Is X-Men ’97 Now ANOTHER Zombie Show?
The Superhero Show Show #531
Is X-Men ’97 Now ANOTHER Zombie Show?
The Taste Buds review this week’s X-Men ’97, plus the tenth chapter of Neogenic Nightmare on Spider-Man: The Animated Series!
On an all-new, all-different episode of The Superhero Show Show, Cassie and the Boyz are back, and they watched this week’s X-Men ’97, Tolerance is Extinction, Part 1! That’s right, we’re back to multi-part stories in true X-Men: The Animated Series fashion!
In this episode of the Superhero Show Show, the hosts discuss the possibility of not covering every single show based on a comic book. They also review the latest episode of X-Men 97, titled ‘Intolerance is Extinction, Part One,’ where Bastion’s plan to turn humans into mindless zombie sentinels with powers is revealed. The hosts praise the episode for its dramatic moments, action sequences, and creepy horror elements. They also highlight the meme-worthy line ‘Magneto was right’ and the transformation scenes. Overall, they find the episode to be thrilling and well-executed. In this part of the conversation, the hosts discuss the X-Men animated series and the specific episode they watched. They talk about the transformation of characters, fight scenes, and memorable moments. They also mention the importance of Wolverine’s character and his actions in the episode. The hosts share their favorite moments and discuss the overall excitement and hype of the show. In this final part of the conversation, the hosts discuss the events of the episode and highlight key moments. They talk about Morbius hunting for Peter Parker’s blood, the failed vampire trap, and the intense make-out session between Morbius and Felicia. They also discuss the New York City setting and the 90s vibes of the show. The hosts give out awards for best web zinger, best move or power, most 90s thing, and New York as a character. They end with a tiebreaker trivia question and announce the winner.
The episode opens with the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, receiving distressing reports of increasing anti-mutant sentiment across the globe. Mutant discrimination has reached alarming levels, fueled by fear and misinformation spread by anti-mutant organizations.
Meanwhile, in the heart of New York City, a series of mysterious attacks target mutants specifically. The assailants, armed with advanced technology and powered by a deep-seated hatred for mutants, leave destruction and chaos in their wake. As tensions escalate, the X-Men find themselves stretched thin trying to protect both mutants and humans alike.
Amidst the turmoil, Professor Xavier’s teachings of tolerance and coexistence are put to the ultimate test. Some mutants begin to question whether peaceful integration is still possible in a world increasingly hostile towards them. The rifts within mutant society deepen as differing ideologies clash, threatening to tear apart the very fabric of the X-Men’s unity.
As the episode unfolds, a sinister conspiracy begins to unravel, revealing a shadowy figure pulling the strings behind the anti-mutant attacks. The X-Men race against time to uncover the truth behind the orchestrated violence and prevent further bloodshed. However, they soon realize that their greatest enemy may not be a single adversary, but the pervasive prejudice and fear that pervades society.
With stakes higher than ever before, the X-Men must confront the harsh reality that in a world consumed by intolerance, the line between friend and foe becomes increasingly blurred. As alliances are tested and loyalties questioned, the mutants must band together like never before to combat the forces of hatred and bigotry threatening to engulf them all.
“Tolerance is Extinction, Part 1” sets the stage for an epic showdown between the X-Men and their most dangerous adversaries yet, exploring themes of prejudice, fear, and the enduring power of hope in the face of adversity.
Then the Taste Buds head to Spider-Man: The Animated Series to discuss chapter 10 of Neogenic Nightmare!
In the gripping tenth chapter of “Neogenic Nightmare,” Spider-Man faces his most daunting challenge yet as he grapples with the consequences of his genetic mutation. With his powers evolving beyond his control, Spider-Man must confront a new breed of adversaries while struggling to maintain his humanity.
Plot Summary:
As the episode begins, Peter Parker finds himself increasingly isolated as the neogenic mutation continues to wreak havoc on his body. His once familiar powers become unpredictable, leaving him vulnerable to unexpected dangers. Desperate for a solution, Peter seeks the guidance of Dr. Curt Connors, hoping that the renowned scientist can offer insights into his genetic condition.
Meanwhile, a sinister force lurks in the shadows, orchestrating a series of deadly attacks across the city. A mysterious figure known only as the “Mutant Mastermind” emerges as Spider-Man’s newest adversary, wielding a formidable arsenal of powers derived from genetic manipulation.
As Spider-Man struggles to contain the escalating chaos, he faces betrayal from an unexpected source. A longtime ally is revealed to have ties to the Mutant Mastermind, raising doubts about who can be trusted in this ever-shifting landscape of deception and danger.
Amidst the turmoil, Peter grapples with his own inner demons, questioning whether his existence as Spider-Man is worth the toll it takes on his personal life. With his relationships strained and his identity threatened, Peter must confront the reality that being a hero comes with sacrifices that may be too great to bear.
As the episode reaches its climax, Spider-Man faces off against the Mutant Mastermind in a thrilling showdown that will test his limits like never before. With the fate of the city hanging in the balance, Spider-Man must dig deep to harness the full extent of his powers and overcome the challenges that lie ahead.
“Neogenic Nightmare: Chapter 10” delivers pulse-pounding action, high-stakes drama, and a gripping exploration of identity and sacrifice in the life of the spectacular Spider-Man.
All of that, and so much more, on an all-new episode of The Superhero Show Show!
Watch out for these moments!
- The hosts consider the possibility of not covering every show based on a comic book
- The episode of X-Men 97, ‘Intolerance is Extinction, Part One,’ is praised for its dramatic moments, action sequences, and creepy horror elements
- The line ‘Magneto was right’ becomes a meme-worthy moment
- The transformation scenes in the episode are particularly memorable
- The hosts find the episode to be thrilling and well-executed The X-Men animated series is highly regarded and has memorable moments
- Wolverine’s character and actions are a highlight of the show
- The fight scenes and transformations in the episode are exciting
- The hosts express their enthusiasm and hype for the show Morbius is hunting for Peter Parker’s blood to complete his transformation into a vampire.
- The vampire trap fails to capture Morbius, leading to a confrontation between Spider-Man and Blade.
- The intense make-out session between Morbius and Felicia showcases the complicated relationships in the show.
- The New York City setting and 90s vibes add to the overall atmosphere of the episode.
- The hosts give out awards for best web zinger, best move or power, most 90s thing, and New York as a character.
Chapters
00:00 To Cover or Not to Cover
08:18 Review: X-Men 97 Episode ‘Intolerance is Extinction, Part One’
09:03 The Meme-Worthy Line: ‘Magneto was Right’
19:59 A Well-Executed Episode: The Superhero Show Show Recap
21:03 Introduction to the X-Men animated series
22:44 Memorable fight scenes and moments
23:28 The impact of Wolverine’s character
29:06 Discussion on Magneto’s role
39:04 Exploring the vampire machine-y thingy
42:39 Blade’s memorable line
43:26 Spider-Man’s interaction with Officer Lee
43:59 Morbius’ Quest for Peter Parker’s Blood
45:12 Failed Vampire Trap and Intense Make-Out Session
46:20 New York City and 90s Vibes
58:43 Awards: Best Web Zinger, Best Move or Power, Most 90s Thing, and New York as a Character
Transcript
On this week's episode of the Superhero Show Show, we'll find out if Professor X can get his fat
bald ass back to New York, if Blade and Spider -Man and Morbius can fall in love, and if Cassie
will finally come back to the show. All that and more on an all new episode of the Superhero
Show Show.
What's up nerds? Welcome to the superhero show show, the only show that covers every single
live action television show based on a comic book as well as some of the animated ones. My
name is Cassie and I will be your host for this episode. With me of course is Ryan.
Ryan (:Alright, Cassie, I don't want to do that anymore.
Cassie (:You don't want to do what anymore?
Ryan (:Let's not cover every show.
Cassie (:Oh, you're just like tapping out? Which show, which show put you over?
Ryan (:No, I mean, I'm going to be on the show. But like, if a show comes out that we don't want to
watch, what if we just didn't watch it?
Cassie (:I mean, can we accept this freedom into our life? Have we served enough time? Is the blood
contract free?
Ryan (:As long as it's just the two of us tonight, then yeah, I think we can.
Cassie (:Okay, but as soon as mic comes on is when we don't have to?
Ryan (:Oh, fuck! You said no Mike tonight!
Mike (he/him) (:Guys, hold on, hold on. I have a contract. The blood contract. I'm reading it.
Cassie (:I... Oh no. Oh no, oh no.
Easy. Easy.
Mike (he/him) (:The whole, for the whole last year, we've been able to watch only what we wanna watch. We
are no longer bloodily obligated to watch literally every show based on a comic book. Woo!
Cassie (:We've done it! Yeah, if you could tell us on that.
Ryan (:What are we bloodily obligated to do?
Mike (he/him) (:Record a bloody good show.
Ryan (:Ah, mate, innit?
Cassie (:Bloody good.
Mike (he/him) (:And I wanna make it clear, thanks for having me, Cassie. I wanna make it clear that this is not,
people are like, Reddit's gonna blow up over this, right? We're not gonna, this is not at the feet
of the Dead Boy Detectives. It just, they happen to be the last show we watch that we don't
wanna ever watch again. But there's been so many worse shows we've covered.
Ryan (:Yeah.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Hehehehe
Oh yeah, yeah for sure.
Ryan (:But have there been more mediocre shows? I disagree with Mike. I think that it is at the feet of
dead boy detectives.
Cassie (:It's kind of hard to argue with the facts of like you've done it for years and years until There is
like do I we need to settle this are we the ones who make the bracket to determine which show
put us over the edge and which was the worst of the worst that we had to cover all these years
or Do we leave it to the reddit?
Ryan (:Yeah, I mean...
Mike (he/him) (:Hahaha
Yes.
Ryan (:I mean, I mean, Reddit is insane and is probably going to end after what we just announced. So
it like though we broke the internet is what Wreck -It Ralph would say. But I do think that if we're
going to decide anything, it obviously needs a break.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah, it definitely needs a bracket and I'm going to prepare to break the internet. I'm balancing
champagne glasses on my ass from now on.
Cassie (:Obviously.
Yeah.
Ryan (:Hey, you listeners, you know that I don't like saying things like what I'm about to say anything
complimentary to my But motherfucker has an ass like he is the Kim Kardashian of boys. He
literally I think could do what he's saying
Cassie (:We've been waiting all these years. We were like, you know what? We cover all these shows.
That's the focus of this. But now the focus of this show is just that Mike has a major donk and it's
insane.
Mike (he/him) (:Thank you.
Ryan (:One time Mike was laying on the floor, face down, no, face up, sorry. And I was like, why is
Mike's penis look like that? Why is his penis look like such a giant, awesome ass? It turns out he
was laying face down. It was just his giant, awesome ass. It was not his penis at any point.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm We definitely knew why the setup was happening we're tracking it It's a bloody good
show Speaking of a bloody good show we got to get to it as we said we're not covering all the
shows But we will be covering spider -man the animated series because it's our beloved child
and we're deep in the neo Genesis chapters, so we can't
Mike (he/him) (:What a smoothly delivered story.
Ryan (:Has that bloodily agreed to? Do I have to tell good stories?
Mike (he/him) (:No, that's not in there, but it is a bloody good show.
Cassie (:We can't not do it. And then also, of course, we're going to go to X -Men 97. So let's go do that
right now.
And so we begin our final three part storyline of X -Men 97. Intolerance is Extinction, Part One.
We get to know more about Bastion's present, past, and future. And it sure is bleak. Knowing
that humans are on their way out, Bastion begins to give humans powers. What those humans
don't know is they actually become mindless zombie sentinels with powers. It will take
everything the X -Men have to stop this strange new threat. TastesBuds, I ask you this, was
Magneto right?
Ryan (:Cassie, let me tell you about a time from before you were born where there was this movie
called X -Men The Last Stand and this was right at the beginnings of meme culture and there
was a character in that movie called Juggernaut and he said, I'm the Juggernaut bitch because
that was a meme. It was so fucking awful and just made an already terrible movie worse. This,
however, as far as meme play goes, was spectacular. This episode knew.
Mike (he/him) (:Yessss
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Ryan (:that it was a thing online and played it perfectly. Yes.
Mike (he/him) (:taking the Magneto is Right, but it's such an interesting meme and maybe it was around before
this, but in the comics, Quentin Quire, aka Kid Omega, starts wearing a Magneto is Right shirt to
Charles Xavier's School of the Gifted, and then did it become the internet meme? And, okay.
Ryan (:Yes, that's what started the meme is that panel appeared everywhere. And then you get your
Thanos was right. What's his name? Zoolander from Black Panther? Killmonger was right.
Cassie (:Hmm.
Mike (he/him) (:Killmonger. Though, I love this fan theory. I've seen a lot of like, who should play him? I like
yours. It should be Derek
Zoolander trying to take over Wakanda. Just Blue stealing it up.
Cassie (:I'm glad you were able to get there because I got froze on ZooLander of just trying to think what
on earth.
Mike (he/him) (:I've had many a year speaking Ryan.
Cassie (:Yeah, it shows. You're acing it.
Mike (he/him) (:It's a lot of sound alike.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Ryan (:That's why Mike did bet most of my superhero show show contract on He just gambled it away
as my translator much like Shohei Otani did in a baseball reference. I'm making right now
Mike (he/him) (:I love it. You're my Shohei
Cassie (:We're so, we're well -rounded. Look at what reference can't we make here?
Mike (he/him) (:Okay, should we start a new spin -off podcast called the Superhero Shohei Shohei? And it's all
about what comics that guy might like.
Cassie (:Hahaha
Just guessing.
Ryan (:What he might, we'll do no research. We'll just presume.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:I imagine he's super into Saga.
Cassie (:Back to X -Men 97. So sorry to get you away from this brainstorming sesh here. But all I can say
is this show was popping off. Every once in a while I'll run into somebody and they're like, I don't
know, I don't want to test this new X -Men 97. Like, I hold my other one too precious. And I'm
like, you gotta go for it. They go over the top so dramatic in a way that's fucking beautiful. This
was like, it had a fast and furious moment. It had all the melodrama. Like this episode popped
off.
Ryan (:Morons.
Okay, so now that Cassie is fully in love with Cyclops because Cable's like, you have a Porsche
and he has that smirk and Cyclops is the best.
Cassie (:No, he he fucking ruined that moment. We'll get to it. But that shit it was going so good until
Cyclops opened his fucking bitch mouth.
Mike (he/him) (:Is it, let's show these toasters why you don't screw with the summers. Look, dads are gonna
dad, even cool dads. If we're talking about nerdy parent moments, it's when the three of them
are flying and Jean's like, come and use the seatbelt and she straps cable in with her telekinetic
powers. All right, mom.
Cassie (:Yeah, fucking instantly shattered.
And it's the fact that it's like a baby car seat He's seen so much more shit than them and it is like
a little baby car seat and she like straps a man is like young man use your seatbelt God
Ryan (:He... The motherfucker is 6 '9".
Mike (he/him) (:He's older than both of them combined right now.
Ryan (:Can I just say real quick before we get into the nitty -gritty that this episode was potentially
better than the Gambit episode? Because I think that a lot of people forget about the first half of
the Gambit episode, which was fine, and then had a last 10 minutes that was rocked me to my
core as if I was watching Sophie's Choice and Schindler's List all at the same time. This episode
from start to finish is just fucking moment after moment after moment. Like to think that we have
a time at the end of this segment that's called moment of the week, and we have to save it for
that as opposed to just...
screaming out parts where like Nightcrawler gets fucking thrown against a wall and then two
fencing swords fall in front of the camera. God, this episode was fucking dope.
Mike (he/him) (:It was so yeah on every level like there's dramatic moments the action hits there's funny
moments There's a great morph Wolverine moment at the start of the episode where cables
explaining what's happened and morph is like so another dystopian future where Logan's the
last one alive and Logan like Under his breath or kind of just you morph is like well sounds like a
utopia like you've watched most of your species just get murdered and you're still just like I can't
wait for all you to die
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Ryan (:Hell yeah. I'm going to drink so many cans of beer.
Cassie (:I thought you're gonna say cans of beans and I was like you would do it too both work
Mike (he/him) (:Cans of beans. I mixed the two together. Bean beer.
Ryan (:Let's roll that beautiful bean beer footage. Cassie, where do you even want to start? Like, what
do we do here?
Cassie (:I don't know. I feel like we need to explain what all is happening here. So we have, I've instantly
blanked on his name, Little Bastion. Is that the little cyborg boy?
Mike (he/him) (:Bastion.
The little cyborg baby boy whose flashback we get.
Ryan (:Yeah, which when the when last week when we met Bastion, I was like, OK, Bastion, I guess is
a kind of cool name. But if that's fucking short for Sebastian, you are the weakest villain in
history. And then his mom calls him Sebastian. His name is Sebastian, guys.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Is Seb a cooler nickname for Sebastian than Bastion?
Cassie (:Absolutely.
Ryan (:Here, how about this, don't be named Sebastian or any form of it. And if you -
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah. What are you, a Jamaican crab?
Cassie (:Fucking get him, Mike.
Ryan (:The little boy from the never ending story?
Cassie (:But yeah, we do have him, he's got this whole plan to basically like make the humans, I don't
know, fucking machines like him, but also.
Mike (he/him) (:Sentinel Prime is what they're calling them. Because Bastion basically, I know my role, I'll
interrupt to explain. Bastion is, and I think they sort of talk about it, but it's messier here actually
than somehow than it is in the comics. Bastion is Nimrod who we saw in the old show, which is
like the white and purple Sentinel from the future, and Master Mold slam together. And in this
version, they slam together, injected his dad.
Cassie (:Sentinel, Sentinel Prime, of course.
You
Mike (he/him) (:and then his dad fucked his mom to make him human. So he has me and my three dads is
basically Bastion.
Cassie (:Yeah.
What this version of X -Men never fails to do is make X -Men more horny than it ever was. Like
everything involves a little bit of fucking to get to the next plot point. Like everyone's a little bit
dressed a little bit sluttier, you get a magneto and a little thong tied up and like, and then we just
get like the next...
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Ha ha!
Ryan (:Oh wow.
Mike (he/him) (:Magneto is right.
Ryan (:I need it was tight is what I say.
Cassie (:But yeah, it's just like, however they move the plot forward, there's always something tied to the
past, and then they're like, but then they fuck, and that's how we get here, and I respect it so
much.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Ryan (:It is how we all got here. But I love the walkthrough. Dr. Valerie Cooper, right, gets the talking,
like the villain walkthrough with Bastion. And...
Mike (he/him) (:Mm -hmm.
And she was like the human UN rep at Genosha. And we find out she's alive and kidnapped.
Ryan (:Right. And she seems like this is the kind of this episode reminds me of all the things that we
think Trump's followers will do is just at one point here. So here enough where they're like, what
in the are you fucking kidding me? And then betray. But he does have to explain how this is
what's going to happen. Humans will be obsolete in, you know, 10 years, 20 years. And so we
need to fight back now. And she's like, I don't know if this guy is the best.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Mm -hmm.
Mike (he/him) (:It's also so funny to be like, no, we gotta be humans. We can't let those dirty mutants in us. So
let me inject you with stuff you don't know about. You don't know what it'll do, but it'll give you
powers. Also, you'll kind of, your neck snaps to turn those powers on. Like, how is this better for
the humans?
Cassie (:Yeah.
Ryan (:But I mean, I think it does a good job of being a dictator or whatever of like, they do think that
they're altruistic, you know? Like they do keep tricking themselves into thinking they're doing the
right thing, even though at a certain point everybody's like, no, that's the wrong thing though.
You're doing the wrong thing.
Mike (he/him) (:Yes.
Cassie (:We also have, so like you mentioned the next snap for them to like turn into these when they
like get ignited as the sentinels or whatever. Incredible sound effects. And this is also like, this
show also does like creepy horror so well when like, is it, it's Jean and Scott who are.
Ryan (:with incredible sound effects.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah!
It's our trio, Jean Scott and Cable somehow find Bastion's childhood home in their sweet
Porsche and meet his mom who is one of those freaks who doesn't turn lights on.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Yeah, just makes weird noises in the dark until somebody finds her and is like I knew you'd be
coming
Ryan (:and uh shows off all of sweet little bastions art and says this this one's my favorite it's called the
final dream and it shows everything that is going to happen when the sentinels take over that's
your favorite mom you didn't want to call a fucking therapist or something
Cassie (:Good artwork, but disturbing for sure.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Cassie (:But also she's a liar because she kept it hidden. It was like deep in a drawer and she was like,
look at my favorite piece. Let me dig for five minutes to find it real quick. And I was like, put it on
the fridge at least.
Ryan (:Yeah, that shit should have a magnet on the front of it.
Cassie (:And then all of a sudden like that's when she like snaps her neck and like every bone in her
body Hers was the most fucked up transformation out of all of them
Mike (he/him) (:Ha ha ha.
Because it was like slow and like every bone slowly. It was horrifying and I did not know. I knew
this show could do a lot. Did not know it could get under my skin the way it did here.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Ryan (:But it's a lot better if you guys watch it in the way that I did with Michael Jackson's Beat It behind
it while she's doing it. And she is actually an incredible dancer if you do it that way.
Mike (he/him) (:Ha ha ha ha!
Cassie (:How do you know when to start playing Beat It? How was the timing? You just instantly saw it
and you're like, let's go.
Ryan (:Yeah, well, I mean, I always have my finger on the play button for that song.
Cassie (:tracks.
Mike (he/him) (:Ryan is always beating it.
Cassie (:know this listener.
Ryan (:I also, like, I gotta say, as far as Bastion goes, I think that there's a lack of practicality. Like, I
don't think he put practicality as his focus as much as horrifying when he designed these things.
Like, they are specifically, like, the giant purple tongue that comes out, and if you're on the
ground, you can use your purple tongue to lift yourself up. You are, that's not, you're not doing
practical science here. You want to fucking scare people. Admit it, Bastion, you wanted to scare
people.
Cassie (:Mm. Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Cassie (:Why?
Mike (he/him) (:Mm -hmm.
You're already giving them the power of flight. Why do they need their purple tongue to rise up
into the air?
Cassie (:Are they gonna take out regular man are they getting the next evolution or not? I mean, what do
you want as the next evolution? I want a freaky fucked -up tongue Thank you, finally you've
recognized when I made a good point on here it feels good and it feels right that it was here on
this point But we do have
Mike (he/him) (:You're... Good point.
Cassie (:all of them transforming. And it should be, like I was so proud when they show us like how he's
transforming these people and it's of course dunking them in just some glowing green acid.
Gotta stay true to that.
Ryan (:Oh, yeah, dudes in tubes. Gotta have dudes in tubes. Including the guy with the... Again, this is
, right? This is not:magnificent mullets in the history of pop culture.
Mike (he/him) (:You gotta get the gear.
Cassie (:Um...
Yeah dude. Fucking flawless one. And the timing of this was perfect. So like we cut to Beast
who's with his little boo thing, his boo science lady reporter. I don't know.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
who brought him Coco to apologize for callously capturing genocide and being kind of an
asshole last episode.
Cassie (:Coco makes it all better, that's all you need. And she's, they pull up a little map thing and he's
like, I'm soon to find out how many of like have his DNA so we know how fucked we are
basically. And then we see grandma transform in the most fucked up way. And then we see this
map just light up as everyone like basically like half the earth transforms, yeah. And then they all
obviously start to go after all the X -Men and we just watch. Yes.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Millions? Yeah.
including Trish The Dish, the reporter.
Ryan (:At one point, Scott or Jean or Cable say like, holy shit, he transformed his whole town, his whole
little town. I thought that's what we were going to stop, is that like, okay, so he transformed all of
bumfuck Idaho or whatever into these zombies, but now I mean like Jubilee is at a mall and it
happens and she then swore off malls for, do you know what that means for Jubilee to swear off
malls?
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Mike (he/him) (:in Brazil?
Cassie (:Who knows, dude?
Ugh, not that chilly, baby. She can never. I was just so glad that she instantly, like, she got in a
fight with her boyfriend's mom and was like, take me to the mall. I've never been more proud of
Jubilee.
Mike (he/him) (:She said, you have a credit card and I have good fashion taste. We're going to the mall. And
then look, I don't, she looked good in that black cat suit. All right.
Ryan (:Okay, Mike, settle down, settle down, buddy.
Cassie (:No, no Listen everybody else this show is horny without a doubt, but shut it down You could talk
about Magneto again. Go back think about it shredded grandpa
Ryan (:Also -
She took the sunspot to the mall and said, you have to spend five Brazilian dollars on me. Five
Brazilian dollars. Do you know how much money that is? Because I don't.
Cassie (:Hehehe
Way too much.
Mike (he/him) (:too much.
Yeah, what's the exchange rate there?
Cassie (:This is when we see we have some good fight moments when everyone's basically trying to
survive as millions of sentinel human little things come after them. And we get Wolverine
protecting Rogue and then Nightcrawler shows up and this fight scene got me so hyped. It was
so rad.
Ryan (:I mean, just the line, oh, I have six reasons why you won't win, and then Nightcrawler appearing
with a sword in each hand and one on the tail saying, it is Werner Herzog fucking voice. I
believe you have nine reasons to believe that we will win.
Mike (he/him) (:And it, Ryan.
And that is after Wolverine gets launched into the air by one of the Sentinels and then is falling
and slicing his way through other Sentinels back to the mansion. It's fucking sick.
Cassie (:I've never seen like, you know, the old cartoon he would slash people and would just kind of
throw little marks but like we saw him like stab into people and I was like that seems more
gruesome than and then he just started obliterating people while falling.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Ryan (:And let's keep in mind that Wolverine does not know what's going on, therefore does not know if
there's a cure or not. Doesn't give a fuck. These people are dead.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:No.
I respect that though. Are these people trying to kill me right now? I'm not gonna be like, I
wonder if Hank could cook up a cure. No, they're trying to, he, and then he walks in them, these
creeps, these robot sentinel creeps are all staring at Rogue sleeping. That is not okay.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Ryan (:Yeah. And he protects that bed to the point where the entire mansion burns down, but he's still
walking around in the rubble with the bed. He's like, I got this. I got this bed. Also, Mike, not to
go to the moment of the week, but this is clearly it. I picked a different one. But have we ever
been through the middle of a Banff before?
Cassie (:You
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that was fucking sick because we're seeing it from Wolverine's point of view. He's just like,
Oh,
Ryan (:We like, yes, he's just, he's screaming like he's in one of those circle things they put astronauts
in to test like G force. And he's like, what the fuck? But yeah, we go, he, Nightcrawler grabs a
bad guy and Wolverine and goes through a bamf onto the roof. And like, it's, why wouldn't we
have seen that before? It was fucking amazing.
Cassie (:Hehehehehe
Mike (he/him) (:Yes!
Cassie (:You
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm Is so rad all of it. This is where it just started to get hyped We had a lot of cutting
tongues off watching them regrow and I was like, I don't know how you kill these things
Everybody is truly fucked But then we find out that Magneto was freed a little too late because
everything again fucked But he then goes off He doesn't have time to put on clothes. So sad
unfortunately when he goes off to the Arctic and he just like
Mike (he/him) (:Mmm.
Ryan (:Oh yeah.
Cassie (:I don't fully know, he does some comic book shit, shuts down like all power grid.
Mike (he/him) (:He it it reminds me because like all of this it's kind of remixing a few different things right like
there's different storylines and one of them this run me of actually ultimate universe the the bad
one uh and some of its like worst parts where that version of magneto who is evil and never
right reverses the polarity of the earth and this at least visually looked like that like he is fucking
shit up but i think he like turned himself into a giant emp electromagnetic pulse and like turned
off all power
of the entire world. They pushed him too far.
Cassie (:Yeah.
which is insane, but also at the same time, Omega Red wakes up from this?
Ryan (:Oh, we get a lot of cameos of people who are like, oh shit, I'm here. We didn't see anything of
planes falling out of the sky or all the damage that would actually happen. We just saw a bunch
of future storylines for season two.
Mike (he/him) (:It's -
No.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mm -hmm.
Mike (he/him) (:this is what people thought Y2K was gonna do is so it released all the prisoners because the
power went out.
Ryan (:Ha ha ha ha ha!
Cassie (:Alright.
And it is like we don't we haven't seen any aftermath we see it all shut down all the little human
Sentinel hybrids just fall and die. I believe there's just bodies all over the ground and the X -Men
are kind of just like hanging out at the Mansion in rumbles like trying to pick stuff up then And
then our boy Charles comes back home
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
And he calls four of his friends.
Cassie (:Yeah. He says, my X -Men come to me, and we see him reach out to four specifically, his
chosen four babies.
Ryan (:Well, I know, but like one.
But who gives a shit about the other three? That fourth one was Storm. So we're good. Storm is
coming home. But yeah, just incredible television. Absolutely incredible television for Wolverine
to say like, well, goddamn, I wish fucking Professor X was fucking here. And then for that rocket
to hit right where Wolverine is standing.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah, his weird bug helmet.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Ryan (:What if I what I was thinking is that he would take the bug helmet off and it was Professor X and
then he'd take that helmet off and it was Omega red He's like just kidding bitches and then kill
over it
Cassie (:But such a hype episode. Amazing. I can't wait for the rest. Let's go to moments of the week.
Ryan, do you have another one besides us seeing a Banff happen?
Mike (he/him) (:Hahahaha
Ryan (:I do, I have a couple. Sunspot runs in after all the shit happens and literally says, Mom, these
killer robots are trying to kill me. Which, that's the worst line of dialogue so far this season.
I do love how when they're driving the Porsche after Cyclops says, let's show these toasters
what summers are all about. He looks at Jean to take the wheel so he and cable can shoot. And
Jean does not scoot over three inches, but instead drives it with her telekinetic mind. Great job,
Jean. But the.
Cassie (:Fuck yeah she does. Baller.
Mike (he/him) (:boss.
Ryan (:The moment of the week is when there's a montage and everybody starts turning into sentinels,
but not everybody, because there's a family of five on the couch, three kids and two parents,
and the two parents turn into sentinels, and the look on the kids faces of, I'm sorry, what's
happening right now? Ah, fucking adorable.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Adorable is how I would say that as well. Mike, what do you got for my one of the week?
Mike (he/him) (:Nightcrawler with the three swords. The minute the two win and if you're like a, if you only know
Nightcrawler from the show, you'll probably think he's pretty cool. But if you know him from the
comics, you're like, oh, he's gonna use his swords. Cause he's such a swashbuckling, like he
basically wants to be Errol Flynn. He was like the original Robin Hood from the movies. Like
he's such a goof. That was great. The stupid one, but that I enjoyed is that we learned the,
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Evil villains all around the world use Zoom to talk to each other and Bastion is on Zoom with Dr.
Doom and Baron Zemo and Dr. Doom is like, bro, we did not say genocide. Look, we're all
villains here, but genocide? I'm not signed up for that.
Cassie (:I'm sorry.
In this one, it's like a big ol' thing, like somebody is doing like a whole monologue thing of like,
Magneto was the only one who knew all along that like, people can witness this huge genocide
and ultimately, the next, very next day not care. So that's when it's like leading up to like, yeah,
Magneto, shut it down, shit's fucked. He was basically right.
Mike (he/him) (:Mm -hmm.
Yeah.
Ryan (:Oh yeah, just like that.
Yeah, like, I mean, that's another way that it pointed to this world is that like things are only a big
deal for a limited amount of time. So watch mutants get wiped out and then have the next news
cycle happen. One more question before you go. I realized the X -Man that I relate to the most
is Cable. And I think it was proved in this episode where the ship is or the Blackbird is going
down and Jean Grey says, everyone, Cyclops Cable get to the back of the plane and Cable
says,
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Uh huh.
Ryan (:says, stop telling me what to do. And you clearly should get to the back of the plane, but still,
because someone acted like your mom, you're just like, you're a huffy bitch.
Cassie (:You
Mike (he/him) (:The amount, even though he's geriatric, he's in his 60s, the amount of like, you're not my mom,
Madeline is. Also, I never knew any of my parents, but Madeline's my mom. Shut up, Jean.
Cassie (:It's so good.
Ryan (:Well, Jean is his mom now, but it was Madeline Pryor.
Mike (he/him) (:points.
Cassie (:Get shut down. Yeah, just we've talked about all the moments, but I guess even at the beginning
when I'll say my moment because at the beginning we have Scott just being so dramatic of like I
sent my son off to the future to give him a better world and it was so bad he had to come back to
this one and I was like, yes Yes, this is so lit. Everything pops off on this You should absolutely
be watching it. It's on Disney Plus. I think it comes out Thursdays Wednesdays. It comes out a
day watch it
Mike (he/him) (:Hehehehehe
Cassie (:on Disney Plus. That is it for X -Men, but Mike, I did hear you've been working on a website. I
want to give you some time to talk about that website right now.
Ryan (:Wednesdays.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah. Thank you. Amazeballs .com is where you can go. And I know what you're thinking. Isn't
that phrase from like 15 years ago? This isn't to like, you like something, you describe it as
amazeballs. I think mazes are gonna come back in a big way and the giant metal balls to roll
down. Like, so we're basically mixing that wooden labyrinth game with real life human -sized
mazes. And this is where you can get all of your amazeballs that will...
crush people and make them run into hedges and stuff.
Cassie (:I'm honestly like.
Ryan (:Are these wood walls or plant walls?
Mike (he/him) (:Sometimes plant, sometimes look. Look, I'm selling the balls. You have to go somewhere
separate for your maze needs.
Cassie (:Is there gonna be like little traps in these mazes or you just don't care? You just can't you're only
supplying the ball and the ball can only
Mike (he/him) (:The balls are part of the traps. I mean, it's Amazeballs Emporium, right? But it's nen .com. But
yeah, so there will be other things. We sell the pits filled with sticks. We sell the treasure chests
that are actually monsters. We sell, you're sprinting, because one of my giant Amazeballs
almost crushed you, you're sprinting, and then you get sliced into like, you're cubed, because
thin razor wire. You ran through a grid of it. Did you guys ever see the movie, Cube? Doesn't
matter.
Ryan (:Oh, I hate those treasure chests, because you think you'll get gold.
Mike (he/him) (:Uh, so yeah, there's a lot of traps.
Ryan (:Now, you said Amazeballs Emporium. I'm kind of old school. I don't like shopping online. Are
you saying there's a brick and mortar store I can go to to find the stuff? Uh -huh.
Cassie (:Great.
Mike (he/him) (:There is. It's in Toledo. I don't know how close to Toledo, whatever state Toledo is in, you are,
but that is where we're based, yes?
Cassie (:I'm sorry.
Ryan (:Okay, so I can go there and then is am I safe to go into the store and shop like with a grocery
cart or is this Store also a fucking maze where I'm gonna run into traps
Mike (he/him) (:No, of course it is a store. We don't want to kill our customers. There is, it's kind of like a store
and activity. You can go into the back and we have several mazes set up, but it says in front of
the door, like kid friendly, kid deadly, adult friendly, adult deadly.
Ryan (:Now, I do have to ask that in the last year, labyrinthindustries .com opened up a brick and
mortar store right down the street from yours. Is that causing a problem or?
Mike (he/him) (:It's hurting us. It hurts when big corporations come in to steal from mom and pop like
Amazeballs Emporium. Oh, it really grinds my gears. Also, we do have gear grinding tools.
Ryan (:Uh huh.
Yeah, to grind. You want to grind those gears.
Cassie (:Of course, of course. Well, we can't stand for this as a small mom and pop shop, just doing the
Lord's workout here. You need to be seen. You need to take down the big guys. And I think you
can do that with a beautiful website. So I'm gonna send you over to my friends, cybersprout .net,
because they're gonna help you make that beautiful website. They got design experts and
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started. Cybersprout, you're part of our digital world. Let's go talk about Spider -Man.
Welcome to S. Tasmania, bitch. A mini show within a show where we take an in -depth episode
by episode look at the seminal and underrated afternoon cartoon of the mid -90s, Spider -Man
the Animated Series. This week, we're covering Neo Genesis Nightmare Chapter 10, the
immortal vampire, I believe. And we start this off, it's immediately, it is a continuation, and
Spidey and Blade are chasing down Morbius to get some type of vampire machine -y thing that
he has. It's got an insane term. I will refer to it as the vampire machine -y thing.
And Morbius is really struggling to keep up with Spider -Man as he goes throughout this town,
because again, he's on a motorcycle. Blade is, yes, sorry. My B.
Mike (he/him) (:Blade, Blade is struggling.
Ryan (:And somebody says like, oh, can he like, we're trying to be quiet. Can we shut that thing off?
That motorcycle? And I would just like to say, even if you're not trying to like hide or search for
vampires, shut the shut the motorcycle off. Make it less quiet or make it more quiet. We don't
want to hear your fucking bike. Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Turn the muffler up.
I like that like they know maybe this episode like they know kids are going to be out because
Spidey the beginning catches up on everything that's been happening for the last through this
journey of the vampire. She's like, people are going to have to doubt. Like there's a lot of like
him talking to himself and be like, Oh, this is all because this happened. I was like, show we are
on board. You do not need a recap. Let's motor.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Ryan (:We are down with neogenic nightmare. Like we have, we know all of the ins and outs.
Cassie (:Let's do it.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah. And just the vampire machiney thingy, it's called the neogenic recombinator, of course.
Because that's the nightmare which stems from.
Cassie (:Of course.
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Yes. Mm -hmm. Indeed.
Mike (he/him) (:Mm -hmm.
When they at a certain point they get tired or like they and Spidey's like wait I know where he's
going and instead of being like great but he's like how would you know? It's like fucking calm
down man so Spider -Man's like fine don't follow me then you dickhead.
Cassie (:Yeah.
The -
Ryan (:Don't you want Blade at one point just to be like, I'm so sorry, I have resting bitch voice, like
whatever I say just comes out like that, because that's how he talks to everyone.
Mike (he/him) (:Yes.
Cassie (:I come to the conclusion Blade was there like them trying to solve that everybody hates this
fucking Spider -Man and they're like wait somebody can be worse and it's Blade watch this guy
Make this man truly unbearable But yeah, they show up to the place they start getting in a fight
with Morbius and Blade obviously goes for the kill and spider -man's like whoa, whoa, whoa We
can't kill and this becomes a trend for the show throughout this whole episode
Mike (he/him) (:We won't make Spidey better.
Mm -hmm.
Ryan (:Is that is that why spider -man said we can't kill or because blade pulls out a crossbow and then
I thought spider -man was being like no Crossbows are the worst fucking weapon. They really
are guys like they don't do anything. They're hard to load. They're they're very hard to aim
Please just use a bow and arrow
Mike (he/him) (:Yes.
Yeah
Cassie (:You
Mike (he/him) (:That's what Spidey was saying. Just use a bow and arrow. The LT, who was an ally of Spidey,
but now is like hunting him. She barges into their fight and Morbius just chucks her. So they
have to save her. And then she has his gun, her gun, Spidey and Morbius just take off. And so
she's pointing her gun at Blade and he just whacks the gun straight out of her hand. And he's
just like, no, we're not doing this.
Cassie (:That's...
Ryan (:Yes.
Cassie (:Yeah, dude.
It's a truly insane thing. She sees him, tries to arrest him. He's like, fuck off. And there's instantly
this weird tension between the two of them. And you're just like, what would have drew you to
this man? This fucking guy who's just screaming and angry the whole time. I don't know. He's
handsome. But yeah. He does have a motorcycle. He's got a leather jacket with spikes. I mean,
who could resist? I get it.
Mike (he/him) (:Right.
Ryan (:He's handsome.
He has a motorcycle, Cassie!
Also, Blade says, I think, one of the greatest lines of this episode, and we need this term, we
need this award for only in comic book shows where somebody says something that you would
only hear on one of these shows, and we just take it for granted. Oh, that's a normal thing to
say, but it would only be said here. And Blade says, I should have known better than to team up
with you. Team up? They're on a team up. That's true, they're on a team up. But to put it that
way...
Mike (he/him) (:Team up, is that your?
Cassie (:Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
Ryan (:Do you know that you're in a comic book right now, Blade? Is that what you're saying?
Mike (he/him) (:And later he says, I'm tired of this teamwork garbage.
Cassie (:I'm sorry.
He gets it.
Ryan (:It's like everybody's nightmare stepchild blade.
Cassie (:While this is going on while he's basically Escaping being arrested spider -man went after
Morbius He does lose him pretty quickly though because he runs out of webbing like fucking
load up on this I don't know what's happening to this guy man. He's terrible as spider -man get
fired
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah
Ryan (:Don't tell me that you want it to be organically made. Do you want it to come from his body? Like
some sort of Toby Maguire fan? You're gonna run out of it at some point. That's what you want?
Cassie (:Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously. I don't think so. Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:No.
Ryan (:Ugh.
Cassie (:We wouldn't run into these issues. But then they like, he like goes and gets webbing. At some
point he takes that officer, Officer Lee or something like that and like just webs her up to the top
of a building to have a conversation with her. And he was like, you know what, let's go to your
office actually. Like, I don't know why he took her like that, but he did because it's Spider -Man, I
guess. And he's like, I have some things to tell you. There's vampires. This is what's up.
Mike (he/him) (:Ugh.
Mm -hmm.
And then he brings her to blade and whistlers like hideout, right? And they're like, what the fuck?
And he's like, nah, she's cool.
Cassie (:Yeah. No, no, no, no. This one's okay. They tell her about the little machine thing and
everything. And at this point, I think Morbius goes to find like some extra blood or something
that he knows Peter has. So he goes to the Daily Bugle.
Mike (he/him) (:It's it's so how he became vampire was he stole when they were just measly college students.
He stole part of Parker's blood or like spilled into his experiment and helped turn him in. So it
was Spider -Man's like mutagenic blood that helped this happen and Morbius is starting to put it
together. So now he's just like, well, I need Peter Parker's blood. And so he's hunting in his
locker or at the Daily Bugle. Yeah.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Mm -hmm.
Ryan (:Where do you store your blood?
Cassie (:where you store the first place you would go to. But this is convenient because Jameson was
complaining about Peter Parker, how he's not doing his job, he's not getting him photos. So he
then also, he gets attacked by Morbius, sort of. And Morbius is like, I need Peter Parker. And
he's like, I haven't seen him. So Morbius then calls Peter into his office and is like, hey, two
issues equally important. This dude attacked me and asked for you. And also I have no photos
of Spider -Man.
Mike (he/him) (:Hahaha
Cassie (:So what the fuck are we doing here? I wanna fire you. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, be
cool. I'm about to get you a picture of a vampire. And he's like, the photo of the century, AKA a
photo of a vampire, which he already seen, he just saw it, but the photo of this will be amazing.
Mike (he/him) (:The photo of the century, he promises.
Ryan (:Are cameras not like mirrors? Can you take pictures of vampires?
Mike (he/him) (:Well, he's also the living vampire, so probably.
Ryan (:Ah.
Cassie (:You forgot about one key thing, Ryan. You fucking idiot. And he's like, Jameson is like, yeah,
you got 24 hours. And Peter immediately counters the software and he's like, you got it 24
hours, but I need this shitty news van. It's so important to me, I need it. And we later find out
that's because he needs it to set up a trap because the big old machine.
Mike (he/him) (:You fucking moron. Here's what you forgot about.
It's a different machine. What?
Ryan (:And where did he learn that? Where did he learn that he needs a van? It's Frank Castle. Frank
Castle had this van that would do anything. So he's like, oh, I think every van will do everything.
And so I need a fucking van.
Mike (he/him) (:where? Real probably, yes. And Spidey's like, Hey,
cause Whistler had made a vampire trap gun and showed it to him and Spidey even made fun
of Blade. He's like, we're going to put that on your motorcycle, your stupid fucking little
motorcycle. And Blade was so angry about it. He just, he said that and Blade just went, Hey, like
legit. And I quote. And so he needs the van to take the vampire trapping gun.
Cassie (:Yeah.
You stupid loud motorcycle.
I mean
Mike (he/him) (:Jesus Christ.
Cassie (:It's flawless, it's a flawless show.
Mike (he/him) (:And then Peter shows up as Peter Parker to blades and They're all angry and the tell else he's
like no no, it's cool. You know spider -man blades like no spider -man does not make you cool
Cassie (:Uh -huh.
Ryan (:That, okay, I lied. That's the line of the episode. Knowing, okay, number one, doing drugs does
not make you cool. Second on that list, knowing Spider -Man does not make you cool.
Cassie (:We also have one point.
Ryan (:Blade is such a fucking bitch, sorry.
Cassie (:I don't know if it's here. It might be here. There's one point where Peter shows up to a house
and Mary Jane is there. And Mary Jane just starts getting into him like, you're terrible, you never
show up to anything, you're a little bitch. And then he's sensing danger because Morbius is
there. So he's like, how do I get rid of her? I'm gonna call her an ugly cow that I've never even
liked in my life. And I'm like, okay.
Mike (he/him) (:us win
Ryan (:There are so many other strategies here at Pete's.
Mike (he/him) (:She's trying to break up to him and he's just like, uh -huh, uh -huh, while looking so angry and
shifty looking all around because the sputter senses. And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is
Felicia. You're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cassie (:You
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's way better than you, fuck off. And then this comes to bite him in the ass
because he's then like, you know, he's got this whole mission going on. Morbius, oh no, that's
later because Morbius has a gun at this point.
Mike (he/him) (:Fuck off!
Well, yeah, here they, Morbius does show up after MJ leaves and they do the gun zappy thing,
but he doesn't stay trapped. The vampire gun did not work. And then, so Morbius is like, who's
that old bitch? I'm taking her and flies into the sky with Aunt May who faints right away.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Even.
Ryan (:Well, I mean, okay, let's... Honestly, Pete, if you want to make your life easier, he goes home to
get his webbing and Aunt May is just sitting on the couch sad. Like, that is what she's doing.
That's on her to -do list. I'm just sitting here sad. And then Morbius takes her away. What if Pete
was just like, I don't give a fuck? Like, drop her from the sky.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Cassie (:Ha!
Mike (he/him) (:He at this point doesn't he live with Harry or is he still living at home?
Ryan (:Oh, I thought he was living at home. If he's living with Harry, then fireworks are about to fly. But
we'll get to that later.
Mike (he/him) (:Maybe they're best friends, not roommates. I'm also started reading the comics again. So, but
my Spider -Man, what's going on is a little blended right now, but he's like, that's my best friend.
I don't know if we've seen these two interact in the fucking cartoon.
Cassie (:You
I could tell you I had no idea who it was, I just thought it was a 50 year old man because that
hairline started at the back of his head. It was insane. It was insane.
Mike (he/him) (:Look, some guys start going bald early, okay?
Ryan (:Look, if you've got, if you have lines across your head all the way over, then it doesn't matter
what your hairline looks like because you have those sweet lines. So you're handsome.
Cassie (:Uh huh.
You look so cool You're so handsome But yes at this first trap it doesn't work He takes Aunt May
and he's like I now have this old lady who you seem to care about for reasons unknown And I
will take her with me meet me with blood which is what I need at this place so they have that
whole thing and Peter's like
Mike (he/him) (:I'm sorry.
Cassie (:Okay, cool, I know how to get this. He's obviously gonna use this ray thing to turn Felicia?
Felicia into a vampire so they can fuck. I can only assume is his whole plan. And he's like, I
know this is what he's gonna do.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Felicia.
Ryan (:This show's horny like X -Men 97.
Cassie (:Sorry, when you watch X -Men and then follow it to Spider -Man, you gotta bring a little bit of the
X -Men energy over to it.
Ryan (:Wait, hold on. Morbius took Aunt May and then it cuts out commercial. Do you think they made
out in that?
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah, they made out so hard. But not before the LT looks bummed that they let this old innocent
get taken. And she doesn't even say anything. She just like is staring off kind of sad and Blade
is like, don't feel bad about her. This is war. And sometimes innocents get sacrificed. One, I
don't think that's how war works. I don't think people are just cool with that. There's the Geneva
Conventions, man. And then they end up kissing. That romantic tirade turns into them kissing.
Ryan (:I do I think that did we have to you do we have an award for gasp of the week when we were
doing the original X Monday I Fucking screamed out loud when she kissed like you are a
professional woman in the 90s Doing your job, and you are gonna kiss this fucking Disgusting
stepchild like that's insane
Cassie (:When we were doing the original, we were doing X -Men, we did.
Mike (he/him) (:We probably should.
shocked.
Cassie (:It escalates so quickly too. Like he's like, don't worry about it. Back turned up against the thing,
like dismantling a gun. And she instantly just starts putting her hands like around his waist and
his shoulders and is like, that's not how things work. And like, and then they just start making
out. I was like, what the fuck? And then Spider -Man comes in and he's like, oh, so you guys got
time to bone down while my grandma is literally about to be turned into a vampire? Cool. Fuck
you guys.
Mike (he/him) (:Ha ha ha ha!
Not only not only He yeah, he's like grand he's so mad he doesn't even At the same time so he
went to stalk Felicia right while they're making out He's stating that stock staking out at Felicia's
and he sees Harry and MJ coming at the same building and he's like What the fuck? How could
they do this to me, bro? You were dick, but also poor Harry and his poor hairline
Ryan (:And he knows it's his aunt, but he thinks saying grandma makes it more serious.
Cassie (:Yeah
Heheheheh
Ryan (:You did this to you.
Mike (he/him) (:He says to MJ, I've been asking you out for a month. Why did you finally say yes? And she's
like, cause you're so great. Not because I'm hurt and I'm using you to get back at your friend.
Ryan (:That was her entire quote. She said all of that.
Cassie (:so much. But yeah, so after that, that was his breaking point, seeing these two about to bone
down while so much is going wrong in his life. And he's like, you know what? We're not even a
team anymore. You fucking suck. Let's go after this gun separately. We both know where it is,
but we're going to do this separately, not as a team. So they split ways, end up at the same
place together because why not?
Mike (he/him) (:Yep. Shocking.
Cassie (:But Morbius knows they're coming because Blade and Lieutenant Lee, I'm gonna say, show up
and she falls through the wooden boardwalk thing leading up to it, which was a trap he had set
for, of course, the creaky old wood, degraded wood was the perfect trap. So he captures them
or something, I don't know. It starts to have this whole little fight thing.
The most important part here is like everything keeps getting settled until Spider -Man fucks it
up.
Mike (he/him) (:There's -
Well, I it's not fucked it up. It's that Spider -Man knew Michael Morbius and says, let's save him.
So Blade keeps trying to kill him. And instead of being able to like save the day, Spider -Man
then has to fight Blade to stop him from killing Morbius. And then Morbius gets away to do
things like unleash a stack of giant metal pipes on all of them.
Cassie (:You
Mm -hmm.
Yeah.
Ryan (:Wait, Michael Morbius? Michael Morbius? If you were like a conservative and you didn't think
that Fahrenheit 911 or 9 -11 was a truthful documentary, couldn't you have headlined your
review, Michael Mor -B -S? Guys, couldn't we have done that? Let's talk about... Yes.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Yes, yes you could have let's go back in time
Cassie (:Let's go back. This is so important. Mike, I'd like to counter this of Spider -Man doesn't fuck it up
because there's this whole moment when Morbius is gonna shoot Felicia with the ray to turn her
into a vampire. And she is like, he's like, this is how I can be with you. This is how we can be
together. And she's like, I don't love you anymore. You're a fucking monster now.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
She says, the man I loved wanted to stop a plague. Brother, you are a plague. That's cold,
Felicia. And he wails. He goes, I must get help.
Cassie (:Yeah.
Like this changes him as a human being, as a vampire. This rocks this man to his core. And he
is ready.
Ryan (:He grabs the camera, the camera that we're watching it, and he just shakes it, and he's like, I
must get help!
Cassie (:He is ready to like go sign up for the Peace Corps until Spider -Man opens up the roof and like
fucking turns on the machine and starts like The machine is heading towards her. So Morbius
has to jump in front of it and he turns into a full bat because Yeah, it was set to it was set to half
vamp. But when it hits already a half vamp that equals full vamp simple math
Ryan (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
Double Vampire.
Ryan (:This, I just want to let the listeners know, this episode was 20 or like 19 minutes long and all of
this shit fucking happened.
Mike (he/him) (:of this happened. And he basically he like he becomes man bat from Batman. That is exactly
what he looks like.
Cassie (:Hahahaha
Ryan (:Yes, this is... Marvel has a reputation for ripping off DC characters. This might be the most
egregious. This is just me.
Cassie (:It's just man bat and he basically he like Captures blade and Spidey at the same time as this
gun is still going off. It's leading towards aunt May who has still been drugged So spider -man
has to break free from his little bat talons and go save aunt May and he does and Morbius just
like flies off The blade and officer have to have a little goodbye moment
which is also a wild -ass moment between the two of them. Out of all the things, she's like, this
is a mysterious man.
Ryan (:Can we talk real quick?
Mike (he/him) (:It's because she asks him out for a movie. It's probably like three in the morning. And he says,
he says, no.
Ryan (:Yeah. And at this point, it's probably Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And he's like, I just can't. Can we
think the ultimate point of neogenic nightmare, which it didn't occur to me to this. I was thinking
about Mary Jane and Felicia and Craven's doctor girlfriend. And now the lieutenant. Is it just that
men are fucking literal monsters and you will fall in love with them anyway? Is that the whole
point of all of this?
Mike (he/him) (:Yes. Yes. They all smell and none of them treat you kindly, but gosh darn it, you're going to keep
going for them.
Cassie (:Yeah. Yeah.
You just can't resist it.
Mike (he/him) (:Because Blade, even as he turns down the movie date, he says, forget everything about me,
accept this, and then goes to kiss her again. Fuck you, Blade.
Cassie (:And he then rides off on his fucking motorcycle and she's like leave it up to me the one man I
could have loved
Ryan (:Of course I would fall in love with a vampire. Like, this is a line from Meg Ryan in the late 80s.
Of course I would fall in love with a vampire.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah! Yeah!
Cassie (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:You met him that night and kissed him twice and you're saying fall in love LT get some rest
Cassie (:Yeah. She was ready to move in with this man, not knowing credit score nothing. Like, she was
fully committed to this man. But he had...
Ryan (:I just think when like going out with a vampire, like in this story, I think as far as like vampire love
goes, the stakes were too high. They were above his head and you want to put the stakes right
at the heart.
Mike (he/him) (:Oh.
Cassie (:Yeah, yeah, I feel you felt too proud of yourself saying that line. I felt it. I fucking felt it.
Ryan (:What? I was embarrassed as soon as I opened my mouth. There was no pride there.
Mike (he/him) (:Sometimes you gotta think about saying thought.
Ryan (:Like that's never gonna happen buddy.
Cassie (:This is basically the end of the episode Morbius, we see him just like fly off to a cave by the
beach to take a little nappy nap where he dreams about Felicia and that is fucking where the
episode ends.
Mike (he/him) (:And but also Aunt May, Aunt May wakes up and says, I had the most horrible dream. Like, Lady,
you woke you were awake, walked outside and fainted. She early onset dementia like.
Ryan (:He becomes Ariel.
Cassie (:You
Yeah.
These are the signs.
Ryan (:Yeah, no, but how many people who have dementia actually just have nephews that are
superheroes? And she thinks all this shit is true or like, oh, this was all in my mind. No, it was
actually, you're fine. Your mind is fine. This all happened, lady.
Cassie (:Our fucking assholes.
Mike (he/him) (:Hahaha!
Cassie (:That is the end of the episode though, so it's now time to move on to awards I will be Just
judging you guys because like the good host I forgot to write answers to these because I'm so
good at my job So between you two studious boys, let's see who is the ultimate spider -man
boy. I'm gonna start with best web zinger Ryan. What do you got for it?
Ryan (:Sure.
Um, I, this is a special web singer for me because, um, Peter at one point shouts to Morbius, uh,
why don't you go back to that cave you flew out of? And that feels as racist as to me, as he was
to the mutants. And very recently, like this guy, he just hates other comic book or like
supernatural people. Like I do think he's a bit of a racist.
Cassie (:He does have that vibe, for sure. Mike?
Ryan (:Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:And because he's like that, that leads up to mine, which we've already said is, the LT saying, he
knows Spider -Man, he's cool, and Blade saying, knowing Spider -Man does not make you cool,
is my webzinger.
Cassie (:You know what? I'm gonna give it to Mike, because it's just, how could you not? It's such a good
line. And he's right.
Ryan (:Which we wholeheartedly disagree with, right?
Mike (he/him) (:No, Spider -Man makes you pretty cool.
Ryan (:Yes, that is cool.
Cassie (:Unless it is this one. This one do suck. I will give Mike two points for that one. Let's move to
Kung Fu Grip or Best Mover Power. Mike, what do you got for it?
Mike (he/him) (:That is cool.
Ryan (:Yeah, this one's the worst.
Mike (he/him) (:The now Man -Bat Morbius grabs Spidey with his legs in the way that Spider -Man cannot get
out and flies in the sky. It is a pretty boss wrestling move in the air.
Cassie (:He quickly adapts to having these fucked up talon feet thing and he's like I know what to do with
these I know just what to do Ryan what do you got?
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah.
instantly.
Ryan (:Do you guys, before I get there, do you guys think that we're watching the best interpretation in
the history of cinema or TV of the X -Men while we're watching the worst of Spider -Man at the
exact same time? That's crazy. My action move is, we talked about it earlier, but Morbius listens
to Felicia and he's like, perhaps you're right. I will, and then gets interrupted from a jump kick
from Spider -Man. He's like, fuck all this.
Mike (he/him) (:Yes.
Cassie (:Yeah. Yeah.
Mike (he/him) (:Hahaha!
Cassie (:So the mover power is to jump kick during dramatic moments. You know what? I'm gonna give it
to Ruin Everything because I relate to that power. That sounds good. I'll give you three points for
that one. Most 90s thing. Ryan, what do you got for it?
Ryan (:just to ruin everything.
Mike (he/him) (:Yeah
Ryan (:Well, the thing is that there was a somebody made a reference. Why was that refugee from an
Anne Rice novel looking at you? Because you know what the 90s were like. We were just
saying we were referencing Anne Rice novels at a constant rate.
Mike (he/him) (:Look, Interview with the Vampire came out a couple years before this. It was still all the rage. It's
J. Jonah Jameson says it to Peter about Morbius, and that is mine as well. That is so fucking
90s.
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Well, it can be undisputed that if you both have it, I'll give you guys both two points for this one
then. Congrats, teamwork guys.
Ryan (:It was basically like saying if J. Jonah Jameson was like, uh, uh, what are you Angelina Jolie
from the movie hackers? Like it was so period. Perfect.
Mike (he/him) (:Hahaha!
Cassie (:Let's go to New York is a character Mike what do you got for it?
Mike (he/him) (:This one's a little different than my normal New Yorker as a character, but to me, do you know
what screams New York is a put together professional competent woman is falling for this stinky,
angry, leather clad douche bag and cannot see how much worse than her he is. That is New
York as a fuck.
Ryan (:I'm so sorry, Mike, you lived in New York. Which one of those two characters that you just
described were you when you lived in New York?
Cassie (:Hahaha
you
Mike (he/him) (:I had my moments of both Ryan
Cassie (:You've got to test both one it while you're there see which one fits better Ryan, what do you got?
Ryan (:This is everything I know about New York in this one shot where there's a traffic jam because
superheroing or whatever and Not only are they pissed and leaning on their horns? But the
drivers get out of their car and looked enraged like you're just that's the constant state of driving
in New York
Cassie (:Mm -hmm.
Mike (he/him) (:Haha
Cassie (:That does seem very New York. It seems accurate to what I've seen on the movies. But again,
Mike's lived there and I feel like he knows better. I'm gonna say it's following for Stinky Boy. So...
Ryan (:Oh cool, an award where Mike always gets the point. That's awesome.
Mike (he/him) (:Ha ha ha!
Cassie (:I just, I can't deny it. He has the proof.
Ryan (:Oh shit, did I tell you guys I lived in New York for like 30 years? Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Cassie (:Shit oh shit That is crazy the two points are still gonna go to Mike on this one though So sorry
Ryan, but I respect your 30 years that you've done over there, and I'll take note of it for the
future Let's see if you can make up those points with this last bonus one Cassie compliment
Ryan. What do you got?
Mike (he/him) (:Oh what?
Ryan (:I figured, I figured.
There's a part in this show where I believe that it's Felicia is very scared about the person that
Michael Morbius has become. And she's just saying like, you created this disease. And every
time that we say to Cassie, we're scared of the disease that you created. Cassie will say, yes,
but we will be immortal. And that is true about this podcast. We will live on forever because of
what Cassie has created.
Cassie (:It'll never die, that's right. Mike, your turn to compliment me.
Mike (he/him) (:Based on the show.
Cassie (:Or general, um, this is a loosey goosey one if you would like but yeah on the show
Mike (he/him) (:I do like a few weeks ago you said I'm tired of this teamwork garbage and you left and I'm very
glad to see that you came back after screaming I must get help and so it's good to have you
back. Does that count? I still don't understand this award.
Cassie (:Uh -huh.
Yeah.
I count. It's up to how you feel. And I feel like you guys both interpreted this perfectly this week.
I'm going to give you both three points for it. Let me do some math real quick, which is my
strong point, if I could compliment myself. Nope, I see it right here and now. And I've somehow
made it where you guys have tied. And that's just how the math be, you guys. You both got...
Mike (he/him) (:Should we talk while you do math or what's?
Ryan (:Ugh.
Trivia question, Cassie trivia question, tiebreaker.
Mike (he/him) (:Math isn't math -ing.
Cassie (:Cassie trivia question, does that mean I have to come up with a question about myself? What is
my name? Yeah, two points to Ryan, because he knew my name. Ryan is the winner, he's the
Spider -Man boy this week. Congrats to Ryan.
Ryan (:Yes, right now.
Mike (he/him) (:Yes.
Ryan (:Ryan, Cassie.
Mike (he/him) (:Ryan, I've been thinking this was Caitlin the whole time. What?
Cassie (:Yeah
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Cassie (:hahahaha
Thank you so much. Mike, we didn't cover every show that came out because we are freed from
this blood contract. Do you know another show that is talking about the shows that we missed?
Mike (he/him) (:Yes.
I do, if you're like, gosh darn it, I need to hear about Dead Boy Detectives. All right, freak, I got
you covered. This show is great and these guys are awesome. If you're a long time listener,
you've heard them on our show a few years back. That is the Jenset TV Podcast Industries.
One of their many, many shows they're doing is Dead Boy Detectives. So look it for TV podcast
industries wherever you get your pods and you get all your Dead Boy Detective needs, you
weirdo.
Cassie (:You weirdo. It's not breaking them. They're strong. They will do it over there for you We also
have another show on the network Ryan. Can you tell the people bought that one?
Ryan (:middle of movie of the year's:the single greatest movie of:about Gremlin. And that's a movie you guys probably want to hear people talk about. We're
ate, review movie of the year:our guest that we recorded with today.
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