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Missions 7: Astral Plane
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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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attention X-Men report to the war room
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for a mission
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briefing I call this meeting to inform
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you that several of us will be taking a
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trip to the astral plane shortly several
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but Charles I only see you and Jean I
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will be joining them cool the White
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Queen is here it figures they'd call in
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another Super telepath to join the group
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but what is the astral plane it's a
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dimension of the Mind one where thoughts
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become reality why are you going to the
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astroplane professor I'll let Moira
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answer that question X-Men I believe
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we've discovered the cause of ilana's
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coma you have tell me doctor quickly her
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mind no longer inhabits her body
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Colossus We Believe Ilana is on the
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astral plane but she has no psychic
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powers how can this be I agree Colossus
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it is very strange indeed
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and that is the reason Jean Emma and I
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are going to investigate the astral
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plane in my absence Scott will be in
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charge should any trouble
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arise I can feel ilana's mind is
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here me too she's definitely on the
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astroplane this doesn't make sense How
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could a non telepathic mutant become
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trapped on the astral
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plane I don't know but be vigilant my
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friends this is highly
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unusual so here we are in the astral
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plane with Professor X the White Queen
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and Jean Gray and over here in the real
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world it's uh Professor James man with
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Anaconda rifle and gummy Joe yeah
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[Music]
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hello and so quick look at Professor X's
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stats so yeah I was wondering about this
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did you uh did you put the points in are
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these allocated like this at the
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beginning yeah these are automatic for
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Professor X he's got all these set
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automatically so you can't alter them at
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all yeah he looks a little bit
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overpowered yeah but he's Professor X
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so most power mutant in the world he has
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that hammer Legend thing which is like a
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psychic melee punch thing uh the other
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attack is like the radial attack that
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Jean Gray has
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then he has a protective shield and then
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he has his extreme power which you're
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not going to see cuz it's useless but
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you will see him chasing a lever that
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keeps
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disappearing a metaphor he's running and
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jumping this must be like the happiest
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day of his life yeah and he's spending
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it just chasing a freaking
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lever win you wonder why he doesn't go
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in the astral plane more often like yes
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look at me I'm running around and
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walking and doing things active the the
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thing I love about this though is the
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costume he's wearing this is the astral
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plane with projected thoughts this is
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what he thinks of himself yes tight
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white spandex showing off the ass he's
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living dangerously on the edge of
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fashion
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sense so yeah it goes without saying
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that Professor X is ridiculously
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overpowered and I'm going to be using
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him as much as
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possible Professor what are those
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creatures I'm not certain but a
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apparently they mean us
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harm good I'm in the mood for a fight
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just like every other creature we've
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encountered in this the game how about
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that yeah they they would not know what
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to do with themselves if like they just
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came across a group of
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creatures just like hey how's it
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going they don't understand these are
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astral Shades astral fiends they're just
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um I don't really know how to explain
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them I guess I would attribute them to
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being like nightmares something are they
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connected to anything in the real world
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combo uh not it's not really it's like I
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said it's really hard to explain they're
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not related to anything from The Real
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World they're just I I won that
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round holy [ __ ] a [ __ ]
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ass I believe I won that crowd sorry
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about that I think he also says why
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don't you stay down just just like yeah
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whatever so happy to be walking so Happ
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be like part of the team for once with
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me I'm leading the
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X-Men I hate to ref Family Guy but it's
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like that episode where Joe was able to
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walk again and he started being a huge
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jackass to everybody actually um I think
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during the uh Secret Wars the first one
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uh Xavier for some reason is able to
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walk at the time like temporarily and uh
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he starts leading the X-Men which is you
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know really pisses off uh storm who he
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designated as the leader of the X-Men
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before that so it's hilarious to watch
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him like fight they actually fight about
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it like youo he's she's like you have no
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experience leading an X-Men she's like
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I'm the founder of X-Men I'll do what I
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want it's amazing so he comes off like
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he's like a closet [ __ ] in uh from
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everything I've read about
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him like he seems like this noble guy
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who like wants equality between humans
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and mutants but then it's like secretly
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he's just like
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being just a huge jackass manipulating
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everybody and lusting after je gray yeah
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after you what gen
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gray she is more powerful than he is so
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maybe that has something to do with
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it well you know so he's just chilling
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out in the astral plane here with just
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two other psychic chicks ter I just kind
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of Imagine like if there weren't all
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these enemies to fight he would just
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like create a bed and like put on some
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very white
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just be
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like but
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perhaps perhaps the three of us could
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put our minds together as well as our
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Supple
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bodies make it
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so I just I have this whole idea of uh
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Patrick Stewart being like really
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perverted because I just watched the
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episode of extras that he was in again
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you guys ever watch that yeah oh yeah
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combo wait those things are physically
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resistant that seems really yes not
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useful yeah the astral Goliath are
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physical resistant and then there's
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other ones that are energy resistant and
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you know you got three people that use
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Mental energy so [ __ ] them the realm of
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the
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mind it's like in all those missions
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where you have people that are mental
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resistant but Gene gray is not even
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usable yet like on the Arbiter and stuff
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it's it doesn't make too much sense you
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just enjoy it and kill them really
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easily the confusingly navigated astral
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plane yeah I I ran through this level
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quite a few times and I still get
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confused because of the transparency and
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everything's really
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dark looks the same sleep well
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yeah so you have to go moving platform
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and hit this lever
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to make a bridge for the others to join
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you hustle your
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bustle ooh the endless stairs that
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sounds short and
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easy yes they add stairs going the wrong
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way oh that's a that's a pretty [ __ ]
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thing to do I uh I have to admit there
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was plenty of times where I was running
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around I was like where the hell do I go
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it's a dead oh I I have to turn around
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astral plane's
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next terribly sorry about that so what
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uh what powers in this game are energy
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um besides cyclops's
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blast destroy them my PS pretty much
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like there's Gambit's Powers which are
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energy based okay uh Cyclops as you said
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storm counts as energy so does jubilee
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and magma Iceman pretty much any power
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that
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isn't like hitting people or using the
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brain WV cuz I don't think we' seen that
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all falls under energy physical
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resistance is just like the basic melee
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ATT and using things like Wolverine's
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brutal slash and
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stuff
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Jesus Xavier's kind of a badass it's
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pretty awesome to watch him running
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around having fun B up
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monsters yeah I mean I'm just using his
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melee attacks here and they take off a
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chunk of damage and everything
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still and once again I kind of get
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turned around here I'm going the
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completely wrong
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way just killing off some more astral
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Beast I guess the uh the designers left
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it left him so overpowered cuz you
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rarely use him and once you finally do
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you're [ __ ] Charles Xavier in the
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astral plane so you better tear [ __ ] up
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otherwise
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they won't play I do kind of wish that
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he was still in his wheelchair though s
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well wheel ground I'll get you come
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back and the astral plane was just like
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a series of
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ramps like launch off of
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them it comes to the end of sters
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no foiled by the astop plane
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again and I finally figured out where to
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go have to go on out to
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me I forgot that there's another
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platform to go across after you cross
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the first
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platform but I figured it out so hooray
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and then this [ __ ] here the ego
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creepers and the synaps that guy spawns
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those creepers they give off explosions
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and the synapse thing [ __ ] hurts you
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and I don't like
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him it's like a like like from Legend of
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zeldon stair
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oh we're behind you
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now it's like I'm standing like okay
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ladies come across the bridge what the
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what to
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the this game is full of fun little
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things like that where they just pop up
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where they
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shouldn't then here's the astral wardens
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and these guys are mental resistant
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which means they
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suck your melee Stills ass X-Men help
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yeah Xavier is still Tough Enough that
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he can do some good damage but it's good
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to switch back to the White Queen
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because with her Diamond shell up and
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whatnot her melee attacks are pretty
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strong so let's see the white anything
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going on with her the White Queen yeah I
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mean that we have discussed already
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thread yeah like um I know she has big
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boobs and she's like a [ __ ] she was a
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stripper I think she's into chicks
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disuss well who isn't we must
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escape this
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way way whoa who's doing this I pray
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it's not whom I
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suspect come on let's prce this way
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quickly will take you they're suddenly
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in the minds of Mor you professor don't
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be a fool girl we must escape the ring
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give it to
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me it's like fly you fools Show Yourself
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bog I know Shadow King Jimmy Le from
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Double Dragons I'm impressed
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you I never forget the true face of
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evil I have to give him credit the brat
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Ilana served her purpose give who credit
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someone told you kidnap Ilana no one
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would dare give an order to sh I don't
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know what you're talking about I advised
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that stealing the child would lure you
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into my
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world and here you are what do you
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intend to do now I should have thought
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it obvious
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xavia I will have my
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revenge what what just happened two
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things he would like by the things he's
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kick the [ __ ] out of the entire game
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entire level it's like oh no one brushed
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against me I can't handle this oh no not
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the creatures I handled easily
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beforehand whatever shall I do as you
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wish so now we have uh just the girls
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here which makes things a little bit
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harder [ __ ] and uh so yeah we were
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introduced to the Shadow King does
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anybody know anything about the Shadow
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King he's actually J B from Double
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Dragons that was the shadow
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boss same difference
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and uh looks like one of those yeah
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let's talk about Double
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Dragon yes let's what was that rifle no
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no no I was just saying uh you know
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those angler fish that they bring up
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from the bottom of the of the ocean or
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you know really deep those black ones
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yeah the like Devils that's what it look
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like that's it got
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it yeah I got there you go he'll you
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will now forever be known as the evil
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angler fish man
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got it but uh it's my understanding that
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he
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was a like a real person demand you help
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at some point like a a human or a mutant
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I should say he existed in the real
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world the real comic world and uh
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something along those lines anyway he
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died and he became the Shadow King in
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the astral
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plan yeah he he exists he's like you
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know psychic energy okay but
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occasionally he jumps out of the
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um out of the realm out of the astral
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plane and starts hanging around with
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humans or possessing a human or
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something like that got it so like
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he so like uh he was the crime Lord Amal
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Faruk L A Street gang that included a
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storm at one
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point and oh I'm sorry to cut you off
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but I do remember something about the
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Shadow King uh the Shadow King exists as
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an entity of pure psychic energy that
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feeds on the hatred of humanity I'm
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[Music]
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remembering do you also remember that it
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manifest itself on phical plane but
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possess in the bodies of human beings
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why yes in the 1940s Shadow King works
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with
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Baron and the
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Nazis oh God Emma Frost is dead oh no
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not Emma Frost you know she talks a lot
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of [ __ ] for being a real [ __ ] every
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time I did this run I died there trying
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to deal with the freaking synapse so
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he's just impossible but hey she's she's
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alive hey she's not good yeah she talks
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I mean she's pretty smug for you know
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she gets she get her ass kicked by
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Xavier here Xavier of course wouldn't be
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able to kick anyone's ass
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in real world since he doesn't have any
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functional
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legs but he could uh like maybe run them
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over with his chair or something like
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that like get back hey I'm in trouble
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over here clip their
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heels how stop running into me it's got
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like a buper car for
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wheelchair oh it's Ilana she's being
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mildly inconvenienced by somebody St I'm
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in trouble over here
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yes I kind of Imagine like it's just the
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that actual thing was just like grabbing
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her arm and being like quit hitting
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yourself quit hitting
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yourself hand what you get for being
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rushan take it Indian
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Indian and yeah you got to kill all
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these [ __ ] again it's no fun when the
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game makes you have to fight things
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sometimes it's uh more fun just to run
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away me a and by more fun I mean
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faster so how else would you save this
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girl unless you kill an arbitrary number
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of beasts just grab her and run out the
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door that's like 10 ft away from her
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give me a hand no no no see but then
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they'll I don't
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know we have to we have to lengthen this
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game somehow quick make arbitrary
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fights Iana
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injured yet I recognize you you are
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X-Men friends of my brother more funny
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accents yes we're here to help you
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escape from the astral plane can you
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move she SE moving well I will fall in
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Soviet Russia astop plane escapes
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you all right I'm hanging
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up work
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