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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so you're leaving too professor
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professor I'm over here you vow to never
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read without permission I'm handicapped
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Scott I can't see you I'm psychically
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talking with you just for no reason
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particular I do he wants me to meet him
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someplace in Canada in said he had
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information concerning Brotherhood I'm
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guessing it has
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something clearly
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I'm you're just saying things no psychic
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shut up I need to do this
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alone it's like Scott you're off the
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team if you aren't going to cooperate
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say hello to Alex for
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me take a couple laps and hit the
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showers so hey everybody uh here with
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Gummy Joe and Anaconda rifle
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again and James
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man and their Cyclops and he's just
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getting his ass whooped by a patrol
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drone by mous are in the abandoned
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Weapon X facility to go meet Scott's
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brother Alex
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Havoc dancing so hard to this
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music and yeah those Patrol drones don't
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really do anything so I ran past a whole
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bunch
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of cut out the running bit and got to
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some action
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here these are like little power Towers
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towers of power that you have to blast
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with your laser and power them up to
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open up doors and there's an experience
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bonus
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chunk yes that's exactly how power
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conduits work we shoot them with I beams
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it's the X-Men way shoot It smash it
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kill it bash
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it toally radical man check out all
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these mousers cowabanga
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yeah they really do remind me of the
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mousers from like the arcade game Ninja
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Turtles arcade game cuz they're just
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mild inconvenience instead of like a
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real
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threat see he just stands there and lets
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me kill him just like how with the mouss
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came out you just kind of stand in front
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of the hole and hit them as they come
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out and they die their operating system
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must be uh Mac based
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ha and then there's a mysty opponent up
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there hello Big Brother
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Alex or should I say Havoc no Alex Works
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F or I answered to either name should I
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call you you bring your
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sister he's doing that thing like you
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asked call you creepy Uncle I thought
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your whole group was joined at the
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hit oh that one time what is this
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place it's an Annex for dep that one
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time we were actually joined at the HP
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by Arcade you make running a secret
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facility here something to do with
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mutants did that actually happen I have
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no idea but that would be sure tab it it
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sounds like something that arcade
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protecting Magneto from radiation at the
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Russian nuclear plant then again my only
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experience with arcade is in the
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Spider-Man the X-Men video game Super
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Nintendo but joining up with that bunch
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is and he's just a that's such a hard
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game you say that the most
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deadly seen for yourself that humanity
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is nothing but a bunch of
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animals mom and dad were human with
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animals yes clearly and what would they
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think of you joining the
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Brotherhood Mom and Dad weren't even in
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our lives Scott they dropped the ball
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just like
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you go to hell Alex you first Big
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Brother you first big brother no you
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you what gives you should be when he
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says that it reminds me of um Yu-Gi-Oh
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The Bridge series and you should have
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been
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KN Go Big Brother remember bone you just
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admitted you watch Yu-Gi-Oh you fine by
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me I don't need plasma to down a no I
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don't watch Yu-Gi-Oh I watch Yu-Gi-Oh
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the abridge series it's funny uhhuh it's
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comedy it makes fun of
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Yu-Gi-Oh ohy behind some reason this
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Argy things work on you
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now yeah as was said um they're siblings
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so for some reason their powers don't
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work on each other however Havoc still
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pushes you back and cyclops's optic
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blast doesn't do anything so you have to
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use the tactics ability power yourself
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up for stronger melee attacks and Bash
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the [ __ ] out of
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them and this is not one of Havoc mutant
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abilities teleporting behind it's just
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the game the game deciding that he has
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gone he's ran away and he needs to come
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back so he just see the obvious way to
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beat this particular ability of his
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would be to have people stand you know
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back to back so they can teleport behind
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you
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thanks for playing you two ladies for
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just having oldfashioned
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duel you said you two homos done homing
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it up I did Wolverine did you more
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minutes Wolverine you Sumer I think it's
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pretty obvious Wolverine follow Scott
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you no I came here on my
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own
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why because little Alex here is right so
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I did follow you there just some more
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continuity stuff going on here this is
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happening at the same time as the astral
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plane missiona to start things up
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Professor X said Scott was in charge
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while they were in the astral plane
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Scott's here prior to this Wolverine
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left when he found out that there was
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stuff going on at the old Weapon X
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facility they should all know what's
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[ __ ] going on and they don't
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something happened at the old weap X
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facility it's a pitch forit
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go it's like Scooby-Doo should
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be T me
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old man they'll find Sabertooth but it
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turns out to be old man Winters in a
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sabertooth
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mask that I would have call away with a
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t one for you medling
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mutants I powered up through walk that
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should be something to watch come on
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let's go see who else wants to play
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rough and then Beast would be
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Scooby oh
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oh man would be Shaggy so wait um in an
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earlier video you were talking about how
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Beast became a kitty cat yes so what's
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this all about yeah first of all what's
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the second mutation cuz you mentioned
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that too what is that all about
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basically every mutant has like a latent
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second mutation like a secondary
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mutation that can or can may or may not
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occur at some point in their life for no
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reason particular or
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whatever and and like for instance in
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the case of Emma Frost the White Queen
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who saw elsewhere up you know her first
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mutation was she developed uh psychic
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powers and then her second mutation was
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that she was able to grow like this
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diamond skin detective deal okay which
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she has both of those powers in this has
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both those
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powers and beast is just you know
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becoming more more furry and cute
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basically that
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his uh the old con
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traditionist goty into wall have him
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stick out
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yeah so uh Beast started out as a human
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but he had uh like big arms and legs or
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big hands and feet and then um he did
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something to himself and he grew blue
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fur we'll do he had to take like a
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something colloidal silver or
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something yeah he uh was bitten by a let
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see what you got bitten by the Cookie
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Monster so every full turns into
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a how about some help but uh yeah then
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it's like something else happened and
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now he looks more FAL looks more like a
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cat he's very Kitty he's Kitty very
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kitty
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yeah and um let's see who else Angel got
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secondary mutation where his blood would
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heal people
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yeah and I think Rog got a secondary
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mutation uh does that sound right not
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sure
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I read something where like she could
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recall powers that she absorbed do that
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oh that's
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cool so she became kind of like
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mimic that might have been in a
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different uh a different situation
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but something along those lines I
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thought Cyclops got a secondary mutation
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where um he started tapping on the frost
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Jean Gray died like again he started not
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caring about like everybody else he got
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fed up with it and started looking for
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some other
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booty M
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booty hell
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yeah psychic booty man ain't nothing
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like
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it she can be and do whatever you want
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she can do even she's not she she can
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make you think she's doing whatever Lu
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exactly
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[Music]
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and really it's all men right just the
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illusion of something hot going down got
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it yeah I could imagine Cyclops being
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like so wait a minute all those times
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that we were having that hot kinky sex
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we weren't actually doing that I was
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just lying there which is like pretty
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much yeah I was St to knitting I was
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knitting I I mean I was knitting wait a
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minute you're not even a woman are you
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no my name is
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Stan my name is emit Frost
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and I'm from Alabama
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right Leon
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Frost I go around spreading
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love combo there Pro there's probably
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been mutants that like could change
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their appearance and there was probably
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like a guy that L their life is
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moment you mean like
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Mystique yeah but like a male version of
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Mystique
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Life as a
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woman I don't know if that's actually
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happened yet or not but uh I don't
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know amazing Canadian accents going on
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here yeah I'm going to teach you a
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lesson
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Beauty yeah the uh The Voice samples
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really could have used a little more
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variety combo you're in Russia it's the
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same voices you're in New York it's the
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same
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so wait does every like evil
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organization have their local troops I
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just assume they just fly their big evil
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plane around with all their their troops
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and just take them with them like they
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have a like a cruiser boat so I don't
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know [ __ ] evil organizations they can
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do whatever they want like deploy from
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the
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volcano you a't
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get just like BS him
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in what's going on down here bus
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we com to get
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you meanwhile psyop are struggle with a
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blown a pipe stay near me yeah
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Wolverine's up there fighting those
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dudes and cyclops and Havoc blow up a
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pipe and then stand in the front that's
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that's all
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right time you freaks Lear
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L people want to teach us lessons
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they're very very angry
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teachers okay what the hell is 7 time 9
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it's this many heads up people that's
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right I love the uh the little
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electrified boxing gloves it's not
12:12
enough to give them electrified batons
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now they have like little Hulk hands all
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right good
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stuff havic where are
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you that is clearly not a joke that was
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said the first time around when I forgot
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to start the recording I no this is the
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only we've ever done yes this is uh this
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is absolutely uh
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door I'm going to start predicting the
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future watch me notice Havoc is missing
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here but wait I bet he's going to pop up
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right now need a hand I mean now a you
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got punk there there there he
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is yeah we'll do you do one Dam
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it is a nice touch though that um that
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Havoc like tags along and actually
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fights
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Powers Yeah you can't
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control
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it's in their Lo thing of nameless
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drones yes the Gen Tendencies towards
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namess
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drones but I mean it's interesting
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because uh the Developers went through
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trouble of having something like that
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like hey let's have Havoc show up and
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tag along and use his powers but then
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like they couldn't come up with more
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than one type of human enemy to deal
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with it's kind of messed
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up but hey here's a scientist and he has
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an astral gate yes which lets non
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psychic mutants into the astral plane
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allows non psychic people to enter the
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astral plane
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yes that would be very
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useful yes it would be very useful this
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seems unusually verbos
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forine by
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way never Reit
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position psyclops like uh I'm sorry I
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should have known that in my X-Men
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manual I don't have enough power
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psyclops we now acquired an astral gate
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Charles
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and um one thing to note we have Scott
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Summers and Alex Summers but they're not
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the only two Summers brothers are
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they uh
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vulin yes vul yes read the wiki
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article I don't know too much about him
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I just know he's another Summers brother
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and he's uh kind of a dick you're lucky
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you're still
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breathing have a power that's
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neutralized by the other too or well
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they're all neutr doing wor my time
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apparently like his powers work on them
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just
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fine
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really from what I read that's kind of
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funny it was my understanding that
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siblings that were mutant typically
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their powers were nullified against each
15:18
other but I gu matter if you're they non
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mutant so I guess that only works if
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there's only two of them if there's
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three then it's just like you know all
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or may if you're also a mutant maybe
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it's a rock paper scissors thing
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yes who's
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next so Alex would be
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scissors and then V would
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fck see I Vulcan apparently spends a lot
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of time in space just chilling
15:54
loed and Havoc is in space just fighting
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them and Cyclops wants none of that and
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I don't blame them because anytime
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anything happens in space and the com
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sucks according wi he's an Omega Level
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energy manipulating and absor or he has
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uh Omega Level o Omega Level and you
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know once in it's like just I'm
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done here is an Omega done I don't care
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just done too much too confusing
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I tried to read White
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bio time you fre learn White bio on
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Wikipedia I Tried reading that it's like
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no no not no you Ain Get Enough from
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that I don't know and I was like what my
16:45
jaw just dropped I started vacantly
16:48
staring in space and I tried to read
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about
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Ilana uh colossus's
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sister and it's like no no no no
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she was like uh she was a little kid and
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then she got sent to limbo or something
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and then she was rapidly aged like 10
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years that they stop you're making me
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fall asleep please
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yeah just
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stop it's uh pretty bad it's that's why
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I like the Ultimate Universe cuz it's
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kind of like a fresh start yeah this
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totally
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basically and they'll still manage to
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[ __ ] it up if they haven't already
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oh they they're [ __ ] out Speak oh
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thank you thank you I was the next on
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the test list okay every time out's
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Morlock is
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talking justang stop fighting oh I'm
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going to get you mutants good sty tree
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is
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done who's doing this department H
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Canadian Secret Service would anybody
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like a water or something I'm pretty
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sure the general who that soldier on the
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right part of something called operation
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vigilance he's also in the uh in the
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wrong Universe General K Cade he's the
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cold blooded monster in charge of the
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slaughter
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house think of like said he was going to
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make sure we never threaten is kind of
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dressing to as to know in particular
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just kind of speaking as an aside it's
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very dramatic I'm just glad he left look
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at box Horrors I've seen that man commit
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the horrors that I've he rented space
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buddies and made us all watch it it was
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horrible
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I'm doing the moonwalk I'm doing the
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moonwalk I'm doing the
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moon a lesson I know I look tight oh God
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head up
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people yeah yeah you learned a lesson I
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get it whatever shut up I was next on
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the I was next on the test list it was
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going to be Beverly Hills
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Chihuahua
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oh oh yeah painful painful memories I I
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forgot that
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existed let's head back to theion if you
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punch an NPC while he's talking does he
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stutter stop I'm not going with you
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unfortunately you can't punch because
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you're part of the the game does a lot
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of stuttering on its own unfortunately
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it cut out Scot in the middle of the
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dialog the respect they
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deserve no punching required just hey uh
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it's
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Tuesday hadn't been there then you plan
19:27
you and your friends visited would have
19:29
had a meltdown thousands of people would
19:31
have died think that would have gotten
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you respect yes I didn't know the
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reactor had been Dam yes damn you Scott
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you your mind games a war for our like
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those dudes took out a [ __ ] nuclear
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reactor with their bare hands that's
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awesome and you're never going to
19:48
understand who are those dudes let's
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book them for a guest spot on Saturday
19:51
Night Live let him go psych can't be any
19:54
worse than the rest of their guest stars
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