why are they called the x-men
You know, your anxiety wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have to constantly follow you and stare you down for this.
More people have started locking their fics to be user only btw. Helps a little against AI and the bot comments.
chances are it’s a Doombot anyway
There’s a lore reason.
dump that lore on me
In universe they’re generally assumed to be named after Professor Xavier but the first in comic explanation is of course something silly along the lines of X for eXtra power.
Editorial didn’t want them titles just “Mutants” because not everyone would know what a mutant is. (1960s logic)
Additionally the gene that gives them their powers is known as the X gene
And no, Xavier didn’t name the gene. That was Mister Sinister. (Who’s real name is Nathaniel Essex… you know… Essex-gene → X-gene)
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Really kneecapping any future redemption arcs with that name.
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his VA could read me the phone book though
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i’m hoping it’s an ironic nickname like calling someone really short “big man”
Mr Sinister knew Josef Mengele personally [who says he ‘could have been so much more’], so probably not
is he a bronze dragon
Mr. Sinister: In every timeline but this one…
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He was born in the 1800s, and learned how to splice mutant DNA and develop shapeshifting, cloning and other powers. definite baddie
Very mild 97 spoilers
My favourite joke about him is the ‘if I had a nickel for every time a Jennifer Hale redhead character had to battle her own clone I’d have two nickels, which isn’t-’
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just googled him and the images look pretty solid. definitely a good guy
I can’t help but respect the ‘they keep telling me he’s not a vampire but man do that vampire be coding’ fit, like Runeterra’s Vladimir
he just loves the aesthetic
Still extremely mad that he got to sit on the Krakoa table and no one bat an eye…
Just remembered:
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illidan 
sylvanas
create a problem so monumental it nukes the worlds biggest threats in one swoop
what bothers me tbh is knowing…and i think we all know…varian was stabbed by two of the same spears and if by some miracle, by some unlikely miracle, he survived the broken shore he’d have survived the wounds while vol’jin didnt.
human potential. sorry trolls
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do you think Hannibal Lecter’s parents regretted naming him Hannibal
I know I felt a twinge of regret when I named my child, Mirate, who turned out to be a Pirate. Even worse was Jolitician who became a Politician…never living that one down…
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they hoped that by naming him Hannibal he would at worst cross the alps and stick it to the Italians
little did they know
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don’t name your kid Fanagingconsultant, worst idea of my life
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