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This week we talk about the Fallout Season 2 trailer, the Duffer Brothers seeking greener pastures at Paramount and Greg Fraser potentially not shooting the Batman Part 2 because of…the BEATLES? Our main focus though is the X-Men and sports. What do we mean? Journey with us as we assume the roles of Professor X, Magneto and a third more robotic party as Apocalypse and have ourselves a good old fashioned mutant draft! The draft divides mutants into three categories: physical-based powers (like Wolverine and Colossus), mental/psychic abilities (Jean Grey, Emma Frost), and elemental/energy-based powers (Storm, Iceman, Gambit). Each team must balance raw power with tactical advantages, resulting in surprisingly diverse rosters that showcase the incredible depth of Marvel's mutant catalog. This was a fun episode to record. Thank you to everyone who continues to support and don’t forget to subscribe to download new episodes as they become available and don’t be afraid to share a rating!
0:00 Intro
04:23 Fallout Season 2 Trailer
12:13 The Duffer Brothers Leaving Netflix for Paramount
14:30 Greg Fraser Potentially Skipping The Batman for the Beatles?!
21:03 Marvel Mutant Draft!
01:07:05 Post-Draft Debrief. Do We Have a Winner?
01:16:24 Signing Off!
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Speaker 2:Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Project Infinite Podcast, the podcast covering the infinite and ever-expanding multiverse of fandom, from movies, comics, tv shows, video games. We've got you covered. I'm Rob, I'm here, as always with Court and Court, we got something fun loaded up today.
Speaker 1:Yup, we're drafting.
Speaker 2:We're doing a draft a proper draft.
Speaker 1:I don't think we've ever done a proper draft before.
Speaker 2:Yes, we're going to do a proper 2025 draft. Talk to Roger Goodell, he was all good with it.
Speaker 1:Talk to the commissioner, he's on board.
Speaker 2:The 2025 Marvel Mutants draft, with the X-Men being kind of in the forefront of a lot of things right now. Specifically, avengers Doomsday is coming up, jason Stree is going to be doing the X-Men movie, which I think is a great choice, and then just I think they talked about that they want to cast kind of like lesser known younger actors to kind of fill out the roster, which I think all those, all those boxes that we're checking, are all all good boxes.
Speaker 2:yeah they are as marvel kind of goes into, like I guess avengers, doomsday and secret wars is kind of like a descending phase I guess, whereas you know this time was going to happen eventually, where the MCU, you know kind of was like self-sustaining for a while.
Speaker 2:But now it's time to kind of reset things a little bit, now that they kind of have all their properties back for the most part, obviously they still kind of share custody of Spider-Man and the Hulk but for all intents and purposes they have access to all their characters, all their properties. So now it's time to really just rebuild the universe. I guess in a weird way which I don't think a lot of people are like expecting or anticipating. They think you know that the mcu is like failing because every movie is not infinity war, end game level quality or anything like that, but like right, it was never that to begin with. Like you know, avengers was like the first real, like major box office smash that they had. So you know, fantastic four is probably gonna end its run around 550, 580 million. You know a lot of studios would kill for that, kill for that return on on investment sinners made three in the 300 million million range, which is crazy for a movie like that.
Speaker 1:Sinners did that.
Speaker 1:Weapons looks like it's going to do around the same and it's funny that you say that for those types of movies and you're like this is and I know it's all about ROI it's all about return on investment and, yes, I know business, I know it's all about return on investment, but it's all about a return on investment. But it's just funny because, like a movie that surpassed both those movies by $200 million, we're going to call the failure, but the movies that make less, significantly less than that, we're going to call successes, which they are. Both those movies were successes. But I just again, I just don't know how you look at $550 to $600 million, you're like what a failure, what a failure of a film.
Speaker 2:That's not how that works and it's not like it didn't. You know it didn't crush its budget, did everything that you want a movie to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I've been thinking about the way that the movie-going experience has changed and like the immediate necessity to watch these movies, like you can get into the social media implications of these films getting hurt by that. You can get into the, you know, into the immediacy of the movie-going culture and that you can just wait for streaming. You can get into all these different facets and rabbit holes to try to understand. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Superman's already out on digital Right right.
Speaker 1:And apparently Thunderbolts is coming out on the 27th On Disney+, yeah, which people believe will be the day that we get the second half of the casting announcements for Doomsday, which would make a lot of sense. I think they're probably also going to give us a first look at dr doom as well too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that'd be great. Obviously, spoilers for fantastic four. He does show up at the end the post-credit scene.
Speaker 1:You don't see him, his face you see his back, but it is robert downey jr because, according to, according to matt shackman, yeah, and the russo shot that scene, so the russo shot the last two post-credit scenes yeah yeah, so yeah, that was, that was a big preamble to basically say we're doing it.
Speaker 2:We're doing a mutant draft, not an x-men draft. A mutant draft yep. So we'll lay out the the protocol for that when the time comes. We do have a little bit of news to cover. First and foremost, we got a trailer for fallout season two.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow, yeah, super impressed for a show that we were very pleased with the scope of for season one to even get even bigger is just incredible yeah, the show was kind of a surprise the first season, like I've.
Speaker 2:Obviously, you know people in our sect were looking forward to it. You know it's another video game adaptation. You know jonathan nolan, you know, came over from west world kind of brought his west world and then you see a lot of especially with the season two trailer taking place in New Vegas.
Speaker 2:You kind of get like a Westworld-y vibe from it. Sure, sure, which was cool, and the thing that I liked about this, like that first season, I'm curious to know and I don't think they've said yet, because the first season they did, I think I don't know how much they were expecting. They released the whole thing at once.
Speaker 2:Yes were expecting, they released the whole thing at once. Yes, I'd be curious to know if they're going to do that again or if they're going to go to a weekly model because of the success of the first season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean the boys. A lot of the boys success has been the week by week model.
Speaker 1:So, like they, they usually do the first gen b they'll usually do the first three episodes and then they'll do week by week. I feel like fallout might do similar because of how successful that first season was. It just helps with anticipation week over week. You know engagement on the show week over week. So I think it does make a lot of sense for them to say let's, let's first three episodes will drop and then we'll do the week by week model.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just curious because I think the reason that they dropped the whole first season all at once was just because, like hey, like we don't know how this is going to go, we don't know how it's going to be received, so let's just drop it all at once and kind of roll the dice Beyond us. I feel like the general public kind of really took to the show, took to the performances, the cast, ella Purnell, walton Goggins, the actor who plays Maximus his name escapes me at the moment but they were all outstanding. Three really compelling leads, which is tough to do. I love the way that they did that, where they all kind of anchored their own storylines and then those storylines mixed and coalesced. It's my favorite type of storytelling.
Speaker 2:Aaron Moten, aaron Moten, yeah, he was great. He was great as Maximus. And season two just looks like it's doing what all great second seasons do it's expanding the world expanding. You know, obviously all of our heroes are together now and they're kind of singularly focused on hunting down Lucy's father Right, who has absconded into New Vegas, new Vegas. But the only thing too, is the threads of Maximus and the ghouls' stories Cooper Howard's stories are still there.
Speaker 1:I really want to get into that because you know, obviously when you storytell you know these stories are told through characters, any story is told through a character. So I think the true importance was you know the ghouls' backstory. It looks very compelling. The weave of New Vegas into this is the perfect kind of middle ground of him and I love the approach that you know his innocence that was bought upon in season one. You know he felt like a tragic hero, essentially for lack of a better term, and now it looks like he's not, as you know, innocent as would have thought of before.
Speaker 2:so I'm really excited to see what they kind of play with that and you know, break break maybe not breaking news to you guys, but breaking news to us it will be one episode per week. Oh, wow, yeah. So there you go, there's your answer to that. So clearly they're confident in in this season that they have changed the model to being it'll be a weekly installment, which is great. I think the first season had a lot of you know, at the end of every episode there did feel like that hook of like if this were week to week you'd want to be, like you'd want to keep watching the next week. So I think I think that's a great decision.
Speaker 2:And like to your point about Cooper Howard, like, yeah, it does feel like the mystery of what happened to his family is going to be kind of like the crux, whereas, like first season, the mystery was like, okay, what happened to him and how did he get to being from being like quote unquote Hollywood, you know, I guess he was like B movie level famous, right, you know, became the face of Vault-Tec. And then his family we still don't know what happened to his wife and daughter. So that seems to be going to be the crux of like they're going to return to the flashbacks, doing like the, the cooper, howard flashbacks of him in new vegas, obviously, when it's run by robert house, who made a small appearance in season one. I know a lot of people were excited about that. And then this obviously the big teaser at the end of season one was, you know, hank absconding into the new, you see the welcome to new vegas sign.
Speaker 2:People were like, oh my god, we're going to new vegas. So I imagine house will be a major character, probably in the flashbacks. You'll see him properly in his regular form. And then I assume, based on what I know about new vegas, the game, that in the present day timeline he'll be his robo, robotic form, right, where he's kind of like an AI that oversees New Vegas, like he kind of. You'll learn a lot about house in the season, but he basically kind of separated himself from the that kind of like board of companies, right, and he kind of just like took New Vegas and it's his own little like slice of life that he kind of just runs independent of everybody else, right. And then I mean just a couple other things we got in this trailer.
Speaker 2:Obviously, the action still has that vintage kind of practical feel to it. Right, we got a look at Norm. Norm looks like he's planning a rebellion of sorts. Yeah, yeah I know, I'm just saying which is cool. That was one of my favorite little plot lines that I didn't expect to be a major plot line was we kept going back to lucy's vault and seeing like the aftermath of what happened with them and then, norm kind of on, like discovering the, the machinations of vault tech, and you know the nefariousness of of that whole thing, right.
Speaker 2:So I think it's cool we're going back to that and norm is going to kind of, because the last we see him he's locked away in Vault 31.
Speaker 1:Right Yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I'm curious to see how Norm is going to shape up. And then you know, obviously we got the blood, the gore, you know that great mixture of kind of combining and we got a death claw, which I'm stoked about. So obviously the creature designs are going to be, you know, right, right, right along with how season one was. So I said it to you earlier, I was like man, this second season hits, it has a chance to kind of compete with the last of us in terms of adaptation Sure, you know, season of adaptation.
Speaker 2:Sure, because you know season one was really really strong. I know, you know I liked the last of season two, but I think we both agree it wasn't probably as strong as the first season.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I think this has a chance, and then just a lot of high quality video game adapting going on in the far future. So we have this. We have 824 is doing a death shanning film in collaboration with hideo kojima. Zach crager, coming off of weapons, is doing a resident evil movie right and alex garland's doing an elden ring movie right alex garden elden ring movie.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what that's gonna look like.
Speaker 2:Me neither phenomenal adapting a souls game is definitely interesting, yeah, and having alex garland do it is also very interesting, right? So we're not lacking for these video game adaptations, and I'm just curious to see how Fallout kind of carries us into that. December 17th right is when we'll get episode one and then it'll be weekly from there. So definitely something we'll we'll be covering some other news Netflix. I guess Netflix didn't announce it, but the Duffer Brothers have announced that they're leaving Netflix to pursue careers at Paramount Right, presumably doing the same thing at Paramount that they did at Netflix.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, they'll probably get it. I wonder if they'll get an IP of sorts or if they're going to do an original creation of some kind. It's kind of up in the air. I wonder if they're hand them. Hand them something that's under the umbrella. Yeah, I don't know why in my head it's such a far stretch. I don't think they'd give them anything trek related. I don't think. I don't think the duffers would necessarily do that. I wouldn't put it beyond the realm of possibility, but I think it's going to be something original.
Speaker 1:I think paramount it was funny because I was thinking about this paramount, the the one thing they were missing as a streaming service was something that was so big that was an original for them. That's the one thing I think that they were missing. Like, I know Lioness was successful, 1883 was successful. Like they had shows that were very, very, very successful, but they were missing. Like the show that had the boom behind it. You know what I mean. Like they were missing that like tadpole. Like the tadpole show that was like this is the one. Like this is the one that runs the streaming service yeah, so apparently the deal is for four years.
Speaker 2:It includes film, tv and streaming deals and the major point for the duffers was that there's an emphasis on theatrical products or theatrical films. So they said they're still going to be sort of involved in like the stranger things quote-unquote like stranger things, cinematic universe, like overseeing what stranger things cinematic universe. Well, they're doing like the animated thing, I think, and other stuff, so they're gonna end it with season five and like they're gonna executive produce that stuff, but I don't think they're gonna be like directly involved.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I mean that's. You know. It's interesting for paramount too. Paramount's obviously been in the news doing a bunch of stuff, spending a ton of money. They just bought the rights to the UFC. So Paramount is clearly making a move in the kind of streaming wars that are forever ongoing. And then the last bit of news I have is some Greg Frazier-related drama Not drama, but Lord. So what's going on with Greg Frazier?
Speaker 1:So Greg Frazier famously shot the Batman. And then, well, he shot. What did he shoot? Dune Part 1, then the Batman, then Dune Part 2. I mean three of the most gorgeous-looking movies, for all different reasons, that you can ever ask for on planet Earth. Obviously, greg Frazier has turned himself into the most famous modern cinematographer. I mean, a whole movie's marketing and the creator was built around the fact that Greg Fraser was shooting the movie. Yeah, greg Fraser just shot Project Hail Mary.
Speaker 1:So obviously I knew Greg Fraser was impressive, like because obviously the big one that we first knew him for was Rogue One. That was the first one where we were like, wow, this movie is gorgeous, like who shot this movie? And then, you know, obviously his career really took off. And then, you know, famously, after that he went on to the mandalorian, went on to kind of further himself. He really became familiar and like the godfather of the sound stages and how to properly use them and light them, he does dune part one, he does the batman, he does dune part two. Like the point of point of the godfather of cinematography maybe not the godfather, but the most famous of all time is why can't I remember Roger Deakins' name? And then the fact that Roger Deakins had him on a podcast and Roger Deakins in it says I'm not really a fan of superhero movies but the Batman is one of the most gorgeous movies I've ever seen. The fact that the Academy people were up in arms that he didn't get nominated for Best Cinematography with the Batman. I mean, he's a modern-day genius.
Speaker 1:So here's what happened. We kind of figured he wasn't going to be able to do Dune Part 1 or Dune Part 3 and the Batman Part 2. Fine, we kind of agreed and I think most of the Internet agrees it's more important that he shot the Batman part two than then he shoots Dune part three. Because you know, glynis Sandgren steps into Dune part three and I'm like, oh, this is going to be phenomenal.
Speaker 1:It's going to be shot entirely on film, it's gonna and I think it's important for Dune part three to have a bit of a different feel to it. Yeah, like the war essentially, like the actual like first punch of the war is over, like I want something that feels a little bit farther in the future. So here's the thing, the batman part two. Obviously we were like okay, this means he's gonna shoot the batman part two. Very good, I don't know how sam mendez convinced him to say don't do the batman part two, we're gonna have you do actually the these four beatles biopics. I still don't do the Batman part, dude, we're going to have you do actually these four Beatles biopics.
Speaker 2:We talked about this Beatles thing before. I still don't understand it.
Speaker 1:The studio's going to have to cut that to one movie, right. There's no earthly shot that they're going to get approved to do four films, four separate films, with the four of them having to weave in between all the four of them.
Speaker 2:The Beatles Cinematic Universe. There's no shot, I can't. I mean. The Beatles, I mean, are arguably the most popular musical act of all time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who is the? It's Paul Mescal, josh O'Connor, joseph.
Speaker 2:Quinn yeah.
Speaker 1:Joseph Quinn and who's the last one? I can't remember who the last one was. All four of them were Harrison Dickinson yeah, harrison Dickinson Four. So four of the most famous British actors over there. The only person they were missing was Tom Holland in there. So they got all four young, great British actors to play the Beatles, which was awesome. Sam Mendes you know, one of the greatest directors that's living right now also steps in, which is amazing. And then Greg Fraser steps in and I'm just like this means that the Batman part it's not doomed, but there's other cinematographers that can step in. But there was something about Greg Fraser's touch to it that was just violently incredible. So I'm concerned. I'm very concerned.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. No, I totally get that. I mean, unless there's like some scheduled things that shift around where you know he can do both Right. But yeah, this Beatles thing continues to just flabbergast me. I don't understand it. Like are we really going to Avengers? A five of the Beatles, right? Is that what we're doing here? Like we're going to like I imagine you do the John Lennon movie first, right.
Speaker 1:I don't understand. I don't know why we need four of them. Why is there four different films? Why are we taking Greg Frazier away from the Batman? Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2:Like we're doing a John Lennon movie, then a Paul McCartney movie, then a like Ringo Starr is great, he's a great drummer, but do we need a whole biopic on Ringo Starr? And these are all going to be like theatrically released.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in the same year, yes, I guess. So I know the Beatles are like the biggest band to ever touch the earth. I understand Two films I can get on. If you said you're doing two because they're doing two of the Michael Jackson films, which, okay, sure, one million percent. Two, four.
Speaker 2:Beatles movies, talos that'll culminate in like I guess like the Avengers movie.
Speaker 1:No we already did this, bob Dylan. Well, timothee Chalamet is. Bob Dylan will return in the Beatles part four. Like the Beatles, yeah, jafar Jackson. Yeah, joaquin Phoenix comes back. Bob Dylan will return in the Beatles Part 4. Like the Beatles, yeah, jafar Jackson. Yeah, joaquin Phoenix comes back. The woman that played Whitney Houston. Like they all come back in some team-up movie.
Speaker 2:A team-up movie John Lennon A Beatles Story I don't know, man, I don't understand. I mean, they got some names. This movie's going to be cinema. But I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how many people are coming out to see the george harrison biopic. John lennon yeah, john, sure you want to do a john lennon movie. Sure that makes total sense. I get that. But to do a movie on each beetle and then, I guess, culminate it together and, like I, I don't.
Speaker 1:It's odd to me. It's odd. I'm all in for anything that Sam Mendes does. He's one of the most talented directors. Obviously, you know, I'm jealous because Greg I, just what? Was the convince they must have had to pay him a disgusting amount of money to go do this? Oh, yeah, I'm sure, and he's going to do four of them. Disgusting amount of money to go do this? Oh, yeah, I'm sure, and he's going to do four of them. Well, I'm assuming they're going to try to shoot these simultaneously? Yes, they would have to. There's no earthly shot they couldn't.
Speaker 2:It just culminates in the fourth movie.
Speaker 1:The fifth movie just culminates in them Just the portals open up like Bob Dylan walks through Culminates in them riding hey Jude, jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen walks through, Culminates them in writing.
Speaker 2:hey, dude, at the end.
Speaker 1:No, it culminates in them walking on Abbey Road at the end.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's all I got to say about that. When they first announced this, I didn't understand it and I still don't understand it. So I guess we'll find out. That's all I got.
Speaker 1:news-wise let's do this thing.
Speaker 2:Let's do this damn thing. So yeah, mutant Draft 2025. Mutant Draft here ends the rules. So we got a roster that I put together of about 70-some-odd mutants from all across the Marvel Universe. We got some X-Men in there, we got some Brotherhood characters, we got some Morlocks, we got some weirdos. Just We've got some X-Men in there, we've got some Brotherhood characters, we've got some Morlocks, we've got some Weirdos, just a who's who of characters. And you and I are going to not volley back and forth because I introduced an unknown element here. We're going to go draft style. We're going to draft a team of 13.
Speaker 2:We have three distinct categories. So we have our physical mutant abilities, three distinct categories. So we have our physical mutant abilities. So think of, like your wolverines, your colossus, your mystiques, like characters where their abilities manifest in their physicality. Right, you know that that's where their bulk of their powers come from. Like, obviously we have rogue in there. She has like that touch telepathy type deal we basically with rogue. Like some of these characters, we kind of like not, we kind of took the form that makes most sense for them. So like rogue, for example, like we already have rogue built in with the captain marvel powers it's not like base rogue who like doesn't know anything. It's rogue. She has the captain marvel power, she can fly super strength. She still has, like her, touch power, like all that stuff john ray says well, I am wraith.
Speaker 2:Wraith is in here. So we got physical base powers. Then we had I had to make a whole section for mutants that have psychic or mental abilities, because they're vast. Yeah, so we have. You know your characters obviously, like eugene gray's cable, emma frost, kitty pride, leech leech is in there. And then you have other characters like elixir, hope summers, cassandra nova, and then the last category is it was originally just elemental powers, but then that pool is extremely small. So I took the energy based powers that I had with the telepaths and I moved them over to the elemental base powers. So we have energy and elemental base power. So characters like bishop gambit, storm, ice man, sunspot, pyro, psylocke are all in there and basically the conceit is you might be wondering, you might be asking yourself, what was professor x and magneto? That's us. We are, we are role playing as professor x and magneto in this situation and a third party that I've deemed with a randomizer the robot. The robot in this situation it will be standing as Apocalypse.
Speaker 1:No, you should have made it Nimrod if you were going to have it standing as a. I was thinking of like Sentinel.
Speaker 2:Oh, it should have been Bastion. It should have been Bastion, but I went with Apocalypse.
Speaker 1:No, Bastion actually hates mutants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would make sense.
Speaker 1:He wouldn't draft mutants you know apocalypse would be like mutant draft. Who can I turn into a horseman? Give me all the mutants. Give me every mutant. Please give me only the strong mutants.
Speaker 2:Like strong guy strong guy, strong guys in here. So you might be wondering also, look, at the end of the day, my list is my list. So like, no, the scarlet witch is not on here. Franklin, which is? Come on, man, I needed to show a little bit of restraint to be able to get some of the weirdos on this list. Like, if I put Franklin Richards on here, I can't have Big Bertha in here. No, why not? Why not? You gotta leave room. So yeah, like 70-odd mutants, 13 picks. So basically the conceit is we can draft four to fill our positions quote-un. So four physical, four mental and four elemental energy based. We get one wild card pick that we can take. I might amend the wild card thing to be able to draft another omega level mutant.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, I think that's fair Because I do have we do have OG X-Men have two omega level. They have three omega level mutants on that team.
Speaker 2:So I did note the omega level mutants. I was gonna only allow ourselves to draft one, but I will, I think, amend that to be able to allow a wild card pick to also be an omega level mutant. So that's what we're gonna do, any questions.
Speaker 1:No, I'm. I'm ready to rock. I'm ready to rapid fire. I'm ready to rock. My team's going to be an issue that man's pulling a forge right now.
Speaker 2:So I did the draft randomizer off of.
Speaker 2:Not chat, gpt, no. So you do have the first pick as Magneto, let's go. And it's a snake style draft, so you will go first, then I will go second, the randomizer will go third, the randomizer will go third, the randomizer will then go again, then back to me, then back to you, so on and so forth, until we draft our full roster of well, now to be oh yeah, it's still 13,. But the wild card pick can be an Omega level. So you have the first pick and I yield the floor to you.
Speaker 1:Okay, perfect, are we ready? I don I yield the floor to you. Okay Perfect, are we ready? I'm ready, ready for the first pick. Hold on, we're going to see if this works.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you're going to get a copyright stroke. It's not copyright, it's fine. The pick is in. The pick is in.
Speaker 1:With the first pick in the mutant draft. This actually seems kind of wrong now that I'm saying this out loud, my first pick is going to be Jean Grey off the board. It's like taking LeBron James number one overall. There's not much to it. You get the Phoenix powers on top of that. She's proven she can lead a team as well too. She's proven she can obliterate an entire earth if she needs to. That's all I need in a number one pick. I need somebody that can come and A pick that can destroy the Earth. Yeah, I need a pick that can come in and change the franchise. Day one, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. This franchise has changed forever. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:I mean she was on my list. Obviously, if I had been blessed with a number one overall pick, she is not who I would have taken number one overall, though.
Speaker 1:You're ready for the Vulcan pick number one overall.
Speaker 2:You left my number one pick on the board. I'm staying in the family. I'm staying in the family with this one and I'm taking Hope Summers.
Speaker 1:So what? Hope Summers has a bit of a better head on her shoulders.
Speaker 2:I mean you get a lot in one package With Hope Summers she basically has. For those of you who aren't familiar, she has the power to mimic, amplify and master any mutant power, as long as being an Omega-level telepath on top of it. It's kind of like to your point. This is like drafting a quarterback. This is a franchise change. She can do a bit of everything.
Speaker 1:It's like taking Cam Newton number one overall. There's some picks that just work.
Speaker 2:She can amplify the powers of other mutants. She's kind of like an all-around support character too, which I kind of like. She's not my field leader, but she's there and she's there. She's a threat Fair. You know what I mean. So we got two summers off the board. Who's Apocalypse taking? Let's see, let's see. Wait, apocalypse has picked Vulcan.
Speaker 1:No, not Vulcan off the board, you mean Vulcan who couldn't even lead his. So for those of you who don't know, in 1975, the giant-sized X-Men were there and then they made a story after that that came out. The giant-sized X-Men basically the original X-Men were trapped on Krakow. Cyclops breaks out, basically, and borns everybody and Professor X is like ooh, shoot, I need a team iconic X-Men Cyclops, wolverine, thunderbird, banshee, colossus who else is in there? I forget who else is in there, but he basically makes a foreign team of X-Men and Nightcrawlers in there and then they turn into some of the most famous X-Men. You find out that there was another team that he sent down there and Vulcan was the leader of this team, who was also the brother of Cyclops.
Speaker 2:It's another Summers the leader of this team, who is also the brother of of cyclops. It's another summer, yeah, another three summers off the board. They're like, they're like the alabama of x-men.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're like the mannings. Oh, the summers are like the mannings so yes, this is gabriel summers, all right. Well, now on to apocalypse. Who do you got apocalypse?
Speaker 2:yeah. So I mean interesting pick here too, like we both went telepath and then Apocalypse goes with a pure, like raw energy destruction character.
Speaker 1:Sure, it's an Omega-level way. Yeah Wee man, All right. Apocalypse next pick.
Speaker 2:Apocalypse is next pick Interesting the Juggernaut.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's actually not a bad pick. Imagine the Juggernaut boosted by Apocalypse. That's a potent mix. Gives me the goosebumps.
Speaker 2:So I kind of see what Apocalypse is doing here. Apocalypse appears to be building a physical kind of raw powerhouse team. Okay, this is what I'm seeing here. I ain't mad at it With Vulcan and the Juggernaut. Did not expect the Juggernaut to be a round two pick. Yeah that was.
Speaker 1:That's like taking a defensive tackle like number two in the draft.
Speaker 2:It's like Aaron Donald Right, right, which is fun. You're talking about a franchise player, that's a Hall of Famer Right.
Speaker 1:But it's like you just never expect it, my go huh.
Speaker 2:Do I just raw fire off my second Omega pick? I feel like I should right Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I have hope so. The 12 picks my Omega pick needs to go into one of these three buckets or it can be your wild card. It's not going to be my wild card.
Speaker 2:No, it has to be your second Omega. Now has to be your wild card, okay, so I took Jean.
Speaker 1:Jean fell under the mental right Unless you want her to be your wild card. No, I don't want her to be my wild card.
Speaker 2:Okay, and I don't want Hope to be my wild card either.
Speaker 1:Okay, so my mental Jean was under mental right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. So if you and I are going to pick another Omega, it would be our wild card pick, okay.
Speaker 1:I think we should save the wild card pick for last.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because Apocalypse already used the wild Omega. Yep, all right, all right, so I'll hold off on my Omega pick for right now. Oh man, this is tough, so I have Hope who's like a support type character? I kind of want to go with one of these energy based characters, just because the pool is a lot shallower here. And man, I can't believe I'm doing this. But I'm taking another summary.
Speaker 1:Don't take Havoc. I'm taking Havoc. I know what I'm going to do. I know what I'm going to do, so you're going to take Havoc.
Speaker 2:I'm going to take Polaris.
Speaker 1:Okay, you know a little daddy-daughter duo on the team, okay.
Speaker 2:It's like Shadurah, sanders and Dion and I mean I feel like, honestly, with any of these other characters I pick, having Hope there just amplifies every other pick I make.
Speaker 1:Having Jean Grey on my team makes no other team want to fight my team, so I'm actually feeling good, so who are you taking? I took Polaris Polaris. I wanted somebody that you know she's like borderline Omega, omega. That's exactly why I took her. You're talking about somebody that can affect the Earth on a global scale.
Speaker 1:Drafting what you know, Magneto character with with mag, with mag. Is that gonna be my theme? I gotta take quicksilver neck. Interesting, I like, I like the way that this is this is shaping out so far, so it's your go again. Yeah, okay, so I have my another pick for myself. Yes, I am gonna go solely based off x-men. 97 oh no I'm gonna take rogue, okay. So that's your first physical case, because of what I get with that as well to you. And again you're sticking with the magneto theme here yeah, yeah, I am what we learned in x-men 97.
Speaker 2:I'm sticking with the magneto theme, all right interesting, and I mean, along with rogue, you get all of her physical attributes and then you get the ability to steal powers if need be. Could, uh, borrow? Borrow some powers from gene or Polaris? Yeah, and they both Gene won't die.
Speaker 1:True Gene won't die from that, so Interesting.
Speaker 2:So you got one, one and one across the board. Yep, so it's my go huh. This is where, being in the middle, I mean it's only three teams, but still this gets fun, okay, all right. So I think I'm also going to go with a physical character. Okay, man I'm just thinking about. I feel like Apocalypse did get the best physical character with Juggernaut.
Speaker 1:That's not bad.
Speaker 2:I feel like I do need a physical character. Screw it, I'm going to take Wolverine, okay.
Speaker 1:OG. Yeah, that's a good bet on the team. That's like having Brook Lopez on your team Bro's there for a million years. It's consistent.
Speaker 2:The healing factor is outrageous. Look, I know you're Magneto and I know Wolverine might just have to chill for a little bit, but somehow Wolverine still manages to fight Magneto. Yeah, he killed him. Hope Summers can also copy his healing factor, which makes her also unkillable. He killed him. Hope Summers can also copy his healing factor, which makes her also unkillable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fair. No, she also absorbs the getting infected by adamantium.
Speaker 2:Not a good pick. I'm using.
Speaker 1:Hope as my LeBron. We've got to figure out who the biggest bust of this draft is going to be on our team.
Speaker 2:I'm using Hope as my LeBron, where the team she can kind of distribute wherever. Plus five attributes to everybody on the team LeBron, where the team she can kind of distribute wherever.
Speaker 1:Plus five attributes to everybody on the team yeah, pretty much. Yeah, fair, alright, who's Apocalypse taking?
Speaker 2:Let's see Apocalypse selects the Shadow King.
Speaker 1:Dang. No, I can't take Darwin now. That's such a power move. That's like getting a floor general. That's like having Jason Kidd be your coach and Rajon Rondo be your point guard, because it's two masterminds at the position, a multiversal telepath, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Dangerous Sebastian Shaw pretty good. The Shadow King Pretty good.
Speaker 2:Man that's a great pick. I'm not going to lie, it's a great pick, okay. So who's his next pick? So next pick, so he has three picks in. Now, three picks in. He's got the juggernaut, so we all have one, one and one. So far, all right. Juggernaut, shadow king and vulcan for apocalypse. I guess this will be like the third, the third of the way mark. Okay, I have wolverine, hope, summers and havoc and you have rogue, jean, gray and polaris, so we go into round four. Apocalypse selects Darwin. No.
Speaker 1:Yeah, essentially Wait, maybe that's what Apocalypse is going to upgrade Darwin to make sure he just can't be killed by the Shadow King, specifically.
Speaker 2:What a genius.
Speaker 1:Okay, who's your next pick?
Speaker 2:Man, darwin. Eh, all right, so Apocalypse has filled two out of four of his physical spots. My next pick, my next pick, is going to be I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
Speaker 1:I locked in a beast for my next pick. It's not beast. It's not beast.
Speaker 2:I'm going to Do. I want to use this. Do I want to do this? Now? I'm going to pick. It's not beast, it's not beast, I'm going to Do. I want to use this. Do I want to do this? Now? I'm going to pick Bishop Fair, fair Specifically. I mean, I don't know how much energy he can take. I think he can absorb Vulcan's power Not absorb, but you know what I mean. Okay Fair, I Okay fair. I think he can do the. That's a lot of power. You saw him in X-Men 97.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of power I'm going to take with my next pick. I'm going to take Magic. Oh, I thought about Magic. I get a lot with Magic being on that team. I get so much with Magic being on that team Because not only do I get the physicality of Magic, I get all the mental stuff from magic as well too. So not only do I—if Jean goes a bit unstable, we can get magic to get everybody in a different landscape.
Speaker 2:You have access to limbo.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, that's good, and she's also a natural aura farmer, so— and she can fight, and she can fight, and that's exactly why I wanted her. She can fight the Shadow King. I wanted my team to, low-key, have hands. That's what I wanted. I want my team to kind of have hands. Your team does have hands.
Speaker 2:Because who do you have now? You have Rogue.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Magic. I guess those are your two. I don't really have. That's what I don't have right now. I don't have, like, a fighter, mm-hmm, I have Wolverine, his adamantium. She can't fight, so yeah, it's your go again.
Speaker 1:My next pick. I wanted to kind of load up on the mental, but I'm going to go physical here.
Speaker 2:It sounds very Magneto.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go physical here. I'm going to raise your Wolverine, I'm going to give you X23.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was wondering if one of us would do this. You got your own Wolverine. I'm going to give you X-23.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was wondering if one of us would do this. You got your own Wolverine and how old school Magneto to be like Wolverine?
Speaker 2:I have my own version of Wolverine, get my own Wolverine. I mean, I guess obviously the only downside Healing factor's not as strong as Wolverine's. She's a little more disciplined than Wolverine.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I think with Magneto's tutelage she can really bring out the savagery inside of her.
Speaker 2:She's more like. If Wolverine is like the, it's funny Wolverine, dakin and X-23 all kind of fall into different categories. It's like Wolverine's more like the brutish. Just run at you. We're gonna fight Right.
Speaker 1:And then x-23 is more like the stealth, the stealth pick, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then dacton's. More like dacton's, more like surgical right, more like technique based yeah, he's like an assassin yeah which is, which is cool, don't take marrow with your next pick that's gonna take saber tooth.
Speaker 2:I'm kidding, I'm not taking saber tooth. All right, so it's my go. I'm in the middle. I hate being in the middle man. So many good things happen. So what am I? I have two elemental, which is good, because that was kind of like the shallowest class. I feel like I need to go back to the mental well here, taking Forge. No, I'm kidding, don't do it, I'm not taking Forge, I'm going to take Selene.
Speaker 1:Fair, fair Selene. If you don't know about comic Selene, she is an issue.
Speaker 2:She's basically a mutant vampire. Mm-hmm, she can just, she has psychic abilities, she can cast, she's magic, she has magic powers, like actual magic powers, and, yeah, she's a vampire in a metaphysical sense. Metaphysical, metaphysical sense in the sense that she doesn't like suck your blood, she literally absorbs your life, energy, right, and that's how she sustains herself. I think that is where I want to go, because, funny enough, like the psychic well is deep, but it's also very top heavy, sure, so it's like you got like your gene grays, you got your hope summers, but then like yeah, forge it kind of like falls off after that. Like these are like I feel like magic is, like she's like right at the end of, like that upper tier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, like a lot of the good, a lot of the good telepaths are kind of gone at this point, unless you want to burn the second omega pick, which no one has opted to do yet. No, I don't want to do that yet. So apocalypse is up next. Who's? He got wow, apocalypse has taken a second omega. Okay, any guesses?
Speaker 1:elixir nope oh, cassandra nova, nope, nope. Oh, cassandra Nova, nope, iceman, it is Iceman. Wow, I'm just going to freeze everybody to death. Say yes, have fun fighting in frigid temperatures. So is Apocalypse. So this is interesting.
Speaker 2:So the two Omega picks are basically polar opposite energy picks. You have Vulcan and you have Iceman. Apocalypse could just destroy the Earth here.
Speaker 1:Yike. Oh no, that's exactly what he wants, and then he's going to build a better one, said Oscar Isaac. Remember when Oscar Isaac played Apocalypse?
Speaker 2:With Iceman and Vulcan, he could destroy the Earth, and Darwin can survive it.
Speaker 1:Oh Yo, bro's building an all-star team.
Speaker 2:Bro is living up to his moniker.
Speaker 1:He building an all-star team, bro. Bro is living up to his moniker he is apocalypse. He's trying to destroy the earth. Superpowers juggernaut, nothing can stop him. Darwin's gonna survive.
Speaker 2:Dang, that's a good pick we're getting, we're getting trounced, all right. Who's his next pick? All right, so he's burned all right. So no more, no more, no more omegas for apocalypse.
Speaker 1:And let's see, let's see, and let's see, let's see they are apocalypse has picked his third physical fighter and he's taken deadpool. Ah, I was gonna take deadpool fair.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's fair, that's fair I mean, I feel like this works. I feel like this this applies, this makes sense for this team. Okay, fair of of psychos. Oh, he does have a lot of psychos on his team. I think this team is just planning on destroying the world and then surviving.
Speaker 1:But yeah, because Deadpool's going to be there. Deadpool can survive it too. It's going to be hilarious when he survives. Okay, Farrah, who's your next pick?
Speaker 2:Man. I need a physical guy here. The physical well is, it's the deepest, but it's also drying up very quickly with characters that aren't just Wolverine Dang. I can't believe Iceman got drafted ahead of Storm. I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm looking at Wraith. I'm looking at Wolfsbane. I'm looking at Marrow, end of the round six pick Good value. I'm looking at myrow with a round six pick Good value.
Speaker 2:I'm looking at my shapeshifters. They're all the same but different, much like the Wolverine X-23 Dakken bucket. I got three shapeshifters here and they all do similar but different things, and I feel like the best version of this is actually copycat is where I'm, is where I'm gonna go. I knew you were gonna do it too, vanessa. You embarrassed me in front of vanessa. She can. She's the only one of these that can replicate all powers. Mystique can do it to a degree. Morph can only copy physical powers. Copycat can do everything. It's just she's a little uncontrollable at times, but that is fine. That's actually fine. Here's what I'm going to do. So I'm going to take Copycat and I'm well balanced. Right now I'm 2-2-2 with one omega off the board.
Speaker 1:Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take Psylocke because I want my team to be full of just hitters. I just need my team to be hand-to-hand proficient, so I'm going to get another elemental off the board, so I'm going to go Psylocke. All mental instability.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go Psylocke and then I'm going to go Domino. Whoa, because what is the best power than good luck? Huh, domino's powers with Jean Grey means that Jean Grey is going to use the Phoenix Force and not be affected by it. Domino's power means that X-23 is going to be able to kill Wolverine in any type of setting. Rogue is not going to be able to, you know, drain some of these powers on accident, like it's the best option for helping you want to talk about the LeBron effect. Good luck for everyone. That's a pretty solid back-to-back pick, wow.
Speaker 2:So you're tapped out on your psychic pool. Yeah, oh, three, right Four. No, I have three you have. Gene, you have Magic Psylocke and Domino.
Speaker 1:Psylocke you put on your own elemental. Oh, you're right, you're right. That's exactly why I took her, because she low-key, sneaks me a fifth person into the mental part. Okay, your pick, oh man.
Speaker 2:So I'm 2-2-2. Have not used my other Omega spot and I'm wondering. I'm looking, I feel like I need someone that can. I feel like I need damage. I feel like I need damage output. I'm lacking in the damage output division. I have a lot of mental, a lot of a lot of really. I'm really hanging on to this other omega spot, but there's one specific omega that I feel like I'm drafting for need, because I just need the raw power and hope summers can amplify said power. That's storm. It is going to be storm. It is going to be storm.
Speaker 1:It's fair. You're talking about a person that can literally affect the biometric, you know, the literal atmosphere of any planet, not just planet earth, but any planet. Fair, fair, what's apocalypse got cooking.
Speaker 2:I know he got something cooking and I think I'm gonna stop, if I'm gonna stop, if I'm gonna stop apocalypse from destroying the world, I feel like I need storm to to undo some, some damage yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's Apocalypse? Got cooking.
Speaker 2:What's Apocalypse got cooking? Let's see. Apocalypse selects Omega Red. Good pick Again going with this.
Speaker 1:This is just an anarchistic team, this anti-life team that he's building here.
Speaker 2:Omega Red I found this out in research has something called Death Swords. Did not know that was part of his deal. Yep Only really familiar with Omega Red for Marvel vs Capcom, where he uses the whips, so didn't realize that he had a poison in his system. Right.
Speaker 1:What's his back-to-back pick?
Speaker 2:Cassandra Nova. Wait, that's three Omegas. Oh yeah, You're cheating. Apocalypse. Reroll, Reroll.
Speaker 1:Apocalypse is cheating. He is cheating Classic.
Speaker 2:Apocalypse? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Classic Apocalypse. Who'd you take?
Speaker 2:Hang on, it's thinking.
Speaker 1:Bring the weight music up.
Speaker 2:Elevator music All right, the pick is in and it is a psychic level character it is.
Speaker 1:Nightcrawler. That's fair, that's cool, it's a low-key, a solid pick. Okay, what's your next pick?
Speaker 2:Let's see where my board is here. How are we looking? How are we looking? I picked storm, comfortable with that. I got some. I think I need some. I still think I need more muscle here. A lot of these good, a lot of these good physicals. It's a defensive pick, but it's also a juggernaut adjacent pick.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Colossus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm picking Colossus Fair. Okay, because again he can fight, he's pretty much invulnerable. And not to take it back to my number one overall pick, hope Summers can also duplicate Colossus's powers, that's pretty good. I'm building my team around Hope Summers Okay that's fair.
Speaker 1:That's fair. That's like drafting LeBron and being like all right guys, now just figure it out, everyone just figure it out afterwards.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm going to go. So you're up. You have two picks here. Okay, you still have your wild card. Yep, I'm saving it for last. Well, yeah, you can you have your pick of the litter now?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you guys both did it. We both took ours. And just so you guys know, Apocalypse is sitting here with us as well. He is here, I'm going to take Quicksilver next. Hey Needed a little bit of speed.
Speaker 2:Keeping it in the family Keeping it in the family.
Speaker 1:I needed somebody that can be like. I need somebody to disrupt every single person out there. I need a disruptor. This team I'm building would be an incredible stealth team. If I needed a black op, you know what this team is. I have an incredible X-Force team right now, An actual team that can be the actual X-Force. This is a great X-Force team.
Speaker 2:Ooh that would be an interesting concept to get Quicksilver on an X-Force team. You do have a very yeah, I feel like if you send in Domino, Psylocke, X-23, and Quicksilver to do a mission.
Speaker 1:And then that all else fails. And then you see Jean Grey, Rogue and Polaris pull up. You're like oh no, oh, no, bro, Uh-oh, Uh-oh. Okay, my next pick. I'm just trying to kind of keep it balanced so I have, like everybody, like I have a pick from each piece. I'm going gonna go with my next pick. I was really thinking about Sunspot. I was really thinking about Sunfire or Sunspot to somebody that can control solar energy to some avail, because if they can void storm of some solar energy, that would be pretty good.
Speaker 2:They're similar but different. Sunfire generates raw solar energy and Sunspot absorbs it.
Speaker 1:I was thinking about Typhoid Mary as well too, because she also is much more of an issue in the comics than people think, but I think that she's a little mentally unstable. Yes, she is.
Speaker 2:So is Psylocke, which is why Legion is also still on the board Right.
Speaker 1:And using that logic, I'm going to take if Rogue's on the how powerful Gambit is as well too.
Speaker 2:Also another guy that can fight and another guy that can do stealth? I'm also thinking Synergy, like Domino Gambit, synergy, mm-hmm, domino Gambit, yeah, she can make sure he can't miss.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he never misses Cards. Always in my favor. The cards are always in your favor.
Speaker 2:Domino's, like they are always in my favor.
Speaker 1:The cards are always in your favor, domino's, like they are always in your favor, except that time when you got vaporized by a diamond. Come on, no, no man, do your pick, don't do this.
Speaker 2:You got a lot of your team would make a great Love Island episode.
Speaker 1:Now you got Magneto, rogue and Gambit all together, with his son there and his daughter there. Man, this is why you should have put Scarlet Witch on the board.
Speaker 2:So that way I could have taken her with my wild card. Wow man, the synergy is off the charts.
Speaker 1:This is the borderline most anti-hero team I could have picked. That's why I wanted to get Deadpool on this team. That's why you're Magneto.
Speaker 2:I'm really flying the seat of my the with the good and bad in here. I I'm surprised this person is still available at this point, just a regular character, given that we've now taken three, five, seven of the mental telepath characters off the board and this one is still available.
Speaker 1:And I'm taking cable I can live with you taking cable and I will say tell you cable and bishop, because cable's gonna look at bishop and be like remember when you lost me in the times. It's fine, come on, it can't be any less.
Speaker 2:It can't be any less volatile than you having gambit and rogue and you being Magneto on the same team. So, yeah, I just I would like to have Cable. He can time travel, or has time traveled. Maybe he's seen this draft play out. Oh no, oh no, bro, maybe he knows how it's going to go. He's a good leader, which is interesting because there's a definitive leader that's still available, I know, and he's not going to get picked. So I'm going to take Cable Another Summers off the board. Okay, good pick. There's one specific Summers that still hasn't been drafted. Wait, who is it?
Speaker 1:Wait, which Summers hasn't been picked? Oh, cyclops, loser. Nobody Wolverine somewhere? Loser, alright, who's?
Speaker 2:Apocalypse taken, cyclops is enduring a Shador Sanders-esque fall in this draft right now. He's the only one in his family who hasn't been drafted.
Speaker 1:I might have something dangerous up for one of these future picks.
Speaker 2:Alright, Apocalypse is picking Banshee.
Speaker 1:I actually like that. I was actually low-key thinking about Banshee, because that's disorienting as well too.
Speaker 2:It is disorienting, against a lot of our psychics, that we have lined up A good pick not someone that you would think, and you've got to think about who the leader is.
Speaker 1:Like the amplification of like what does that turn? Does that turn into like planetary level, a sonic scream that can destroy the Earth?
Speaker 2:He's still destroying the Earth.
Speaker 1:I'll build a better one after this Apocalypse, are you?
Speaker 2:building a team to destroy the Earth. Wait, who's?
Speaker 1:Apocalypse's next pick.
Speaker 2:Because this is getting hilarious. Now apocalypse's next pick is firestar no, not firestar from marvel comics, so this is a make a microwave type character he's a hamilton beach.
Speaker 1:No, he's stronger than that.
Speaker 2:He's an 1100 y hamilton beach with vulcan and iceman, apocalypse now wields fire, cold and cosmic energy. Wow, not bad. We're getting lapped, we're getting pasted by Apocalypse?
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so either. I think, at the end, I think our team, I think we just destroy the universe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this fight is when these teams, the Avengers, are going to be there like come on guys.
Speaker 2:Guys, this is why none of the X-Men get invited to things, because you guys do stuff like this. All right, so we've got what? Two?
Speaker 1:more rounds, basically Three. So two more regular, no, three more regular rounds.
Speaker 2:It should be, I believe, three more Because you have four more picks to make. Yes, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Three more regular rounds and then the wild card.
Speaker 2:For you, because me and Apocalypse took our wild cards earlier, because we I mean you can opt not to take a second Omega, but I don't know why you wouldn't. Yeah, that's just absurd. I'm just saying If it's there, we'll be there. It will be there because no one else can draft an Omega, so it's my go.
Speaker 2:No, I oh, yeah, it's my go because so I feel like I need another elemental guy. Okay, need another elemental guy, dazzler, come on. Do I have a fire guy? I don't have a fire guy. Do I Don't do pyro? I'm not doing pyro. Not everyone gets a speech.
Speaker 1:Cassandra's going to be giddy. What happened to you?
Speaker 2:That's not the same guy from X2, so it's really between Sunfire and Sunspot no Apocalypse took Sunfire.
Speaker 1:No, it took.
Speaker 2:Firestar easy, chill out, chill, nobody. Iceman on his tip, chill, he's a microwave character, he's not a fire character. What is he? Vinnie Johnson from the 80s, pistons A microwave character. And Storm for her vast elemental abilities. I guess she can control the sun. She can't control the sun.
Speaker 1:She can make it cloudy, like she did in X3. What were they doing in that movie?
Speaker 2:Want to know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning. Same thing that happens in everything else. So it's between Sunfire and Sunspot. It's really like what do I want? What do I want out of my fire guy To look cool, because then it's Sunspot. Name Sunspot Moe to me, remember it. Yeah, I'm going to take Sunspot Fair. That's a fair pick, pick. A lot of unrealized potential that I feel like, as me, as professor x, I can, I can get out of him. When he's when he's sunspot he's invulnerable, sure, like when he's actually sunspotting he can absorb the sun somewhere.
Speaker 2:Dock off what happens to the sun dog she can storm, can part the clouds, power sun, sunspot up Fair, like a plant, like a photosynthesis. I have back-to-back picks. You have back-to-back picks. You have back-to-back picks and my last pick will be you have your wild card still, and then you have one physical and you have one in each category. Basically, that's what I wanted to do you have? One in each category remaining and your wild card, omega pick. Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm going to take. This is tough, I'm going to take. I'm going to take Kitty Pryde. Hey, based off all the stuff that Hickman did, because Hickman basically turned her into like an absolute, disgustingly powerful unit. So I'm going to take Kitty Pryde.
Speaker 2:So you again, you're, you're keeping up with the stealth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, she's also going to be the leader of this team too. Whoa, she's the only one that would go to Magneto's face and be like you, idiot. Okay, so that takes care of one of my kitty pride you had in the mental Elemental I'm probably going to try to knock out next, I think, so I'm going to take Elemental.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have Elemental Psychic and then your last.
Speaker 1:Omega pick. Okay, all right, I'm going to take with. Ooh, this is tough. Do I have a? This is tough. Do I have a physical? Yeah, I have a physical left no you don't because it's okay. Oh yeah, I did take kitty no, no, kitty pride's on their mental, should she be? You made this list, man. You're the one that made this list. That's true. I'm keeping it the way it is, man. I'm gonna take morph, because then at least he. Then there's two Rogues, two Quicksilvers, two X-23s.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. So you're like, you basically used him as a like, a double down on your three other characters. Right Interesting, that's an interesting use of him.
Speaker 1:I feel like, Like you're doing you're doing like Wait, wait, I might have to re-usurp that pick.
Speaker 2:Redraft he's redrafting.
Speaker 1:I might have to, because there's no elemental omegas left.
Speaker 2:But you don't have to pick an elemental omega.
Speaker 1:Oh, I can just pick any omega, okay, fair.
Speaker 2:You get any omega. Me and Apocalypse picked elemental omegas, but you don't have to pick Because the wildcard pick goes in its own chamber.
Speaker 1:Perfect, I know exactly who I'm taking to.
Speaker 2:So you pick aph.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm going to take Morph, because at least my physical characters get amplified or I get two of them. Basically, you get two of them. Oh no, no, I get anybody. I get any of your guys' physical anyway too.
Speaker 2:Joke's on you. My physical guys are no good.
Speaker 1:Apocalypse's are though.
Speaker 2:Apocalypse definitely has the best physical group.
Speaker 1:I would say Jean Grey, magic Domino and Kitty Pryde. That's not bad.
Speaker 2:That's pretty good. That is pretty, pretty good. Alright, so it's my go. I still have one in each category available, which is great for me. Let's see Forge.
Speaker 1:No, don't do it. You're going to keep joking about this Forge thing.
Speaker 2:Cypher no, I'm kidding, I need everybody to understand each other. If out this forge thing, cypher no, I'm kidding, I need everybody to understand each other. If I pick blind spot, can he make gene gray forget that she is the phoenix? No, come on, man. I mean. Does everyone else take him? I don't know shit. Apocalypse has two mental characters to take still, I feel like I need to.
Speaker 2:I feel like I need to take one off the board from apocalypse because he can't take legion, he can't take Sandronova. I'm just looking at who's left in the mental, like the mental abilities that I can just basically snipe from Apocalypse. So he's really just weak down there Dang. What's Moonstar about? What's Moonstar got going? Illusions Careful dog. Illusions not bad Illusions. Illusions aren't bad Illusions could fuck with Domino actually.
Speaker 1:No, domino's going to make themselves lucky. The Illusions are actually going to go back on to Moonstar. Domino low-key, the most powerful mutant there ever was.
Speaker 2:Luck's not a superpower Says who? Deadpool said it in the second Deadpool movie, even though he was super lucky.
Speaker 1:Damn am I going to take, even though he was super lucky. Damn am I gonna take. I might take moon star. I'm gonna take moon star. That's a that's.
Speaker 2:That's the craziest pick so far. I think I like the illusions, illusion casting and a telepath okay, fair, I got hope summers. I got celine. I got moon star. Mentally we're just she could take, she could take, she could take. The juggernaut out of the equation, fair, getting his brain getting get in his head Fair. Okay, if I can't fight fire with fire, I'm going to fight fire with my brains. Okay, classic Professor X Fair.
Speaker 1:You know who's Apocalypse got cooking up? He got somebody cooking.
Speaker 2:So Apocalypse has three picks left. See, I feel like Apocalypse messed up. I feel like Apocalypse messed up. I feel like Apocalypse messed up. Not a lot left in the psychic realm but he's gonna handle most of it himself. Apocalypse.
Speaker 1:Apocalypse is thinking right now Sunfire okay fair, yo bro is really cooking something what is bro cooking something.
Speaker 2:What is?
Speaker 1:Bro cooking. I don't understand, Okay and now who's next?
Speaker 2:He's got the power of the sun in his hands. Can Vulcan power up Sunfire, or vice versa, or vice versa. Shoot, this guy's just trying to destroy. I'm telling you, I think he's trying to destroy the Earth, fair, alright. Who's he got next? So he's trying to destroy the Earth, fair, all right. Who's he got next? So he's got two more psychic picks Typhoid Mary.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was thinking about taking Typhoid.
Speaker 2:Mary, were you really.
Speaker 1:I was genuinely thinking about it.
Speaker 2:Huh, Typhoid Mary eh.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, and then your second to last pick, my second to last pick.
Speaker 2:So what do I need? I need another physical guy and another elemental guy. I can't, oh man, I can't not. Do this right, do it. I can't, I can't, not, I have to. I can't be the X-Men, I can't be Professor, I have to take Cyclops.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fair, I hate it, but fair Loser who said that I had to take Cyclops.
Speaker 2:Okay, because maybe I can get your team to stand down. You know, no, you have Jean.
Speaker 1:Grey, but I have Cyclops. Well, I'm just going to make Cyclops sit for Jean Grey. No, that's what he's there for. We're good, him and Wolverine on the same team, though that's asking for trouble. I don't love it. But Alright, these are my last two picks.
Speaker 2:This is it. Yeah, you got your last elemental pick and then your wildcard Omega pick.
Speaker 1:Okay, my last elemental pick will be I couldn't kill you with the Fourth of July, could I?
Speaker 2:Don't take Jubilee.
Speaker 1:I don't have a sun guy. I don't have a sun person.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's any sun people left I was looking at you thinking about taking Surge. Surge isn't sun. No, I was thinking about taking Surge. What's Surge going to do for you? I mean, I guess you don't have a choice. I mean you have a choice, but I have some choices. How many?
Speaker 1:Am I going to take Avalanche the Power of?
Speaker 2:Earthquakes.
Speaker 1:That's not bad, it's pretty good. Yeah, let me get somebody that's low-key, not respected enough. Let me take Avalanche Wow, the Power of Earthquakes. That's not bad.
Speaker 2:It's pretty good All it's pretty good.
Speaker 1:All right, this is my last pick and he's also a Brotherhood of Mutants, so your last pick and you got the run of the Omega litter. Here I'm taking Legion for all anarchistic purposes. That's like my pick. To just end all the other picks. All right. Last pick. This is where you got to do something funny.
Speaker 2:He's yeah, and you picked my son.
Speaker 1:What a Magneto thing to do.
Speaker 2:You picked my son, damn. So what's my last spot? What do I have to fill here?
Speaker 1:Oh, a physical guy, because Cyclops was an energy beast guy who's the funniest physical character you can take right now.
Speaker 2:A beast, would, low-key, be absolutely hilarious? I'm not. Unfortunately, beast is gonna have to go undrafted because I'm not taking beast strong guy. I'm not taking strong guy, right? No, it would be hilarious.
Speaker 1:No, I'm gonna take armor. I was thinking about taking armor earlier. It was when I was picking earlier. It was gonna be be between armor and morph, but I was like morph can just do the same thing that my other physical people can do. That's a good pick.
Speaker 2:I feel like she could maybe go toe-to-toe with the juggernaut.
Speaker 1:Be tough and push her to her limits, but that's a solid pick. I like that pick. Apocalypse.
Speaker 2:The last pick Do something crazy. Do something crazy. Apocalypse. He did do something crazy. He picked Mastermind. No, he's got another illusion. He also got an illusion, guy Yo.
Speaker 1:Yo Yo. What are you up to? Apocalypse, maybe the funniest, the funniest team that could have been picked. All right, so what's his full team?
Speaker 2:All right, so the full teams, the full rosters, magneto, we'll just top down.
Speaker 1:Okay, magneto, I got Rogue X23, quicksilver, morph, jean Grey, magic Domino, kitty Pryde, polaris, psylocke, gambit, avalanche and Legion. Pretty good, that's a Black Ops nightmare. Yeah, you would hate to see my team. You couldn't see my team, you wouldn't be able to see his team coming. And if all else fails, jean Grey, go murder everybody. And if that fails, legion, just murder, just murder everybody, legion, just kill everybody.
Speaker 2:My team is as follows wolverine, copycat, colossus. And who's my last physical guy? Oh, armor. Okay, my psychic, my psychic squad hope summer is my lauren, lauren, james, celine, cable and moon star. Psychic Squad Hope Summers my little Ron, the Ron James, selene, cable and Moonstar. And then my elementals are Havoc, bishop, sunspot and Storm, er and Cyclops. And then my other wild card was Storm, okay, so I ended up, weirdly enough, I ended up with a lot of X-Men.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you did. You got a lot of X-Men on your team, as Professor X, and then Professor X said I can change a lot of the ones that aren't good people.
Speaker 2:Apocalypse, you are cooking Apocalypse' team. Who did I say? His last psychic pick was, oh, mastermind, that's right. So Apocalypse has Juggernaut Sheesh, darwin Sheesh, deadpool Sheesh and Omega Red. Wow, and then for psychics it's Shadow King, nightcrawler, typhoid Mary and Mastermind.
Speaker 1:Dog. This team is kind of crazy.
Speaker 2:Not bad. And then the elemental team is Vulcan, banshee, firestar and.
Speaker 1:Sunfire and then Iceman as a secondary. He has the weakest Omega team but, like his regular mutants, Well, I told you he's trying to just destroy the Earth. Yeah, he's got no other plan besides absolute murder. That was fun, that was a lot of fun that was fun. That was mad fun. We should do that again with another team.
Speaker 2:We'll do it with the Avengers, or do you want to do it with the Justice League?
Speaker 1:Justice League's fun, maybe we should do that again with another team. We'll do with the avengers, or do you want to do it with the justice league? Justice league's fun, maybe we should do that with the justice league because james gunn's been he's been doing his yap fest peacemakers coming out in two days, peacemaker season two. So he's been like we're doing a super thing next and superman, and he's like who's to say superwoman? Who's to say supergirls? Who's to say super girls? Who's to say super something? Yeah, crypto, the super dog. Origin movie man.
Speaker 2:That was that was a lot of fun that was fun I just I think it's funny that we ended up with like type, like, not typecasting, but we like built our teams around like who the leader was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my whole team is like my whole team is people that like like total, like my. It's something to say that on my team the most like morally right person is kitty pride. Like that that's something to say. Everybody teeters the line on this team. And like you also can use the leader. That's why I'm afraid of apocalypse's team, because he also steps in. He's gonna bill russell this thing and also play that that was fun.
Speaker 2:man, that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think a fun DC one would be fun. Maybe we do like Amanda Waller. We do Amanda Waller would be good. Who else do we have in DC that can like? Maybe Darkseid Batman? I was thinking about Batman, but I think he should be on the board.
Speaker 2:He should be available to pick.
Speaker 1:So yeah, maybe we do. Yeah, maybe we do. Alfred, Just kidding Amanda Waller, we do like I don't know who do we got?
Speaker 2:I don't know. Justice League needs like a stand-in person. Maybe it has to be.
Speaker 1:Superman. We just take Superman off the board. Yeah, it probably has to be, and then maybe it's Superman and Batman get taken off the board.
Speaker 2:I thought you were, you know, retired.
Speaker 1:Retired, retired. Yeah, maybe Superman Batman. Maybe Superman Batman and Wonder Woman are the three. You just take them out. Yep, and they're the three leaders of the team, and then they draft the teams accordingly. With are the three leaders of the team, and then they draft the teams accordingly With the number one.
Speaker 2:Pick the question, Bro. Just be asking questions, Bro's a professional rage baiter.
Speaker 1:The most powerful member of the Justice League? The question.
Speaker 2:Like, but Someone knock this guy out please.
Speaker 1:I'm taking the Martian Manhunter number one pick. Overall that's a good number one pick.
Speaker 2:I had to pick Cyclops man yeah.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Notable undrafteds. Let's go down this list here. Angel did not get drafted no, who cares about Angel? Man Beast did not get drafted Nobody cares, the Blob did not get drafted. Dakin did not get drafted Nobody cares, the Blob did not get drafted.
Speaker 1:Dakin did not get drafted.
Speaker 2:We don't care. Multiple man did not get drafted, sabretooth didn't. Sabretooth and Mystique both.
Speaker 1:Mystique is probably pretty interesting.
Speaker 2:You left both your long-standing brotherhood of mutants off the board. We don't care. Nocturne did not get drafted, toad didn't get drafted. You are not loyal to your brother.
Speaker 1:I was thinking about Leech. I was genuinely thinking about taking Leech.
Speaker 2:Leech isn't bad, but Leech also, I think, is one of those things where he has to be there. He needs to be around you. If he gets close enough to Vulcan, he's just going to get vaporized. Blind Spot didn't get drafted.
Speaker 1:Negasonic Teenage.
Speaker 2:Warhead. Negasonic didn't get drafted. The Vanisher didn't get. The Vanisher did not get drafted. Come on, didn't draft Brad Pitt. Man Spyro didn't get drafted. The Dazzler didn't. Arrow didn't get drafted.
Speaker 1:Jubilee.
Speaker 2:Jubilee not getting drafted is pretty. And then the Omegas that did not end up getting drafted Cassandra Nova. Emma Frost was a good one. Emma Frost is a kid. Emma Frost, yeah, Emma Frost is tough.
Speaker 1:Kid Omega, those yeah, those are the Omegas that didn't get drafted Kid Omega's like come on man. Come on man. Why can't I be as famous as Superboy Prime?
Speaker 2:Man adding that extra wildcard rule I think is what actually caused Iceman Storm and Vulcan to all get drafted actually caused Iceman Storm and Vulcan to all get drafted Right, right, which is fun.
Speaker 1:That's actually good.
Speaker 2:I'm glad that we amended that, because I think if we had kept the three like if we just kept the three, I think it would have been Hope, jina and Legion, right, and then everyone else would have just been off the board, right. So I think the fact that we added that second wildcard spot to be an Omega is what caused the three elemental Omegas to get drafted. That was a lot of fun. Thank you, apocalypse, for showing up. Don't destroy the Earth, please. I'm gonna do it. He's gonna destroy the Earth. He picked Vulcan and Iceman. He's gonna freeze the Earth and then he's gonna shatter it With his own bear, With the power of the Juggernaut no, he's gonna use havoc.
Speaker 2:No, no, not having, he's gonna use banshee to do it freeze the entire thing and destroy it, and then it's just apocalypse darwin and deadpool just chilling at the end of time, and then the scarlet witch has to come in and fix it no franklin richards is there like come on guys, come on, we knew this was you knew you knew letting apocalypse in a draft was gonna to cause this. Yeah.
Speaker 1:If we did, if and when we do an Avengers one, I think it should be probably Nick Fury. Oh, yeah, nick Fury. Yeah, nick Fury, probably.
Speaker 2:Apocalypse again?
Speaker 1:No, Nick Fury, you would probably do Doctor Doom. I thought I had, you'd probably do Nick Fury, dr Doom and maybe Kang. Oh, can we not do that? Oh, come on. Probably Loki, oh, maybe. Oh, you know what would be fun? Ant-man, no, no, no. Ultron, ooh Ultron. Dr Doom and Nick Fury. I feel like I don't want two villains there, like you probably need to have somebody that's a good person.
Speaker 2:Captain America no, he's got to be draftable, so that he can not be drafted. He's going late. The same way, cyclops went late.
Speaker 1:The Watcher the Watcher Nick Fury and Doctor Doom. The Watcher, captain Carter no. End the show. Any mentions of Captain Carter immediately ends the show that's the rules.
Speaker 2:That was a lot of fun. I didn't think I was going to have to think as hard as I ended up thinking.
Speaker 1:No wonder everybody hates the X-Men we should have done a team with William.
Speaker 2:Stryker. Stryker was my original slot and then I did Apocalypse and said I can't believe I drafted Moonstar For need? I was like, wait, you're looking at Moonstar. I drafted Moonstar specifically to screw with Apocalypse. And then he drafted an Illusion guy. He drafted Mastermind. The fact that Mastermind got drafted and Beast didn't is Beast is at home, just Forge and Beast can't. Beast is at home, just Forge and Beast can hang out together at home.
Speaker 2:We can pick you up in free agency. Yeah, someone dies. Come on, beast, get in here. You're on the team. All right, guys, that was fun Socials. You can follow us on Twitter at ProjectAnif underscore pod. You can follow us on Facebook. You can follow us on Instagram At you can follow us on twitter at project nf underscore pod. You can follow us on facebook. You can follow us on instagram at the project infinite pod. Next week, I don't know who knows, I don't know. We kind of came up with this on the fly, so we'll come up with something else on the fly maybe we'll review something of some sorts.
Speaker 1:We haven't talked about sinners. Haven't talked about sinners, probably.
Speaker 2:I still think that's the best film of this year oh yeah, probably we still have peacemaker comes out this week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, talk some Peacemaker.
Speaker 2:So we definitely do that, but cool From me and from I mean the Magneto of the podcast. This is the easiest one. He got to be Magneto. The whole episode. This is great. Enough. Enough, Bro. Could turn the whole world off.
Speaker 1:Nobody's drafted Silver Samurai.
Speaker 2:He's not immune, but it's still funny. Silver Samurai, how'd you get in here? Alright, guys From Professor X and Magneto, the Professor X and Magneto of the podcast. Thank you, apocalypse, for sitting down with us. That's a good Apocalypse voice.
Speaker 1:Maybe I could get cast as Apocalypse. And Sabanor, oh dear, you're welcome. That's a good Apocalypse voice.
Speaker 2:Maybe I could get cast as Apocalypse and Sabanor, oh dear. No, that's why we needed Beast to get drafted, since Iceman destroys the Earth.
Speaker 1:No Beast should have got drafted by Apocalypse. He would have been like oh dear, what's his Apocalypse upgrade? He just gets turned into a bigger beast man.
Speaker 2:I can't believe I saved Cyclops from the undrafted pool. I had to. It's Jador Sanders. He was the last one in his family to get drafted. That's crazy, yeah, disgusting. All right, guys, we'll see you next week, for maybe Peacemaker. Until then, goodbye, peacemaker.
