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Mission 5 - X-Men Legends
by Jamesman
Publication date 2009
Publisher Let's Play Archive
In the fall of 2004, Activision released the Raven Software-developed X-Men Legends on multiple platforms.
An interesting take on the "comic book game" genre, XML is an action RPG, in which you create 4-person teams from the 14 playable characters, and earn experience and money to increase their abilities.
Storywise, the game's focus is on "new" character Alison Crestmere, who is of interest to both the Brotherhood of Mutants and the X-Men. She's mostly just an excuse to shoehorn character backstories into the game with some groan-worthy writing, and you're rarely (if ever) required to use her in missions.
Speaking of missions, they can get quite long. I'm doing my best to have efficient playthroughs of each mission, and I also intend to have updates consist of multiple videos covering each mission. Because of this, updates may not be too frequent.
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Wolverine Wolverine okay it's time to
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start the uh nuclear plant mission and
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I've got gummy Joe with me again hey
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everybody and this is the team he picked
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so blame him for this we got Wolverine
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mag Jubilee and
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storm and Wolverine just buffed up his
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strike magma a little bit of focus
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little bit of strike Jubilee a whole lot
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of focus and storm a little bit of
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focus so we've been using Wolverine and
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doesn't have too much to alter but it's
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been a while for magma this is her first
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onfield mission so just buff up the lava
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fissure fiery form
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and some erupting rage to make her melee
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attacks even
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stronger and uh
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yeah the fun like the um that erupting
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rage adds fire damage which is energy
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damage to her melee attacks so she can
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handle people that are physical
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resistant and people that are energy
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resistant it's pretty good that's pretty
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cool yeah and I've got storms uh
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lightning up to the second form which is
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like a chain
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lightning which is devastating and I
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gave her Whirlwind because need it photo
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flash yes yep because Jubilee likes her
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pictures yeah Ser photo flash flash just
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sounds yeah yeah but uh photo flash is
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actually pretty handy for crowd control
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it confuses enemies which kind of just
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stuns them and then bait and taunt it
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actually
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taunts the enemy into attacking you but
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it also reduces their damage by a
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significant
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amount and then she got for her ultimate
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that's
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amazing say welcome to
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Earth and then I just uh gave her some
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points into her fireworks the energy
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burst because she doesn't have any other
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offensive skill right then I just got to
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set the AI powers and give everybody
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some nice new
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equipment DNA generators for everyone
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hoay comes in very handy for people that
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use a lot of energy which is basically
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all three of these guys except for
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Wolverine Wolverine yep and he's got the
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muscle accelerator to make him faster
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and
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tougher and now watch Jubilee when you
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send her off
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okay oh God that's that's her uh ready
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to fight
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pose okay let's go she's like woo I'm
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sure let's go kill people all
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right so yeah the story here is that the
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Brotherhood attacked a nuclear plant and
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we're going to save it by killing people
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please please of course just like how he
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saved the batt ship last time
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yeah and now there's some more hilarious
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accents I think they have gone all
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except for the metal one that's right
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just in case you forgot we were in
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Russia here's uh Russia he wears a
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uniform much like yours but he is russan
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like me in Soviet Russia nuclear
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facility run
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you no doubt eating it like a bear with
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in Soviet Russia Man
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Iron so there is a little there that
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Colossus must be
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here and these are the nuclear guards
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which are just like every other freaking
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guard in the
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game it sound exactly the same too yep
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they hate mutants they got guns and
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electric batons and just pains in the
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asses like everybody
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else but we won't be dealing with them
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for too long says
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different exactly yes yeah I'm surprised
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that they didn't record Uh Russian
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accents like freeze
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muy you're going down mutant actually
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that's in Soviet Russia mutant hates
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you so yeah I dropped down there picked
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up a danger room disc uh and flew back
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up there's stairs to get back up but you
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know why walk when you can fly yeah
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flying is fun why use your legs when you
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can just Flo around take gets to the
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point much L on well not much later but
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down the line where you can basically
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equip storm and for other people so well
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that you can fly indefinitely her energy
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won't drain fast enough and that's
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always very fun for
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traveling X-Men keep together so yeah
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that uh that chain lightning was pretty
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sick right there yeah you don't even
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really have to direct it at anything
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it's just hit it and anybody nearby
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pretty much dies bless it how's
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lightning getting in here though that's
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my question yeah it's uh just
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magic just magically appears in the roof
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like here we are in an unstable nuclear
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reactor time to just Spam lightning
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glass just throw electricity off the
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damn place and exploding you know
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subatomic fireworks and well magma guy
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that likes to cut stuff up and summon
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fire fissures so really we could have
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picked a worst team for you going into
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nuclear power back take this is just how
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the X-Men
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work so yeah Magma's not quite as strong
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as Wolverine for the physical damage or
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for storm with the energy damage but she
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comes in handy enough you can see that
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little flame trail from her additional
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melee damage right and then she buils
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Bridges with the lava
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fissure but then when it comes down to
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just basically melee fighting she is
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pretty decent I mean she takes the guys
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out well enough just her additional mov
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Powers aren't quite up to
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speed that electrical Bridge is a pain
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in the ass because when the thing is up
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the bridge is electrified and hurt you
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so you just got to run past and call
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your team over and hope they don't
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die oh how nice yeah because that's
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that's that makes sense in a nuclear
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reactor right right I just have
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electrical Bridges everywhere sure
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even I must go use bathroom well you
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make sure to wait for bridge to stop
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being
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electrified oh and also watch out for
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the uh fire traps and the Shark Tank and
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uh yeah and the bridge that needs to be
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built with fire Tak after the bridge
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that doesn't
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exist so I'm in the fiery form here and
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time you freaks learned a Lon it's for
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damage introduction but against these
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guys there's just not too much to worry
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about they're just a whole bunch of
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little [ __ ] but now I'm going to use
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Jubilee
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yeah okay TR TR
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TR and I'm done with her so I hope you
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enjoy that oh in all seriousness uh
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Jubilee is an okay character in this
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game she's just almost strictly a
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support character with her photo flash
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and the bait and everything she's just
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okay not a character you really
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control but she's not too bad to have on
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a
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team and her fireworks are just like the
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flame things for magma or the ice things
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for icean
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right but fireworks or paths as I
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believe she calls them in the uh Comics
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yeah paths fireworks that's
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the just like uh Wolverine snicked when
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it's CLS come out well no matter what
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you call it though it still sucks it
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still suck yeah I mean she's basically
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the only thing she's ever done you know
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of a you know something anything that
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the only thing she's really done that's
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impressive is she blew up a house
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once and blew up a sentinel's head and
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that's pretty much extent of it but now
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she has big tits so that's she's got
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that for her now did she actually do
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those things with her powers or did did
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she uh no she actually did those with
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her powers yeah like she uh she thought
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Wolverine was dead and like it was days
9:06
of Vengeance comar and she got kidnapped
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and she's dressed up in a
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kimono I'm not making this get kidnapped
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no she got kidnapped she got dressed up
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by kimono and then she thought Wolverine
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was killed so she kind of lost it for a
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bit and blew up a house in her uh shock
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and
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anger okay I guess that's all right now
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you see here we're fighting not the
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Brotherhood but the
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acolytes that's a step up and that green
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guy was an acolyte master or something
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he basically works just like the Morlock
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Goths where he'll resurrect
9:45
people let's keep together
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guys Jubilee trying got to H that
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control
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cute so earlier we'll do okay the uh the
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labtech earlier said that we had to
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activate cooling pumps to help prevent
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the reactor from going
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nuclear wow magma flinks around lav yeah
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this makes
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sense
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yes just more blasty blasty
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com see Jubilee is all right but the
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problem is I said her support stuff
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comes in handy but the main problem is
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that other characters will kill the
10:30
enemies before her abilities really
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become
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useful and drop down here and pick up a
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comic so this this is your fault that
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I'm using her J yeah yeah I know I I
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stand by by choice yes but you should
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feel
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bad no I don't really feel bad because
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I'm not playing you're the one who go
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combo just wait got it I'm going to send
11:01
you a PS2 and a copy of this game and
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make you play
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it
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and done yep and we need a bridge to be
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built
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combo electric sparklers that's a great
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combo name
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Elric
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[Music]
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CL
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fabulous yep I went back to an alternate
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timeline where she didn't die ah Marvel
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universe is tricky like
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that I am the Watcher I see things that
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cannot be seen what if magma had not
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died in the nuclear power plant in
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Russia what if Magma's voice wasn't so
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braiding