#firefist

Wade is the dad who's always wanted kids but doesn't know how to actually handle them and would gladly encourage the kids to disembowel or burn their high school bullies, no questions asked. He forgets to pick them up at school most of the time, but always shows up at PTA meetings because he remembers that one teacher they off handedly complain about. Whenever he packs them lunch, it's definitely not healthy, but he makes sure there's a lot of it so they never feel hungry. When he hears that they have a crush on someone for the first time, he pulls them aside to have the most insane and cringey but thorough sex ed class they've ever been in -- it ends with him giving them both condoms, dental dams, and a coupon to Adam and Eve. He absolutely loooooooooves being a Karen when it comes to school. Every staff member there thinks he's the worst parental figure they've ever met, but they can say whatever they want. Cause when he does manage to pick them up on time, Laura and Russell have the biggest smiles on their faces as they bum rush him into a big group hug.

Logan is the dad who never really wanted kids but is so good with them because he wants them to be better than him. Also helps that he was still a teacher in The Worst Timeline. Whenever they need genuine advice, they turn to him. Sometimes he rambles or tells a weird anecdote before getting to the point, but he gives his honest advice about whatever they're going through mixed with some wisdom from Charles. He's really good at observing his kids -- knows their tells when they're lying, knows the signs of when they're hangry instead of actually angry, can tell the difference when they're silent or when they've become nonverbal because something really bad happened -- and adjusts accordingly. When Laura starts speaking in rapid, rabid Spanish he'll grab her hand and squeeze it gently so she can calm down from an anxiety attack. When Russell starts impersonating Wade (more than usual) and deflecting questions about how school's going, he'll take him to their favorite burger joint to eventually talk about his bullies. He stays up late, wearing his old man glasses, to help the kids with their homework because he "has insomnia anyways" so he might as well double check their work. He's especially good at history.

I think they all really love each other so much. Don't even get me started on Laura and Russell's sibling relationship. I could write a whole separate post about them and how Russell has such a HUGE big brother complex, is always hyping Laura up at her sport matches, or how Laura always protects Russell at school and he doesn't even know about it.

Would not have expected my first time reading something with Skids to come from an X-Men '97 comic

X-Factor #1 - "Red Carpet" (2024)

How long have Vanessa and Wade been apart?!?! They went from trying to have a baby to being exes that was COMPLETE whiplash. I would like to know how they got to that point bc my inference was that Vanessa made him quit merc work when she died bc not safe environment to raise said baby and that he self destructed later on which continued to the start of the movie and i guess they never had a baby but was that by choice or chance?

i think, after saving vanessa and all his time trips, wade went to get russell and all the other kids from the "orphanage". by getting together the xforce with the xmen. finding his peter, who in dp3 wants to ride again--so they had to have already gone out together.

if wade hadn't gone out with Peter, russell would still go on to kill cable's family, aka it would have happened all over again. maybe it did, but Wade thinks Vanessa wants him to save the kid in order to be better, so I think he does it again after saving her.

no one dies this time. he gets the team together to save the kids. to let domino avenge her past.

and he tells vanessa that he did it for her. right thing to do, for the wrong reason, for a selfish reason, and that's why she wants him to show her he cares about something bigger than himself. do something not because he needs it but because he's needed. selflessness.

that's why she says she doesn't want to be with him anymore.

which he hears as "he doesn't matter". like she doesn't to him: you don't go universe hopping and try to join a different timeline if the one you have matters.

in dp3 he "did it for her": a lie, unlike every previous movie. (did he do those for her though, or because he wanted her?)

he did dp3 not to matter to her which would be the same selfishess she rejected; not because he wanted it, but because he was needed by someone else. it was selfless, not about himself or for himself but FOR someone else. if he'd done it "for" vanessa, to get her back like he was doing every other movie, he would have left logan there to die.