Entry 113 – Scarlet Witch

Name: Wanda Maximoff Code Names: Scarlet Witch First Appearance: X-Men #4 (Mar ’64) Powers: Hex magic Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood, The Avengers About With over 50 years of continuous universe building, Marvel Comics can take characters in pretty bonkers directions. As all progress eventually gets regressed to the mean, momentous events get recontextualized, retconned, or…

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Battle of the Atom: Episode 34 – Sticking With Goldballs

<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> This week on Battle of the Atom, Adam is back and so is our format! We talk about Princess Di joining X-Statix The X-Men mini-series that stars NPR personalities And how much we adore Goldballs Ranked this Episode: Back From The Dead (X-Statix #13-18) X-Treme…

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Entry 112 – Phoenix

Name: Jean Grey Code Names: Phoenix, Marvel Girl First Appearance: X-Men #1 (Sept ’63) Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor About Fans mock the idea of death in comics. To many, it feels irrelevant, temporary, a stopgap and not a real change. For media properties that have lasted decades and decades, there is a real…

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Entry 111 – Pixie

Name: Megan Gwyenn Code Names: Pixie First Appearance: New X-Men #5 (Nov ’04) Powers: Flight, hallucinogenic dust, soul dagger, teleportation spell Teams Affiliation: X-Men, The Lights About An important aspect of character design is the silhouette. You want the shape of your character to identify them before anything else. You can see how this works in practice…

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Battle of the Atom: Episode 31 – Nobody Get Rid Of Shogo with Christina Strain

Generation X may be over but Christian Strain is here with us to go over all the nitty gritty details of it. We talk about Jubilee, Glob, Quire, X-Man, and much more! Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy! Our theme…

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