#marvel legion

[cabinetofquriosities]

For any fellow Agathario shippers out there, instead of fuming about Billy’s ep and calling him a “twink” (yikes guys), may I suggest watching Legion instead?

It’s another Marvel show about a budding villain and it has Aubrey Plaza in every ep as an evil lesbian. It will definitely hold you over til next week.

You’re welcome.

[fullyclothedlunch]

i’m giving up on trying to be normal, i will instead be her

[buckys-arm-and-rios-dagger]

Lenny Busker was supposed to be a middle aged man but they changed it for Aubrey Plaza, and they styled her as androgynous and was apparently styled after David Bowie, so Lenny Busker is a Nonbinary Lesbian who uses She/They. In this essay I will--

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[danamegido]

Made myself a Legion 'poster'

Love this character with my whole soul:))

A bit skizo art, can't wait to wake.up at night and get scared as I see it on the wall but thats just details.

[cosmicourple]

stupid Marvel comics! A.U idea were (in a universe where Charles does have (cough working on dcries) relationships with his children & they’re all starting to get to know each other. Awkwardly but still lol) thru chaotic super-powerful! villain bullshit (or jst the universe deciding to take a piss), Charles is turned into a baby, so David, Xandra & Charles ll (w/ baby! Charles also there) have to band together & go on a wacky crack-treated-somewhat-seriously adventure across the universe to find the shithead villain who did this and force them to turn Charles back. ,,,,They do not think to inform the X-men on what has happened to Charles nor do they think to give them ANY sort of goodbye or heads up before they leave. Obviously the X-men are panicking like mad but the real problem is that the Brotherhood also have no idea what’s going on. So (w/ all the other problems seeping thru the cracks of the Xavier kids poorly thought out plan) Erik decides to take matters into his own hands & starts tracking them down, thinking they have something to do with Charles sudden disappearance. And. Well, yeah, he’s right but it’s not what everyone thinks it is & as you can image, the total lack of information results in a-lot more hassle + tomfuckery than the kids wanted.

(+ their asses do NOT know shit about how to actually care for a baby lmaoooo)

[lehoodcollector]

Marvel Legends Legion with some added accessories!!!

[nerd6log]

Did anyone else see Oliver Bird for the first time and think yooooo it's Matt Berry!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[flowercrownonapegion]

I'm sorry but-

For some reason I read it as a manga (from right to left) the first time and this is what my eyes saw:

Dad is that really you??? 😭😭😭

No man 😭😭😭

joshriku / @joshriku: WORLD'S NORMALEST FATHER BEHAVIOR

one thing abt si spurrier he's not afraid to write charles as the sopping wet miserable meow meow he is + for that i salute him

(also thinking abt WHY charles treats his direct fam as inherently untrustworthy + dangerous to the point of self-sabotage/self-fulfilling prophecy 😬) lets get in2 it

[transferring over this long ass analysis thread from twitter]

charles' familial exp is an emotionally absent dad that died in his youth (that he later found out was experimenting on him), an abusive stepfather, an abused + alcoholic mother, and an abusive stepbrother that actively hates him + tried to break into his house to kill him 😭

charles is scared of david not just bc of his (past) erratic behavior or destructive potential but bc he is just generally scared of his direct family, w whom he has a uniquely maladaptive attachment. he instead fills his need for family w ppl he chose + has authority over

w david tho… since their meeting charles has on + off avoided him, shunted him off to other ppls care, + seemed unable to emotionally connect w him. he has a fatalist outlook towards david's entire existence + their relationship but is also unable to abandon him + does love him

charles has a track record of this - we can see it in his relationship with cain

david is nothing like cain - nearly all the pain davids caused charles is bc of other parties manipulating him + taking advantage of his disabilities - but cain is useful to examinine how charles understands "difficult" family members in general.

in childhood he spent a lots of time trying to be friends w/ cain like bro wasn't hitting him + throwing flammable science chemicals at him at like 11. he's overly concerned w hurting cain while he breaks his things and attacks him

he did not cut ties (or rather, start ignoring him) until cain got them into a horrible car accident he nearly died in 😭

("win his friendship" r u crazy this mf wants you to DIE)

not to mention he chased after cain to stop him from deserting like that was even his problem

so charles is scared af when cain shows up to kill his ass (as one would be).

despite this cain + charles continue to reunite over time, + charles keeps trying to give cain a (frankly abnormal) amount of second chances despite cain being a very consistently violent person

a good distillation of their adult relationship is in xmen legacy where charles tests out reasoning w cain by secretly putting him in a telepathic simulation. cain confirms charles' fears when he kills him in the simulation. he's smarter abt it now but why try in the first place?

(traumabonding for one, but thats a diff post/essay)

something interesting spurrier does is make charles explicitly very nervous + emotionally volatile around david, which i think coincides very well with his behavior around cain , + shows the link between them

so how charles thinks is, his family is dangerous + hates him + that will never change, but he can't abandon them. he's used to his familial role as the placater + the only way to successfully fulfill that is through contingency plans + manipulation + fawning.

but therein lies the issue:

david haller is NOT like brian, cain, kurt, or sharon!!!! he is heavily traumatized, neurodivergent, and neglected. david needs charles to treat him like his SON and not the ticking time bomb charles is predisposed to assume he is!!!

charles' relationship with his x-men is different bc he's in control as the person who brought them together + the patriarch. he's taught them, shaped them after himself.

david, in contrast, is unpredictable. david, as his bio child, cements him in the "traditional" family structure he found no security in. kurt + brian become contemporaries.

when he is forced to acknowledge david, he is most obviously that terrible father he wished not to become

so of course, when he's wrong, when his view of his life is complicated, when he hurts his child who just wants his love + companionship + understanding, he cuts and runs back to the safest thing he knows. the things that make sense

(more on some of the things i mentioned here in my essay on immortal xmen 10 which ive made a pact w myself that i will finish this week. viewing telepathy + related powers as a kind of curse-responsibility is a big part of it too)

addendums from replies:

i forgot to even mention cassandra - suffice it to say he has PLENTY of past traumas reinforcing his very misguided fear of david

i want to see more of charles' relationship with xandra explored on page. i think the biggest difference, beyond the lack of negative history, is that xandra + him are ridiculously similar in everything from personality to levels of responsibility

[cabinetofquriosities]

Just finished watching Legion

I put off watching the final few episodes after one of them shook me up a bit with the fate of one of them characters. The ending was actually so perfect, though. It’s so rare to see a great show nail the landing. It’s one of the best if not THE best superhero/villain(in this case) shows I’ve ever seen. It’s ridiculously creative and experimental.

Now, I just want to go back to episode one and start it over again.

[dontremembermejust]

If I had a nickel for every time Aubrey Plaza fathered a child while in a sapphic relationship in the marvel universe, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

The funny thing about the X-Men famous battle cry is that it's a fairly recent addition. Although Xavier said something similar way back in X-Men #1 ("And now, return to me, my X-men"), he didn't use that exact phrase until Grant Morrison's New X-Men in 2001. Even after that it was only used sporadically. It wasn't until around 2013 that it entered regular use. This is why it was never used in the original animated series or any of the movies.

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[danamegido]

I absolutely did just not fucking buy all three hardcover Legion comics spending around 50 euros.

I absolutely did not lose all self-control to buy this.

I definitely am not going to have to stuck three books up my ass at the airport cuz I'm flying with one bag only.

Nah, Dana bffr

I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA, DAVID HALLER IS MY FAV CHARACTER EVER, I READ ALL COMICS THAT MENTIONED HIM AND KNOW EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THIS LITTLE FREAK, I CAN RANT ABOUT THIS FOR HOURS.

Anyway, probably will have to make a well made post for commissions cuz yeah, I probably should have not brought them in the first place but again, no self control:33

[morgangalaxy43]

“Mageto’s kids would win against Legion” “Legion would destroy them all” both of these takes are wrong because they would all go out to brunch and talk about their crazy dads and all agree that Charles and Erik are just the most dramatic exes in history