Fanwork Thursday: Unusual Sexuality, Phearsome Phoenix, and Advengers in Babysitting!

[auggie18]

Planet eating? Sun eating? Meh.

I still maintain that that mullet was the most evil thing the Phoenix was responsible for.

And speaking of the Phoenix, it's Janda time!



Wanda's dating history is a bit short on, how should I phrase this as to not piss anyone off, "typical dudes."

I'm still probably gonna piss off a whole bunch of Hawkeye fans. The girls are just goofing on Clint, everyone knows he's as manly as manly can be.




Adventures in Babysitting! That Movie! With Elizabeth Shue! From the 80s!

Honestly, it came out before I was born and I saw it once when I was a kid, but I felt like homaging something and here we are.


I'd like to see some superhero stories about babysitting, actually. There's enough super-powered kids for that to be necessary thing now. In Marvel anyway, DC just kills 'em or reboots them out of existence.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

Truly the 80s were a crazy time for everyone, even one of the most power cosmic forces of the universe. :D

[salinea]

Didn't Rachel have terrible terrible hair from before she ever was the Phoenix? I'm not sure it's really to blame here.

LOL on Wanda's sexual history.

The adventure in babysitting one is AWESOME

Marjorie Lui wrote it!

[crabby_lioness]

It was in X-23, and featured Laura babysitting Franklin and Valeria who wanted to see dinosaurs and sorta got lost. It was awesome-sauce!

Re: Marjorie Lui wrote it!

[sinesofinsanity]

One of my favourite "X-23 tries to interact with people like a normal human being" stories (although I'm always a fan of "X-23 kicks ass" stories)

[darkknightjrk]

"Let's just say I know a cosmic entity that REALLLY likes dick."

...Yup, that one flew over my head.

[auggie18]

The Phoenix. The cosmic entity Jean Grey is usually attached to. Its sexual preferences would influence hers, as they often share headspace.

[darkknightjrk]

And what does that have to do with dick?

[auggie18]

The Phoenix is into dudes. Dudes have dicks. In this particular off-shoot of continuity, Jean is not quite as into dudes as the Phoenix is. However, the Phoenix lives in her head, complicating Jean's sexuality with its dude-lust.

[darkknightjrk]

Ah. Okay. Joke explained then.

That does bring up questions. Does the Phoenix really have a set gender or sexual preference? What about on worlds and species where the genders are different? Maybe this is stuff that's explained, but my reading of X-Men during the 90s and such is woefully low.

[auggie18]

The Phoenix doesn't really seem to have a gender, outside of that awful First Foursaken storyline, in which it was female. (Not a misspelling. Stupid, stupid story.) Whom it's attracted to does seem to depend on the preferences of the host.

It did, however, sleep with Scott during the original DPS, when it didn't have a host.

[darkknightjrk]

...You know, now that you mention it, considering how they got around Jean coming back to life (in X-Factor, I think?), that does technically mean that Scott actually had sex with the Phoenix force disguised as Jean, doesn't it?

[md84]

Scott's always been psychic-catnip, and the Phoenix is basically a psionic entity. No surprise there.

There's just something about the guy that psychics like. Jean (Phoenix), Emma (White Queen), Elizabeth (Psylocke) have all been attracted to him. Some fans even theorize that Xavier made Scott team leader partially because of this.

[darkknightjrk]

Like I said in another entry today, Cyclops has a secondary mutation--repression. I'm thinking all those psychics find that a challenge to break. Emma more or less says as much when they were initially talking during Morrison's run.

[crabby_lioness]

Birdy does have a thing for redheads, though....

[darkknightjrk]

True--to my knowledge, before the Phoenix Five stuff, the only characters that the Phoenix took that weren't redheads was Emma Frost and Quentin Quire.

[auggie18]

And the Stepford Cuckoos. And Feron. And Giraud.

[darkknightjrk]

Okay, forgot the Cuckoos, never heard of the other two.

[auggie18]

Feron was one of the first Phoenix hosts. (He was in Excalibur.) Giraud was the Phoenix host from the future. Both black-haired dudes, now that I think about it.

[salinea]

do we know Quentin's natural hair color under the pink?

[auggie18]

Brown. Though it might have changed to pink naturally later, like a lot of other unnaturally hair colored mutants.

[darkknightjrk]

The issue where he's first introduced ends with him changing his hairstyle to what he eventually has for the rest of the run, and the next issue starts with him in the pink hair.

[darkknightjrk]

Yep--in New X-Men #134, where he's first introduced, he starts out with sandy-blonde hair.

[salinea]

ah, thanks.

[eyz]

Dat mullet :P

[blackruzsa]

Avengers in babysitting? :D I'd buy it.