#fabio medina

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cyclops' icon is by thelastcoffeebender on pinterest!

original under the cut!

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Goldballs blows up

Fabio Medina AKA Goldballs was once a meme in and out of universe. Before he was a member of The Five, he was an awkward kid that joined Cyclops' revolution/school. After Scott shut up shop, the students went their own way for a while, leading to Goldballs going viral.

Another member of the team uploaded a video of them fighting villains while Goldballs shouted his codename like a Pokémon. The next morning he awoke to fame and fortune, with The Tonight Show (lol) as an indicator that it was for real. He made the cover of Rolling Stone and the people loved him.

Various producers, like that cartoonish one in the top panel, inundated his parents with attention. They didn't really have a frame of reference for what was happening and the Medinas were all swept up by Goldballs fever.

The heroism continued, but nobody was prepared for just how much the public hates mutants. Importantly, the attention was validating for Fabio the self described 'chunky Latino kid.' Self actualising. The opportunity to be who he is publicly with pride. The squad took down Klaw (who hasn't been big for a while AFAIK) thinking handling an Avengers villain would be a good thing.

Normally it would be tbh, but the once adoring crowd turned on Goldballs and the Hero Squad. Shouting slurs and pelting him with anything at hand, this violent mob and some fucking pigs shattered Fabio's fifteen minutes.

Cops got in on it too, aiming guns at teenagers and attempting arrest for the crime of being mutants. Goldballs nearly died, and his dream of stardom certainly did. Brutal violence from civilians and the state killed it dead.

They started this whole thing because they didn't want to be X-Men. Months of living in Weapon X and hiding from SHIELD sucked, so once Cyclops abandoned the revolution the kids said 'fuck that.' This is really depressing shit, cruel in how high it takes us before dropping the hammer. These kids wanted something better for themselves but in the end the only place they could go was the Xavier Jean Grey School. The narrative takes pains to portray what Cyclops is doing as wrong and by extension the institutional X-Men path is right, but all these kids would be in prison for nothing without Cyke's rescue team.

That doesn't necessarily mean Cyclops is right, but removing choice until integrationism is all that's left feels trite. That's the X-Men genre, of course but it's still painful. The ideology doesn't move forward and the threats keep coming.

[nitpickrider]

Charles has failed at more than his fair share in life. But he truly, honestly, is a VERY good teacher of mutants. X Men Unlimited Infinity 65

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As the remaining Quiet Council are discussing family matters and their plans on going home, Kafka the winged mutant boy overhears the conversation and starts to have doubts. Kafka eventually talks to Exodus about his doubt about how the rest of the mutants may have to stay behind in White Hot Krakoa while some of the mutants are selected to go home (and fight Orchis). The Quiet Council and the chosen mutants prepare for a ritual which Mister Sinister empties a vial of Cypher's genes into the pool so that Krakoa could help them in teleporting the mutants back home. The Krakoan vines wrap around Mister Sinister & the mutants and turns them into buds. Hope Summers remains behind on White Hot Krakoa as she reminds herself that she has to bring Phoenix Force back and she has some Messiah shit to do. Back on Earth, Apocalypse is dragging Krakoa-Treant back to Krakoa island when the chosen mutants pop right out of the flowers.

Much later, Hope Summers is having much difficulty in dealing with the Phoenix Force and Jean Grey. In order to save all of mutantkind and resurrect both the Phoenix and Jean Grey, Hope alongside the help of Legion (as the talking Hope Gun) shot the Phoenix with the consequence being her sacrificing herself in the process. Jean and the Phoenix have come back but Hope is gone. Meanwhile, the mutants are fighting the Stark Sentinels on the ruins of Krakoa island when Exodus, Destiny and Mystique teleport in. The Hope Sword is back in Nightcrawler's hands. Even though Destiny hugs Nightcrawler after some getting her motherly memories back from Xavier, she gives the bad news - Hope Summers is dead. Exodus at first doesn't believe it then announces that Hope has returned to whence she came. "The word made flesh, the flesh made immortal. She is with Krakoa in exile in spirit." Nightcrawler says the Krakoan mutants are trapped in the White Hot Room, lost forever. But Exodus, returning to the fight and attacking a Sentinel, says the people of Krakoa will return, that the Krakoan age will come again. Nightcrawler asks Destiny if they can win but she still sees no victory.

The Krakoan mutants including the Five minus Hope and Jumbo Carnation are stuck in the White Hot Krakoan Room arguing around a table trying to figure out how they will function, who will do what, etc. Little Kafka gets annoyed and tells everyone to shut up. He tells the room that they have to be better than this, that they have no rulers, no leaders, no heroes. That they have to be the Quiet Council and that means they have to listen. He takes charge and starts working to assign tasks such as food supply, tutoring, teaching. It's a bittersweet last page as that little hero is determined to make Krakoa, despite being lost in the White Hot Room.

X-Men: Forever #2, 2024 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th pics)

Rise of the Powers of X #4, 2024 (7th and 8th pics)

X-Men: Forever #4, 2024 (10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th pics)

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The trapped Krakoan mutants in the White Hot Room reminds me of the ending of Drifting Classroom manga when the elementary school students in the bad future dimension cannot go home after several tries. So the trapped students decide to stay and work together in the ruined future to build a new civilization.

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The Uncanny X-Tober day 1: Life!

Ink & Watercolor, 6 x 9 inches JoJo Seames, 2024

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Excalibur #1 (2019)

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Another cross post from my Instagram, this time for Latine Heritage Month! A combination of superheroes I've read and loved and ones I'm interested in reading in the future! The ones I've read at least one full book for are marked with 📚

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From Immortal X-Men #016, “The Island of Doctor Xavier”

Art by Lucas Werneck and David Curiel

Written by Kieron Gillen

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Immortal X-Men #16 - "The Island of Doctor Xavier" (2023)

written by Kieron Gillen art by Lucas Werneck & David Curiel

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Hellfire Gala Variants - Part 1 | Part 2

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Goldballs shooting out his golden balls

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The Hole

Contestants Index

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Ultimate Spider-Man fancast

My other Marvel fancasts

Spider-Man

X-Men

Fantastic 4

Other Marvel characters

Miles Brown as Miles Morales

Shemar Moore as Jefferson Davis

Roselyn Sanchez as Rio Morales

Hudson Yang as Ganke Lee

Amandla Stenberg as Phin Mason

Skai Jackson as Hailey Cooper

Jenna Ortega as Barbara Rodriguez

Storm Reid as Starling/Tiana Toomes

Rowan Blanchard as Bombshell/Lana Baumgartner

Tom Holland as Spider-Man/Peter Parker

Donald Glover as Aaron Davis/The Prowler

Rico Rodriguez as Fabio Medina/Egg

Alan Tudyk as Simon Krieger

Ving Rhames as Tombstone/Lonnie Lincoln

Donnie Yen as Mister Negative/Martin Li

Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk

JK Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson

[heckcareoxytwit]

The Five had brought back many mutants from the dead and usually the resurrections involves in celebrations. However, not all resurrected mutants liked the return to the land of living. One such resurrected mutant was Jeffrey Garrett, the mutant boy who originally haunted the X-Mansion as a restless spirit. Prodigy visits The Five who told him that the resurrected Jeffrey had already teleported before anyone could visit him. Prodigy figures that Jeffrey Garrett was too bewildered and disoriented about the new changes so he goes off to look for him. Prodigy finds Jeffrey at the cliff of the waterfall to talk to him.

This short story of Prodigy and the X-Kids take place before the fateful Hellfire Gala attack.

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #100, 2023

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