In Midnight X-Men 1, Jonathan Hickman, Matteo Della Fonte, and Arthur Hesli tear down Xavier’s dream of peaceful coexistence and replace it with a multi-sided Cold War!
As humans, mutants, vampires, and Empyres (mutant vampires) clash in the shadows of New York City, a fragile peace treaty holds the line between a delicate stalemate and total annihilation. So be sure to watch the video to find out where your favourite characters fall in this dark new universe.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Xavier’s Dream Torn Apart
01:26 – The Four Main Factions
03:16 – Cyclops To The Rescue
04:39 – Why Cyclops Rejects Hope
05:43 – Nightcrawler’s Secret
07:19 – The New Allegory
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I feel like I'd be in the minority (no pun intended) here, but I believe stripping the oppressed minority angle may help with Midnight X-men. While I'm not the biggest X-men reader, from what I've heard through the grapevine, the oppressed theme doesn't really work with modern X-men as much as it did in the past. Like, with the Krakoa arc, the mutants were written as both oppressor, and the oppressed, as if the story was meant to be an Inhuman event, but it was changed last minute. And, at least going by another comics youtuber I've watched pointed out, it doesn't really work when you think about it. Storm, for instance, was treated as a goddess in her village. And Rockslide, despite being treated as a freak by his school, his family still loved and cared for him. Then, on the other end, it's not like humans fear of muntants ins unfounded. Magneto can, and would, disrupt the Earths magnetic field if he wanted to. And as Red Skull pointed out, Erik is a hypocrite. Jean and Emma could rewire your brain, and have you be none the wiser
You'd think I was the ultimate vamp hater, but Cassidy from PREACHER and Alucard, from HELLSING, are my 2 OGs. I just have higher standards than what the world can produce. Props to 28 Days Of Night.
Crikey, it's THE BISHOP!!! (Probably not the Monty Python reference you were expecting…)
Anyone else miss when comics were fun and not despressing? Just me?
(Also "M-pires"? SERIOUSLY ?)
As a Nightcrawler fan, I like this comic had him interacting with Stryker. I always felt he could be a great villain Kurt, since how they are both religious and driven by their belief. While uses his ideals to inspire himself and others to be kind and compassionate, Stryker is a fanatic zealout who promote hate and bigotry.
Honestly of all Midnight series X-Men felt the less horror-esque. Its more of a urban fantasy with strong focus on politics between factions rather than trying to do anything disturbing with vampires.
That smile on Storm is the sort that if you're on her shit list, you cannot possibly run fast enough. Certainly interesting so far and didn't immediately fall over the first vampire hurdle which is a plus, though too early to tell if it can keep it up. Poor bald Gambit tho I hope his hair grows back.
Mutans vs mutant vampires
4:50 Cured? 🤨❌️🧬
This is one of the few of the Midnight series I see and want to read more. Some of the other ones seem to body horror for my taste
1:37 Hm? Suddenly it reeks of hypocrisy in here. Oh, if it isn't the Catholic Church! And what's this? No little Timmy glued to your crotch? Progress!
This has mr Sinister stink all over it some how
"cured", u mean got rid off, taken😥
Now if we can only get Marvel to promote Blade more than just when a movie deal is in the works.
Honestly I feel this is very limiting look at the latest Hulk run plus the connection between mutants and deviants Midnight X-Men should've been it's own monster horror story where mutants navigate the thin line between monster and human while trying to save a world that rejects them.
I mean Midnight Fantastic four is already playing with the idea of an eldritch Galactus more Cosmic Horror elements would be very appreciated especially for beings like Celestials who are already eldritch in their own way.
As a Nightcrawler/Storm fan (as individuals and a potential couple), I heavily approve.
I remember a while back you said X-Manhunt put you off of current X-Men, but watching this has me wondering, are you a seasoned X-Men reader? Just a curiosity more than anything
At least there’s no Umpires
Seeing you talk about marvel comics ina more DC centered channel is like seeing the watchtower channel trying to piece together marvel tv show lore😭
It's so surreal but this is pretty neat to see you review comics and know marvel comics as well
Well this is Definitely not Absolute Marvel 😅
Unlike “Midnight Spider-Man,” this is MORE what I expected from a “Midnight X-Men” book, but the interplay between the human, mutant, vampire, and M-pire (very clever) factions is more compelling than I anticipated. Might be keeping an eye out on this book.
I’m not really into this particular story. It’s a bit too convoluted to get vampires involved at all.
Can I be honest? I never like when vampires are thrown into Any ongoing mainstream story. Because they always complicate the entire setup. They can't be killed through normal means compared to most enemies. They're broken as fuck depending on the story. They can brainwash and turn allies into your enemies at a moment's notice, and just like Magic, they completely break the whole formula.
6:32 But then wouldn't he be called NightWALKER and not NightCRAWLER? Besides the former sounds a lot cooler in my opinion.
While there's some potential and interesting ideas here I don't feel it's really an xmen comic. More xmen paint on an otherwise separate vampire story.
It seems that normal mutants have a somewhat better relationship with humans if Striker is any example of things on how he interacts with Nightcrawler plus that statue of exodus in the church. It seems more like Vampires are the ones who want to wipe out mutants and vampire mutants in general.
They definitely wrote this with the assumption folks have read a lot of Marvel. Does not feel like a welcoming to new readers line. Just a lot going on.
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i do wonder if they will do something interesting with wolv, deadpool and all the other mutants that have healing powers maybe they couldnt be turned or had to be made thralls? omg could you imagine a weapon V wolverine? also i wonder how mister sinister and apoclypse will be in this universe also A WHERE IS BLADE
Hickman did have a major saga after the Krakoan Era: The (New) Ultimate Universe.
Which was what made DC put out the Absolute Universe as an answer.
This my 3rd favorite in the midnight series so far. Spidey is 1 and Fantastic Four is 2nd.
Déja vu!
Oh, they're copying the plot of "I Am Legend," where the vampires basically won and surviving humans have their backs aginst the wall in a Cold War
And some extra cruelty for you, DC has announced that finally the heroes of the Absolute Universe will unite next year in the aptly titled 'Absolute Justice'. But as for the subject of this video, while yeah the X-Men have done a lot with vampires before, this does kind of break-up the status quo of the X-Men. Rather than it just being mutants and humans it's now mutants vs. humans vs. vampires. vs. mutant-vampires. Like normally Stryker wouldn't give Nightcrawler the time of day but here they (at least to Stryker) are allied against a common threat and united in a common faith. Can't wait to see more of the 'Week of Doom'.
Dang: no matter what universes, the mutants just can't have a ending😢
I find this take on the X-Men story quite interesting. I’m super curious about Nightcrawler’s nuanced loyalties and Cyclops turning from the most idealistic mutant in the Xavier bunch to this beaten down. Midnight is shaping up to be something really fun!
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I'm gonna check out these Midnight comics, but I worry that Marvel looked at the Absolute comics and took "make it dark" from them. But making it dark is not the part that makes Absolute work, it's just the part that adds stakes and tension to the story.
I love how they give a nod to Exodus as the patron of the vampire hunters given his history as a crusader
So I guess this means the Midnight stories aren't interconnected?