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LOOK AT HIM. ITS SO FUCKING COOL. AND THE FACT HE USED THREE SWORDS !? ONE WITH HIS TWIL !?

Kurt Wagner

X-Men '97

Season 1 Episode 8: Tolerance Is Extinction - Part 1

Ok, I gotta get something off my chest. PLEASE don't take this as a 'well actually' post, because it's not. I am just expressing how that particular scene in Episode 8 made me feel.

I've seen A LOT of people thirsting over the shots of Magneto in the last episode (for understandable reasons, all you need is eyes and good tastes). And hey, outside of the context, but also as a result of the intention behind the shot - a fetishized display - I'd be 'I see what you did and I appreciate what I see'. If anything, this is an indication that there had to have been queer people involved in the production of the show, because there is a fine line to walk here and queer creators know how to do that better than anyone else.

BUT I need to speak about the levels of discomfort those shots made me go through. Magneto is depicted as EXPOSED, disempowered, and humiliated in all those moments, and it's terrifying. It's like a punch to the gut each time we revisit his condition, but it's also meant to inflict guilt upon the viewer for well... enjoying the sight. He is shackled and collared, his prisoner number is on display, and he is crucified in front of screens! In front of watchers! In front of nations and in front of people that are turned on by a power dynamic that would see those that they fear or hate in chains.

I cannot express what power those moments hold. Once he is freed, his anger, his pain, his thirst for blood feel personal, feel well... justified. You see him sending the world to hell and you can't do anything but say 'good riddance'.

X-MEN ‘97 — Tolerance is Extinction Part 2 (S01E09)

I just wanted to show what I have so far for the Nightcrawler art I promised y’all.

I have so much I need to update here!!

(´∀｀*) but I promise I’ll get too it folks!

Things to do:

Finish Nightcrawler fan art

Review of X-Men 97 season finale

Review recent Magnus Protocol episode

Okay, three things- not too bad! We got this!!

I also got some OC art I wanna show y’all so stay tuned for that! Thanks for reading folks and have a silly lovely day!

~ <}:•)

WHERE DID THEY GO.

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Just marry the belle and be done! X-MEN ‘97 — Remember It (S01E05)

I don't want you guys to think Anas' anti-hero name comes out of nowhere, so I'll give a tiny explanation without spoiling it.

Polaris name comes from the brightest star in the sky/ the North Star, so her name will also be star related to give a nod to her sister/ soul sister (idk if they'll acknowledge that Polaris is also Magnetos daughter in the series).

I really wanna make a Kurt Wagner smut. I will for Tumblr x reader but I'm debating on it for my fanfic.

Cuz Kurt Wagner is canonically celibate, it just depends on which Earth you read. So I'm debating on writing the most toe curling, detailed and INTENSE makeout session (maybe even some oral) but no actual sex because bby boy took a vow.

Thoughts???

Wanda: so you don't check up on us, but you had a secret child you catered to and give her your last name?

Erik: I play favorites. You should know this.

>> Great... now I'm sad... This episode was mean! <<

ALL OF THIS. JUST ALL OF THIS. I swear it was because of how well Rebels handled Kanan’s death and how not at all The Bad Batch was dealing with Tech’s “death” that I thought for sure for sure that he was coming back in Season Three.

I mean, I’m still absolutely “no body, no death” and if it’s never touched again in canon, I’m assuming he’s still alive and in deep cover, having created himself an entire new Imperial identity, keeping them safe, because otherwise it makes zero sense that the Empire didn’t burn Pabu to cinders.

That is all.

So, here's what X-Men 97 did that TBB did not, for its main character death. Obviously, huge X-Men 97 and TBB spoilers.

The death happens at a pivotal moment story wise, but is NOT immediately abandoned for other plot.

Remy (Gambit) dies towards the end of an episode which is in and of itself a real jaw-dropper, much like Plan 99. Out of nowhere a safe haven for mutants is being glassed, and Remy sacrifices himself to put a stop to it, because he's a little crazy but also well aware of what he's capable of and knows it might be their only chance to save SOME of these people who are his fellow mutants. The episode ends with his lover, Rogue--who's finally decided she agrees with Remy on things and is going to choose him and the X-Men over an alternative--holding his lifeless body in her arms.

Tech, on the other hand, dies 1/3 into an episode and vanishes from sight. Our POV character here, Omega, is injured and doesn't witness most of the ensuing escape, so when she wakes up, she demands they go back for him, crying, and we see Wrecker cry and Hunter explain he didn't make it.

...and then the episode keeps going. They're betrayed. A villain tosses Tech's broken goggles at Hunter and threatens them. Omega is captured, the remaining members of the Batch barely escape. For almost twenty minutes of runtime AFTER Tech dies, the story keeps going and has NOTHING to do with him dying (save the dig about the goggles). His death gets maybe, at most, 2 entire minutes of focus between Omega and Wrecker's reactions, Hunter's when Hemlock gives him the goggles, and Echo looking at the empty pilot's chair. That's it; for the bulk of the episode Tech's death has next to ZERO involvement in the story. It's not the climax. it's just A Thing Which Happened, and that massively devalues it from a narrative viewpoint. No one stops for more than a single breath to react to it, thus we as the audience don't.

(If anyone is winding up with 'that's because they can't due to the everything', this is why it's NOT GOOD WRITING. If you want the death to matter to your viewers/audience then you need to MAKE the time for it in your story, somehow. This isn't real life, you DO in fact control the horizontal and the vertical when making your plot.)

In X-Men 97, the death is the immediate focus of the next episode and a character's entire arc of the ensuing episodes. In TBB, it's a footnote.

In the following X-Men 97 episode, Remy has a funeral which Rogue doesn't attend, not because she doesn't care but because she's off raging against the machines, trying to find those responsible and kill them. There's a gorgeous eulogy for Remy, some thinking back on who he was and what he meant to them, a friend angry at Rogue for not being with them. It's so good. We cut to Rogue, absolutely furious with grief and looking to take it out on, well, everyone. She winds up putting herself into a coma as a result.

Literally nothing like this happens for Tech. Nothing close. There's a several month timeskip in S3 eps 1-3 which negates any immediate mourning or revelations to people who wouldn't know (Crosshair, Phee, Shep and Lyana), and we see NONE of Wrecker, Hunter, OR Echo's processing. Just what we saw in Plan 99, which again, is almost nothing. For a main character who as of S2 had the third most screen time of any character.

In X-Men 97, Remy keeps coming up as someone to remind them of what they're fighting for, what he would want for them. Tech is a skillset and a pair of goggles.

Remy is the first thing on Rogue's mind when she wakes up from her coma. She's instantly grieving him all over again, and mentions him numerous times throughout the remaining episodes as someone who wouldn't want this for them, or would have hoped for that. He's a guide for her even though he's gone. The rest of the characters reflect on him off and on--not his skills or abilities, but who he was, his nature. Remy's death completely changes Rogue's behaviors, almost 180 degrees, as well.

Tech is mentioned for what he could do, not what he liked or didn't like, how he felt about things, save for once: when Phee reveals he told her all about Crosshair. This is the only time someone talks about him like people talk about Remy in X-Men 97, and it happens twelve episodes after he died.

No one's actual narrative course changes trajectory in the case of Tech's death either. No one is shown making different decisions based on his loss (just the lack of his skills), no one is bringing him up as a rallying call for themselves, nothing. He is excised from the show in terms of his emotional, character impact. The loss is of someone who can decrypt things or knows stuff, not of a beloved sibling.

Remy's presence remains throughout the rest of X-Men 97, despite him dying in episode 5 of 10. Tech vanishes and becomes an occasional reason they have to do something the hard way and a background prop.

If you want to know how to actually write a main character death and have it MATTER and make it good story telling, watch X-Men 97.

I really do hope Logan and Morph get together in season 2, onesided or not! If not, I just do what any good person in denial do, reads fanfics to numb the pain!

Gambit AMV tribute: "All of my life"(Spoilers for episode 5, "Remember it.")

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu0MnwsSuvs&ab_channel=AmyFay

Newest episode broke my heart: have a cathartic AMV on me, Gambit fans and shippers!

Do not go gentle into that night.

Rage,

Rage,

against the dying of the light.

GUYS ,,,, WHAT JUST HAPPENED