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[brooms]

Professor X and Magneto doing their endless talking thing in Ultimate X-Men #33.









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Their convo gets a bit more heated - when does it not - and Charles has to remind Mags where they are -



And then he has to do some tinkering (bonus Steve Rogers bubble fyt):



Magneto/glasses otp.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

Magneto's "cancer" analogy doesn't quite work--if humanity is a cancer, then it wouldn't necessarily be eating at itself, it eats at other living matter. But then it wouldn't be the first time a xenophobe like Erik in takes like this or others in the X-verse would show off their marks from being hit with the stupid stick of intolerance.

Outside of this, the line about Magneto and Hulk exchanging Christmas cards tickles me pink. It's now my headcannon that all the super-villains do this.

[brooms]

but the whole line was "what kind of species celebrates attacks upon their own bodies?"

cancer interferes negatively with the functions of its own body. cancer is not a parasite.

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah, but he's comparing humans to cancer, but from what I understand, cancer doesn't interfere with cancer.

[brooms]

it leads the body they're part of to death. and when the body dies, so does the cancerous cells.

[darkknightjrk]

Okay, fair enough, it just felt like a slightly bungled analogy and I kinda doubt Millar really thought it out that thoroughly.

[brooms]

idk, a similar thought process is presented in the first matrix movie - http://youtu.be/-Na9-jV_OJI

but cancer is neater than a virus for what he's going for here, because viruses are hosted/external agents, while cancer is parts of the body being (deadly) glitchy and taking itself to the grave, très sad.

[krait]

I think what amused me was that cancerous cells attack the cells of their own body (his phrasing)... so in other words by his own metaphor Magneto just admitted to being human, for all his denials elsewhere!

[fifthie]

Silly Erik.

If you'd committed fraud you wouldn't be incarcerated at all!!

[krait]

Snerk! :D

Now I'm having wildly improbable White Collar crossover ficbunnies!

[fifthie]

Neal Caffrey, mutant ability:

HANDSOMENESS

[krait]

mutant ability: HANDSOMENESS

Haha, I'd believe it! *giggles*

Ficbunny says: What about glamour? In the magical sense, rather than the modern usage? He's able to charm and misdirect and refocus people scarily well when pulling off jobs; I can totally see an X-Man having that as an ability (appropriately hedged about with pseudoscience; instead of magic it's a form of projective empathy that affects people's beta waves, causing monofocus and suppressing critical thinking skills. There, that sounds handwave-y enough.)

[filthysize]

It's really uncanny how easily recognizable Mark Millar dialogue is, no matter what character is talking.

[darkknightjrk]

I can see that a little bit--but it really needs random and unnecessary pop culture name drops to be TRULY recognizable as Millar.

[mrstatham]

I disagree. That slight undercurrent of self-loathing and striving for kewlness is Millar's trademark, IMO, and it's here in force as it is in his other work. Granted, it's not quite as strong as it would be later, like in stuff like Kickass 2, where he doesn't seem to so much as bite the hand that feeds as shit all over it.

To me, if we were looking for contemporary pop culture references, that'd be Brian K Vaughan. But then.. His always made some kind of sense and were appropriate to the character.

[darkknightjrk]

You know, before you mentioned it, I probably wouldn't have remembered Vaughn doing stuff like that, probably because it fits rather well. With Millar, one of the first things I think of and see when I read through his Marvel Knights Spider-Man run is two guys talking about watching Legally Blonde 2 and raging against the rise of the DVD.

[omgwtflolbbqbye]

Also BKV's ones would actually sound a bit more natural and genuine.

Millar comes off like a parent trying to relate to his kids, but messes up the references or brings things up that have already passed their pop culture expiration date.

The Freddie Prinze Jr and Shannon Elizabeth gags/cameos in Ultimates are the ones that really stick out in my mind.

[brooms]

That slight undercurrent of self-loathing and striving for kewlness is Millar's trademark, IMO, and it's here in force

to be fair, the self-loathing vibe actually suits xavier/magneto interactions.

i'm not into millar's work or ultimate x-men, but i liked this scene.

[filthysize]

True, but I got it just from the awkward forced placement of "man" and "eh?" and the fact that he writes intelligent people to sound like posers. Like teenagers pretending to sound adult.

[fifthie]

It's like Greg Land's art but made of words.

[junipepper]

*snork*

[fifthie]

Thanks, I was pretty proud of that one.

[krait]

Magneto/glasses otp.

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN! *hearts* *sparkles*

"It's already been erased from the tapes" --- Charles, you amazing smug git, why do I love you so much? (Hint: it has a lot to do with how sexy you are. If Magneto can resist jumping your bones in that second panel, he clearly is superhuman!)

[brooms]

i think we are the only ones who like this, let me hug you.

[krait]

*glomps you* Hug away. Because clearly you are made of WIN. :D

Seriously Erik why are you not leaping on him? And Charles, the same question for you, because those GLASSES! Guh. Both these men are broken, how has nobody around them noticed yet?

[endis_ni]

YANA, my friends. YANA.

[big_daddy_d]

Magneto/glasses otp.

Ahh..Mags and I have something in common..we look damn good in glasses. *strikes a pose*

Who says having 4 eyes is a bad thing?

[arise]

ahahaha I love Charles at the end there. Not usually a massive Millar fan, but I really like this.

[atom_punk]

Xavier's looking a little "Spider Jerusalem"-esque there.

Is Magneto being drugged or under some kind of power inhibitor in this prison? Because I'm pretty sure that Magneto could produce a magnetic field intense enough to actually affect brain activity and potentially knock out the guards to escape. And the plastic cell over a bottomless pit probably won't stop someone who can fly.

Always interested in the little details that go on behind the scenes, like how specific supervillains need specific security measures to imprison

[brooms]

Is Magneto being drugged

4th scan. http://i43.tinypic.com/23hai2q.jpg

X: Hows the food?
M: Drugged, of course.