The X-Men #4 - Atop the Fourth Wall

[@tavila]

“The focus is more on Wanda then quicksilver”. You just summed up that poor man’s career in a sentence.

[@larrylaffer3246]

Saves basically the entirety of Exavier's School without being asked; Isn't thanked for said deed. Has Mystique who did nothing in that scene get everyone's attention instead. Poor dude. Least Wolverine thanked him for the kitchen scene. Man's brash but he has class.

[@allanolley4874]

He said that the comic itself focuses more on Quicksilver than the Scarlet Witch though.

[@Morbos1000]

At least he got to shine in the First Class movies. No Wanda and he was the best part of the three films he was in.

[@leephillips4402]

Tell that to 20th Century Fox. Now that they've merged with Disney he will never get that attention again.

[@jessespringer7723]

@@Morbos1000 there was a wanda but she’s only mentioned as upstairs in a deleted scene and never shown

[@reespewa]

Wanda choosing calendars for 2020: "I want... that one". And then she pointed at it.

[@MeliesCinemagician]

"Wanda, don't point your finger at him! You know that always causes a disaster to occur!" "Oh, no! Now Linkara's release schedule will NEVER be fixed!"

[@jordanhunter3375]

Better yet: Wanda: *points finger* EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

[@daelen.cclark]

“YOUR POINTING MADE SECRET ORIGINS MONTH NOT HAPPEN THIS YEAR!”

[@mesektet5776]

Wanda: "It's just... our organization is called "The Brotherhood of *EVIL* Mutants". Hey... Pietro... Are we the bad guys?" Pietro: "Whaaat?! Wanda have you've been listening to Friends of Humanity Propaganda again?"

[@gentlemanlygeeky4088]

Are we the baddies?

[@brandonlyon730]

Let’s not forget they also like to throw the term “homo-superiors” when referring to mutants. Though to be fair even the X-men will sometimes throw the term around even with other humans.

[@L1701]

Magneto SUCKS at optics, and nobody tells him that because, well…he doesn’t take criticism well.

[@kylejones8289]

I believe they later retconned that the name is Magneto being ironic, kind of like reclaiming a slur. "If they're going to call mutants evil, then we'll be the Brotherhood of 'Evil' Mutants." Because, yeah, on the face of it, the name doesn't make much sense because Magneto didn't really consider himself a villain, even in the early days.

[@pucifer92]

@@kylejones8289 That's the way I always saw it. "they believe us evil anyway, just because we're mutants, so let's give them the evil mutants" type of thing. Now I'm sure that wasn't original intention, but it actually works.

[@adamo6250]

Interesting fact about Jack Kirby, he actually did kill several Nazis during WWII, as he served over in Europe

[@eamonndeane587]

NEAT!

[@dingle2987]

@@eamonndeane587 MagNEATO

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

Not everyone who served killed people, did you read that specifically?

[@adamo6250]

@@sarasamaletdin4574 I read that specifically in a graphic novel / biography about Jack Kirby

[@JaelinBezel]

Do you think he was okay with that?

[@kylepeters8690]

The finger gun joke is easily my favorite of the episode, the "and that's why my costume isn't green anymore" is just delightfully dark and I love it.

[@VerdantRange]

Quicksilver made Magneto's crappy flag. His punishment was that instead of a goblet for his dinner, he was forced to use a cheap plastic cup Magneto got at a yard sale.

[@jakarnilson]

Why plastic? Why, it shows just how beneath Pietro is to him that he won't even bother using his powers on the silver speedster.

[@dawnofapril3055]

Magneto to Wanda: "For you, the day Magneto graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

[@ruggiebuggie3195]

I can perfectly picture Magneto saying and doing everything Raul Julia does in the 90s Street Fighter movie. Hell, JCVD as Wolverine sounds something that could have happened then.

[@ruggiebuggie3195]

Wanda: "You know this was green when I bought it..."

[@bthsr7113]

Scott being friendly, Xavier being around, Jean being alive and stable.... The future hasn't been kind to the old gang. I'd say more, but I don't necessarily want to spoil the... fun? No, that's definitely the wrong word.

[@daelen.cclark]

“Spoil the drama” could be appropriate.

[@HobGungan]

"You know what I miss? I miss when Wanda's powers were more mundane. Back when ahe didn't alter reality, she just caused vague bad luck." - Cyclops by way of Floating Hands Studios.

[@Pikachu132]

People complained in the letter column about the colors on the cover back when the comic was new, and Stan confirmed it was indeed done to avoid too much red and make a more visually striking cover. This was back when covers actually sold comic books, remember.

[@VerdantRange]

Angel: "Guys, look out! That's not me down there with you! It's some new mutant criminal called Mystique!"

[@dashietheytpproductions2521]

“WANDA DONT POINT YOUR FINGER AT HIM!” Your now under the Disney name, you have to use the two finger point!

[@thatonea-hole]

Two finger point? Oh no! Wanda shot them with energy beams, DragonBall Z style!!

[@TF2Fan101]

68 Spider-Man: How dare you point at me!

[@loganrepasky3652]

Pietro's hair is supposed to look like the alchemical symbol for the element of Mercury, which also happens to be the name of the Roman speed god

[@richmcgee434]

Good catch. Much better than poor Wanda, whose mask appears to be a stylized M-for-Mutant.

[@L1701]

@Rich McGee Her original headwear went completely around her face, like a wimple. It was later artistic interpretations that turned it into a two-pronged M-shaped tiara.

[@JaelinBezel]

It also looks like Super Saiyan Trunks

[@lilylopnco]

Mercury is also the element also known as Quicksilver.

[@AzureIV]

"Wanda, don't point your finger at him! You know that always causes a disaster to occur!" Is the new "The Cosmic Cube can do anything!"

[@CthulhuianBunny]

Wait, Cyclops is praising someone for their performance in the Danger Room, while Xavier is the one telling them to remember their failure for when they're on the battlefield? What kind of crazy, mixed-up world is this comic taking place in?

[@mikegates8993]

Clearly they're Skrulls who showed up really early for Secret Invasion, but their files got mixed up.

[@gregcourtney751]

@@mikegates8993 i mean the first skrulls, the infamous skrull cows, showed up around this time. Its possible.

[@Krendall2]

The 1960s

[@daelen.cclark]

It's nice to see that kinda thing.

[@CosmoShidan]

I would say Cyclops as team leader is overconfident, being that he's young, eager and inexperienced, while Prof. X is speaking as a wiser, older and more experienced schoolmaster.

[@Reaverbro]

I'm always impressed by how much older comics could get done in a single issue. Introducing new antagonists, said antagonists taking over a nation, and the heroes overthrowing them? If this was a modern comic, that would take at least 5 issues across two separate comics.

[@MrSafior]

Yeah, that something really missing in modern comics.

[@lancerutt9936]

+ introducing factional disputes among new antagonists and having them payoff in the climax. Just embarrassing how much better constructed hokey silver age comics are

[@skibot9974]

@@MrSafior there pros and cons to both apporaches

[@CosmoShidan]

That's because older comics take cues from the short story format in the pulps.

[@dragonknight1560]

"Pulled my finger, see what happens" The most number of jokes about a finger and I love them all. Thank you Linkara!

[@Pikachu2Ash]

"MUST BE A MON DAY!!!!!!!!" (gleefully disappears into oblivion).

[@EmperorSeth]

Now I wish Mastermind was really the villain behind Wandavision, and at the end he was like, "I told you!" And it's never explained or elaborated on.

[@dingle2987]

Don’t get me started. It still bugs me Harkness wanted Wanda’s revival powers for reasons?

[@JaelinBezel]

@@dingle2987 After I watched that, I got really confused by the comics’ Agatha Harkness because she’s not a villain, more like a magic Obi-Wan for Wanda.

[@gracekim1998]

@@JaelinBezel you’re getting confused. MCU adapts the characters in different ways, also in the show it is explained

[@gracekim1998]

@@JaelinBezel that’s why the show hinted that Wanda will visit her if she needs it

[@gracekim1998]

@@dingle2987 it was explained!

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

"Wanda, don't point your finger at him! You know that always causes a disaster to occur!" "This just in: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has opened on Broadway."

[@eamonndeane587]

While that show is a Mess, I'd really like to see Reeve Carney voice Spider-Man in an Animated series or Video Game. He's also a Terrific singer.

[@atiredfloridian777]

"I don't even know who you are." "You will." Yes, we do, Wanda.

[@eamonndeane587]

We All Do....

[@CaptainAvenger1993]

“Wanda! Don’t point your finger at him! You know that always causes a disaster to occur!” My god Wanda…you were responsible for everything that happened in 2016!

[@samuelbarber6177]

“He attacks a land locked micro nation.” That would have made Kickassia a tad more interesting

[@dingle2987]

I prefer to forget that as a product of its time.

[@daelen.cclark]

@@dingle2987 Completely fair.

[@Gungelion]

Okay, the pointing bit was gold. although, considering the kind of powers the Scarlet witch has shown in the past... Half of those jokes might be accurate.

[@TippytoeZombie]

I find it kind of interesting that this seems to portray Pietro as the more moral of the Maximoff twins when most things will usually make Wanda the more moral one.

[@grantmoore8228]

Quicksilver disarmed the bomb? Bet you didn't see that coming. Alternatively: "Yes Magneto! Stealing this ship is step one of our ingenious plan to impress Mr and Mrs. Hart during dinner and to get my husband a promotion! "

[@Mobysimo]

Oooo border for the Secret Origins Title Cards? That's a great idea Viga!

[@thatonea-hole]

Viga be showing her artistic skills!

[@CJPV1701]

Yeah, Viga has just been flexing all over these title cards for awhile now.

[@josephcharlebois4333]

How did you miss the "too much iron in your diet" joke when Magneto was keeping the two guys hostage?

[@CaptainAvenger1993]

Boy you sure had a lot of fun with making jokes of Wanda pointing. 😂

[@Rixec2]

Pietro: Wanda! Don't point your finger at him!! You know that always causes a disaster to occur! Wanda: Go, web, go!

[@L1701]

Mastermind: AAGH I’M ON FIRE! Toad: *puts a hot dog on a stick and uses Mastermind to cook it*

[@silentpaw]

Being former Navy, I think they meant Frigate, not freighter. A freighter is a cargo ship and wouldn't have guns on it like that. Also, there isn't much difference between a Frigate and a Destroyer.

[@sreckocuvalo8110]

Maybe it's a merchant raider. In that case, thing must be ancient.

[@nejiiuyn]

Only real difference from what I remember researching of Warships, is that Destroyers are mult-irole vessels whereas Frigates are primarily support.

[@chasformer3091]

I love how Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch look normal against Mastermind and Toad. It just shows their character of being flawed, yet good noble characters.

[@deterlanglytone]

As a man that is color blind. I would've never caught that she was green on the cover if you hadn't said anything. lol.

[@michaelmorante268]

So many jokes from that one panel of Wanda pointing. :D This is why I always watch your show. Also does anyone else get a Sailor Moon vibe from the title cards this secret origins month?

[@legomaniac213]

I was getting more of a Harry Potter vibe, since they resemble the (American) cover to the first book.

[@JaelinBezel]

@@legomaniac213 they do, don’t they?

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

Ah, so it was *Wanda* who invented the Wuxi Finger Hold. And yeah, the weirdly medieval thing is one of like six ways that Central and Eastern Europe get depicted in western media, and it's honestly one of the least bad ones.

[@fafnirdragonbane3625]

There is no such thing as too much fun with Arnold Mister Freeze clips. They are a source of infinite joy.

[@JaelinBezel]

"Robert Patterson isn't Edward Cullen any more than Arnold Schwarzenneger is Mister Freeze!" -James Stephanie Sterling

[@bthsr7113]

So I'm imagining that Mastermind was put in charge of equipment acquisition, and that's why he conjured up images of nazzzi esque troops. He'd already scored surplus equipment. Then when Magneto inspected the first few crates, Mastermind was one poor choice of words away from a very grisly end. After that, Magnus got a funny look in his eye and personally hauled a special crate off, talking about cleansing fire.

[@redshirt0479]

Okay, so armed freighters were a thing during WWII but they were often just given an outdated 3" or 4" gun in single open mounts for defense against submarines on the surface and some light AA guns to dissuade aircraft. Nothing compared to destroyers of the period Though even more confusing is the art for the ship. That isn't a destroyer or a freighter outside Santo Marco, I'm not entirely sure _what_ that is. The barrels on the turret at 12:38 is positively gigantic, at first glance they wouldn't be out of place on a battleship in terms of diameter but the barrels are _far_ too short (1) and are proportionally similar to some Age of Sail/Early Ironclad guns. But funnily enough, the page you skipped has the _right_ kind of gun on the appropriate mount and the overall design is consistent with a Liberty Ship, a cheap freighter design that was never meant to last more than 5-10 years (2) and was built with outdated triple expansion engines. I think Mastermind was projecting an illusion over the freighter. Otherwise that entire micro nation surrounded to a 18 year old (3), 11.5 knot, 14,000 ton freighter that has a single outdated 4" gun and some annoyance-grade anti-air defenses (4). (1) The blast wave from firing those guns would probably turn the organs of anyone standing where Magneto is to goop. (2) Though a number did last much longer... of course there were also a couple that did't even make it out of port before literally coming apart at the seams because of how fast they were being produced. Two weeks isn't exactly a lot of time for quality control. (3) The ship is identified as having been part of convoy duty, so therefore must be at least 18 years old in 1963. (4) By late 40s standards, by the 1960s they'd be beyond worthless.

[@richmcgee434]

Ooh, I can play this game too. :) When you say some lasted longer than the projected 5-10 years, you're understating things. There are still five of them (out of a bit over 2700 built) operational, with the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco, SS Lane Victory in Los Angeles, SS Red Oak Victory in Richmond CA, SS John Brown in Baltimore, and the SS American Victory in Tampa. As noted elsewhere, Kirby was a WW2 vet who served in Europe, and quite likely got there or back (or both) on a Liberty Ship, so it's not too surprising that he managed to draw one accurately on the skipped page. At the very least any GI who was ever near a East Coast or European port during WW2 would have gotten a look at a representative of the class at some point. Very nearly as ubiquitous at sea as jeeps were on land. The "Mastermind making an illusion of a supership" seems on point, with the more accurate art perhaps being the ship's real appearance from a reader-only perspective. Magneto sure wouldn't have had much trouble finding a Liberty to use within a couple of decades of the end of the end of the war, and I'd imagine having superhuman magnetic powers to help hold the welds together would improve reliability no end.

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

To be fair Magneto being established as a concentration camp survivor was still a long ways away.

[@matityaloran9157]

1981, wasn’t it?

[@CosmoShidan]

The part about Wanda's backstory did establish Magneto's cause as justified, and I would say issue #4 was the turning point for the comics.

[@matityaloran9157]

@@CosmoShidan Nothing in Linkara’s summary of this sounds like Magneto’s cause was justified.

[@CosmoShidan]

@@matityaloran9157 That's the way I read into it. I mean, Linkara implied that Quicksilver sees the X-men as mutant traitors, which is from the Brotherhood's point of view is what further reinforces their cause, as well as Magneto pointing out that normal humans would just kill mutants at any given time (it happens within ten issues with the debut of the Sentinels). Granted, I would read Magneto's ethics as the ends justifies the means early on.

[@matityaloran9157]

@@CosmoShidan Fair

[@tkayube]

14:06 This is actually the backstory to Super Magneto Land 2, where Santo Marco was taken over by Magneto's even more evil counterpart: Wagneto.

[@daelen.cclark]

“Super Magneto Land”… I love that.

[@davidker8820]

Hold it! Finger-pointing brings disaster upon its target? This means… Phoenix Wright is a mutant! This… actually makes way too much sense.

[@richmcgee434]

I have no objection to that idea. :)

[@chaoticjusticezero]

OK, the villain version of the intro is awesome!

[@colinvandenberg3446]

I know Stan's Sue Storm was more typical for the time, but it feels like Lee and Marston were the only writers back then who wrote female characters like actual people.

[@JacobinCad]

I think it was more Reed Richards blatant (and now a little out of character considering his most succesful reimaginings) sexism. Reed would often denigrate Susan in front of other men for being too “feminine” and “emotional” and for “thinking too much on her own”, with those other men happily agreeing with him and treating her like a joke. Rough times…

[@dingle2987]

I find it odd even Jean and Polaris were treated better.

[@Rei-Rei]

Ah yes. Who can forget the wig room? It's what every girl aspires to.

[@richmcgee434]

@@JacobinCad Early Reed Richards was a colossal asshole in just about every way, yeah. Modern attempts to rehabilitate him always fall kind of flat for me, I started reading FF too early.

[@jamesadamsfl]

Remember that The Fantastic Four were all deliberately designed to be sitcom stereotypes in the sixties. Lee wanted to deliberately juxtapose that with powers that were the worst possible fit for their personalities for humor and drama. Just like Reed is physically the most flexible man alive, but his personality is stiff and dull; Jonny is a dumb kid with incredibly delicate and dangerous powers; and Ben Grimm is a raw nerve of feelings and emotions and arguably the most heroic, but his body is rock-hard and unfeeling as well as monstrous in appearance.

[@gaminggalaxies6633]

7:30 forgot how much i loved these joke montages, these were great

[@markkendziuk5991]

"Wanda! Don't point your finger at him! You have now cursed everyone with hearing a whip-crack everytime THEY point!!

[@jeremyborder6794]

If they had made an X-Men movie in the mid-90s, I would’ve loved to have Vanilla Ice as Bobby Drake/Iceman

[@skyslasher2297]

7:49 Oh no Wanda your pointing just undid Spidermans Marriage you monster Also I was expecting a reference to the Ultimate versions of them like with a fingerbang joke (too far)

[@skyslasher2297]

@Mullerornis holy shit

[@pious83]

12:35 Also best to gloss over the fact that Magneto can project himself into the Astral Plane, for this exchange. Mutant powers were ...vague and nebulous, in the early days. A lot of their original powersets were retconned later. Such as Magneto with some mental powers, like this projection and later, "magnetic attraction"(basically hypnosis). Xavier's powers being a "Mutant brain" and him _gifting_ a portion of his telepathy to Jean Grey. Who originally was only a low level telekinetic.

[@notavailable2590]

Ah, Wanda “My Hair Will Be A Different Colour In Every Adaptation” Maximoff.

[@171QA]

Those Wanda pointing memes were golden. XD

[@markmyers6756]

11:21 I have read many comics from this era and yes they did.

[@AJUniverse]

I'm loving title cards for Secret Origins episodes this year.

[@dani2190]

Agree🐻

[@TPrower]

7:28 Wow, who knew Wanda's disaster-causing finger pointing was as rife with jokes as Lex Luthor's jar of pee? XD

[@chaoticjusticezero]

Or Rachetron and Anton York: 45th President of the United States?

[@tjf42193]

Grandma peach tea !!

[@Cdr2002]

“I find the fixation on bad guys frustrating and care much more about heroes” Same

[@mikegates8993]

I was waiting for him to do a Countdown reference during the finger pointing montage. Also was Megneto aware that Wanda and Pietro were his children after the retcon happened or did he not know?

[@JayStrang1]

I believe he's canonically supposed to be unaware at this point.

[@AussieDragoon]

I think they found out at the same time.

[@treyurbach2550]

Magneto would not find out they were his children until Vision Scarlet Witch #4 in 1982, and then told them both at the end of the comic.

[@mikegates8993]

@@treyurbach2550 To his credit, I'm impressed he told them as soon as he found out then. Then again I'm a little surprised then believed him given their history.

[@JaelinBezel]

@@mikegates8993 I mean he's definitely not above lying about that sort of thing.

[@spiderdoctor2269]

13:10 props to Jack Kirby for the panel on the right. Magneto's facial expression here is... intense

[@TheMamaluigi300]

Sonic wagged his finger, so Wanda pointed hers at him. The year was 2006.

[@OnDavidsBrain]

The next time Wanda points at Mastermind, she yells out "Spirit Gun" and then Magneto is left with a vacancy in the Brotherhood.

[@L1701]

Magneto didn’t mind because everybody hated Mastermind. Including Mastermind himself.

[@tylerjones7592]

He replaces mastermind with sabretooth

[@fyraltari1889]

11:04 That village doesn't seem particularly medieval. It looks like a regular small european rural town from the sixties. Likewise, a sociologist studied the use (and warding off) of witchcraft in rural France in 1972, so it's not absurd that people would call Wanda a witch in whatever country she is supposed to be from. Though trying to murder her seems to be a bit exagerated. Then again, she has actual supernatural powers, unlike the "witches" of the real world. Also, the devil horns are an actual gesture of cursing (or warding off evil, depending of your region) in Europe (mostly Italy, rather than central Europe though), which is why metal appropriated it.

[@caseygibson7266]

I'm really digging these Secret Origins Month thumbnail styles

[@thatonea-hole]

Thank, Viga, Lewis' wife!!

[@tonytheriault1186]

Another favourite character of mine. I have all 12 issues of the 2nd Vision And The Scarlet Witch miniseries, along with a few of their West Coast Avengers appearances. Even in these early appearances, we see a good person forced to do bad things, much like how she started in the MCU.

[@LiliumSnow]

Absolutely love it when you can Lewis couldn't decide on a joke to use for a panel ... so he decided to just use all of them. xD

[@PaintSplashProductions]

Wanda's one of my favourite Marvel characters so you making this makes me very happy 😊

[@Link720.]

6:29 Elephant - "You do and I'll give you such a pinch!"

[@gentlemanlygeeky4088]

I understood that reference.

[@alimowla3204]

6:45 i mean, to be fair, there only seems to be only two goblets here, so quicksilver and scarlet witch probably just ended up with the cups.

[@jameshowlett5106]

The title cards for this year's Secret Origins month give me some Marvel vs Capcom vibes. And that is awesome.

[@thanatos_razl]

I'm loving the thumbnail Viga did. Also do we blame Wanda pointing for bad storylines like Countdown?

[@William-Morey-Baker]

fun fact, you can actually levitate people with powerful enough magnets... Magneto should genuinely be able to hold people in place just based on some of the other feats of magnetism he has demonstrated over the years... it doesnt take all that much energy compared to how much he puts out.

[@baerdred]

I love the MST3K clips. Expecially the magnet one. Never change Louis, never change.

[@jayjoshuasolomon]

Cyclops' powers are whatever Gail Simone wants them to be.

[@dnmstarsi]

Can she give him the power to make him super likable again?

[@jayjoshuasolomon]

@@dnmstarsi Dear lord, absolutely not. This is beyond her power.

[@dnmstarsi]

@@jayjoshuasolomon Well, that's a shame.

[@cherry-cj9iq]

"Second only to these guns, my X-Men" killed me in 3 different ways. I didn't even laugh. It just hit me straight in the gut, WHATEVER THAT WAS? THAT WAS CURSED. I love it. Still, great review, I'm not really a fan of Wanda but it wasn't bad to see how she first showed up uwu

[@dngillikin]

When Marvel reprinted this story in Marvel Super-Heroes in 1969 and in Amazing Adventures in 1980, they did correct the colors of Wanda and Pietro's costumes on the cover artwork taken from X-Men #4. Masterworks, Epics, Facsimile, and digital reprintings do stick with the original, erroneous colors which I'm actually okay with, though your mileage does vary.

[@greatsayain]

Magic wand, make my brotherhood of evil mutants GROW! Thinking about it now it really more of a magic scepter, or magic staff.

[@realrealwarpet]

Im glad linkara also likes the villains becoming heroes trope. It doesn’t happen often enough, and its why i love the original thunderbolts

[@CosmoShidan]

Funny enough, I hosted a supervillain D20-style game with some 10-year-olds, which had the option of playing as heroes or villains. The kids all wanted to play as the villains to my amusement.

[@ellnats]

"he dosn't have to use it, but he's a sucker for the classics" tell me about it, my arch enemy still sometimes uses old school time bombs, 3 sticks of dynamite wired to an alarm clock, while tying someone to a train track to kill them, he usually wants either the train to ram them into paste, or the bomb to blow them up

[@LaNoLaCola]

And I thought the style for the Batgirl origin review was a one off. I'm now curious to what the meaning for the kinda art nouveau format

[@kingofthebis1068]

Wanda the gaslight girlboss no more mutants queen!!!

[@band43seat]

you know, I think that magneto truely is capable of absolute magnetic control, which includes other sections of magnetism besides ferromagnetism, such as diamagnetism, paramagnetism, antiferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, and superparamagnetism. and some of these could explain his other abilities.

[@richmcgee434]

Let us not forget sexual magnetism. The guy's managed to have kids despite regularly being seen in public with that ridiculous helmet on. Getting laid after that fashion debacle is a superpower if I ever saw one.

[@legoking6165]

Yes! The first appearance of Quicksilver and Scarlet witch was one that I actually said I wanted to see during last years secret origins month!

[@JaelinBezel]

Good for you! (is it possible to say that without sarcasm?)

[@legoking6165]

@@JaelinBezel Yes it is. Thank you!

[@GreenTomas2372]

Has anyone heard of the announcement of the 1990’s X-Men coming back and being more modernized

[@HetLedie]

ill believe when i see it. disney has a prioblem with breaking promises

[@thatonea-hole]

@@HetLedie Also Disney has a tendency of making both reboots and continuations being disappointments or failures. Except for the Ducktales reboot

[@TF2Fan101]

@@thatonea-hole Depends on who’s in charge. If they give the creators free-reign, it’ll be good like The Mandalorian or Gravity Falls. If they try to exercise too much control, it’ll be like the Star Wars sequels and Big Hero 6 The Series Season 3.

[@GreenTomas2372]

@@thatonea-hole Yeah, I am not suprised when the writers of X-men are hyper political. So I am pretty sure that the continuation is gonna be a little more then disappointing

[@Fingleberrys]

@@TF2Fan101 disney had literally 0 contrpl over the sequels. That was the problem. JJ Abrams was given total freedom and he used it to make 10000 mystery boxes

[@jmiles86]

The danger room is just an entire back row of trap cards. If they had storm, she could have just used Heavy Storm.

[@alexmalcolm6309]

The bit about Wanda's village is actually not that surprising. There are still places in Eastern Europe where the locals truly believe in and fear Vampires.

[@bearberserker]

Well, magnetism can do more than just attract metal. It can manipulate electricity and even light. It can also affect the human body, especially since a healthy diet could consist of minerals like iron, magnesium, and zinc.

[@venkateswarans1953]

That joke about House of M is especially brilliant btw! In a way, the event WAS an eventuality of this comic!

[@Wanderingsage7]

Tangentially related, but im surprised someone hasn't patroned a comic featuring Squirrel Girl yet.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Oh, come on, man, Burt knows EXACTLY why it would be a problem. Bullets for elephant guns are expensive. You do not waste those.

[@Maswartz226]

I can't be the only one who feels Magneto set mutant/human relations back a ton what with the whole "brotherhood of EVIL MUTANTS" and terrorism stuff?

[@rorylumley4727]

Yeah i do prefer brotherhood of mutants as magneto doesn't really see himself as evil.

[@Maswartz226]

@@rorylumley4727 I have a reprint of this with a prelude from Stan Lee where he flat out admits he didn't realize that mistake in logic.

[@brandonlyon730]

I say the same thing when the mutants refer to themselves “homo-superiors”, and this is not just the villains saying this term, even the X-men will sometimes refer to themselves with this term that obviously looks down on humans.

[@L1701]

Magneto is terrible at optics.

[@L1701]

Pretty much. But the X-Men themselves didn’t do exactly a great job of helping fight fears against mutants themselves.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

Before watching the video: Isn't this issue also the first appearance of Quicksilver too? 1:09 What a great way to compensae needing to cut an episode while still getting 4 superhero origins this month! Thanks shared debuts!

[@carloszapata847]

2 for 1 deal.

[@rikowolfin4984]

Ah I see, Wanda must of pointed at her own tv show, that explains why it's such a disaster that makes everyone involved seem like absolutely horrible people while not being self aware enough to point that out.

[@GreycatRademenes]

11:00 Dude, I live in Poland and I got the impression that a lot of creators (and people who sell stuff on ebay) actually believe that Central and Eastern Europe actually does look like it's stuck in the 1800s, similar how all of Italy is centered around the coliseum and all of France is around the Eiffel tower. Ironically "X-men Apocalypse" manage to capture the looks of 1980s Poland, but I think they based their dialect on XVII century literature.

[@fermintenava5911]

11:26 Honestly, that village doesn't look medieval, but 18th century at best, and the fact that its people believe in witchcraft is more unbelievable than them having ancient houses.

[@leephillips4402]

I knew this would happen, now maybe Loki. Also four still prominent Marvel characters were introduced in that issue and Only the Scarlet Witch is on the thumbnail, seems about right.

[@sebastianevangelista4921]

1.Thanks for the Burt Gummer reference. 2.The finger bit was glorious! 3.Oh how I've missed the Master of Magnet gag. 4.Now I want to know what Charles' workout routine is.

[@sebastianevangelista4921]

Also the villains opening was great, dude!

[@CosmoShidan]

@@sebastianevangelista4921 I think Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch steal the show!

[@eddihurta7173]

When Superman points his finger in his "OVER THERE" way, things dont blow up...But Skarlet Witch cant even point to a food on a menu without causing 10 casualties

[@Wanderingsage7]

Speedsters are game breaking. Yeah Pietro is no Flash, but he's still quick. That's probably why... A lot of people don't know what to do with him, either having him be a rather lackluster villain, or dead. So yeah, Quicksilver has always kind of had incest conotations. I kinda love when Sir Lovehaug does a rapid barrage of jokes. Okay, Magneto? Why do you keep Mastermind around? I don't think the illusions are worth it.

[@JRizzle8921]

Well Wanda and Pietro could be from the village in Resident Evil 4 since they were a bunch of Luddites,of course they were more early 20th century (not counting Salazar’s castle) and Spanish

[@thewolfofgallifrey5961]

I was cracking up on the finger-pointing stream. BRAINWAVE! You do Vision next year, but you also do a villain origin episode for Ultron. It goes together!

[@Krendall2]

Kind of odd to see Pietro have the same moral hangups as Wanda. Wanda usually only went bad again due to some mental breakdown, while Pietro turns evil seemingly out of boredom.

[@rassilontdavros3004]

I’m liking the thing you’ve been doing lately where you take one line of the book and spend an entire minute listing off follow-up jokes.