#they’re such goofuses

[emotionalsupportsoccerball]

They have the same class clown energy and I love it

This friendship right here, one of the good things that came out of this trade lol🤡😂

[cerealmonster15]

FREE SUMMON YEAAAAAA

[angelwithsomeartwork]

I had other things I wanted to draw, but then my brain said idly “hey, how many members of the LoV do you think are trans, actually?” and now I’m here. Five of them??? I headcanon five of these goofuses as trans??

I am aware that I’m looking at gender here through an intensely Western queer lens, and these are also my personal headcanons. I am not taking suggestions at this time.

THE LEAGUE OF VILLAINS SAYS TRANS RIGHTS!

Image ID: Five characters from My Hero Academia stand on a warm grey background. Furthest to the left is Kurogiri, their eyes crinkled in a smile and their arms behind their back. They’re wearing a green vest and black trousers, as well as a tie striped with the agender flag colors (black, grey, white, and pale green). Beside Kurogiri stands Himiko Toga, with her fists up in the air and a smile on her face. She is winking at the camera, and wearing her canon sweater. Her skirt is colored with the genderfluid flag colors (pink, white, magenta, and black). Magne stands in the center, holding a banner above their heads that says “Trans Rights” in all caps and in pink, blue, and white letters. Her right arm is a metal prosthetic and there is a transgender flag on the front of her t-shirt. To her left stands Dabi, looking back at her with a smile. His hands are in the pockets of his long coat, and the white shirt he usually wears is dyed in pale nonbinary flag colors (black, purple, white, and yellow). Furthest to the right is Atsuhiro Sako. His metal arm is tipping back the brim of his top hat, and he is smiling as he looks at his friends. He wears a white collared shirt and dark trousers, with suspenders in transgender flag colors. End image ID.

[ash-imagines]

Hello! I was wondering if I could make a Guzma request? Team Skull (Guzma, Plumeria, and the Grunts) along with Guzma’s short, fem s/o are at a club, dancing and having fun. Then two big guys try to flirt with Guzma’s s/o, the grunts think the need to protect them, but turns out they’re very strong. Have a great day/night and remember to drink lots of water

They might be able to thwart the grunts, and they may even get the better of Guzma, but there's basically no way they can beat Plumeria. Either she hands you her heels and starts beating them within an inch of their lives, or she just busts out a Super Repel to spray in their faces. You might all get kicked out of the club, but at least you came out mostly unscathed. Not to mention the lengths these goofuses went to in order to keep you safe. It would almost be heartwarming if they hadn't gotten so bruised.

Nanu ends up lending you a first aid kit, practically begging you all to stop getting into trouble like this. He's getting too old for this.

[sebastianshaw]

Maia and Sugar go absolutely ballistic when I let them free roam in the bathroom! They’re just constantly moving, they love playing so much! Utterly wild little goofuses. I *will* get pics of them again at some point!

[guildwuff2]

It's been awhile but I recall one of your charr being Punny in some screencaps. Who are the goofballs among your characters?

OH GOD yeah that was on tacita gkskgakfk

hRM. hazel's whole family is a buncha goofuses. lovett's a goof. echo likes to goof off and tease people bc she's a lil gremlin

god listen I like to make people laugh so it just rubs off on my characters, pretty much if they're remotely friendly they're a goofball

[honeylikewords]

Ilan and David both have big "my wife is so gorgeous I'm gonna implode" energy and that's very beautiful

David implodes. Ilan explodes. David’s a represser, Ilan’s an expresser. They’re both the biggest goofuses ever. 

[ohallows]

Can you tell me about the Core Four's friendship? I wanna know more about them.

of course! also, if you’re interested in reading about them, heres a link to the YJ comic, some other young justice tie-in comics, graduation day, and the 2003 TT comics (which is decent but not great re: characterization, thanks geoff johns) 

 this is gonna be p short (wrt how much history there is) bc im tired but basically:

kon, bart, and tim were all kinda tired of just being sidekicks to their superhero counterparts (clark was v distant with kon, wally and bart DID NOT get along, and tim was kinda frustrated w how batman kept sidelining him [understandable bc batman was coming off of jason being killed]) 

so tim and kon became friends first i think? and then there’s this whole special where tim works with bart on a mission together, and tl;dr they all become besties and talk shit together and hang out a lot bc its hard finding other superheroes ur age you know? so they hang out and one night they stop a criminal and the media shows up and asks what their team name is and start calling them young justice and bart is like “no, we’re YOUNG but JUST US” and imagines the reporter getting brained or something i love him so much

so these three goofuses form a team under red tornados watch, and it basically (like teen titans) becomes a place for younger superhero kids to go and hang out on the weekends. the teen titans had already grown up and were like 23-25 at that time and had actually become the titans, so instead of just forming a new teen titans they formed YJ. i think like one or two issues after the first the girls joined in (cassie, cissie, greta/suzie) and lo and behold TEAM

 they all become really good friends, and really value each other. obv they rag on each other a lot because they’re all like 15 at the time but they all (for the most part) respect each other and protect each other. 

re: relationships: 

tim and kon: they are really close and complain about things together (kon literally found tim in gotham once because he recognized his heartbeat). most people ship them bc they do gay fuckin shit (like kon looking softly at tim after tim talks about how no one believes him abt batman being alive and how he feels alone and like he;s losing it and kon quietly saying ‘i believe you’ ANYWAY i love adventure comics 3). they hang out the most out of the main four, if only because they spend the most time together on the team (cassie hangs out with cissie a lot too, and bart spends a lot of his time in manchester w preston and carol). regardless of if u ship it or not, they’re incredibly good friends and trust each other more than anyone. no spoilers but the way they each react to what happens to the other is really telling in how much they value the other person. also constantly referred to as bart’s parents bc for a majority of YJ bart still was kinda stuck in his ‘easily distractable child’ phase

tim and cassie: tim and cassie respect each other as leaders. there’s a great bit in YJ where like, tim, cassie, kon, and ray all run for leader of YJ and cassie wins and even tim is like “yeah actually you’re the better leader” and doesn’t resent cassie for it. they’re honestly an adorable brotp (wlw/mlm solidarity babey!) and consistently bitch together about how dumb kon is sometimes

tim and bart: they have a great relationship, honestly. bart keeps tim from being too serious and bart actually figures out tim’s identity first (he’s lip reading when tim lies and says his name is alvin draper and goes “what kind of a name is timmy drake??” god i love bart allen sm) you don’t see it as much in early YJ bc you see tim getting annoyed by how cavalier bart acts but once tim loosens up a bit they become really close. during one storyline in TT tim and bart bond over having to live in the shadows of their mentors and tim feels like its his fault bart got hurt etc anyway they both talk about how they’re going to grow up to be more than that and its so adorable i love them sm

cassie and kon: they date for a while and honestly its pretty cute even tho i want cassie to be dating cissie king jones instead. they genuinely do treat each other well though and kon does his best to treat cassie well and consistently supports her in everything she does. again, spoilers, but cassie’s reaction to stuff that happens to kon shows how much she really does love him and how strong she is as a person as well (tim basically has a breakdown and cassie has to step up and lead the team while tim takes a hiatus)

cassie and bart: they’re SO cute omg like they really are a super healthy sibling relationship imo. both bart and cassie have a LOT of empathy tbh and they bond over a lot of stuff that they don’t tell the other two (someone bart is really close to dies and i’m pretty sure the only person he opens up to about it is cassie because she understands the most)

bart and kon: these two interacting is literally every iteration of the ‘my last two brain cells’ meme bc its just so DUMB i love these two but their collective stupid knows no bounds. there’s a great bit in YJ where bart is bored and just keeps bothering kon and bothering kon and tl;dr kon ends up with rainbow paint all over him. they also both suffer from a depressive episode around the same time so i imagine that they talk through that a little bit together. 

anyway i love these four dumbasses so much i cant wait for yj to come back. this was longer than i thought but o well i love them so

[balletbookworm]

My Murder Mittens are a whole year old today! We celebrated with new toys (the “meow”-ntain ball toy was an instant hit, they’re both obsessed already and ignoring their new catnip-smelling toys 😹😹) and a can of their favorite smelly tuna fish wet food. My tiny floof babies are now chonky floofy goofuses and I love them to shreds even if they drive me nuts while I’m trying to work at home right now (Shakespeare fully leans into his “King Floof” nickname that @whatsheread gave him). I’m so grateful to @jawitkowski for pointing me toward @lallybanker, whose family had little kittens in need of a home, and to Lily and her family for letting me adopt them. #happybirthday #cats #catstagram #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #kittens #murdermittens #shakespearekitteh #aphrakitteh https://www.instagram.com/p/B_K9PBxggzI/?igshid=mz3h15eub051

[venus-is-in-bloom]

write me something about frisk and sunsets

gladly!!!

It takes a long time for Frisk to see what everyone else sees in the evening. They’ve always been slow on the uptake—they’re a little bit of a downer, especially when other people are excited. But they remember to smile and hold hands and sit in silence, anyway, as cold breezes sneak into the loose sleeves of their sweater, and as stars come out to watch distantly the disappearing sun.

Frisk thinks they must be bored, and thinks of the dirt path going down from the cliffside and back home, and thinks of the phone in their pocket. GPS enabled. They knead Asriel’s hand with their fingers and lean into his shoulder.

“You tired?” he asks.

They shake their head, hair rubbing into his fur, and mumble something meaningless that they immediately forget.

“All right.”

Asriel is perfectly still, perfectly rapt. He loves clear sunsets, the orange sky, the weird gold that it brings out on Frisk’s skin. Rainbows, sunsets, constellations. These are things that Asriel loves. Frisk is learning.

Something very, very cold touches their relaxed palm and they jump. Their yelp of surprise gets mixed up with Chara’s “Hey, goofuses!” and they fall over backwards. Asriel, statuesque, barely even reacts as Chara’s shrieking laughter echoes around them.

“I…” they begin, and then have to stop, doubling over on their bare knees. “I brought soft drinks—Frisk, make that sound again. Please.”

«i will eat you,» Frisk signs, upside down, from the floor.

“I don’t know what you said,” says Chara, crossing their legs and flopping down beside them.

«and you never will,» Frisk responds tartly, before pushing themself upright.

Chara snorts. They push the two cans of chilly soda in Asriel’s direction and settle in, stimming with their little twisty thing.

“Hey, Az,” they say. “Hey—hey, Az.”

“Mm?”

“Are you okay?”

Asriel thinks about this for a second, and then nods. “Yeah. ’M fine. Thanks.”

And Chara scoots closer, their hand gently touching Frisk’s, their palm sweaty from climbing the path; and Frisk links up with Asriel again, and wonders what Chara thinks of sunsets. They’re not actually sure, and having conversations is both easier and harder now that they’re separate.

The sunset passes like this—softly, hand in hand. And because it’s cold, they walk home tightly clustered in the dark, Chara’s breath loud in Frisk’s ear, Asriel complaining that they’re slow; and home is waiting for them with the smell of baking.

“Did you have fun watching the sunset, Frisk?” Toriel asks over dinner.

They nod unhesitatingly, their mouth full of dumpling.

[thebibliomancer]

Tides of the Dark Crystal liveblog pt 6

Tides of the Dark Crystal by J. M. Lee because SET SAIL TO CERA-NA!

Last times on book: Amri, Kylan, Tavra, and Naia join forces with Onica, a Sifa Far-Dreamer and probably Tavra's girlfriend. Through her psychic powers they learn that they're getting some backlash for Kylan spreading recaps of the first two books all over the land as flower petals. After rescuing Rian from the Chamberlain, the group gets invited to a group chat in dream-space where Aughra tells Naia to unite the Gelfling clans in resistance. Onica suggests they go to Cera-Na because the Sifa Maudra put out word for the Sifa to gather there.

Chapter 6

Amri and co spend an eventful day on a boat on the way to the Plot

Amri is woken up for his first miserable day at sea by spider Tavra walking across his face.

She’s decided that if he’s going to carry her sword then by Thra, she’s going to train him to use it!

“Training? What are we now, captain and soldier?”

She laughed, though it wasn’t joyful. Joyful didn’t seem like a word that would ever describe her, though Amri wondered if that could change.

I bet Onica has stories to tell. It can’t all be arguments about her mom.

But Tavra insists that sword school is in session now so Amri gets up and even ties his hair back when Tavra says so although he resents that good suggestion.

There is a lot of bad blood between Vapra and Grottan. Amri hasn’t expressed any at Tavra specifically but he has expressed it.

Amri still hates being on the boat. Not just the rocking but now a little agoraphobia. Being surrounded by so much open space when he’s used to tunnels.

Kylan is up on the roof of the cabin with Onica as she teaches him about knots and sails and stuff. An unexpected friendship is brewing for the best boy? But Kylan asks what Amri is up to and he says Tavra is going to make him into a Vapra paladin, joking that he’ll be Amri the Strong.

Naia shows up with her sweet metal dagger to challenge Amri the Strong to a training spar.

Tavra tells Naia to do thirty lunges and Amri thirty parries but Amri protests he doesn’t even know what a parry is.

Google informs me that it’s a platypus.

“If we’re going to war with the Skeksis, Naia is going to need someone to watch her back, and you’re not going to be able to rely on your strange Grottan tricks every time.”

“I could if I had a bigger spice pouch.”

Pffft. I enjoy you, Amri.

Amri wonders if he could join Kylan in sailing lessons instead but he’d be starting square one either way so sticks with sword school.

Points where due, Tavra actually shows him how to parry. How she does this as a tiny spider is a mystery unexplored.

Swording is hard. Even when Amri successfully parries it jolts his arm because Naia lunges hard. While Naia doesn’t seem winded at all. After all, she wins the hunting festival every season in bola and spear.

“Like I said! Not fair!”

“Life won’t always be fair, or kind!” The voice in his ear was like a conscience, reminding him of the things he would rather have not remembered: like that he’d never seen a bola or a spear before leaving Domrak, or that he’d never attended a hunting festival.

Amri goofuses up during the training, trying to strike back at Naia when he sees an opening and ignoring Tavra’s warning. He gets a shoulder to the chest and stern Tavra words. Telling him that if this were a real battle, he’d be dead.

“What’s the point of practicing if you’re not allowed to take risks?”

“It wasn’t a risk. It was a guaranteed failure.”

“You don’t know that.”

“I did.”

“Well, maybe I’m just tired of you bossing me around.”

“I was trying to…” She clicked with frustration, ending with a final-sounding “Never mind. Do as you like.”

Tavra then hops off his shoulder and ditches.

I do feel sorry for her.

She’s lost her ability to physically protect these danger prone dinguses and she’s never had the consistent ability to get them to do what she thinks is best for them.

She’s been rolling with what happened like a champ but on some level it’s got to be getting to her. She just represses all of her emotions the Vapra/paladin way!

Amri does understand how she must be feeling but says (after she peaces out) that he can’t be her cool replacement.

Naia tells him that he’s not too bad and as good as she is, her skill is derived from hunting, not real combat. And definitely not the same as going up against a Skeksis.

Or a Skeksis hopped up on Gelfling goo. That makes them three times scarier.

No, fighting a Skeksis would not be the same as hunting. The Gelfling had grown in the world as hunters and gatherers. Farmers. Scholars. Song tellers. Even the sailing Sifa clan, as ruthless as they might be to take on the wind and sea, had been raised and nurtured by Thra to be in communion, their voices one with the great song.

Why hadn’t Aughra, who heard the song of the world, foreseen the Skeksis? If all on Thra was part of the song, then so we’re the Skeksis, as terrible as they were. So why hadn’t Aughra prepared the Gelfling, the children of Thra, for such a great betrayal? Amri wondered if it was some sort of test. But he had heard real fear in even Aughra’s voice, in the dream-space. If Aughra was worried, then how could this be part of Thra’s song?

He’s like edging up to the conclusion but it’s kind of an outside context thing. Who’d guess that the Skeksis are aliens? That history has been lost to the Gelfling and Aughra isn’t sharing.

Onica wanders over and asks where Tavra is

“Being Tavra,” Naia replied. As much as it said nothing, Onica understood it all too well. She leaned against the taffrail beside them, watching Kylan handle the sails on his own. “How long have you two been together?” Naia asked.

“Together! My, what a relative term.”

Amri tilted his head. “You mean because of her mother? Because you’re Sifa?”

“My people come in and out of Ha’rar with the seasons. Tavra’s mother never knew my face, only that when the spring and autumn came, her middle daughter was errant. Young and foolish.” Onica shook her head with a wistful smile. “We thought we were getting away with something, meeting out at the seafarer’s lantern. We weren’t.”

Okay. Now I’m like 99% that Onica and Tavra are dating. It just seems like everybody is assuming that without having to say it.

Amri speculates that the reason why the All-Maudra was against these two being together is something something pure line of succession, don’t mix snow with salt water.

WHICH WOULD BE A HILARIOUSLY HYPOCRITICAL MOVE FROM HER CONSIDERING THE COMICS!

And considering that the princesses dad in the comics is Kam’Lu.

Different continuities I know I know…. Anyway.

Onica also says that in a way it’s the first time in a long time that she and Tavra can be together without the All-Maudra’s disdain. So it’s kind of like a mixed bag. Cons: girlfriend is spider, pros: her mother is off our case. And then she looks sad so Amri changes the subject.

He’s not prepared to help unpack any of this.

Amri asks if Onica knows Maudra Ethri well and wouldn’t you know, she do! They grew up together! And Ethri isn’t a Far-Dreamer but puts a lot of stake in prophecy. Onica thinks that maybe Ethri already knows what’s going on and is prepared to rebel.

It’d be nice!

So after Onica teaches them to fish for lunch, Amri asks if they should seek out the Mystics for help. Since they’re bound to the Skeksis.

But they don’t know where to find the Mystics or where to start looking and Amri didn’t even know urLii was a Mystic or an UrRu so trying to seek them by name might be fruitless.

Naia decides that they won’t find the Mystics by trying but they’ll probably run into them anyway.

The boat approaches Cera-Na and Amri hears a mmmmmmmmmm which by the lack of h you can tell isn’t the Chamberlain. It sounds to Amri like the deep cry of a creature in pain somewhere under the waters but nobody else hears it

Curious.

The ocean’s voice was meaningless to him, it’s words dense and incoherent to his touch they only knew the language of stone. He wiped the salt water from his palm.

“I don’t know what it was,” he said. “It’s gone now.”

And curiouser.

They get closer and closer to Cera-Na and the land looms bigger yet bigger.

Amri gasped as they came around the main headland, then winced and had to shield his eyes from one vessel that rested in the arms of the bay. He squinted through his fingers at a magnificent ship that dwarfed all the others. It was not made of wood but coral; glittering white and pink at the keel, brilliant carnelian as its fronds reached higher. The masts were thorny spires, growing out of the coral body like trees and bloused with flowing anemone sails.

Onica, with Tavra on her shoulder, leaped down to the deck.

“The Omerya,” the Far-Dreamer said. “Maudra Ethri’s ship… Welcome, my friends, to Cera-Na.”

Wooooow that doesn’t sound aquadynamic at all!

[aion-rsa]

Is New Mutants an Ending for the Fox X-Men Universe?

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Ever since the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve been absolutely fascinated by any and all attempts for studios to create and navigate an expanded universe. Whether it’s based on superheroes or the supernatural, we’ve seen more Goofuses than Galants. Whatever your opinion of the Marvel movies, you have to at least admit that it worked out fantastically for Disney. They figured out a formula and it was a success.

Meanwhile, Amazing Spider-Man 2 got rewritten into oblivion, failed, and Sony buried their expansion plans until Venom became a surprise hit. Warner Bros. and DC rushed into their own shared cinematic universe with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, stumbled, recovered, and now seem confused about their future. The Wizarding World took a perfectly fine and self-contained spinoff, then gave it a sequel that went overboard in needless Harry Potter prequel reveals. Then Universal Dark Universe…was…yeah, that didn’t really even happen.

But Fox’s X-Men? That movie franchise came before all those others and it’s possibly the most bizarre and interesting as a whole. Even with everything surrounding the Justice League “Snyder Cut.” It’s a superhero series with 20 years, 13 movies, and no more future now that Disney owns what is now known as 20th Century Studios.

The legacy of the X-Men movie franchise is a wild ride. There were two beloved movies to kick things off with a third that, at best, can be considered awkward. They attempted a prequel based on their most popular character with X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which backfired) but they got their footing thanks to a different prequel based on the team itself. With a somewhat forgettable Wolverine sequel in the can, they then did the closest thing the X-Men series had to an Avengers-style crossover event movie.

After that, we finally got the Deadpool spinoff movie that Fox was so reluctant to do, yet not only made them huge bank, but made them realize they could branch out. We got another main X-Men movie, a super-violent Wolverine finale, a Deadpool sequel, and production of two more movies that were muddily mixed with Disney’s purchase of Fox.

Throughout all of that, the movies weren’t totally coherent as a single narrative. Even if you ignore the general meta-ness of the Deadpool movies, the X-Men Cinematic Universe kept trying to apply Band-Aids when their continuity could never even hope for an open-casket funeral.

Dark Phoenix and New Mutants were filmed around the same time. The intent was for New Mutants to come out first, but it’s long become infamous for being the Duke Nukem Forever of mutant movies, getting pushed back repeatedly for a variety of reasons. That left Dark Phoenix as the “finale” for the X-Men Cinematic Universe.

But Dark Phoenix brought the franchise out with a whimper. Much of it had to do with Simon Kinberg trying to tell the same story that he did in X-Men: The Last Stand and not doing much better, if at all. Despite featuring big Hollywood names, almost everyone involved seemed to have checked out and Mystique’s death was telegraphed from the very first trailer.

The movie did scrap its downer ending of Xavier surveying the empty wreckage of his school for something more optimistic and fitting for a finale. Fitting enough, at least. Xavier left the school in Beast’s hands (or was kicked out) and went on to have a peaceful chess game with Magneto. All the while, we could see the Phoenix in the day sky with Jean doing a monologue.

As if referencing the X-Men’s new cinematic future underneath the Disney banner, Jean left us with, “This is not the end of me or the X-Men. This is a new beginning.” There would be no post-credits scene.

It felt defeated and accepting that it was the end of the line, but also felt flat. It was an ending, but it was an ending that felt anything but fresh.

Now, New Mutants was supposed to be the beginning of a trilogy, but watching it as the final X-Men film…it felt like the cusp of something more.

Despite being a new property, New Mutants immediately ties into the greater X-Men Cinematic Universe. An older version of Sunspot was featured briefly in X-Men: Days of Future Past and Illyana Rasputin – while not mentioned – is Colossus’ sister. Now, after all the delays and the realization that Disney was still going to release this baby in theaters during the pandemic, there was an outside chance that they could have made this some kind of introduction to mutants in the MCU via clever editing and reshoots.

Except they didn’t do that.

Direct allusions to Charles Xavier and the X-Men show up about a third into the movie. This was definitely part of Fox’s reality. But it also seemed like it was latching onto the various properties. We already had a connection to X-Men’s big “event” movie and that family connection, but the unseen greater evil of New Mutants is something we’ve seen not only in other X-movies, but in the very different X-movie properties, including the ones that haven’t been fully confirmed as canon to each other.

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A funny thing about New Mutants is that despite being based on a specific X-Men offshoot team from the comics, the basic plot is more reminiscent of the comic series Avengers Academy. We’re supposed to think that all these youngsters are ultimately training to be X-Men with potential to be great heroes. Instead, the big twist is that they aren’t being prepared for Charles Xavier’s school. Instead, they’re being prepared as dangerous supervillains with a future as minions for the Essex Corporation.

That’s Essex as in Nathaniel Essex. As in Mr. Sinister.

After 20 years, the overdressed mutant mastermind is the most prominent villain not to show up in any of these movies. Rumors claim that we were supposed to get John Hamm to play him in at least a teaser, but there are conflicting reports on that. It’s also been said that he was going to be a major player in the Gambit movie that never got off the ground.

Even though Sinister is nowhere to be found in the film, his fingerprints are all over the X-Men Cinematic Universe of the past several years. X-Men: Apocalypse had a post-credits scene showing the cleanup of a Weapon X site where Wolverine went on a rampage. One man takes a few vials of blood and puts them in a briefcase with “ESSEX CORP.” inscribed on it.

The only Wolverine-related movie to follow that was Logan, which sometimes suggested that it possibly wasn’t in the same reality as the other X-Men movies. Outside of the first movie’s climax being referenced and a deleted scene shout out to Sabretooth, the X-Men were depicted as more fiction than fact when it came to their colorful flashiness. It was still a world of fantastic elements, like cloning, cyborgs, and kids with special powers.

In this dystopia, we saw a group of biologically-engineered mutant children being trained as weapons in some shady facility. New Mutants connected the dots. With her own version of telepathy, Dani Moonstar had flashes of moments from Logan – straight-up reused footage, even – that made it very apparent that the place that created X-23 was none other than part of the Essex Corporation. Or that the place that would one day create X-23. The timeline situation is iffy as is.

Essex also had his finger in the delicious pie that is Deadpool 2. The movie’s plot revolves around Deadpool’s attempt to save the soul of Russel Collins, AKA Firefist. They didn’t make a big deal out of the place’s name, but Russel was brought up in the Essex House for Mutant Rehabilitation. Once again, another corrupt place that tried to experiment on and control young mutants with the Essex seal of approval. In the end, that place was destroyed and all of the students were brought to the X-Mansion.

New Mutants ends with the five protagonists free from imprisonment, with an uncertain future ahead of them. It’s a better ending than Dark Phoenix, in my opinion. It’s an ending that suggests that this disjointed mutant reality filled with retcon after retcon after retcon was actually building towards something truly climactic.

Mainline X-Men. Deadpool and X-Force. The New Mutants. The dystopian future of Logan. Four very different pieces that could have potentially come together in one adventure with the sinister smile of an ominous supervillain opposing them. X-Men: Endgame, essentially. A major finale is off on the horizon, never to be fully realized, but one where all the aspects of the Fox X-Men collective could have saved the future for a third time.

Who knows? Maybe we’ll get it in comic form one day.

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