Overflow: A Pictorial Recap

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Some would say that Wolverine And The X-Men is what you’d get if you took Spectacular Spider-Man and subtracted the animation quality, good voicework, plotting, fidelity to the source, non-Gary-Sueness, and awesomeness. I said instead that WatXM is what would happen if you did all those things, then added DARING POLITICAL SUBTEXT.

It seems obvious that WatXM, with its selection of Wolverine as the leader of the team for reasons that were either arbitrary (textual) or because he was popular (metatexual), then showcasing him as an ineffectual leader who continuously leads the team into disaster and misfortune, is an adroit satire of the American political landscape. But who is it parodying? A doddering McCain? An inexperienced Obama? An in-over-her-head Palin? Regardless, I think this multilayered assault on philosophical sensibilities makes WatXM one of the most compelling shows on television.

Previously, on Wolverine And The X-Men



Xavier: I’ve been psychic rick-roll’d!





Xavier: Hey, bitches, in this dystopian nightmare-future I can walk! I can go up stairs, hike, have sex with underaged prostitutes…

Beast: Maybe we should avert this hellish future.

Xavier: Yeah, just don’t fuck up my new robot-legs.



Shadow King: You truly are the son of man.



Xavier: Logan, this is Africa in the future!

Logan: Oh my God, someone shrunk it! It’s Pym, isn’t it? I’m gonna kill that bastard!

Xavier: No, it was Storm!

Logan: So… I shouldn’t kill Pym?

Xavier: No.

Logan: But if I already had, no real loss, right?



Logan: Emma, you’re off the team!

Emma: You’re going to need me.

Logan: Yeah, like that’ll ever happen.



Logan: Beast, we’re going to Africa to find Storm!

Beast: Could you narrow it down a little? Africa’s a pretty big place. Although we could always use Cerebro to…

Logan: GOD FUCKING DAMNIT!!!



Logan: Okay, Emma, you’re back on the team.

Emma: If you want my help, you’re going to have to stop throwing me off the team and then putting me back on it. I’ve earned my spot.

Logan: And you have to keep earning it, just like the rest of us!



Logan: Kitty, you haven’t proven your worth to the team in over forty minutes! Go do the dishes!

Kitty: Screw you!



Kitty: Scott, cheap angst will never make you as popular as Logan!



Bobby: Leave him alone. Logan said not to bother him when he’s cutting.



Forge: Try to take care of the Blackbird. I actually put a lot of time and energy into…



Logan: HA HA HA! I’M SO TEH WITTY!



Scott: I’m back on the team. This has nothing to do with Emma saying she would take away my MCR CDs if I didn’t help out.



Shadow King: Does anyone else just fucking love the Denzel-Washington starrer Fallen?



Africa: We can see up your skirt!



Logan: Uh, I meant to do that.



Scott: Relax, people, I’m sure Logan would’ve saved you all… eventually.



Emma: Shoot her down.

Logan: No! Shoot me instead!

Scott: I’m so glad I came along.



Emma: Thanks for the help. Say, is your penis doing anything later?

Scott: But what would Jean say?

Emma: I’m more thinking of what we’ll say to Jean…



Scott: I'm fucking Emma Frost!

Emma: In your clothes, on your bed, once we did it in his head.

Scott: (spoken word interlude) When we were in the dungeon
in Dr. Doom's castle
And Doom was torturing Logan
We could've escaped but
we were DOIN' IT! (suggestively slow and lascivious pelvic thrusts)

Jean: *covers mouth with hand*



Emma: How come my astral form kicks up dust when I hit the ground?



Logan: Good job.



Emma: Ah, I’ve won the trust of an incompetent berserker. Now if I can just get a Chihuahua to hump my leg, my day will be complete.



Storm: I’m rejoining the team.

Logan: We know, you were in the opening credits.