Icon: appropriate, actually!
So last night I rewatched the first two X-Men movies to see them in the context of First Class, and my parents ended up joining for the last hour of the second one, and then I got to do an impromptu lecture on Jean Gray. Because my dad didn't find her part in the ending believable. ("None of the others could have fixed the plane? The one who makes whirlwinds couldn't have gotten them up in the air?") So, hey, SUMMARIZE THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA IN ONE SENTENCE GO, (DAD: "Superhero deaths are never interesting because they always come back" ME: "NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HER FIRST DEATH WAS SPECIAL at least initially") and then I realized that was, in fact, the nerdiest thing I have ever done. I don't even like Jean Gray all that much. I haven't read those comics in years. And yet I 1) still remember all of them and 2) will defend them to the death. I wasn't even born when they came out. What the hell, self.
At least I manfully resisted giving them the complete history of Shadowcat. And Colossus. And the precedent for Wolverine having endless little-sister figures and how Mystique is semi-canonically bisexual and why the character design differences between comics!Mystique and comics!Nightcrawler and their movie versions were so intriguing and and and WHEN I WAS FOURTEEN THESE THINGS WERE MY LIFE, OKAY
so now I am going to reread every Claremont volume I can find in the house and drown in nostalgia. yes. that is a good plan.
At least I manfully resisted giving them the complete history of Shadowcat. And Colossus. And the precedent for Wolverine having endless little-sister figures and how Mystique is semi-canonically bisexual and why the character design differences between comics!Mystique and comics!Nightcrawler and their movie versions were so intriguing and and and WHEN I WAS FOURTEEN THESE THINGS WERE MY LIFE, OKAY
so now I am going to reread every Claremont volume I can find in the house and drown in nostalgia. yes. that is a good plan.