X-Men Fans Imagine Life At Mutant School in Hilarious Tweets
While the life for the X-Men at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters has been brought to life numerous times over the years through comics, movies, cartoons, and video games, there’s always been the nagging question of what life is like for the average mutant in the famous school. Only a handful of comics have dealt with this issue, until that is, Twitter took up the challenge.
Several X-Men fans have taken to Twitter to imagine what life is like for an ordinary student. While the results aren’t exactly encouraging, they are extremely hilarious. The Twitterstorm kicked off with an explanation of why health issues don’t make for adequate defenses against the Master of Magnetism.
lrt here’s MY favorite x-men tumblr post pic.twitter.com/Hf1C6jPwjT
— maya lopez: a celebration of life ? (@gothmutant) February 15, 2021
Magneto has demonstrated an extraordinary amount of control over magnetism, extending as far as the microscopic level. This means, in addition to being able to control someone like Wolverine, who has metal bonded to his bones, he can also control people with the level of iron in their bloodstreams. This is even used to facilitate Magneto’s escape from a plastic prison in the film X2: X-Men United. However, as this Tweet shows, having an iron deficiency might not help one either, especially given all the other ways the Master of Magnetism can inflict harm.
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“imagine parents sending their child to Xavier’s school for gifted youngsters then going home and turning on the tv to watch the news and immediately see their child being thrown through a wall by juggernaut”— FYF Seech – #BLM (@SomniferousSee) February 16, 2021
While the X-Men are usually seen as mutant outlaws in the eyes of the media, the school itself is often times the last refuge parents have for their out-of-control teenagers struggling with hormones, puberty, and now mutant powers. While Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters offers a specialized program designed to help mutants learn to control their powers, it’s not exactly the most stable, or even the safest, as this Tweet imagines parents taking their kid to Xavier’s only to see him punched through a wall by the Juggernaut on the evening news. This is a strong possibility, as the Juggernaut actually flattened the X-Mansion in X-Men: The Animated Series.
my fav is deleted off twitter but was something like
“imagine parents sending their child to Xavier’s school for gifted youngsters then going home and turning on the tv to watch the news and immediately see their child being thrown through a wall by juggernaut”— FYF Seech – #BLM (@SomniferousSee) February 16, 2021
Lastly, while there is a multitude of mutant powers out there, they can’t all be Omega-level mutants like Jean Grey and Iceman. This Tweet imagines a mutant with the gift of hindsight, who realizes his mutant powers aren’t going to be that helpful – fittingly after the fact. Interestingly enough, there actually is a Marvel character named Hindsight Lad (or simply Hindsight) who first appeared in New Warriors Annual #3, and was actually created by Deadpool co-creator Fabian Nicieza. Unlike the character of the Tweet, however, Hindsight Lad doesn’t have any powers or abilities – but was offered membership on the New Warriors, and was last seen pushing wacky conspiracy theories about the superhuman community on the Internet.
— Jasper Willemen (@JasperWillemen) February 16, 2021
It should be noted in 2016 Marvel published X-Men: Worst X-Men Ever, a mini-series written by Say Anything frontman Max Bemis and illustrated by Michael Walsh and Ruth Redmond. The comic follows the misadventures of Bailey Hoskins, the eponymous worst X-Men ever, who has the power of “self-detonation”. Unlike Bailey’s DC Comics counterpart the Human Bomb, however, Bob has no regenerative abilities and can’t actually survive the detonation. As one might have guessed, it doesn’t end well for Bailey (though one has to wonder if he’d have had better luck on Krakoa, where death doesn’t seem to be an issue).
Overall, the Tweets offer a fun view of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. After all, a school taught by the X-Men would seem like an awesome education institution – until one considers how often the X-Men’s problem seems to follow them home. If these Tweets are any indication, though, it seems like everyday life at Xavier’s might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
Source: Twitter
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