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In which the Twisted Sisters are vanquished by water; there is no way to make Stryfe cool; and the X-Men fight a hurricane.
X-PLAINED:
- Ego the Living Planet and his dysfunctional family
- X-Men #105-106
- Uncanny X-Men #386
- The Neo (more) (again)
- The state of Psylocke and Archangel’s relationship
- The Twisted Sisters
- Helix
- Coil
- Gyre
- Ringlet
- Torque
- Pelicans
- Bad decisions of past Jay and Miles
- A mysterious stranger
- Unrealized plans
- Mystique and Wolverine’s forgotten friendship
- Neo infrastructure
- Big Casino’s name
- An unlikely hybrid
- A surprisingly large femur
- The new Brotherhood
- Lee Forrester (again)
- Weather
- Fan history
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There’s a fan comic that has my favorite explanation for where Mystique got her skulls: they’re Smurf skulls–that she got from Smurfs that she killed.
Wait… you still like me? I haven’t migrated into “Oh not , not him again!” yet?
Neat! 😀
I think the Twisted Sisters are why you should never give a themed villain group a thesaurus.
I mean it can work with themes like the Serpent Society because you have literally hundreds of wildly different snakes to pick power-appropriate names from (Though Boomslange definitely cheated… an Australian throwing boomerangs is not enough to nick the name of a Sub-Saharan African snake whose name has an entirely different derivation… but I think I’m digressing here).
The Death-Throws leaned into the absurdity with their juggling based names, but the Twisted Sisters are just… a bunch of synonyms for a random word
Googling ZZ105 for a reminder of what the ?bot? looked like, and I’m quickly reminded that this is an us thing (you 2 and we fans) and not a general nerd thing. I get results for a rescue helicopter. Some water filter replacements. Some flooring. The paperwork required to distribute non-prescription drugs in Texas. And a keychain featuring a Japanese mascot. I’d rather make my own, thank you very much. Time to design a fake radio logo…