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Intermission 2: Mansion Exploration
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Jun 3, 2025
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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[Music]
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it's been two days now since I came to
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the Institute I still haven't decided
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whether I want to stay or not but Bobby
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Drake sure makes it seem awfully
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inviting it was exciting hearing about
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the X-Men's Adventures at the facility
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in
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Alaska part of me wishes I could have
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gone with
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them I guess I'm getting caught up in
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all this X-Men superhero
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business we're back at the Mansion again
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and we're back in control of Allison
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crestmere now as you can see we're
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outside for the first time nice big
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Olympic siiz swimming pool and Iceman is
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just staring at it hello
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you're looking most excellent today but
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then you look most excellent every
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day
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you can you tell me anything more about
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the X-Men's trip to the harp
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facility yeah I guess there was a lot of
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equipment at the facility that had
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nothing to do with studying the Aurora
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Borealis so if they aren't studying the
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sky what are they
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doing Professor X thinks the government
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might be using it as a high-tech
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headquarters for storing sensitive
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information stuff they don't want
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regular people to know about you know
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things like Area 51 the man on the
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grassy null old disco songs from the
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7s who is that toad guy they brought
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back toad he's a member of the
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Brotherhood the Brotherhood is he
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dangerous only to himself the
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Brotherhood treats him like a court
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jester always playing tricks on him why
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he puts up with all their abuse is
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beyond me
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I heard someone say toad mentioned
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Sentinels what's a sentinel they're
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mutant hunting machines but the
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government shut that program down years
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ago I'm sure Toad's just talking
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smack see you later Bobby see you later
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beautiful oh you Iceman you in
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your
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ear now here's a nice touch there's a
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whole bunch of students around the
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mansion now cuz I guess school's in
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session let's talk to one now who's
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apparently dressed like a
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prostitute and as you can see there are
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no voices for these
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conversations so I'll provide voices
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myself it might be in his
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study I may be the sub basement with
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cerebro are in the danger room control
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room he's been in the sub basement a lot
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lately I think he's pretty worried about
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stopping the
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Brotherhood yeah I'm not that that's
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pretty much all you're
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getting yeah do doing voices is usually
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not a good idea for
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LPS but you can just talk to them and
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have some generic conversations there is
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one set of students that do provide some
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interesting dialogue
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though and these guys are just
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explaining what Professor X does and the
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short answer is not much I mean he uses
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his magic brain powers to do stuff and
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he's kind of like the spokesperson for
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mutant human
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relations but he in the end he's a
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now this is what I was talking
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about here there's Danny
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hi
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Danny
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now he uh says keep away from humans d d
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du he's kidding then he makes a
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reference to General
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cancade then you can ask about General
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Kincade and you find out that he was a
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military leader his wife was killed by a
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mutant he went
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nuts but he's been released and he he's
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got an anti-mutant
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agenda and all that kind of fun
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stuff ah interesting kind of maybe who
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knows it's just one of life's many
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Mysteries now as you can see here this
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is the way up to the
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mansion few more students over
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here there's Janice she knows who
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Allison is because everybody has to know
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who Allison is because she's the main
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character apparently and it's
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really stupid because she's just
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terrible at
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everything now they talk about what it's
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like to be at the school and it's
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nothing like say by the Bell and
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therefore it's pointless and then
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there's Bobby Drake talk about him oh
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Allison likes Bobby Drake Fire and Ice
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haahaa
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you God
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you now here's some dialogue coming up
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where the characters actually speak for
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themselves and regular
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voices to be honest I kind of like it
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when Allison doesn't have a voice actor
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because I hate Cree Summer so much but
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look at this Jubilee mother
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Jubilee hey you're that new girl
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everyone's talking about what's your
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name
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again I'm Allison crestmere I got here
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just a few days
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ago right good to meet you
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Alison and you are the name is
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Jubilation Lee but everyone around here
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calls me
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Jubilee oh
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cool yeah well I wanted to be called
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Rogue but that code name was already
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taken really
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no not
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really okay that sets the tone for this
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whole goddamn dialogue session just so
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you know where are you from I was born
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in Beverly Hills California then my
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parents died so I spent some time at a
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juvie hall in LA but I had a lot of
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run-ins with a management so I took off
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and lived in a Hollywood
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mall that must have been
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terrible yeah it was kind of a rough
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time but the mall was cool I mean you
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know I swiped whatever I needed and I
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got real good at keeping two steps ahead
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of those layo security
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guards then the mall went and hired a
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bunch of mutant Hunters to track me down
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luckily storm psylock Rogue and dazzler
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were shopping there that
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day women
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shopping so you're a
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mutant nah I'm the
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gardener oh my mistake you look like a
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student
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jeez Alison you'll believe anything
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won't
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you hey I'm new here I don't know
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anybody or anything you dumb okay
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okay cool your jets I'm just playing
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with you of course I'm a
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mutant God damn it I hate you Allison
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kesmir what's your mutant power I
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generate this really bright energy from
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my hands it's great for temporarily
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blinding people and what's even cooler
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is I can make it explode
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no
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way yep I call them
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fireworks so what's your mutant
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power I can make people's heads
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explode oh wow
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really no not
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really you so much good
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one yeah looks like you and me are going
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to get along just fine
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I'll see you later juvilee see you
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around
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Alison and that's all there is to do out
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here you can go exploring the the
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grounds but it's just a whole lot of
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that kind of grass and there's a
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basketball court and a tennis court but
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nothing to do there yet so let's go
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inside there's a whole bunch of students
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in here too let's go to the study and
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check out some of those comic books we
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got
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huh a thousand pardons I did not mean to
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scare you and here's night crawler who
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just pops out of nowhere and gets old
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German on us who are
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you my name is Kur vogner but normally I
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use the name night
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CER that's a very cool
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name d that was my performing name when
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I was a famous acrobat known all over
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Germany perhaps you have heard of
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me no I can't say that I
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have pity I do so love the
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spotlight but perhaps what i l the most
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was people's assumption that I was just
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a regular human dressed in a devil's
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costume that trick of yours is pretty
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neat how does it work it is
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teleportation at first I could only
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teleport a few meet us but the more I
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practice the farther I can
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transport wow you can travel
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anywhere almost I must be able to see
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the place I am teleporting to otherwise
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I might appear in a wall or tree which
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would be most
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disagreeable could you tell me about the
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Sentinels Sentinels are pure evil in
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mechanized form for a Time the the
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government funded a program that built
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those mutant killing
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machines how do Sentinels
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work they are programmed to scan for
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mutant DNA and then kill any and all
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mutants their shielding and weapons were
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built to withstand Albert's the most
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powerful
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attacks I have battled them before but
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God protect me should I ever have to
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again what's it like fighting a sentinel
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H it is terrible I remember one battle
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in particular the X-Men were summoned to
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New York to help a friend in
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trouble you've mentioned God several
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times it seems kind of odd that you look
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like you do and yet you're
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religious yeah I have heard that many
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times but my belief in God is my
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greatest strength for you see muscle may
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be able to move mountains but faith can
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lift an entire
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civilization bye Nightcrawler Alan
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Allison as you saw talking to him about
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Sentinels opened up a sentinel flashback
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that is a little submission that you go
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through with a set team of characters
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it's pretty cool but you're not going to
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see it here that'll be a separate
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video now let's check out our Comics now
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we got a cyclops
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comic which adds bonuses and an Iceman
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comic which adds
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bonuses oh look at that Iceman or
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Cyclops trying his best to be
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cool but still
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failing at
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everything now here's Iceman okay
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there it is Iceman
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[Music]
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looking who the drew that he looks
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like a goddamn anime
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character ah boy
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okay now there's nothing else really to
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do here you can kind of wander around
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and see some more
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students but that's about it there's no
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other
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dialogue so let's head
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upstairs where there is also nobody to
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talk to however right here on this
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balcony is a danger room
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disc and from here we can take this
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elevator to the sub
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basement and before we go too far let's
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go to the
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brig and see toad there he is hold up in
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his containment area Let's uh talk to
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him because being in the vicinity of of
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bad guys is great for
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Allison hello little girl come to talk
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to toad have
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you I I don't know if I
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should come now dear surely you're not
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frightened of poor
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ooto no I'm not afraid of you she's
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afraid of her own
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stupidity is Toad really your name see n
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my real name's more than a to be but
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they call me toad cuz how I look say
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would you mind let me out of here for a
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few ticks just to stretch my
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legs not if you gave me a million
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dollars oh come on now I promise to be
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good you have no idea how surprised I am
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that she didn't let him
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out why do you put up with all that
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abuse from the Brotherhood
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you see the Brotherhood took me in when
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no one else would they're me family and
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I'm sticking with them no matter how
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many times Sals ditch
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me but you could leave the Brotherhood
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and maybe even join the
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X-Men me an
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X-Men that'll happen the day the devil
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needs a snow shavel H so how's about
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opening this cell it's Mighty cramped in
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here there's no way I'm letting you
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out so that last little bit was kind of
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funny because toad actually does leave
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the Brotherhood and join the X-Men in
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the ultimate X-Men
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Universe how about that him and cyclops
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are actually
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friends what is the Brotherhood want
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with
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me I wish I could tell you love but I
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don't know nothing cross me heart and
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hope to
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die you know if you give me some
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information I'd speak to Professor
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Xavier about letting you out of there
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for a little
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bit oh in that case Mystique wanted you
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as part of some planers and when she
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couldn't snatch you away she was plenty
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mad well that's all I really
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know uh so stupidity is the best weapon
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against
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stupidity I'm leaving I'm sure there's
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something else I should be
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doing do talk to the professor see if he
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could find it in his heart to let poor
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Old Toad go
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free I love the Accents in this game
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yeah toad with his overly English
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Cockney accent you got Nightcrawler with
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the overly German Rogue with the overly
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Southern and Allison with the overly
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annoying
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and speaking of annoying here
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Cyclops Allison I didn't mean to spy on
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you but surveillance camera showed you
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were talking with
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toad I didn't mean to do anything wrong
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should I not talk to
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toad I suppose it's okay but you have to
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be very careful toad can be sneaky when
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the mood suits
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him yeah he seems to think he can talk
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me into letting him out of the
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brig I said he was sneaky not bright and
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Allison is
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neither who was that woman who tried to
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kidnap me in New York City her name is
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Raven darkholm but she currently calls
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herself Mystique she's a very talented
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shape shifter and can assume the form of
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anyone she sees for all I know right now
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you could be Mystique in
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Disguise don't worry I'm pretty sure
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you're
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you is she in charge of the
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Brotherhood she's really more of a
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second in command but for the the past
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few years yeah she's been in
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control why did Mystique come after me
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Professor Xavier is convinced that
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mystique and the
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brother but what
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you why did Mystique come after me
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Professor Xavier is convinced that
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mystique and the
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brother why did m Mystique come after me
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Professor Xavier is convinced that
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mystique and the Brotherhood are up to
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no good the problem is all we can do is
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wait until the Brotherhood tips their
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hand but what use could I be to them we
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don't know but you must have been a very
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important piece of the plan for mystique
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to attempt to kidnap you in broad
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daylight thanks for the info
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Cyclops anytime
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Allison yep now we stop talking to
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Captain face and we can go see
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Professor Xavier about a danger room
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exam
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