[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my co host and best friend, Cody Lena. We discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before the boat, we put a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use when we decide to step foot on the boat?
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want someone we're talking about this season.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Absolutely. We're diving into the deep, profound world of Marvel X Men. We're going to link up. Nick, I was thinking about this, right? I. You know me. I don't have, like, a huge fandom that I suppose subscribe to him. Not a Star wars guy, not a Star Trek guy, not a Marvel guy. I just don't have any of those. Right. Wrestling, if it's anything. But if there was anyone I want to get into, I think it's X Men. Yeah, I think this would be the one. There's just so much stuff going on. There's so many guys and gals out here, all with their cool little powers. I could pick one that no one likes and make them my favorite. That sounds great.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: Up until everything you. So the last thing you said, I support you. I think this is maybe the problem with the x. I mean, you could probably point this out in any kind of fandom, but I do think the x Men indulges this just a little bit more, where, like, I feel like there are just times where people will intentionally pick the fucking worst, where you're like, no one. No one's favorite fucking x men is domino. You know what I'm saying? Like, no one. It's a fun character, and it's a cool idea. Probability manipulation. Like, it's fun, and it comes off very well. In deadpool two. It's very fun how they. How they do it in that, but, like, shut the fuck no. And that's where I feel like I would get annoyed, is if, like, you were like, you, because I know you would pitch it and I know you'd sell it, and I'd be like, hey, I'm not saying everyone's favorite is wolverine. I can accept that. But you cannot look me in the eyes. A domino is cooler than I think.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Here's the thing about X Men. It's. You gotta have two. You gotta have two favorites. You gotta have your favorite. That makes sense. You know, like, everybody loves. Like, someone's. Even gambit could be your number. One favorite, you know, Wolverine, definitely an option. I think. I think I'm a storm kid. That's fine. But then you gotta have your second, like, Jubilee. That lady shoots fireworks. That seems awful, but I like it.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: Cuz I. Yeah, there's some fun.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: I grew up watching the cartoon and she shot fireworks at the beginning when the music was good.
And yeah, it's awesome.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: It's kick ass. And that's. And that's all I needed. I think. Actually, Cody, I want to take a pause real quick, and I want to say, I think what you just offered is maybe the best advice for all fandoms. Have two favorites. Have to have your one favorite. That is the general one. So that way, if you get asked by normies who barely know anything, because guess what's going to happen if, once again, if you have a conversation with someone and you're like. And they're like, oh, you like, you like X Men? What. What's your favorite? And you say, jubilee, they're like, oh, like, what's her thing? And then you get all defensive. You try to make them sound cool. You come off looking like a fucking idiot. Just say gambit. Yeah, Wolverine. They're like, oh, oh, I know who that is. And then you can move on. Cause you don't want to talk to them. They don't know what they're talking about. So it's not gonna be fun for you either. So have two, though. That one you can. One is the. Is like your low key is like the big one. And then you can have your fan favorite, personal.
[00:03:29] Speaker B: And with that, what we're doing and what we're doing here is finding your. The fan favorite. That's what this show is. So when we're done, you will have your number one favorite that you can use. Conversation.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: This is it. That's what we're settling for you. But once again, I take this to any Star wars, just Darth Vader.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: It's Darth Vader. Or Luke Skywalker. Don't say fucking. I don't know, some dude. Iclock Forley. He's in one of the. Speaking of the guy, who the fuck is that guy?
[00:03:53] Speaker A: The fucking fish. The fish commander looking dude who's in the. He's like the big commander for the good guys. He looks like a fucking fish. I feel like that guy gets a lot of credit. And I'm like, knock it off. Okay. No, that can be once again, if you want to keep that. Now move him to your, your, like, this is for the. This is for the sickos. This is the sickos list.
And have a. Just Darth. Darth Vader.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: First of all, it is Darth Vader. Well, I don't know why we're even going to.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know why we're.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: That's why we're never going to do a best Star wars character thing.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Because.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Because it's Darth Vader.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: It's Darth Vader every time. Unless the only thing I'll give about Darth Vader is, like, not the biggest fan of. Well, and I think we be clear. We're not talking about Anakin. We're talking about Darth Vader. That's who I'm discussing. I'm not talking about any. Until that mask is on his face in the third movie. I am not discussing anything prior until.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: James Earl Jones is doing the voice. It doesn't fucking count to me.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Does not count. So I'm not going to even bother wasting my time. But, folks, we're not here to waste your time, either. We're here to talk about.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: I'd argue we are.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Well, I mean, some would say. My wife might say that this is.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: As would mine.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah. But, folks, here we are. We are in Group B, which means group a already happened, so go back and check that out. But we took 16 of the best X Men, as decided by maybe you. I don't know if you voted on ranker.com under the best X men category. We took that 16, we sent it to our bracketologist, they kicked it back to us, and here we are in that group B quadrant, where we have the four seed deadpool going up against the 13 seed rogue, and then we have the five seed colossus going up against the twelve seed Iceman. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:05:45] Speaker B: With Deadpool and rogue. Nick, are you a Deadpool guy? I've never asked you. And are you? Because I'm not. I'm not.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: I'm just gonna. Let me just take. Let me just take this shirt off and show you this back piece that I have. Don't mind.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: He does have a full Deadpool mask back piece. No, I get. I like Deadpool, but, yeah, sometimes it's just.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: To answer your question. Okay, so let me be clear. I'm going to say the answer is no. Mainly on, like, the basis that I've never. I did not know about this character, basically, until Ryan Reynolds tells me about him. So from that standpoint alone, I don't want to claim that this was a character I've. I've been aware of. I will say, I, the movies are fantastic. You cannot. These movies are damn near, I would imagine, what you're hoping for if you like Deadpool. So I'm appreciative of the movies. I think they are excellent. But three and Deadpool guys are a different breed. Huh?
[00:06:35] Speaker B: That's the thing I'm trying to get to.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: That is a group who thinks that they are funny because the character they like is funny.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. That's why I was trying to. To beat around the bush, because I didn't want to offend you. But, God, the people who really like Deadpool are the reason I don't like Deadpool.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: It's tough.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: You all need to calm down.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: He's cool. We get it. It's. He can be meta. That's his superpower. Like, let's be clear. Sure. Does he have regeneration? Does he have super strength? Does he have, you know, wicked scars? Yeah. Cool. But let's be clear. The thing that's fun is that for the first time ever in comic book history, there was someone who could talk about comic books to you as a fan, and it was fun. And he could poke fun at how funny it is that Wolverine is still pining after Jean Grey, even though she's been married for, like, 30 years.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah. And he can mess around. I like any of the comic books. He'll, like, walk out of one frame of a comic and literally climb into the other. I get it. Completely fourth wall breaking. Completely meta breaking talk. It's not the fucking most creative thing that's ever happened in history. This.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: It's a natural. It's a natural progression of almost every media that has ever existed, that once something's been around too long, there's usually at some point a very meta breaking moment where now you can tell they're either talking about themselves and criticizing themselves or actively talking to you as the audience. Go watch always sunny in Philadelphia. Like, that show almost now, every season has one episode that's basically just commenting on what it's like to make always sunny in Philadelphia for 17 years. Right. Like, it's just naturally part of it. I do think. I do think he's fun. I do think that it's a cool idea. But once again, this. This one, so much for me, just breaks down with where the fandom is.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: This is really where the rubber meets the road. It's like, I like Deadpool and I want to like him, but I actually can't. If I say my favorite superhero is Deadpool, which I don't think it is, but only for the reason that I don't want to be on your team.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: No, this is. This is. He actually. He suffers from the same fate that the Punisher does. Right. Where you're like, I. I've always. I've actually been a huge Punisher fan. Like, that's been one of my guys that I've always. I, like, bought the graphic novels. I read those. I love Punisher. Do you wanna know what you can't tell anyone that you like as a character now because of fucking assholes in trucks. Is the Punisher. Like. It's. And I'm like, no, he kills cops. He hates them. I promise.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Yes. They don't understand the people.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: No one's killed more cops than the Punisher. Like, easily.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Basically, what I'm trying to say is I have to lock in rogue because I gotta get Deadpool out of here because we're already like, it's not gonna go well.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Like, let's. This is one. Hey, also, like, yeah. Is he in the X Men? Sure, but. Or, like, has he been in it?
[00:09:37] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: There's no taking that away from him. He has been an X Men. Stop it. This is one of those times where, once again, the way that ranker.com appears to work is that people vote. And however the votes are, that's who's in the list.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Also, Deadpool has less votes, and he's above shadow cat. I'm looking at the votes right now.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: I've seen this, Cody. I've seen this happen, and we just can't talk about it. I have to assume it's a mix of, like, popularity within a certain time span, like how Spotify's list changes.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: That's the only way I can live through this right now and not. And not deal with it, because I did want to believe this was the purest form of democracy, and it doesn't appear to be. So. So I. I'm with you here. Let's move rogue on into the next round, where they will go up against Colossus or ice man. Cody, do you have. Do you have any. Anything that you would like to talk about here?
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Yes. I like how both these men turn their bodies into other stuff. And that's fun.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: That is. I didn't realize that that's a little thing that they both can do.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: Would you.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: And Colossus can turn himself into an organic, like, metal. Like an indestructible metal.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Which, if you had to, then where. What do you think you'd want do you want indestructible metal?
[00:10:49] Speaker B: The man? I think colossus is the man. He's one of my, like he might be. Whenever someone says, who's your favorite? I'm like, oh, it's storm and low key. Might be colossus for real. Like totally is super strong, super checked, invincible as fuck. And when he turns into metal, dude, when he gets all colossus on him, he doesn't need to eat or he can just live underwater.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: It doesn't matter that I wasn't aware of that. Like, as long as he's in metal form, which I'm going to guess at some point he can basically maintain forever, right? I'm sure when he first started, it's like, oh, I can only do it for a couple hours.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Yeah, more or less. Yeah.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: But like, at this point he's going to be able to go for fucking years at a time, right? What a wild thing to also just add in that's like, oh, yeah, by the way, he won't need oxygen or food, so we can basically trap him in anywhere. Like he can get into any situation. What a, what a great long. If you're, if you are a team that needs to, you know, like let's say John, just throwing this out there, you know that your enemies are going to build a building. What could you do? Put Colossus in a box, bury it under their found before they pour the foundation and just wait two years while the building's being built. Just give him an iPad and a bunch of batteries.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Let him cook under there, dude.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: Yeah, let the. I honestly, and I also think the way that he's usually portrayed too, I mean, he's a russian guy. It feels like he just give him a copy of War and peace.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: He probably, probably has a cop. He's read it many times. Is bad. He also falls into my category of one of my favorite types of wrestling matches, as Nick knows, is what I like to call meat slapper, where we get two big meaty men and they just slap meat all over the place. And Colossus is the definition of a meat slapper, dude. He's not super fast, he's not super agile, he's not super anything. But if he catches you, he's gonna beat your meat, dude.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: It is one of those, I mean, I didn't even think about that. But you're right. Like from, like whether you're looking at it in comic book panels, whether you're watching it on television, on, you know, through the animated series or in movies like homeboy like, if he's not there, who's fighting juggernaut? You know?
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: Like, you. Juggernaut steps onto the scene and they. They just all, like, immediately look at Colossus. They're like, hey, buddy, that's you, right?
[00:13:09] Speaker B: You gotta answer this one anyway. Cause I definitely does.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: Not ours. It's not for us. I do. I don't know how this is handled. We can look it up later if he makes it far enough or whatever. But, like, it is wild, though, that, like, your number one villain, the guy that you should be the most afraid of, of all time, who's always gonna be up in your sauce, can control metal.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. He definitely has some weaknesses, huh? Which makes him a good character because he's not Superman. He doesn't have all the strengths, you know?
[00:13:39] Speaker A: That's fair. That's fair. He's good. Yeah, he can be.
I feel like that's one of those where it's like magneto probably, like every five minutes in a battle, just like, is like, forgets about Colossus, then just takes one look at him, blings him into something. He's like, all right, that'll handle that for a little bit. Get back on my grind. He's coming back.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: Yeah, he's coming back. But he does. He does have to take the bus. He doesn't have, like a fucking.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: Yeah, he's not super powerful. I mean, he's not a runner.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Iceman, right. I have a problem with Iceman.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Great nickname. Not a great. It's a great nickname.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: It's good. The power seems fun. I hate that he can fly. Okay.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: I get by skating on ice, though.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: Yes. He freezes the water in the air, and he makes, like, a big train and stuff. But every time I see him jump, like, he'll jump and he'll, like, make a nice thing, you know, jump around and.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Ski through the sky. How do the ice ski trails float in the air? He doesn't have gravity powers. He's got ice powers. In my understanding, if you make ice in the air, ice fall down.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: Okay. I think we want to get into the technical here. I think because he can manipulate the water within the air. So I do think he could, theoretically, also be creating enough steam under.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Okay, now we're getting into that. All right.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: It will fall.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: I want to be clear.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: I think it falls at some. Or it melts itself. Like, it will just. And then become water and rain down. Right. But I think at some level, he's doing some kind of manipulation with the water to also have that buoyancy for. But you're right. It is Nick.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: So you come. You all right? Here's the thing. You wake up in the morning, right? You take sand there for a walk. You come home, you get in the shower, you start the coffee pot, get in the shower, come out, have a nice cup of coffee, you're getting your breakfast ready, and then you hear a loud bang, and you go outside and a 400 pound block of ice has just landed on your car because this motherfucker decided to skate his way to work. I would be so pissed off, is what I'm saying.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: Not my favorite. That does have to be of the claims that they have to fill out a lot of. I imagine it's a lot of. That's the one that they get the most pissed about. Like, it's one thing in the heat of battle when Colossus gets thrown into a semi and dents it and breaks it, and it's like, ah. And we were fighting big guy, fucking magneto through you. It's fine. But ice, man, it's like, hey, could you just not do it like that? Is there any other way that we could get you to move? Like, does it have to be like, could you milk the water? Could you. Anything else, please?
[00:16:03] Speaker B: I just.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: I.
[00:16:04] Speaker B: Man, I saw him do a flip once in an episode, land on the nice thing, and just skate away. Right?
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: And ever since that, my brain has. Once I realized, like, that he doesn't have that power, my brain's been unable. The only reason I keep Iceman on my team is to keep the drinks cool.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: It's. Yeah, that would be power, though.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: Imagine you could make ice cubes for everyone's drink. That's you. That's a. That's bar trick for sure, my dude.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: That's the thing is, it feels like if I'm looking at these, and I know we haven't talked about this yet, but it's like, you know, day to day power, right? If you got to become one of the X Men, Iceman, I feel like. Feels like the one where if you.
If you decide that maybe you didn't want to fight that day because you're. Because you're scared and you know, that you're. The most you're bringing to this group is, like, slowing people down, making it a little bit slippery for the enemy. Like, if you bail, they're like, yeah, homie, you're good. Like, yeah, that's fine, man. Stay back. You know, help teach the kids or whatever. Yeah, but Colossus is one that they're like, if Colossus like, hey, man, I just got a real stuff. My tummy is just not feeling good today. I think I'm gonna let you guys handle this.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: Juggernaut. It's the juggernaut. Colossus, we need you.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Please, could you.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: Or I feel like you.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Even if they don't know if the juggernaut's gonna be like, what if there's someone big there, though?
[00:17:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I just imagine you're all okay. Everyone's breaking off, right? So you squaring up? You got. It's the bloods versus the cribs. Everyone's picking an enemy, and they're squaring up. Colossus got juggernaut. Cyclops is. Whatever. Magneto, Scorpio, Magneto and savior. You know, all those things. Saber tooth and Wolverine. Iceman, who does he square up against? Toad? No one gives a shit about fucking toad. You're the bottom of the barrel, ice man.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: The one person that he does that is the other side is pyro. But if this were Pokemon, why are you bringing your ice type Pokemon to the fire gym? Like, that's not good planning. That's a terrible idea.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: If it's ten on ten and I can choose, like, Iceman can stay home, is what I'm saying. I'll take the nine on ten. I don't need.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: You're just like, hey, brother, we're gonna be fine.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: We're gonna be fine. All right. Once again, I gotta lock in Colossus. This man is a big, meaty man. Meat slapper.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: Once you said that, that really sold me. I did forget, like, there's something special. Like, sure. Like, is it fun to watch the mental chess game that gets played between, like, Magneto and Professor X and how they pick who's on the. You know, their strategy. That's fun. Sure. But you know what else is really fun? When those two big boys just get down in the dirt and just start one of the. Cool. This is from Deadpool. This is from Deadpool. Tool. Cause it. Colossus is in both. If you want to. If you want a reason to watch the Deadpool movies. Colossus is in both. And he's very fun. He's very good. At one point, he grabs a piece of rebar and just wraps it around his knuckles to create brass knuckles on an already metal hand. And I was like, hell, yeah. Hell, yeah, brother. That's fucking hell, yeah. I was like, I don't know how much. How much more effective that is. You're already punching this guy with a metal fist. But yeah, no, that was badass.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: We have to understand that anime, wrestling and comic books all follow us. Very similar set of rules that you have to be aware of. And one of those rules is no matter what it looks like, if a weapon is added, even if it would be less effective, it is ten times more effective.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: Way more. Yeah, of course. And that, and guns, entirely useless in.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: Entirely useless in these worlds.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: No value of guns in any point in any of these. They're like, get that out of here.
All right, so now we have rogue versus Colossus to see who will be the group B champion. I can, I'm sensing a little bit, you know, obviously, you mentioned there's a, there is a love for Colossus.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Colossus here, but there's a love for Rogue.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Yeah. What is your, yeah, where do you, where are you at with rogue? What does she inspire in you?
[00:19:53] Speaker B: Well, here's the thing. I grew up on the comic book or the cartoon, right. The nineties cartoon. And in that, rogue probably has the most interesting backstory and story in general. She's the most complicated character. It's, she's got stuff going on. She lives a life where she can't touch anyone. For those that don't know, rogue's power is if she touches you, she steals your life force. And if she touches a person with powers, she'll get their powers, but at the cost of them living.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Right. Yes. Like, there's an example, too where she, she asked you in, she has to like, revive Cyclops. So she's like, I'll give him CPR. And then she forgets about the whole power stealing thing. So then she just opens her eyes and just blasts a bunch of people and it's like, ah, my bad. Y'all forgot about the whole, she probably.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Didn'T forget about the power stealing. She probably just wanted to see Cyclops. God damn, Cyclops power sucks ass, dude.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Just the whole time she's like, and I just have to burn it off. Like, that's the thing. She's like, well, I just gotta wait till it's over.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah. She's staring up into the sky blast.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: This power is so fucking stupid.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: I, where are you on the rogue front?
[00:20:55] Speaker A: Rogue is, I mean, Rogue's interesting, right? Because she is. I mean, anytime they do any, the story, you know, one of the big storylines is always like mutant registration or mutant cure. And Rogue always gets to play that because she is the one example here where it's like, I mean, yeah, she can fly and has super strength just on her own. Or I think the backstory that she took him from someone who had them.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah, she took him and they died.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: And they died. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. But it's like. But they. But that's what she has outside of this other power. Right. So it's like, she still has some. She still is a superhero and that has those things. But, like, it is. I love that she's, like, the one person that allows you to have that story of, like, hey, man, this isn't all cool. Yeah, this isn't like, hey, I know Colossus looks sick as fuck, looking all metal, but, like, I'm out here just being like, oh, man, I guess I don't get to date because. Or, like, every guy. Like, she, like. And let's also be clear. She does have access, like, one of the sexiest dudes. Gambit. Gambit's right there, and she wants it, too. She also wants. It can't happen.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: That's frustrating.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: If I can't get dicked down by Gambit every single night. Yeah. I'm going to take a drug, dude. I'm going to take the vaccine. Ok. Yeah.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: She's the only mutant that makes it. Like, this is bad. There's definitely bad side to it. Yeah, I agree with you on that 100%.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: She's like, luckily has a conscience and doesn't just go join Magneto's team and just, like, zap and just sucks out everyone's powers.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I want to see the arc where Rogue gets evil and says, fuck it. What if I am the X Men? What if she could do. In the middle of the night, rogue could go through the X Men academy and just murk everybody in their sleep and be the X Man. Like, I have everything. Can you imagine? Klaus is flying around with claws and laser eyes.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: They gotta have done that, right?
[00:22:40] Speaker B: That's.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: I want it now. I want it so bad.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: All right, where are we at? Where are you at on this? Colossus is my favorite as far as, like, power wise and fun wise and underappreciated. I think he's my, like, sleeper favorite. But rogue I find to be one of the most pivotal and driving forces in the movies and the cartoons and the comics. She's like the. She's like the audience plant. Like, to make you understand what it's like.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: My problem is, is like, I love rogue in the cartoon series.
I hate rogue in the movies. Like, I just. And I think it's just bad cat. Like, it's not their fault that they didn't get, like, reba McIntyre to be rogue. Cause that's maybe who I wanted, a rashy redhead. And that was the first one that came to my. I gotta be honest, I was like, susan Sarandon is then. Then it was Reba, Susan Sarandon. And then I was like, I don't know, maybe Dolly Parton, if she got a different wig to play a teenage girl. Yeah.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: Realize it's a teenage girl.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Maybe this is explaining why the casting was so hard. Cause they're like, hey, man, do we have a big, brashy redhead with a. With a suit? Like kind of a southern accent? It's a southern accent. It's just not. Gambit's is. Gambitz is New Orleans. But, yeah, she's like, got that, like, nice Texas Georgia draw to her and. Yeah, so I'm sorry that I couldn't come up with one. So maybe it is harder than I think. Maybe. Okay, maybe you did the best you could picking Anna Paquin. Okay. But it just wasn't my favorite. Plus, it kicks ass in the movies. I'll tell you that when they've done it. But every time, what they've done with him is always cool as shit.
[00:24:12] Speaker B: They're like, you just get a cool. You just get a russian man that's a big, burly russian man, and paint him silver. I'm in. I'm in.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah, man. I think. I think I'm going to go Colossus. Because at the end of the day, we do have someone here who most of the time doesn't want to be an X Men.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: That's fair. I'm actually going rogue on this one, baby. And I'm going rogue.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Hey, all right.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: I think she's just such. Especially my main reference point will be the cartoon series from the nineties, right?
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Always. Yeah.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: And she's so important and so cool and such a driving force in that show. And I feel like Colossus is underappreciated in that. In that one, I think.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: Well, and I do think it's. He is a character that is. I mean, this is me going off of like, oh, man, you're right. I do just like. I do just like a good. Beat em up like that. I love that in a comic. I love when it's painted well. I love when they punch fists at the same time and there's a big kaboom that's written over it, you know? I love that I'm always gonna like that. And I just. That's really. I think where my head's at here. Whereas, like, rogue, I'm just like, I said, I want to be here, so I'm like, you don't have to, but you're right. But from that point where it's like, colossus, there's just not much there to give. It's like, that's what he does, and.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: He just does it.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: The best.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: My favorite comics panel I ever saw is they were flying in the Blackhawk. Is that their ship or the night bird or wherever that is?
[00:25:25] Speaker A: Something like that.
[00:25:26] Speaker B: They just fucking. Next one. Yeah, they just fucking threw colossus out of it.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Right?
[00:25:30] Speaker B: And he, like, went through, like, a building, like, hit the ground, big explosion. The dust settles. He's just standing there like, what?
[00:25:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. Yeah, that. That'll do it. That's a good way to do it.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: That's badass. All right, so I can in rogue, though.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: That's totally fine. So that means that we will go to the american boy american voting coin of 2004, as brought to you by random.org. we low seed gets the pick. That's going to be you, Cody. With the 13 seed, rogue, we got George Bush facing up. John Kerry on the other side. What are you thinking?
[00:25:59] Speaker B: I am going to go with John. George Bush, actually, because I think they're all from Texas. They're all southern boys, you know?
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Let's do it. John Kerry. Colossus.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: I mean, I still like.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not a big loss. All right, colossus moving into the final four. And that is it, folks. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want about chipboys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend, wherever you're listening to this, make sure you hit that like that. Follow that, subscribe and wherever you can. Give us those five stars, please.
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[00:27:05] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena. See, on the boat.
