As someone who isn’t really into high fashion or the X-men, most of this was utterly incomprehensible to me. 5 stars.
@sschaefer117 ай бұрын
The vibe of this video for me is 'slightly intoxicated inconsequential arguments you get into with your friends' and I love it.
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
Oh that's so real, this exactly what I'm like at parties
@VegtamTheWonderer7 ай бұрын
Charles Xavier's outfits always looks like he's starring in a steampunk remake of Jesus Christ Superstar.
@digdude647 ай бұрын
Number 2 looks like a Judge Dredd ripoff
@jgrayson19407 ай бұрын
Gambit wearing a jacket with no shirt should just be his normal look tbh
@digitaljanus7 ай бұрын
Got that right, mon cheri.
@digdude647 ай бұрын
Namor being shirtless and shoeless is the least surprising one.
@ZzGeWizZ7 ай бұрын
my brain: bro, what are you watching? also my brain: shh... just.. shush.
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
I laughed out loud for actual
@barcodedm7 ай бұрын
I remember seeing that Doom outfit on marvel snap and just thinking my GOD no one man should have all that swagulosity. weapons-grade drip.
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
He's got the heckin LEWK
@davidwatches7 ай бұрын
I'd love to see this become a regular series by Dael as she reports on fantasy fashion on popular cosplays, TTRPG character art, and comic book heroes and villains.
@SingularityOrbit7 ай бұрын
This is exactly what I needed to see today. Quick fashion thoughts: 1. The men's shirtless outfits were saying, "We don't have to hide ourselves anymore." 2. I hate Von Doom's mask for the Gala. The rest of the outfit, though, reveals something: see the joints in his suit? No? That's because he doesn't have any hard joints at the elbows and knees or anywhere else. He always has then in his regular armors, but not here. However, Doom is always armored. So he has Stark's soft magnetic armor tech, but only wears it as a flex at a party where Tony Stark is attending. 3. The whole reason the third Xavier outfit works is because the man only looks right with a shirt on. 4. Magik's and Rachel's outfits are a bit upsetting to me because Magik was only Queen of Limbo because she was kidnapped there, and Rachel wore the red, studded outfit as a "hound" for mutant-hunters. So they're wearing their respective traumas as Gala costumes in an attempt to own their own histories. It just makes me wonder if it's working for them. 5. Re the shoeless looks: Namor is Atlantean and Vision is a robot. Everybody else should have the sense to consider broken glass at one of these events. If it couldn't be avoided at the Richards' wedding, how could the Gala possibly be drama-free?
@Ashen.Elixer7 ай бұрын
Honestly, my issue with both Magik and Rachel is that thos gala outfits are just... bedazzled versions of their regular costumes. Like, that's just what Magik LOOKS like 90% of the time, and while Rachel's outfit is cool(ish), that's also just what she tends to look like whenever she goes ✨CRAE-ZEE!!!✨ AND, they're clearly not putting as much time into the dude's outfits, other than shirtless=sexy.
@willmendoza84987 ай бұрын
“This was all very important” cracked me up
@UnaSalusVictis7 ай бұрын
The Rasputin siblings putting in the work. You love to see it.
@shangc27817 ай бұрын
19:08 Emma: Check out my shoes Commenter: Is Lourdes Chantel dying? Emma: This ain't about her
@michael15677 ай бұрын
We could've gotten 70 more minutes of Mutant Fashion Photo Ruview??????????
@josephfernandez80157 ай бұрын
One thing I love about Dael and her channel is that you never know what kind of video you’re gonna get. Go from TTRPG advice to ice cream making to rating fashion choices of the X-Men. What’s next week’s video gonna be about? It could be literally anything lol.
@folarin12345678907 ай бұрын
This video really just highlights some of the reasons the Hellfire gala is perhaps the apotheosis of everything great about the Krakoan age. Celebration of a defined mutant culture??? The opportunity for creators to go wild and reinvent popular characters??? The goodest of shit.
@gqsnowman7 ай бұрын
They did my boy Jamie so dirty. I genuinely LOVE the idea of the Hellfire Gala and was so excited when Madrox joined X-Corp and they gave him an overconfident fashion student's first semester midterm project.
@spacebadger217 ай бұрын
Cyclops wearing an outfit that is basically his uniform is kinda on-brand for him.
@Wizardously7 ай бұрын
I feel like Cyclops just always forgets about the Gala until the night before. First year: "I'll just wear my fanciest costume." Next year: Alex loans him his rough draft. Year after that: Magneto gives him a costume and he borrows a helmet from someone.
@DreamerNumber37 ай бұрын
"desaturated Willy Wonka" too me out at the KNEES
@garion0467 ай бұрын
This video broke the Dael sass-o-meter. I have no idea what is going on, or why Xmen have a fashion gala, but I do love that artists get to do it. Also wtf Charles, that helmet is ridiculous.
@HorizonOfHope7 ай бұрын
Just emailed this to my grandma.
@digitaljanus7 ай бұрын
"In my day, X-Men modelled swimsuits on the beach!"
@jordancole957 ай бұрын
I know we’ll probably have to wait till 2042, but I’m looking forward to the MCU’s multiversal hellfire galas
@BennettProductions997 ай бұрын
Release the Kingsmill cut. I could watch an hour of this
@magebear77 ай бұрын
As someone with only a passing understanding of both topics here, I will nonetheless always love watching someone geek out about their hobbies colliding.
@Lurklen7 ай бұрын
Honestly, I draw so much D&D and writing inspiration from both the Met and Hellfire Galas for things like cities of wizards, or other groups of powerful magical weirdos. Fae, infernal courts, the realms of the elemental princes. Anywhere that people should look amazing, but also defy practicality, these fits provide excellent set dressing. (Colossus dressed like this as a powerful prince of elemental earth? Think about it!) Agreed with all your takes, though I kind of like Emma's head slice headdress, I like how it suggests her powers without being too flashy. That diamond dress is amazing. So incredibly over the top, and yes, very sexy in a very unsubtle way, but also really regal and confident in a totally unrepentant way, and also gives a bit of that deific grandiose simplicity you were ascribing to Prodigy--who looks a bit more like a fey than and angel to me. Emma frost, Diamond Queen, her dress is just diamonds, she's practically naked, she looks better than all of you. Who else could really pull it off? {not Vision...} Her getting a haircut mid way is hilarious, can you imagine being at a big party and the hostess comes out missing a foot of hair and makes 0 comment?
@andrewburgess95787 ай бұрын
Had no idea that I needed this in my life until I saw it...
@Eric_I_Guess7 ай бұрын
Honestly I need the 90 minute cut
@whylal7 ай бұрын
I had no idea the hellfire gala existed before this video, and I had no idea what I was clicking on, but this was better than the best idea I could think of when I saw it and I want to judge the outfits with my friends now
@StormyQ7 ай бұрын
As someone who loves X-men, and not so much high fashion,All of this NEEDED to be said and I'm Glad you said it! I love this kind video. Algorithm be with ye.
@seandolan41737 ай бұрын
This made me realize I never saw a lot of discussions on the outfits at any gala and that's shocking. Eye Boy (one of my favorites) also went no shirt and shoes, but I thought it would with his power.
@michaeljpastor7 ай бұрын
Yeah, Eye Boy wins the award for "I'm unapologetically a Mutant. Lump it hooman"
@WeShallLoveOn7 ай бұрын
Every opinion expressed in this video was 100% correct and also very important
@GutsyTen427 ай бұрын
I haven't been following the comics, but I absolutely love this
@mateofantasma7 ай бұрын
Same!
@austinsebben14027 ай бұрын
I think Scott is just honouring his step-mother Hepzibah the space pirate skunk with his second outfit
@The_McRib7 ай бұрын
I love that "The Bad" is twice as long as the other segments.
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
😆 I swear I had more positive entries but they weren't as entertaining so they didn't make the edit
@devinpm7 ай бұрын
8:37 Kitty's outfit looks like she jumped over to DC and raided one of the Robins' closets
@retu35107 ай бұрын
Now I'm in love with emma frosts mafia boss look.
@Pentten7 ай бұрын
The fact Iceman's outfit appears to be made out of ice is really what gets me. Just put something on. Literally anything. It's a fricken Gala!
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
Please, sir... Some pants... Please....
@RFieth7 ай бұрын
Xavier absolutely looks like the Greendale Human Being from the nips down.
@andrewstraight29617 ай бұрын
Thank you, @MonarchsFactory, for giving us the content we didn’t know we needed. I will trust your judgement from now on, even when I am thoroughly confused by the thumbnail. 10/10. She wakes up in the morning and she pisses excellence.😂
@MattSmith837 ай бұрын
This is the content I didn’t know I needed, but now I simply cannot be without!
@blackalucard39477 ай бұрын
Haven’t even watched the video yet but i just need to say that Colossus's outfit STILL takes my breath away.
@Brian_Rogers7 ай бұрын
It may just be a bow tie, but it's a DESIGNER bow tie.
@jamessocol32117 ай бұрын
This is in a very specific spot in a Venn diagram of my niche interests, a spot that I thought was empty!
@johnsnyder_leechleathercraft7 ай бұрын
I'm not sure what I just watched, but boy did I watch it.
@TheNerdySimulation7 ай бұрын
This video is going to have me fed for months, I tell ya.
@twell19847 ай бұрын
9:53 "We've landed in a happier place with the ruffled shirt" - glances at picture - well, this video definitely isn't marked for children.
@AquaSheep937 ай бұрын
RELEASE 👏 THE 👏 FULL 👏 DAEL 👏 CUT
@PapaSmerf0087 ай бұрын
I am playing Marvel Snap and they had a big wave of variants (special art versions of cards) added for the Hellfire Gala. Several of these are included and I am loving the critique!
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
I have most of the Hellfire Gala album complete, but I'm so sad because it's the only album that doesn't give an emote 😭
@Wolfineer_7 ай бұрын
I didn't know I need a video like this but now I'm left wanting more! We need an uncut version Scott 2022 is very "Pirates are in this year" x KPop
@jackb.86487 ай бұрын
Juggernaut in the bow tie was camp! He was doing camp!
@bobtherat997 ай бұрын
"Stupid hero outfits at a fictional event" is exactly why I adore you. Never change ... Unless you feel like it.
@majinantipanda7 ай бұрын
All this and no shout out to the Drip that is Miles Morales ... Other than that. Amazing :) well done
@joelbarr11637 ай бұрын
Thank you for introducing me to the Hellfire Gala
@mella43767 ай бұрын
On the one hand I don't like to be reminded of that one panel from Hellfire 2023, on the other hand thank you for this feat of flawless journalism.
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
🙏
@CaseyWilkesmusic7 ай бұрын
I love All monarchs factory videos!
@vecna007 ай бұрын
I would love to see that hour and a half version!
@mikececconi26777 ай бұрын
Your ability to overthink things into smithereens is so wonderful and one of the best things in the youtube of all.
@aqacefan7 ай бұрын
Holy SH!T Victor looks AMAZING with the gold filigree!
@papercurse21627 ай бұрын
Juggernaut with a bowtie, absolutely iconic (loved the video)
@jgrayson19407 ай бұрын
Dael this is excellent content. More like this :)
@FilipMagnus6 ай бұрын
This has now become one of my favourite, most fantastical Monarch Factory videos yet. Can only decry the fact we didn't get the full hour and a half, would've been here for it.
@CodenameFanboy7 ай бұрын
Nate Grey did the no shirt/jacket and no shoes look more than two decades before these and he did it better.
@digitaljanus7 ай бұрын
The Iceman '21, I was wondering if he was trying to be the Macho Man Randy Savage. No bests Doom in haut couture! Especially you, Richards!
@Varis787 ай бұрын
This was delightful. Also, I am now mad about Kitty Pryde. How dare they do one of my favorite characters dirty like that. She deserved so much better. As did Bobby. I swear his whole head, from the sunglasses to the hair, looks like it came out of the late 80's or early 90's.
@nimfadoro11697 ай бұрын
I want that Colossus fit so bad what.
@UnknownVir7 ай бұрын
i didn't know what i was stepping into, I'm glad to be here because it's not only worth it, i know just the person who needs to see this video
@Chaoslizard7 ай бұрын
This was super fun. Well done Dael!
@swguygardner7 ай бұрын
Xavier's suit looks like the Zeo Power Rangers' suit, without the belt and a WAY oversized helmet XD
@nalgo7 ай бұрын
petition to release the Kingsmill cut
@yutti3117 ай бұрын
This felt like a fever dream. Loved it! Five stars. Would reccomend.
@michael15677 ай бұрын
Okay someone should check to see if any ancient evils have been released because this is definitely a planetary alignment here
@Megamaduo7 ай бұрын
This was very important work, thank you Dael.
@TonyRobetson7 ай бұрын
this is a whole new genre of video i didnt know i wanted! love the covers they did for these and im happy that you enjoy them too. Magik is one of my favorites, glad she got so much love :) i have no idea what kind of video youll do next and it's really exciting lol
@minimoose78907 ай бұрын
No shoes, no service!
@lgob77 ай бұрын
Just a bowtie! OUTRAGEOUS!
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
Come on, now!
@Enn-7 ай бұрын
Thank you for trimming out the other 70 minutes. I admire your passion for the topic, but I don't think I'd have stuck to the end of the unedited version. Also, I love your videos!
@laerite7 ай бұрын
loved this ahaha, totally out of nowhere but its great!
@destinyrivera76077 ай бұрын
In fairness to King Namor he has never worn a shirt a day in his life.
@donniecrimmins98417 ай бұрын
I want the extended cut
@johnwendel7027 ай бұрын
Heck yeah! I am so glad this popped up in my feed today because these looks were just *chef's kiss*
@Ashen.Elixer7 ай бұрын
Wait. When did we decide Kitty should look exactly like Wanda!? Her colors have ALWAYS been yellow and blue, with the odd in-between blonde-brown WHY DOES SHE LOOK LIKE WANDA NOW!?
@Heimal7 ай бұрын
It should be noted that at least in 2021 Charles and Eric matched like all good couples should.
@shangc27817 ай бұрын
You're right. They are the annoying matchy couple
@andrewhallock25487 ай бұрын
Dael roasting superhero fashion. *chef's kiss*
@Neverfate7 ай бұрын
This was a delightful video. I love the X-Men and not sure I'd ever really heard you talk about them before. Very fun
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
Every now and then I realise it isn't immediately obvious from my online presence how much I love X-Men and it genuinely stressed me out, so I'm happy to have finally left a little fingerprint of it
@HAERTofWINTER7 ай бұрын
I didn’t know how much I needed this, thank you for this gift
@Mythman19957 ай бұрын
Jumbo Carnation take notes
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
I'd like a quick word with jumbo
@zizzmain67827 ай бұрын
wow, truly amazing important work.
@davinci4517 ай бұрын
What's in the cup? Looks fancy.
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
Chai Latte 😎
@CapnAlces5 ай бұрын
Been meaning to watch this for months. And I got the exact Dael energy I had hoped for. This was fun. Also, the can of worms that is Juggernaut trying a fancy outfit. Where would he even start?
@romantheflash5 ай бұрын
This was brilliant Dael, I want you to roast/review all the X-men uniforms now!
@andrewduitsman39187 ай бұрын
I love that you put this much energy into this video. I love that this gave you content, but the Hellfire Gala and really the Krakoan age past HoX and PoX has been a disaster of mangled incoherent story lines that go nowhere.
@swguygardner7 ай бұрын
Also, I would watch the 1.5 hour version of this, for real! 👀
@jacobvardy7 ай бұрын
I've never read the comic but i am devastated to discover that there will be no more Marvel galas.
@StubbornProgrammer7 ай бұрын
I dunno about Scott's first outfit, he looked less like a guest and more like security.
@marc212566 ай бұрын
Cerebro helmet Charles is great. He has atrophy from 50 years in a wheelchair, so he wears a blimp on his head to help him carry the weight. Icy what you did saying "I see" over and over when talking about Bobby.
@michaelday68707 ай бұрын
Thank you for acknowleging that Emma wasn't wearing a shirt either! Pity you didn't announce the winners of best/worst dressed. My votes go for Dr Doom and Charles Xavier. Might be controversial to not pick the Jugernaught, but I think Charles' rediculous outfit took EFFORT to be so bad, while the Jugernaut's is just lazy. This was a fun video!
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
Maybe we should hold a ballot. Become the academy. Make it official.
@batmenic365StopMotion7 ай бұрын
How do you even keep up with the X-Men comics at this point? SO MANY OF THEM! Love Shadowcat's pirate look though, Doom's fit is incredible, Emma's fur rug with a boob window absolutely killed me oh god imagine someone having to wear that
@MonarchsFactory7 ай бұрын
That's my secret, Cap... I don't keep up with all the X-Men comics 😆
@falfires7 ай бұрын
I don't care for the X-men, or honestly comics at all that much, but I would absolutely watch another one of these.
@boxxie7 ай бұрын
Hilarious video! Haven't read a new X-Men comic in years but love the Red Carpet looks I've seen.
@marianpetera84367 ай бұрын
I had no idea I would be into gala fashion shows. Oh how silly I was!
@cathalredmond12657 ай бұрын
Love this video, especially how earnest it is 😂 more please ❤