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Another shot of Warren in his underwear. I’ve had to look at his briefed up butt cheeks so many times in these early issues of X-Factor that I’m starting to feel a little bit emasculated. Like, am I even wearing the right kind of sexy underwear? Has that been my problem with the ladies all these years? God damn these thighs of mine. Too many bottles of butterscotch schnapps poured over too many bowls of cocoa puffs. Serves me right. How can I even compete with guys like Warren? With his curly golden locks and curvaceous designer underwear. I’m going to go lock myself in the closet and pick on this shaving scab on my neck until I hit an artery and DIE. These are serious god damn problems and no one understands what I’m going through. Oh yeah and Warren got his wings chopped off blah blah blah. (X-Factor #15 – Apr 1987)

“That’s not the way to Arizona!!!” Lol why am I reading that line in Jan Hook’s voice from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. “There’s no basement at the Alamo!!!” After waking up to find that his wings have been amputated, Warren attempts to take his own life in a death by exploding airplane. I say attempted because we all know that Apocalypse plucks him out of that airplane just before it explodes, grafts metal wings onto his body, and turns him into the horsemen of Death. Oops, spoilers. (X-Factor #15 – Apr 1987)

After spending the last several issues of X-Factor quietly kidnapping a series of emotionally distraught and physically damaged people for his army, this is the first reveal of Apocalypse’s horsemen, Pestilence, War, and Famine. They don’t look… quite as intimidating as I imagined they were going to… kind of all a little emaciated with those jutting cheekbones there. And that bowl cut. Jesus. But let’s not pass judgment on them until they are joined by the final horseman, Death, and we see how many people they murder. (X-Factor #15 – Apr 1987)

Like, look at how much Scott is just PRAYING his family goes away so he can get back together with Jean. He just assumes his son is dead even though they only found this one body that MIGHT be his wife. UGH. Anyway, there sure is a lot of misdirection going on here. Maddie disappears, mutant sympathizers are being targeted for murder, a dead body shows up with red hair… my immature shenanigans aside, under normal circumstances I wouldn’t hesitate to think that this truly is Maddie’s dead body. Because why wouldn’t I? It’s too bad that I know for sure she isn’t dead since she shows up later as the Goblin Queen. So, this is probably a decoy clone body planted by Mr. Sinister to cause Scott more emotional trauma. Say what you will about Mr. Sinister, but I like the conspiring lengths he goes to just to make Cyclops cry. (X-Factor #15 – Apr 1987)

Eva (via @prendimilamanocomeieri )

Request: Harry and Louis sitting next to each other in the beginning of the Xtra Factor interview

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