The X-Men Cartoon Opening, Psylocked
By which I mean “an American property put in the body of an Asian one.” This is the Japanese opening to the ’90s X-Men cartoon — awesomely dug up by those kooky kids at Japanator — and it’s just surreal. Things to note:
? Magento apparently in charge of the Brood
? Jean Grey, Storm and Jubillee’s powers boiled down to doing Kamehamehas
? Cable and Gambit fighting random mecha
? An awesome shot of Rogue, Storm and Professor X looking like the world’s biggest pimp
? Beast pulling a Hulk move
? Wolverine and Omega Red flying through the air
And the whole thing’s set to a preposterously awesome J-rock song, which ends with the dude screaming “CRY FOR THE MOOOON!” Well, I’m crying, buddy, because I’ll be shocked if the day isn’t totally downhill from here.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.