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Ep. 258. Who is Kid Omega in Marvel Comics?! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hello Marvel fans, comic geeks, and all nerds between My Name is
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  Megan with Vigilante vibes and I'm here with another character
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  Breakdown. And today I want to talk about
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  someone who is just a thorn in everyone's side.
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  But he has the right to be, because he is wildly powerful.
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  He is a mutant. Of course.
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  We are going to talk about Quentin Choir first appeared in
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  Marvel Comics and New X-Men #134 and was created by Grant
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  Morrison and Karen Grant. Quentin Choir showed up at
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  Xavier's Institute already acting like he was the smartest
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  person in the room. But honestly, he probably was.
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  To be fair, the guy was an insanely powerful telepath with
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  a brain so weird that even the Stepford Cuckoos found him
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  unsettling, which is saying a whole lot.
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  While other students were learning algebra and not
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  exploding, Quentin was inventing anti gravity tech for Martha
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  Johansson's floating brain jar and arguing philosophy with
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  Professor X all before lunch. Things started going off the
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  rails after Quentin learned he was adopted.
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  Instead of processing that in therapy like a normal person
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  would, he got a mutant supervillain haircut, started
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  dressing like a mutant dictator from an old newspaper, and
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  formed the Omega Gang with a bunch of angry students hopped
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  up on Kik, a mutant drug that basically turns bad decisions
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  into lifestyle choices. They attacked humans, beat down
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  Professor X with a baseball bat, put Magneto style psychic
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  blockers on him, and kicked off a full mutant riot at Xavier's
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  open house, which is casual. The Stepford Cuckoos eventually
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  stopped him, but by then Quentin's brain had basically
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  turned into raw psionic energy from overdosing on Kik.
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  He died, got stuffed into a jar and B Slab, came back because
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  the Phoenix Force thought he might be Jean Grey for like 5
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  seconds, tried to resurrect Sophie, Cuckoo because he was
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  catastrophically down bad, failed miserably, apologized to
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  the X-Men, and then went back into the jar, which somehow was
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  not even close to the weirdest thing he'd do.
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  Over the years Quentin bounced between menace, revolutionary
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  walking disaster, and actual hero.
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  Wolverine dragged him to the Jean Grey school hoping he could
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  be reformed instead of becoming an Omega level nightmare.
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  Quentin mostly responded by causing detention, fighting
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  monsters, infiltrating evil schools, dating ID who's
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  actually temper, annoying everybody alive, and somehow
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  graduating into becoming a real X Man completely against his
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  will. Later he joined Jubilee Squad,
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  fought and Plate, briefly became a literal Shire God after
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  negotiating with the Phoenix Force, and then used a fragment
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  of the Phoenix to cure Jubilee's vampirism and restore her mutant
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  powers. One of the few genuinely
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  selfless things he ever did without immediately making it
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  everyone else's problem. Then Kirkoa happened.
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  Quentin somehow became both more powerful and more reckless.
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  He joined X force with Wolverine where dying basically became his
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  side hobby. He got decapitated by a blown up
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  Kirkoan gateway, killed by a telepathic plant spores,
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  murdered by Russian infiltrators, eaten by Saber
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  Tooth's mutant cannibal army, and repeatedly resurrected so
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  often that even his girlfriend Phoebe Cuckoo got tired of
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  restoring his memories every time he exploded.
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  Despite all that, Quentin slowly started maturing very slowly,
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  like microwave pepperoni Hot pocket rotating at 2:00 AM.
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  Slowly, he helped stop Cerebrax, confronted Beast's descent into
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  full war criminal territory, rescued mutants during the fall
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  of Krakoa, and even sacrificed himself as a telepathic weapon
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  to save others during Saber Tooth's massacre.
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  To this day, he is still a hero, even if it's against his will.
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  He is on Scott Summers X-Men team chilling in Alaska
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  literally, and I'm excited to see where his character goes.
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  We did get to see kind of a look at him in the future in the Age
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  of Revelation event where I'm just saying they didn't have to
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  make him a whole smoke show. I really like the facial hair.
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  I I have a type. So the craziest part about
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  Quentin Choir is that underneath all the arrogance, chaos, the
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  pink hair, Omega level ego, he actually did become what Xavier
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  hoped for. Not a perfect hero, not even a
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  stable one, but someone who kept choosing to fight for mutants no
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  matter how many times he died, got resurrected, or made an
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  absolute mess of his life along the way.
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  So that is Quentin Choir. He is he is someone that I love
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  reading comics with him because he is so irritating to the other
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  characters and I am here for it. So thank you for watching.
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  I hope you enjoyed this episode and I hope you'll like and
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  subscribe. With that being said, have a
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  marvelous day.