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ReaX9: Okay! The Bird CAN Be Cool

2026-02-16 Gaming
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Nikhil Clayton
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We are so back. These two episodes were exactly what I was hoping to see from the back half of this season. Not only did they build on the Genosha, Mastermold, and Future arcs BUT they managed to make Angel seem really sad...but like in an interesting way this time. Genuinely, this show is so good at weaving together unrelated comic plots while still keeping the story cohesive and impactful. Tying the Dark Angel arc into the Cure to highlight Angel as a queer-coded character was GENIUS and may actually now be my favorite version. However, he's not fully off the chopping block. I dunno what you're doing with Storm Mr. Roseate Spoonbill III but I don't like it!

Top Comments (10)

@Silvershire 2026-02-16

Angel being cool? That's crazy talk. Next you're going to tell me the Robin in Teen Titans is Dick Grayson.

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@nocturnefaust3500 2026-02-16

Angel getting an amputation without his consent because his body didn’t match his father’s expectations works as an Intersex allegory.

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@Camus1025 2026-02-16

@20:00 Ok, real quick shot that I loved that you skipped over (almost certainly because of the non-existent chance for jokes) was after Angel is looking at the birds flying over the edge of the cliff as a prescient reminder of his loss and that he's clearly considering Sinister's offer, there's a shot where Storm looks out of the mansion and sees the bench he was on empty. Though its made immediately obvious that he took Sinister's offer, the way the scene is set up, with a broken man contemplating the way he's been mutilated such that he'll never recover from while facing over a cliff, only for the next shot from another perspective to show him missing from where we just saw him, in any other context would strongly imply that he chose to jump off the cliff rather than live with his loss, which is honestly an apt metaphor for taking Sinister's offer. Like, clearly the writer and/or director on this episode saw a chance to go about as far as this show would be allowed to go and decided to swing for the fences.

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@booksvsmovies 2026-02-16

I love how we're staying on Kitty's neck about the Forge thing. I'm never getting over how dumb that was.

227 2 replies
@TheTravelerww 2026-02-17

Liam O'Brien is now voicing two of the blue mutants

101 2 replies
@filipkraljik9693 2026-02-16

The physical amount of Cringe that overtook my body when angel shushed storm is unexplainable.

100 2 replies
@nickmalachai2227 2026-02-16

19:03 "I don't hate the change to Sinister, it makes more sense than introducing another Big Bad Villain right at the tail end of the show." . . . . . . . That is a very precisely called shot.

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@karlgrimm3027 2026-02-16

To be fair Sinister is the kind of guy who would make a metal bird man just to see if he could.

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@NietzscheIsDead 2026-02-17

7:40 In the comics, there is literally one. Single. Panel. That establishes that what Avalanche does between missions is landscape gardening, purely to beautify the Brotherhood’s living space. I miss my noble boy with strangely hidden depths

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@thegreatscribbles960 2026-02-16

Scarlet witch: *wipes out an entire species* Magneto: "Oh my poor sweet summer child" Quicksilver: *breaths* Magento: OH MY GOD SHUT UP!

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