Today we talk about Amara Aquilla, known in X-Men circles as Magma, who has a... very weird introduction to the New Mutants, and a questionable dating history.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-New Mutants (1983)
-New Warriors (1990) #31
-Uncanny X-Men (1963) #423
-New Mutants (2003)
-X-Treme X-Men (2001) #34
-X-Men: The 198 (2006)
-Young X-Men (2008)
-New Mutants (2009)
-X-Necrosha (2009) #1
-X-Men: Gold (2017)
-House of X (2019) #6

-Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021)
-Marvel's Voices: Pride (2022)
-Marvel's Voices: Comunidades (2021)
-Batman (2016) #125
-Public Domain #1
-The Variants (2022)

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Today we're doing something a little different due to scheduling issues, please enjoy this patreon-bonus-episode-made-public in lieu of a new episode, we'll return to our regular schedule next week!

From Patreon:
We do a throwback movie review in honor of the Thor: Love and Thunder teaser trailer! We only get distracted a little.

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Today we talk about Samuel Guthrie, the New Mutant known as Cannonball, who is nigh indestructible when he's blastin', and has been on many X-teams and the Avengers, died a couple of times, came back, and became a Wife Guy.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) #4
-New Mutants (1983)
-X-Force (1991)
-Uncanny X-Men (1963) #323
-X-Men (1991) #48
-New X-Men (2001) #128
-X-Treme X-Men (2001) #24
-Uncanny X-Men (1963) #444
-X-Men (2004) #188
-Young X-Men (2008)
-Secret Invasion: X-Men (2008)
-Astonishing Tales (2009)
-New Mutants (2009)
-X-Men: Second Coming
-X-Men: Hellbound (2010)
-X-Men Legacy (2008) #260.1
-Wolverine and the X-Men (2011) #9
-Avengers (2012)
-Avengers World (2014)
-U.S.Avengers (2017)
-Avengers (2016) #675
-Uncanny X-Men (2018)
-Extermination (2018)
-X-Force (2018)
-New Mutants (2019)

-Marvel Voices: Pride (2022)
-House of X/Powers of X
-Strange Adventures (2020)
-Marvel's Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show!

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Today we talk about Warlock, a techno-organic alien who is technically a mutant because he doesn't want to kill his dad and he loves his friends.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-New Mutants (1983) #18
-New Mutants Special Edition (1985) #1/X-Men Annual (1970) #9
-X-Factor (1986) #62
-Uncanny X-Men (1963) #313
-Excalibur (1988) #77
-Nova (2007) #11
-Annihilation: Conquest (2007) #6
-New Mutants (2009) #6
-New Mutants: Dead Souls (2018)
-Uncanny X-Men (2018) #18
-House of X (2019)/Powers of X (2019)
-New Mutants (2019)
-Excalibur (2019) #14
-Inferno (2021) #3-4
-Legion of X (2022) #1

-DC Pride (2022)
-Multiversity: Teen Justice (2022) #1
-DC Pride: Tim Drake Special #1
-Poison Ivy (2022) #1
-Immortal X-Men (2022)
-Dark Crisis (2022) #1
-Midnight Suns announcement
-Love Unlimited preview

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Today we talk about Doug Ramsey, also known as Cypher, a character who went from doubting the usefulness of his powerset to being the literal voice of the sentient island that the vast majority of mutants live on.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-New Mutants (1983) #13
-Uncanny X-Men (1963) #313
-New Mutants (2009) #6
-X-Force (2008) #27
-All-New X-Factor (2014)
-Hunt for Wolverine: Weapon Lost (2018)
-House of X (2019)/Powers of X (2019)
-New Mutants (2019)
-Excalibur (2019) #14
-Sabretooth (2022) #1
-Inferno (2021) #3-4

-DC Pride (2022)

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Today we talk about Xi'an Coy Manh, sometimes written as Shan, and known in X-Men circles as Karma. She's telepathically controlled people (including Spider-Man), been telepathically controlled, joined, quit, and joined the New Mutants, and pretty recently she got to kiss a cute girl.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Marvel Team-Up (1972) #100
-The New Mutants Marvel Graphic Novel (1982)
-New Mutants (1983)
-New Mutants Special Edition (1985) #1
-Wolverine (1988) #4
-Wolverine (1988) #28)
-New Mutants: Truth or Death (1997)
-Mekanix (2001)
-New Mutants (2003)
-New Mutants (2009)
-Astonishing X-Men (2004) #48
-New Mutants: Dead Souls (2018)
-New Mutants (2019)
-War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men (2019)
-Marvel's Voices: Pride (2021)
-New Mutants (2019) #27 pride variant

-Pride Month Humble Bundle
-Marvel's Voices: Pride (2022)

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Today we talk about Rahne Sinclair, also known as Wolfsbane because her mutant powers make her have all the powers of a werewolf with none of the full moon conditions. She's full of Catholic Guilt and Queer Subtext but she's only one of those canonically (so far)!!

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The New Mutants Marvel Graphic Novel (1982)
-New Mutants (1983)
-X-Factor (1986) #72
-Excalibur (1998) #90
-New Mutants (2003)
-X-Factor (2005)
-X-Force (2008)
-X-Men: Blue (2017) #7
-Uncanny X-Men (2018) #12
-New Mutants (2019)

-CW Gotham Knights trailer
-Blue Beetle set photo

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Today we talk about Dani Moonstar, who is also known as Mirage in X-Men circles, who was in the New Mutants for a long time until she bonded with a flying horse and became a Valkyrie for a while.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The New Mutants Marvel Graphic Novel (1982)
-New Mutants (1983)
-X-Force (1991)
-New Mutants: Truth or Death (1997)
-New Mutants (2003)
-New X-Men (2004)
-New Mutants (2009)
-Fearless Defenders (2013)
-New Mutants (2019)
-War of the Realms: Uncanny X-Men (2019)
-King in Black: Return of the Valkyries (2021)
-Marvel's Voices: Heritage (2022) #1
-New Mutants movie

-She-Hulk trailer
-Eisner Award Nominations 2022
-Batman: The Knight (2021) #5 / the specific panels 1, 2

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Today we talk about Jade Nguyen, best known as Cheshire. She's a morally grey assassin who poisons people by scratching them and honestly we love her for it.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The New Teen Titans (1980) Annual #2
-Showcase '95 #8 (Arsenal story starts on page 20)
-The New Teen Titans (1984)
-Action Comics (1938) #618
-Deathstroke (1991) #19
-Birds of Prey: The Ravens (1998) #1
-Arsenal (1998)
-The Titans (1999)
-Birds of Prey (1999) #62
-Secret Six (2006)
-Secret Six (2008)
-Titans: Villains For Hire Special #1
-Titans (2008) #24
-Red Hood and the Outlaws (2011) #20
-Titans (2016) #20
-Catwoman (2018) #33
-DC Festival of Heroes (2021)
-Teen Titans (2003 cartoon) S5 E11: Calling All Titans
-Young Justice (cartoon) S1 E6: Infiltrator
-needlessly sexualized Jade

-Marvel Voices: Pride (2022) #1

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Today we talk about Bonnie King and her daughter Cissie King-Jones, who have both been forced to take up archery by their mothers and held the moniker Arrowette, though Green Arrow made Bonnie give up superheroics.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-hairpin arrow
-Impulse (1995) #28
-Young Justice (1998)
-Young Justice Secret Files (1998) #1
-Teen Titans (2003) #7
-Wonder Girl (2007)
-Young Justice (2019) #14

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