know, and
(06:12):
back in the twenty nineteen we were going to recap
that issue and it never aired. So there is some
lost episode out there that only Patreon subscribers can get
to know. We don't have a Patreon, but what if
dot dot dot we had a Patriot, We had a
Patriot and you could listen to that log lost episode
of what If Professors became the Juggernaut. If you guys
(06:33):
want to hear that episode, hit us up on social media.
We are happy to take requests.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, that's all right. I just remember like having nostalgia
for that issue, but then reading through it, I realized
that they literally jam packed every single Marvel X Men
into it. But it's an alternate universe, so they all
had different code names and they all had different costumes.
I was like, I can't figure this out. It's too easy,
too weird, it's too weird, it's too what if.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, this issue what if number twelve is what if
the X Men had stayed in Asgard? What this is
a what if to the what if that we already covered.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, basically, well, no, that actually happened. The X Man
Annual did happen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wait a minute, that wasn't a what if.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
No, it was an X Man annual, So that all
really happened. They all did go to Asgard.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I was cannon this whole time.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yes, and now this is the what if if they
had stayed rather than all returned.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute,
I'm having a memory lapse. Here, So that wasn't a
what if? So what if the what if episode that's
going to be coming out is going to be about
this issue?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh maybe maybe?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Well, this issue is what if the X Men had
stayed in as guard and after the as Guardian wars end,
the X Men decide to make a new round their home,
but Loki's nefarious streak might mean doom for the X Men.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Ooh yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
This was published April first of nineteen ninety and let's
set the era, Chandler, all right, top song?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, our top song was black Velvet in that slow
Southern style by Atlanta Miles, Black vel re Engine bring
you to your knees.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Black vel black Veilbert, if you please. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, I love that song. You know what that song
reminds me of is American Idol Season one.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yes. I was just about to say that, Chandler.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Because they in the finale with the top three. You know,
we got Kelly Clarkson, who we know is our winner,
just Guariano Guadrino, I can't remember his last.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Name, Guarini.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
And number three was Nicki Adler.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't remember Nicki Adler.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I know, no, she's the one that sang this song.
She's sang oh shoot, okay, So everybody, all you American
Idol fans out there, let me know if it's Nicki
Adler or whatever her last name is, but either way,
she sang black Velvet in the finale of American Idol
Season one. That's why I love the song.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's awesome, And you're making me nostalgic for Justin and
Kelly movie where they go to the beach. No, no, no, okay,
we got to revisit, dude. It's just I just it's
twenty twenty four now, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I can't I can't even imagine watching that now because
I hated Justin Guarini so much. I thought he was
so annoying and I did not like that he kept
progressing and then he did a movie with Kelly Clarkson,
who I thought was fabulous, and I was like, no,
I don't want to watch this. I don't want to
see this. All right, Well to Justin with Kelly from
Love or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right, Well, Justin Guarini used to live in my apartment
building I lived in, yes, and I always wondered if
I'm going to see him at the washing machine did
you never did?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Never did?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh, that's I just I just always heard stories of
like he lives in the building, well like when and where.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was a huge fan of American Idol season one,
watched it, you know, with the world while it was happening,
and then when they all went on tour. I went
to the tour and I was a big Ryan Star fan.
Ryan Starr I think got out around like round five
or whatever, and uh, she was voted off because she's
saying last Dance by Donna Summer. Anyways, I still have
(10:54):
the headshot that I bought of hers from that from
that tour.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Used to watch it though, like is it still on
the air, Like are you still doing it?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, it's I've never I have not watched it since
like season three, Like you know, I just eventually just
got stupid. I yeah. So that was the Clake and
Ruben Stuttard, you know, season two and then season three
I think was I know there was a there was
a Taylor Hicks season oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but it
should have been Chris Daughtry that one, I think, because
(11:24):
Chris Daughtry actually has a giant career.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Wasn't there like Carrie Underwood she had a good career.
Oh wait, best career out of American Idol.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well, Kelly Clarkson, I think. I mean she has a
talk show and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, but so does and dam Tay Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh oh oh of like all contestants. Yeah, Jennifer Hudson
is an Oscar winner, so she definitely is the most
successful probably American Idol contestant. I thought you were talking
about winner winner.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Specifically Jennifer Hutt. She didn't win.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
No, she did not win. She did I don't even know.
I think she made it much that deep into the finales.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Wow, oh that's crazy. Well, you know everybody's all about
the voice now.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, I know, and I've never really seen that, but
I know that people love it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, let's talk about the top movie on April first
of nineteen ninety. This was a classic that I hold
close to my heart. Why because I had the full
on bed sheets and the curtains in my room. This
is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where four teenage mutan ninja
turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City
(12:37):
from a gang of criminal ninja.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah. Life changing this movie obviously, like not only were
it was. I a giant Ninja Turtle fan for the cartoon.
You know, the cartoon is what I was living, video games,
loving the video games. And then they did this risky
movie of live action and it was like a dark
drama version of that. And I was watching one of
those Netflix documentary series of like, you know, the movies
(13:03):
that made are the Toys that made us or whatever,
and they were talking about the risk of this movie
coming out because it was done by an independent company.
This is not a studio feature film. Oh really, Yeah,
it was done by an independent company that fund raised
and shot it and then it became a giant hit.
And then we got a Ninja Turtle Secret of the
(13:23):
Ooze number two, you know, and that was a big
highlight because we got Super Shredder.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh wow, that's right in Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yes, that's when it got a commercial. But you know,
but the truth of number one, you know, that's worth
a rewrop. Will I will rewatch that over from Justin
to Kelly any day.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah, teenage Bechun Ninja Turtles is. It was great. And
then they came out with something that I wish I
could memory wipe from my mind. We've talked about how
in the past, like some mutants want to keep their
trauma memories. Some people, Yes, I want to erase them.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Which ones do you want to erase?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I just want to erase from my mind? What was
it Michael Bay who did Ninja Turtles the first movie? No,
there was a reboot. Oh yes, yes, the turtles look
like actual turtles.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yes, it was called tmn T. How dare right? I
think that's what it was called TMNT.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Aren't there like equals to that? Like somebody said, not
only is this is a good idea, let's continue on
with this.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Look yes, oh, now you're making me realize. No, it
was it was teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. They TMNT was
also another rendition. You know what, It's crazy about Ninja
Turtles as while they came out in the eighties, they
are still relevantly coming out consistently decade after decade after decade.
(14:58):
We're like forty years into Ninja Turtles and they're still
hyper relevant to people.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
They still get movies, they still get TV shows, They
still they have comics, they have toys, they have everything.
There's still a viable entity all because Kevin Eastman and
the other guy who I forget because they've bought and
now they're no longer friends. But they did a mock
comic off of Daredevil.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It was just a wacky spoofy idea.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Wacky spoofy turtle ninja book, indie indie indie zion kind
of book, you know, comic and how it became what
it is now is insane.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Okay, Hollywood, I want you to listen to me because
sometimes we say things and then Hollywood does it, so
they obviously everybody in Hollywood must listen to X read the.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Podcast, correct. I mean, why wouldn't they.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I want to see a live action mash up movie,
not making them look hideous, but making them look cute
like original Ninja Turtles and not like this, you know,
newer version. I want care Bears, my Little Pony, and
Rainbow Bright to team up to save the universe.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Are the Turtles involved in this or no?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I want them to be secret.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Cameos, secret cameos.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yes. I wanted to be like they get to a
third part of the movie where they're like, you know,
going to some far off land to collect their allies.
Kind of like Deadpool and Woverine when they go to
the trash Dimension. I don't know what it's called. Yeah,
but I want the Ninja Turtles to be there. I
want there to be an easter egg to that crazy
(16:50):
mashup movie about don't do drugs, terror or whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There was a Dare movie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh Channa. We talked about this before.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Oh, I don't remember. I remember for the commercials, of course, but.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It was a whole, full on movie thing where every
pop culture character from our childhood came together and said,
don't do drugs, kids, Hollywood, make it happen.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Hollywood, make it happen. Yes, let's do it all right.
Well should we read this issue. We're an x Men
podcast after all?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh yeah, let's do it all right. What if the
X Men had stated as guard on the cover? We oh,
By the way, this is written by Jim Valentino and
the art was also by Jim Valentino.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Is all's fault, That's what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's all Jim Valentino's fault. You know, there are people
that are guilty by association, like Sam de la Rosa,
who was the inker on this, as well as others.
But on the cover. We have something pretty epic. We
have Storm with all of her Thore regalia on, because
(17:59):
in this instant she has the power of the god
of Thunder. But yes, she's battling.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
She's battling for or Throg or whatever is the the
frog version of Thor, which I love.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
He's so cute, Throg the frog. I'm into it. I
want all pop culture character frogs. Yes, Hollywood, don't steal
my idea. I know you're listening. I'm gonna take this one.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And market it good, go for it. Well, yes, so
they're battling. It's a bright pink background. It's very dynamic
and uh and I love storms. For Look her Goddess
of Thunder is so cool.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It sure is. And it's so interesting her head piece.
They are wings on the side of her head. But
is that hair feathers? What's going on? Is that a
head feathers?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And she's got her she's got a mohawk hare.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh, it's the mohawk hare. That's what we're looking at. Oh,
I love it it. Yeah, she is so fierce as Thor.
So we uh turn the page and we get into
this issue. And of course, as with all what if properties,
we begin with the Watcher, who is given us all
the exposition.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Mm hmmm, yes, he's just basically cueueing us up for
what had happened. You know, the X Men were in
as Guard. They did a big grand adventure. Some of
them came out you know, positive, some of them came
out negative. And Loki left it to them and he said,
(19:45):
if one of you decides to stay, you all must stay.
And there's a moment where Rain decides she's she's wobbling
because she she met a wolf boy of her dreams,
the Wolf Prince character, and she he doesn't want to
leave him because she's in love with him. And she
has a little waffling moment where she might say, I'm
(20:07):
going to stay, therefore force all the X Men to stay.
But you know an X man, Annuel, she eventually says, okay,
I'll go home. They'll go home. But what if she
said I'm going to stay, and therefore they're all doomed
to stay with her? And so Loki says, ha ha,
one of you has agreed to stay there for you
(20:28):
all must stay. And Wolverine, who I forgot was in
a very slutty outfit in this issue, he says no,
we all have a flaman saying this, But yes, Wolverine
is wearing Go Go boots, a yellow yellow briefs, a
little collar and that's it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, and these briefs are all tattered up. So yeah,
there's a gust in the wind. Who knows what things
we might see.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Exactly for that. Yes, he was a little minx in
this issue.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Indeed. Well, a lot of them are serving up some
serious fashion lukes as Guardian style up in here. And
I want to say my favorite is Kiddie because she
has this, you know dress, but there's a little peekaboo
on the side.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, she's serving a side thigh hip rather she's serving hip. Yeah. No,
these are all great looks. These are all the same
looks that they have in the episode. So if you
guys want to hear our hot takes on these outfits,
go all the way back to episode seventy nine and
you can hear us dish on all of these looks. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, I have to say I do not like Brain.
I don't think I ever have. I really try to.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, you know, but she just.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Cries a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
She's she's yeah, she's the youngest, she's like thirteen. But yes,
she's a bit overwhelmed with everything at all times, at.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
All times, and in this issue, I hate her the
most because it's just like she is making a decision
for everybody. But thank god, at least they put it
up for a vote.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, yes, yeah, because they start arguing about, well, how
dare she make this decision? And then people like Danny
moonstart that are just like, well, actually, I kind of
want to stay, and they get into this whole discussion
of like all right, all right, all right, all right,
let's put it to a vote. As Chris says, so
how does the vote go down?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Sunspot is staying because he's fabulous and as Garden, everybody
loves him, so he loves the attention.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Karma is not. She's saying, I've seen enough of this place.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I would leave Storm. Oh, she's contemplating, let's come back
to Storm.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We'll come back to Storm, Wolverine. This place is a
lot of things, but it ain't home. So he wants
to go home. He wants to go.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah. And Cipher, who has got some ripped sleeves, by
the way, look at those guns. Cypher says, there is
so much to learn here. Languages, unspoken, books, unread for millennia.
I must say, Cipher is just like I want to
read book.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, exactly, I have much to learn. Warlock, he says,
self would expire here. No food stuff, I mean there's
no electronics because they're on Asgard.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So Warlock, there are people that are still going to
vote yes, even though one of their teammates is going
to die of starvation.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Rain she'sady for her wolf boy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh god, Rain, So anyway, Rogue, She's all like, I
could live here, maybe even love here. And we'll get
a little bit more into that, you know, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Cannibal says, I too have a home here. I'll stay
why because he's into the Dwarfs. He's got a Dwarf girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah. Storm, Oh, she's looking down. Let's come back to her,
back to her.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We'll come back to the story to her. Shadow Cat. She says,
there's no place for me here. Let's go home. And
her arms are crossed. She's very very upset.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, Colossus is saying, never to see Mother Russia again.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, taubash, And then Nightcrawler says, dah, they still use
sods here. It is the land of mine dreams and
he's so excited.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Magma says, the sooner I leave, the better. She ain't happy, no, because.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
She got transformed into this kind of elf eared, crazy
looking thing and she's not happy with her Look.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, she needs to also like visit the eespetition and
get those eyebrows fixed a little bit. They are just
out of control all over the place.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Magic says, I'm the new Enchantress. I belong here. So
she's like, I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, I have all the power now. Phoenix says, my
place is with you. I won't lose you again father,
So she stays for Daddy.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I guess. And okay, we're back to storm.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
The break.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
By the way, you gotta answer us now. You can't
look away sullenly and put off the decision. Were you
just doing this to be dramatic to you know? Yes,
she wants to be the center of attention.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
She does. She's like, okay, all eyes on me because
my say is the one that actually matters. And she says,
I will stay.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Uh And you know she seems very firm about that. Yes,
nine to stay, an eight to go. Yes, thus the
tide be broken. But to show the all that Loki
beefair and just I shall reverse mine own edict, and
that's why, to win the favor of those who sit
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above and shadow and allow those who woulds to belong. Oh,
be gone, sorry, gone, and allow those who woulds to
be gone.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And he sends back those eight X Men and new
mutant characters back to Earth and they form a new team.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Okay, I'm Loki. What a douche? I mean, Okay, fine,
he is the trickster god. Fine, he can go back
on his word and do other things than from what
he said. But I'm just like kind of annoyed that
he's so flip it about it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yes, I know, he's kind of like I made you
all right over this. Well guess what I'm changing my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Haha.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Everything's fine, You're going home see later. But what upsets
me about this new team that we see because all
the characters that just said they want to go home,
they go home and they form a new team, and
Angel Beast and Jean Gray joined the team and Nice Man. However,
Warlock is nowhere to be seen. He wanted to go home,
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but I guess they didn't want him on the team.
So Warlock kind of loses b This is like, sorry,
you're going home, but nobody cares about you. Bye.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh my god. Maybe Loki didn't give him a say
because he didn't consider him to be essentialate being and
that he and robots don't have a decision.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh no, well he's not a robot, he's a failings.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But yes, damn it. Anyways, we hold on, hold on,
hold on failings. They feed off of technology, right, So
they're organic techno beings. Correct, they're part and they're not robots.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, they're not a robot. They are part organic and
part technology beings.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Do you think that we're going to evolve into being that?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
No, I think so. I think humans are going to
want to integrate with technology so hard that you know,
we're going to get all those bio tech implants and
we're going to be like half technology and half human.
We're going to be techno organics.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well that's okay with me, But I don't think a
reproductive system can pop out a techno organic baby.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
True, but if you had a techno organic implant, like
the first one, what's your first one that you would get?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I haven't really thought about it. I mean, I mean,
the two things that I feel like, are gonna be possible?
Are implanting like communication device into your skull or whatever
so that you don't have a phone, you just kind
of like answer and talk, you know. And then one
that is like implanted on your wrist or hand that
it's just like your your credit card, so to speak,
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so you just wave your hand and then it pays
for things and you know, grants you access or you know,
your ID or whatever all that sort of stuff. O.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh, I don't know, we'll see. I think I'm gonna
be one of those guys that are like, I can't,
I can't, and then everybody does it, and then I'm like, oh,
I guess I can't.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Anyway, One thing about the costumes from the X Men
that get sent back to Earth is that Gene Gray.
I've never seen this luke on her she is. She
is wearing like pull on baby suit with boobed out
mm hmmm. So I don't know, I'm into it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh, I like it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And I also like the phoenix has kind of like
the phoenix boob window. I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she has she has a phoenix cutout
of her top.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That's cute.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, everything's cute. Karma's got you know, her look. She's
worn this kind of look before for like two seconds.
But yeah, I know this is this is fun. But
you know the X men that stay on on asgard,
you know, we get a little glimpse of their life.
We get to see Rain running around with her horny boyfriend,
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wolf boyfriend thing. We get Cipher in his library reading.
He's just very excited to read lots of scrolls, lots.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh wait, people might not understand when I say scrolls,
not the aliens that shape shift. I'm talking about the
things that you unravel and you read. And then we
have Cannonball, who looks like he's getting married to the
love of his life, his dwarf bride.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Let's see. We get sun Spot and Nightcrawlers swashbuckling in
this little like tavern. They're just having a great time,
just beating up people.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Ooh, and Rogue, she gets to hook up with this
dashing man that kind of looks like Robin Hood. Oh yeah,
they're touching.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
They are, yes, he gets to touch her chin ever
so fondly, and that a big smile.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Rogue found a pleasure in the gentler arts.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Indeed, Danny Moonstar, she's flying around on her Pegasus as
the new role of Valkyrie.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, oh fuck man, out of all these people, and
you know, Magic is enchantous and she's a badass, and
she has even more power and knowledge than all before
and that's wonderful and great. Now, if I had any
of these people's lives, Oh man, I want to be Mirage.
I want to ride a pegacy so bad. I want
to be up in the air with that ring winged horse.
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Mm hmmm, oh yeah, Which who would you be?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You know, that's a good question, because I I think
I want to be the Magic user. I feel like
Magic being an all powerful sorceress kind of person would
be so cool. That's a very doctor strange in me.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
So why in Asgard do they have to have headwear
that is so.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Huge, so big? Like does isn't it counterproductive to have
so much headwear? Like you're battling and you're just like, sorry,
oh no, my head my headwear is so heavy. Oh
I'm dead.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, But what about just every day like they have
their costume on and they're just trying to do their
regular business, and it's just like, oh, I have to
go get a cup of coffee. I need some more
caffeine in me. Let me get up, go over to
the ow. I hit my head piece on the of
the door frame again. They just have to like walk
sideways everywhere. I don't know how Magic isn't like she's
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dangerous with those pointy things on her head. She is.
You can poke an eye out with that thing. By
the way, I know that we're reading a digital issue,
but on the physical issue, the Watcher's head is in decrease. Okay,
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it kind of looks weird. The Watcher's head looks a
little weird there.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Above all, this does look a little weird. Yes, but
you know, after all these recaps, where is Storm.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
In the arena? Of course? Ye amphitheater of the all thing.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yes, this is where Loki summons her to be his guardian,
to fight on his behalf so that he can become
a remain the ruler of as guard And then we
get really complicated.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Well, yes, I want to make a speech, makes my fellow,
as Loki addresses the crowd, my fellow as guardians, I
have come to ask thee to select my champion to
rule the Golden Realm. The goddess of thunder storm for Iron,
as she hath taken Thor's place as the Lord of
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the living lightning in his absence for a perhaps store
in the form of a humble frog in mid guard.
I say to the that's so too. Should she take
odins Iron as Thor Shirley would were he. But here
I feel so Shakespearean.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yes, indeed, I know the language is very thick, thickly Shakespearean.
But I don't know anything about Carnilla this kingdom. Sorry,
her name's Carnilla. The kingdom is No.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I don't care what this com book says. In my head,
this is Rita freaking repulsa totally bring up Power Rangers again,
because she is literally watching from her fortress on a
TV a close up of storm space in the amphitheater,
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and she has her cohort with her, and then they
get to give a little bit of exposition.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yes, indeed, the exposition being that foul trickster twas my
beloved bald. They're supposed to win the all thing, not
this usurper to the hammer of four. Still the loyal
host would ne'er champion yon eben skinned mortal, were.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
They not Carnela you Hella, oh I norm Queen, and
now set aside thine magics and heed my words. Loki
hath cast a spell a believability upon the iSER. They
will accept his word as truth, and they may well
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grant you on mortal his boon Iron. As thou dost
wish to see Balder sit upon the throne of Asgard,
so too, do I wish to repay the mortal woman
for denying me a soul? Ooo?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yes, because Storm, it says Asterix Storm saved Wolverine soul
in X Man Annual number nine. So so Hella has
some hell to pay m h.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
So they form a truce.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yes. But while all this is going on, a red
caped crusader comes flying into the arena and Storm yells
to arms as guardians. A demon half seized thy prints
because he grabs Loki. He flies into the Airstorm flies
after him, and we get a gathering of warriors because
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they're going to go after this red caped demon.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
For Odin for as God.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, and then we cut to this storyline. What I
don't understand why this giant man with a red beard
is carrying this tiny little girl who is sick because
apparently she touched a sword. I don't know his hat.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
His hat is some sort of plant that you own.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, it's a Hoovian hat. He is from the Doctor
seuss Land. He looks like a Hoovian indeed. Well, anyways,
we get a little exposition that he's trying to save
this little girl. We cut to Magic lounging in her
layer with all sorts of gargoyle statues, instruments, crystal all stuff.
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That this is quite a layer.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
She thinks she emma frost right now, but she ain't.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
But she ain't. Yes, she's watching this whole thing like tea.
She's like, oh, they're forming a pact. Oh, they're fighting.
So she is just basically watching TV.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So back to storm by the Goddess.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Oh yes, who's got the red capon? But a six
foot six inch frog wearing the rare mint and wielding
the hammer of Thor and Loki is saying, 'tis a demon?
Storm slay it?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
So this frog Thor, I don't know, cute or scary?
Haven't this thought yet?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Well, I want to say cute, and sometimes in this
particular panel is scary looking.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, yeah, this is totally reboot Ninja Turtle right here
in this panel.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Absolutely absolutely, and then we get our cover art redone
in the comic of Thraw and Storm fighting each other
with Loki looking like Professor Xavier in the background.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I was just about to say, like, what is up
with that?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yes, but yes, we learned that Loki turned Thor into
a frog in this moment to make everybody fear him.
But still in frog form, Throg is able to overcome
Storm with a katoom.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Katoom, and then the warriors they are approaching very fast
in the background.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Yes, all the as Guardians have showed up and Throg
is pummeling Storm and he is about to take around.
Hell is like, oh no, no, no, no, this lady's soul
is mine, Like, back off.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Woman, I would have thy mortal so in retribution for
the one thou stole from me.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And Sunspot does not like this because he comes charging
in all flamed up, saying no. But then what happens, Chris, Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:06):
And then but with the slightest gesture, the merest wave
of her gloved hand, Hella robs him of that life
he held so dear, and she literally just like sucks
the life out of him until he becomes a skeleton
and the dust. By the way, I just saw this trope.
I finally bit the bullet, and last night I watched
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a beetle juice. Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh I watched this too. Yeah, it's entirely unexciting. Sorry
continue beetlejuice, beetle juice.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah you didn't think it was just okay?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Sure it was, Okay, it was. I fell asleep watching it.
We'll say that.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Oh wow, Well, you know what spoiler alert. I'm a
big fan of Bob. Now, Bob is an icon, and
Bob did not deserve what he got.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I agree. He he deserves to stick around in the
afterlife forever. And how dare this woman the suck you
bus take hisn.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Hell the Hella of beetled you the hell with her? Okay,
so Sunspot is composed dead.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
He's dead dead. We cut to our big Hoovian guy
and he has found a machine that is sucking the
eldrich musical or magical energy out of a sword that's
laying on the ground. This sword is huge, massive, massive,
massive sword, and some sort of machine is there and
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he clumsily pushes some rocks and it comes crashing down
and the machine is broken. The sword is broken, and
therefore the spell on Throg is broken, and we see
that he's indeed Thor.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I love how this whole thing got sold by a
little bit of a stumble act.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, this guy going.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Oh, I'm dizzy.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
The whole thing falls apart.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Thor's back and all of his six foot six hot
honky glory.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yes tis done, Thou true form be restored.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Oh my gosh, I'm getting Princess and the Frog flashbacks,
and like, I don't know if that six foot six
Thor frog came out to me and say, hey, bro,
if you make out with me right now, I'm going
to turn into Thor. Thor, I get all my tongue
all up in that slimy green mouth.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, get it. Well, Now even more armies are showing up,
because now the Dwarf and Army led by Cannonball has
shown up.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
The Mistress, she gives her signal, and now Hella has
her Army of the Dead rise out from the north.
And these are all the people that were in Purgatory
that want to get out of Purgatory from under Hella's grasp,
and they want to go to Valhalla, going to fight
this battle and Hella said, if you fight in this battle,
you can go to Valhalla. Yes, so they are energized,
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and in this scenario, I think they have more motivation
to win in the dwarves do I agree?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
I agree? And also I misspoke earlier. The dwarves will
come later. These are the giants that come.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
So oh, a complete opposite.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yes. Yeah, So Hella is taking her opportunity to take
out Storm for robbing her of the soul of Wolverine,
but Mirage gets her shot in and she says, and
once again, Goddess, I say the nay, I claim this
woman's soul for the Valkyrie.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
She's mine. Oh have athe varlets and stories. Is just
flying in with that hammer.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh yes, Loki's trying to sneak away, but he gets
stopped by a giant shadow of a hand, which we
don't know what this hand is. All we know is
that if you want to know who Loki's assailient is,
you'll just have to wait. Right now, we've got four
armies to deal with.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I shall top by head.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yes, because Valkyrie stopped her and she's she's not having it.
We get all sorts of action on the battlefield, and
then the dwarves show up.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Mm hmmm, Cannonball and led by Cannonball. Yes, poor ask God.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
And of course while all this is going on, you're wondering, well,
what's going on with Magic? You know, what has she
been up to? Oh? Well we find out.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
So, Chandler, of all these dwarves, who would you marry,
who would you hook up with? And who would you kill?
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Oh my gosh. Okay, so we're looking at we're not
including canniball obviously in this.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
So I'm.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Gonna say I'm going to marry the one that, oh
my gosh, there's so many to choose from. I'm going
to marry the blonde, bearded one with the baraids and
the horned helmet.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I'm going to hook up with the bald one because
he looks like you can get it. And I'm going
to kill this one in the very front with the
purple with a very messed up face and teeth.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
You know, he needs some moisturizer.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Yes he does, what about you?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Okay, Well, you know the one in the center. I
think I want to marry him because he the one
that's bald. He kind of looks like the monopoly man.
And of all the people that are there, he probably
has the most.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Well.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Okay, and I'm going to hook up with the braids, dude,
m and I agree, let's kill that guy that needs
mores sturizer in the front.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Okay, okay, moving on back in the realm of magic,
we've got magic who is being ensnared by the norn queen.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Oh yeah, let's do these because it's just so dramatic.
Nor and Queen. She yells, insolent, cur thou darest to
pit thy puny magics against Tarnilla, the greatest sorceress in
the nine worlds.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
My puny magics were enough to take out the enchantress.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Brazen mortal Amra was there an over confident fool. I
shall have thine eyes for such impudence.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
And then we hear off off panel, stay thy hand,
what who dares? And it's balder Her love.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Boulder is basically saying, let the mortal child go, recall
thy warriors, and you know what, I'll marry you. I'll
be your king. It'll be a foreverything me and you, babe.
And it's so interesting. I loved this take on this
trope because usually we see them are the woman saying
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I'll marry you, don't worry. Let's stop the war and
I'll be your bride. Not this one. We've got boulders
stepping up.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Yes, back in the battle, the wolves have arrived, so
we've got more people, more battlers hitting this war and
there's all sorts of mayem as. People are are fighting
to the death, and Hella still has not claimed the
soul of Storm.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
I shall have my soul. And more thunderstriking, you know,
between characters. Then a giant face.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
The Queen of the Norns got it, so she's basically saying,
Balder's here, you guys can back off. But while they're fighting,
I realized that the dwarf that we both agreed to kill, Chris,
is actually the king of the Dwarf, so he's the
rich one. So maybe we should be marrying the king.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
You know, I'm not married. You're gonna get him a
subscription box to Keels. You know they got the eye
repair cream elsewhere on the battlefield, says Rain and wolf form.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yes, oh.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Horrible, Yeah, he died. Now her love lies dead in
her arms, and the girl will spain howls in her
paint and she is just devastated. This This is like
the love of her life. And this is young love too,
because like you know, the first love is always the
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most dramatic. Yes, right, Yes, And then if she were
adult rain, like you know, forty plus years old, looking
back on that first love, she'd be like, oh my god,
I stayedd as guard to roll around in the wood. Right,
there's streaming platform televisions now, and there's like you know,
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creature comforts and beds with linens, and I to go
with some wolfman in the forest.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Well. Magic enters the battlefield using the psychic eyes in
the sky maneuver that we're very familiar with with Jeane
and Betsy and everybody. But now Magic she summons Thor
to the battlefield because they are all going to care
bear stare Hella into oblivion.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Yes. I love this analogy because it's perfect for this moment.
All those Valkyries are surrounding Hella in a circle. They
have her enclosed.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yes. With the power of Thor storm Valkyrie, all these
people surrounding she doesn't stand a chance and she's like,
you can't kill me. I am death. But actually she does.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Die, Yes, a blinding bolt of eldritch energy is loosed.
So loud is it that it's reverbrations will echo in
the valleys of the Nines worlds for all eternity. So
powerful is its force that it claims the very life
of the Goddess of Death.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
And it kind of shocks everybody to the point of
where they all see and they're like, oh damn. They're
like wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They're buddy, I know.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
But so while the armies are, you know, in confusion,
they steal Cipher and they bring him to give this
proclamation for everybody so that they understand. And what we
learn in this process is that Danny Moonstar, as the
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one who smited down the Queen of Hell, now must
take her place.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
I would she have thought twice? No, would she be like, hey,
one of your other valkyries, can you like do the
finishing blow? Like she's on the ground right now. You
just got to poker with spear or something. She's just ready.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Just do it.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
You do it, you do it, you do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
So we get a giant in proclamation at the very end,
so that we learn everything that has happened all right
here is Thorm. Much thought have I given to ruling
this noble land. And though I have been called the
heir to the throne of Asgard, I stand before you
today to renounce my claim of birthright.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Listen the voices in the crowd murmuring.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
Listen that I might explain. I am a god of
two worlds. Though asguard born I have ever been the
guardian of mid Guard, kingdom of my mother Gaia, 'tis
a burden I would not lightly lay down. Since my
chosen successor, balder hath become the king of the Norns,
I have chosen a second to rule in my stead,
(51:59):
the sommortal born her courage and valor be like unto
one born in this realm. Twice did she stand against Hella,
that she might deny the goddess of Death, the souls
of her comrades and arms. Twas she who led the
battle and made possible our victory in that hard pressed war.
Twas she who disposed of Hella herself.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Wait, I thought it was Valan, I thought it was
Verage that took down Hell. Anyways, it was she who
disposed of Hella herself, And it is through her powers
and her enchanted mallet storm Bringer that she shall Air
be in special contact with me and Molnia. I think
(52:42):
that Molnia should mead Air be needed. Tis thy choice,
my fellows, wilt thou accept as thy sovereign Storm, Goddess
of Thunder.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
And then on the next page we see the fallout
of all of these things that happen. For instance, the
or sign of Voted did return to his beloved Earth,
there to protect her people, either with the Avengers or
on his own. Oh he gets a steep sub mariner anymore.
(53:14):
She Hulk and Captain America with him.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Mm hmmm, yes, And then we get to see Storm
on the throne of Asgard with her royal page transcriber
boy cipher.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
Ooh, Cannonball is having a baby.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
And they're expecting our big pink Hoovian guy apparently is
part of a warrior trio and one of them died
in a previous issue, so no Nightcrawler is the third.
He's a well of the three Musketeers, we'll say.
Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yeah, And Rogue is happy because she can get some
d yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
And then we see Mirage living in Hell, but she
is a good hell ruler.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Bald de Brave took. Then the throne of the Norns.
Never again would his bride Cardilla wage war on the
Golden Realm. So now that she's married, she's happy. Yes,
that's all she needed.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yeah, I guess so. And then we see Rain and
she has had ups. So Rain and the Wolf Prince
were doing it and doing it and doing it. Well,
no wonder why she didn't want to leave. She was
getting that wolfdie. Yep.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
And I'm just terrified of having shape shifter children toddlers
running around. Can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
That? Sounds like chaos, total absolute chaos. Well, and then
we get to the end and the gods above, the
gods above all gods have decided to give Loki a
reward for some reason, and they give him his deepest
desire to be the ultimate ruler of the nine worlds.
But they make it at the end of time, and
(55:02):
so he is the ruler of all nine worlds at
the end of the Regnarok when they're all collapsing into
a black and hole and he is laugh crying himself.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
Yeah, because it's just like what, it's the ultimate gotcha?
Speaker 1 (55:16):
Yeah exactly? You wanted this? Yeah, yeah, he didn't set
up what time you wanted to rule? All nine realms.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, it's very like the end of a Twilight Zone episode.
Mm hmmm, Like that guy who alls he wants to
do is read books and he hates people, and then
everybody on the planet dies. But he was in a
safe in the bank when it happened, so he got
to live and he got out of the safe and
he's like, OK, everybody did I got my wish. I'm
going to go read a bunch of books. And he
(55:45):
gets the library or wherever and he steps on his
glasses or they fall off his face and they crack
and he no longer has his prescription glasses and all
the glass and all the world is broken because of
all the bombs, and he can't read anymore because he
can't see book. That's all you want it.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
That's all you wanted. So now he just lives by
himself in a world where he can't see. Yes.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
So Loki, on the other hand, lives in the last
fractions of the second of the of the universe and
he gets to see everything explode and he rules nothing.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
Well that was fun, you know. In preparation for the
coming of storm, got us of thunder and what if
Season three? Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
I guess this is the last of the what ifs
that we are getting because this is season three, is
the last season. You know, it would be fun if
they did more.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
Maybe maybe they'll do holiday specials.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
All right, what what is your pitch so Hollywood for
a what if episode?
Speaker 1 (56:52):
I'm gonna say what if aeth I went to Hollywood? No,
I'm just uh, oh, I don't know, there's so many
there's I mean, what if the thing is is that
could be? What if? Literally anything? Yeah, let's say what if.
Speaker 4 (57:15):
Uh and name Moore and Medusa were married and ruled
Atlantis and the inhumans?
Speaker 2 (57:27):
Oh wow, all right, I'm going to be selfish and
I'm going to say what if Christian Chandler went to
the Hall Fire Gala?
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Oh but not the third one, not the third one,
the first one, the first Well, no.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
No, what about us? What about us? Though?
Speaker 3 (57:46):
Well?
Speaker 1 (57:46):
I think we are moving on to our uncanny News segment.
Speaker 2 (57:51):
Let's do it. Uncanny news news news. Hey, they're true believers.
Welcome back to the Uncanny News, where we bring you
all the latest updates on the Uncanny Experience. If you
love the X Men, you're in the right place.
Speaker 1 (58:05):
And today we're here with some massive news. The countdown
has officially begun for The Uncanny Experience twenty twenty five. Chris,
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (58:14):
Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about. Ticket. That's right.
Tickets go on sale to the general public starting January third.
But wait, there's a way to snag your spot before
everyone else.
Speaker 1 (58:26):
That's right. On January first, New Year's Day, we're releasing
an exclusive presale code to our email, newsletter and text
alert subscribers. If you're already signed up your golden but
if not, now is the time to act.
Speaker 2 (58:38):
Signing up is super easy. Just go to the Uncanny
Experience dot com and join our email list, or if
you're glued to your phone, text the word uncanny to
six one two for zero nine seven zero seven to
three to subscribe to our text alerts. Again, text the
word uncanny to six one two for zero nine seven
(59:00):
zero seven three.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
Seriously, don't wait. This pre sale code is your chance
to guarantee your ticket before they're gone. And with what
we've got planned, they will sell out.
Speaker 2 (59:09):
Fast and we're just getting started. By signing up, you'll
be the first to hear about all our big announcements,
including our guest line up.
Speaker 1 (59:17):
Oh yeah, we're talking Mutant Royalty here, legendary creators, iconic voices.
The guest list is going to be next level all night.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
So here's the deal. Presale code drops January first, Tickets
go live on January third, and you could secure your
place at the event by signing up at the Uncanny
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Speaker 2 (59:44):
And don't forget. We'll be back with even more exciting news,
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Speaker 1 (59:54):
Until then, Mutants, stay proud, stay powerful, and remember you
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Speaker 2 (59:58):
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