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There actually are instances, in the books, of Cyclops using his beams to break, and he then watches as every ball is potted. After he just glances at the table. He doesn't get ANY love in the movies, but in the books, even Logan admits Cyke is someone you do NOT mess with.
@@danielled8665 Thank you. Nice pull with the 1640 reference. Gaiman was a total pro on that both on the job and behind the scenes with Todd MacFarlane and the legal battle.
@@John-Doe-Yo can you still get Four Loko where you're at? We have it here but it's not the 14% and it no longer has caffeine. I think last time I seen one it was more like 10% abv. They taste disgusting so I never really paid too much attention to them
I feel like they talk about Flash's secondary powers a lot. Like it's usually mentioned fairly often that the Flash can basically think at the speed of light, which makes it even more hilarious when he gets taken out by a cold gun and a boomerang.
Lightspeed thinking. Oof. Just imagine all the intrusive thoughts The Flash has to deal with every single day. In Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, where Batman basically treats Wally West like a little brother, Think of how many times he had to resist hugging Batman just because his subconscious was just "Hey, remember when he convinced Orion to come to the Flash Museum dedication ceremony?"
It doesn't matter how fast you can think if your capacity for intelligent thought is low to begin with. He's still a bit of a dumbest, just faster at it.
In addition to what Karl said about Japanese intros going so hard. A lot of Japanese anime are made for, or funded by the TV networks in Japan who just so happen to also own a lot of the major record labels in Japan. So they have wide access to all these bands with upcoming albums to choose from, and because of this they get both cross promotion, but in addition the company gets to produce it at a fraction of what it would cost for a network in the UK or US to do the same with a named band.
You not only included the story about getting tricked and hit in the balls but also included the video. Not a lot of guys are big enough men to do that. Props Karl (Genuine)
"Here is a mysterious person in the background" Oh, so are you going to introduce them later in the video? "Nah". That is one of the most Fact Fiend shits I've seen and I love it XD
I didn't know about his other origin for his powers where he absorbed ambient energy. That would actually make him way better because he could endure things like energy attacks like bishop. It would also make more sense for his brothers who have similar absorption abilities so it would line up better why they would be resistant to those.
It was originally that his body absorbed solar radiation. He could use his powers at night, though they were diminished because some solar radiation was always reaching the surface of the Earth. His powers would only be rendered useless when he was deep underground or in a shielded room where no solar radiation could reach him. It was also explained in the comic why he couldn't control his powers. He suffered brain damage as a boy when he was forced to strap a parachute to himself and his brother Alex when the plane that they were flying in with their parents severely malfunctioned and were forced to bail out of. The parachute strap slammed into the side of his head, which caused serious brain damage and a blood clot. The surgery to save his life also removed a portion of his brain and severely limited his ability to control his powers. As a result his powers would always go at full force without the assistance of the special ruby quartz lenses. Alex Summers, whose code name is Havok, can fire kinetic blasts from his hands and he has much finer control of his powers. For a time Havok was the leader of the U.S. government-backed mutant team, X-Factor.
@@oldeskul Honestly the original reason he can't control his powers is pretty stupid. In a world with super genius tech experts, geneticists, telepaths, mutant healing abilities, and magic Cyclops never learned to control his powers because of a concussion of all things? I really think the writers are super lazy with the character.
@@DreamStepper It was more than just a concussion. A concussion is caused when your brain gets jostled around inside your cranium, bangs against the inside of your skull and causes some swelling. What Scott suffered was more serious than that. Of course Forge did develop some tech that had the ability to completely mitigate Cyclops' powers. Of course he also an energy pistol that could temporarily switch off Rogue's power. The lazy writing was Xavier knowing that could help Cyclops and Rogue control their powers and not reach out to ask for their help.
My point is that plenty of mutants have recovered from worse. In the current storyline Cyclops had his mind transferred to a cloned body which in theory should've given him total control of his powers if the writers are paying heed to the origin.
Damn, no, Angel is a solid choice for favorite X-Men character. He's a good dude and very entertainingly dramatic. Also, in Scott Summers's defense, the universe regularly likes to shit on Cyclops. It is RARE that that man gets to have a good day, so him being a wet blanket makes total sense.
Oscar Wilde quipped that "You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies". Cyclops has apparently earned the enmity of Eternity himself. Not too shabby.
Constant pressure and responsibilities, plus shit going wrong at any opportunity would definitely turn most people into a wet blanket so people hate him for being too realistic emotionally
That's an interesting comparison: Who's cooler between Cyclops and Wolverine, based on their powers. It reminds me of a question I went around asking people in college: Which is the more impressive creation, between the TARDIS and the Delorean? I say that the Delorean is a vastly more impressive creation, because it was created by a random human scientist, in his garrage, while the TARDIS was created by the construction division of a race of aliens that have reached the far end of their technological curve; You would expect a civilization like that to have technology like that, so the fact that they do isn't really that noteworthy. The Delorean was created based on a dream an old guy had, after he hit his head; The fact that he got any kind of working product is totally mind blowing. The situation with Wolverine and Cyclops is similar; Cyclops is cooler, because he has to deal with more limitations. Wolverine is never going to die, so there's significantly reduced risk to him, compared to Cyclops. If Wolverine succeeds at something, it's not impressive because I didn't seriously think there was any real chance of his failure. When Cyclops succeeds at something, I think it's a more impressive feat, because the deck wasn't completely stacked in his favor.
Cyclops brother can fly with his power...Cyclops can't focus it like that...also as a teen with the X-Men he trained blindfolded because his glasses constantly get knocked off...Cyclops is a beast in the comics.
This gets more confusing with the “punch dimension” when you consider consider different canons, in X-Men Evolution, there’s an episode where some machine “evolves” mutants to their prefect/final forms. This is used on Scott and he is able to open his eyes without the energy coming out, so he can control an entire dimension at will it seems now
for one He was always supposed to do that, but because of an injury he was unable to, and for two it is a lot easier to control your front door than it is to control the universe. he was rendered able to choose when the portal to the punch dimension is open rather than relying on his eyelids or ruby lenses.
as a smaller individual, i liked the fact that wolverine was canonically 5'3" so it always bugged me that they cast huge jackedman to play the part, cause he's literally a foot taller than the character, at 6'3"
@@wellembalmed5031 they tried to in the first movie, but gave it up when they realized how much screen presence he had, there have been interviews where he's talked about it.
Cyclops being immune to his own powers actually makes a lot of sense. If you think about it, with Newton's 3rd law, every time he used his beams, his head would be ripped off his body. This unfortunately would also be why he could never fly with the beams.
I constantly rewatch/listen to old videos and I think my favorite Karl and Brad moment of all time is “you’re a smart guy!” “Here’s this thing, I trusted him.” Kills me every time
An intro that always stuck with me was Batman Beyond (Of the Future) due to it being all instrumental to set the atmosphere. Also favourite X-men for me was Shadowcat, passing through solid objects and how she used it to mess with robotic enemies or disable security systems was a nice twist on a power that could be useful to a criminal but the person using it didn't want to.
For me the best opening of a Superhero animated show was X-Men the Animated Series on Fox back in the 90's. No spoken or sang words, just pure adrenaline-pumping instrumentals
The problem with their explanation of why he is so good with his powers is that it negates the learning curve that he had in the comics. The X-Men were training constantly in the "danger room" for hours on end to hone their powers both individually and as a team. Cyclops was professor Xavier's first recruit as a teen. With all the training and then having to adapt when facing new enemies it would only be natural for Scott to have an awareness of how his powers worked. As for him being a square. He was essentially groomed to be the leader of the X-Men, and he was also afraid to lose self control because of the need to be constantly in control of his eye beams so as not to hurt anyone.
17:45 - I believe they actually have brought up the Flash’s quick reflexes a couple of times, or at least his faster perception of the world; eg I’ve heard that at least one comic has mentioned that when he’s at home watching TV with his wife, for her the TV is normal, but from his perspective it’s an agonisingly slow slide show because his brain is able to process each frame individually so he watches every show, film, etc frame by frame.
14:57 scott does fly using optic blasts in some incarnations.and in one comic theres a version of scott thats a brain in a jar eyes on eother side for 360* coverage.
After the joke of "what does cyclops need" with the punch dimension I'm envisioning him shooting his eye beams and it's just Saitama's hand shooting out of his eyes.
My favourite Japanese intro for a western cartoon is the Japanese version of the transformers animated intro. It’s kind of missleading, showing off side characters as if their gonna play a major part like iron hide and arcee, but the music and animation are INCREDIBLE
lets not forget Scott was hurt as a kid and got brain damage, witch was the part that truned his powers on /off so his powers are always on that why he needs the visor .
Well obviously Scott is tapping into the speed force. Barry absorbs the energy into his body as a diluted or "softer" form (the lightning), and Scott's eyes are portals through which he can expel the purer form of kinetic energy.
That's like Nightcrawler and every other teleporter having an innate spacial sense so he doesn't teleport into objects. It's something you would need to have to successfully use a teleportation power.
I’d imagine that if you were to enter the punch dimension you’d either be immediately pushed back out his eyes, be crushed against his eyelids, or both
Key ingredients for a perfect MCU Cyclops: - Classic Power Origin - Trained for spatial awareness and looks around every time he enters a room - Geometry teacher - Not a wet blanket, he's a Chad like in the comics
I think the problem with Movie - Cyclops will always be that the Character can't be very dynamic on screen when using his powers. He just looks around, there is not even jazz-hand magic or scenery-bending .. only cold Blue Steel.
25:08 Speaking of the “monsters” in the Japanese intro, they are called “The Brood”. En they are a intergalactic species and long time enemies of the X-men. They are heavenly based on the aliens from the Alien-franchise, and the X-men has battled them loads of times.
Don't forget how unlucky James Marsden was in "West World"... "Teddy" is like an analog of James Marsden career of characters... it's the ultimate final form of James Marsden!!!!
Favourite X-Men for me is Gambit. I just always loved his style. He was an anti-hero, like Wolverine. But while Wolverine is the anti-hero in the Clint Eastwood mold Gambit was more of the suave gentleman-thief/trickster type. Plus his jacket, wild spiky hair and cards just looked badass to me. And of course, he got other dimensions to like his relationship with Rogue. As for favourite anime intro, I've always loved Tank! from Cowboy Bebop. It's the one I never skip. But I also want to do a shout-out to Again! from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. It's so good. And if we're just talking animation, Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes is pretty damn good. And as an old school DuckTales fan and life-long Carl Barks fan I love the new version of the classic theme they made for DuckTales 2017. Might not be the most epic intro. But damn if it isn't one of the catchiest.
Speaking of anime intros, you need to look up JAM Project. They’ve done SO many themes, plus each member has done individual anime intros too. One of the members, Hironobu Kageyama did Cha-La-head-cha-La (the original DBZ intro) and We Gotta Power (the second DBZ intro after the Cell Saga).
When they were talking about people traveling through the punch dimension thats who nightcrawlers teleportation works whenever he BAMFs away he goes into the dimension and physically travels while unconscious to another location that will put him where he wants to go
I think Scott sees normal like us, it’s exactly like wearing shades we all have normal vision (unless colour blind) but when we wear shades it’s darker or toned and because Scott’s visor and shades contain Rose Quartz “he sees red”
My favorite x-man is Forget me not -- his power is to be forgotten the moment he is isn't observed, even cameras malfunction in his presence and hes apart of the original x-men team along side cyclops . "it's better to do something that matters and not be noticed than the other way around. Now comes the hard part. Actually doing something that matters. "
Most depictions of speedster power shows them moving at normal speed and everyone else moving very slowly or not at all. That doesn't necessitate that they have super reflexes too. Their power could actually being manipulation of special relativity/time, so that the things they do just looks like it's super fast. That explanation also solves the problem with the people/things they save not just immediately being smashed into dust, as there isn't an infinite amount of energy zooming through them, it's just a normal amount going quickly through time.
Scotts eyes are actually portals to the dimension of cytorok or whatever juggernauts god lives in. Both are beings of force, one channels it physically the other through his eyes.
when i first heard the Japanese Xmen intro.... i didn't even get through the first 12 seconds of it without pausing it and just restarting it over and over again because of how EPIC it was .... i was actually confused ... at how powerful and ULTIMATELY BETTER IT WAS
I'd think the beams would be absorbed by his hands, rather than reflected. If it were merely reflected, his eyelids would require additional mutations to justify.
Wait, so if Cyclops' eye-beams are kenetic energy, that means they can't be reflected, since they aren't light energy and should just break through any surface.
23:40 So, from my Taiwanese, ex-Japanese occupied region, understanding, it's less that it's popular thing to do and more that a) a lot of modern words in Japanese were adopted from English. Cup, lamp, radio ( カップ、ランプ、ラジオ), etc. b) Rock and roll is an American thing. So words like "shock" (used a lot in the 80's and 90's) are breaking the mold and, hence, has a lot more impact as well as more in line with the style of music. And... yeah, it was kind of the "cool kid" thing to put English words into songs.
So, for Americans watching, I just googled Dragon Soop and it's label looks like it was designed specifically by the designer of Four Loco. So basically it is Four Loco. Just Caffeine and Alcohol mixed with Koolaid.
14:39 not to "☝️🤓 Um ackshully" but in issue #12 of Champions when kid Cyclops gets hit by an emotion-ray thing that makes him un-repressed, he fires a blast at the ground and flies for a bit, he also yells "why have i never done this before ?!?!"
Those "monsters" were the Brood. Although I am unsure if they fought them in the cartoon (been so long I cant remember) they have fought them many times in the comic. The stab you like a bee and inject you with DNA altering substance that turns you into one of them.
I never watched or heard that transformers show, but that intro went so hard it made me emotional. I'm going to look it up to hear that whole thing now
As far as rad intro songs go: Cautionary Warning. An anime called The Legend of Black Heaven, about saving the world with the power of rock, fittingly went hard for it's opening. They hired John Sykes, who has been part of Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake. Specifically, he was with Whitesnake for their self-titled album, which apparently went octuple-platinum.
I hears about the portals in his eyes but didn't hear where it went and figured it was to the Crimson Cosmos the realm of Cyttorak as that at least made some sense
I know you were only talking about Anime intros, but I still have to shout out to the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer theme. It's one of my favorite theme songs.
One major note I love about the afternote of this vid: a lot of the Japanese themes are done by JAM PROJECT -- the supergroup that does the ONE PUNCH MAN themes, which even contains a member that came up with the original DBZ OP themes. xD
Probably late to the table but those monsters were the Brood. A knockoff of the Aliens schtick where the person who was captured didn't incubate a new alien but had the gene code rewritten to become a new Brood. Was a huge thing during the Shi'Ar Empire arcs of the late 80s and early 90s
Now that you mention it, Newtons Law would knock Cyclops' head clean off his body if the force that came out of his eyes were infinite. Heck, he'd get a concussion just by peeking lol
Since it’s pure kinetic energy and seeming infinite they’d probably be squished to death, the energy would probably work like a shit load of pressure if anyone somehow ended up in the “punch dimension”
I've been watching Xmen TAS the past week (nice timing on this video) and when they first meet the Morlocs, Scott said "My powers don't work without the sun". So now i'm wondering when the eye portal change happened.
Hmmm... I could be making a jump here, but, I think his energy could be being harvested directly from the realm of "Cittorrak", who empowers The Unstoppable Juggernaut (sorry, I probably horribly misspelled that name). Red energy energy from another universe which is a Concept of strength made physical. There's other examples of mutants( like Wanda with the existential chaos aspect access), who's ability is basically to have access to some existential building block, domain, or aspect of their universe that's beyond their mortal realm. Like a Uber cheat code.
I believe in the old comics the explanation of why is lasers don't come outside of his glasses that the Ruby court strix is body into thinking he's already firing lasers so is power doesn't really activate
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There actually are instances, in the books, of Cyclops using his beams to break, and he then watches as every ball is potted. After he just glances at the table. He doesn't get ANY love in the movies, but in the books, even Logan admits Cyke is someone you do NOT mess with.
He’s done that more than once?
@@John-Doe-Yo Oh yeah. Marvel Team-Up number 50 I think. There are pics of those pannels on line
Did mf call comic books, normal books. They are different my guy
@TheEggman1640 still a kind of book.
You can call a crow a bird and still be right.
A comic book is a kind of book, it's right there in the name.
@@danielled8665 Thank you. Nice pull with the 1640 reference. Gaiman was a total pro on that both on the job and behind the scenes with Todd MacFarlane and the legal battle.
"British people drink like we wanna die"
Snakebite is another good example
In all my years, I've never heard or seen "snake bite"
@@adammcguire574 ah you've never gone to a student pub.
@@adammcguire574 half cider, half lager…often served with a dash of blackcurrant squash making it Snakebite & Black
Is four loko not available over there? It was pretty big over in the us 10 years ago something like 14 percent and was banned for a while
@@John-Doe-Yo can you still get Four Loko where you're at? We have it here but it's not the 14% and it no longer has caffeine. I think last time I seen one it was more like 10% abv. They taste disgusting so I never really paid too much attention to them
I feel like they talk about Flash's secondary powers a lot. Like it's usually mentioned fairly often that the Flash can basically think at the speed of light, which makes it even more hilarious when he gets taken out by a cold gun and a boomerang.
They always counter it by saying his powers made him a little cockier but you’d think after the first few times he’d start expecting it
Lightspeed thinking.
Oof.
Just imagine all the intrusive thoughts The Flash has to deal with every single day.
In Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, where Batman basically treats Wally West like a little brother, Think of how many times he had to resist hugging Batman just because his subconscious was just "Hey, remember when he convinced Orion to come to the Flash Museum dedication ceremony?"
@@ryuku2
Just imagine his ability is literally just giving him ADHD and you are sorted.
It doesn't matter how fast you can think if your capacity for intelligent thought is low to begin with.
He's still a bit of a dumbest, just faster at it.
... Barry Allen is a forensic scientist tho u gotta be pretty smart to do that @@maeburekaiser
In addition to what Karl said about Japanese intros going so hard.
A lot of Japanese anime are made for, or funded by the TV networks in Japan who just so happen to also own a lot of the major record labels in Japan. So they have wide access to all these bands with upcoming albums to choose from, and because of this they get both cross promotion, but in addition the company gets to produce it at a fraction of what it would cost for a network in the UK or US to do the same with a named band.
You not only included the story about getting tricked and hit in the balls but also included the video. Not a lot of guys are big enough men to do that. Props Karl (Genuine)
"Here is a mysterious person in the background"
Oh, so are you going to introduce them later in the video?
"Nah".
That is one of the most Fact Fiend shits I've seen and I love it XD
I didn't know about his other origin for his powers where he absorbed ambient energy. That would actually make him way better because he could endure things like energy attacks like bishop. It would also make more sense for his brothers who have similar absorption abilities so it would line up better why they would be resistant to those.
It was originally that his body absorbed solar radiation. He could use his powers at night, though they were diminished because some solar radiation was always reaching the surface of the Earth. His powers would only be rendered useless when he was deep underground or in a shielded room where no solar radiation could reach him.
It was also explained in the comic why he couldn't control his powers. He suffered brain damage as a boy when he was forced to strap a parachute to himself and his brother Alex when the plane that they were flying in with their parents severely malfunctioned and were forced to bail out of. The parachute strap slammed into the side of his head, which caused serious brain damage and a blood clot. The surgery to save his life also removed a portion of his brain and severely limited his ability to control his powers. As a result his powers would always go at full force without the assistance of the special ruby quartz lenses.
Alex Summers, whose code name is Havok, can fire kinetic blasts from his hands and he has much finer control of his powers. For a time Havok was the leader of the U.S. government-backed mutant team, X-Factor.
@@oldeskul Honestly the original reason he can't control his powers is pretty stupid. In a world with super genius tech experts, geneticists, telepaths, mutant healing abilities, and magic Cyclops never learned to control his powers because of a concussion of all things? I really think the writers are super lazy with the character.
@@DreamStepper It was more than just a concussion. A concussion is caused when your brain gets jostled around inside your cranium, bangs against the inside of your skull and causes some swelling. What Scott suffered was more serious than that.
Of course Forge did develop some tech that had the ability to completely mitigate Cyclops' powers. Of course he also an energy pistol that could temporarily switch off Rogue's power. The lazy writing was Xavier knowing that could help Cyclops and Rogue control their powers and not reach out to ask for their help.
My point is that plenty of mutants have recovered from worse. In the current storyline Cyclops had his mind transferred to a cloned body which in theory should've given him total control of his powers if the writers are paying heed to the origin.
@@DreamStepper he had multiple surgeries performed on him by Mr Sinister, the greatest geneticist on the planet, that resulted in him being that way
Damn, no, Angel is a solid choice for favorite X-Men character. He's a good dude and very entertainingly dramatic.
Also, in Scott Summers's defense, the universe regularly likes to shit on Cyclops. It is RARE that that man gets to have a good day, so him being a wet blanket makes total sense.
Oscar Wilde quipped that "You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies". Cyclops has apparently earned the enmity of Eternity himself. Not too shabby.
Constant pressure and responsibilities, plus shit going wrong at any opportunity would definitely turn most people into a wet blanket so people hate him for being too realistic emotionally
I would have guessed no one could beat him in a staring contest.
That's an interesting comparison: Who's cooler between Cyclops and Wolverine, based on their powers. It reminds me of a question I went around asking people in college: Which is the more impressive creation, between the TARDIS and the Delorean? I say that the Delorean is a vastly more impressive creation, because it was created by a random human scientist, in his garrage, while the TARDIS was created by the construction division of a race of aliens that have reached the far end of their technological curve; You would expect a civilization like that to have technology like that, so the fact that they do isn't really that noteworthy. The Delorean was created based on a dream an old guy had, after he hit his head; The fact that he got any kind of working product is totally mind blowing. The situation with Wolverine and Cyclops is similar; Cyclops is cooler, because he has to deal with more limitations. Wolverine is never going to die, so there's significantly reduced risk to him, compared to Cyclops. If Wolverine succeeds at something, it's not impressive because I didn't seriously think there was any real chance of his failure. When Cyclops succeeds at something, I think it's a more impressive feat, because the deck wasn't completely stacked in his favor.
Cyclops brother can fly with his power...Cyclops can't focus it like that...also as a teen with the X-Men he trained blindfolded because his glasses constantly get knocked off...Cyclops is a beast in the comics.
Don't forget the one where Henry McCoy lost an eye.
Beast was a cyclops there.
This gets more confusing with the “punch dimension” when you consider consider different canons, in X-Men Evolution, there’s an episode where some machine “evolves” mutants to their prefect/final forms.
This is used on Scott and he is able to open his eyes without the energy coming out, so he can control an entire dimension at will it seems now
for one He was always supposed to do that, but because of an injury he was unable to, and for two it is a lot easier to control your front door than it is to control the universe. he was rendered able to choose when the portal to the punch dimension is open rather than relying on his eyelids or ruby lenses.
@@Markcrazeer It's like David Bowie getting bonked on the head as a kid and having one dead iris. Except with lasers from the punch dimension.
@@dotJayPegg this is by far the most "fact fiend comment section" string of words
@@MojaveMoron Rule #1: Know your audience
as a smaller individual, i liked the fact that wolverine was canonically 5'3" so it always bugged me that they cast huge jackedman to play the part, cause he's literally a foot taller than the character, at 6'3"
Don't quote me, but I think in at least X 1 they used perspective to make him shorter than Scott or a few others? Yes?
@@wellembalmed5031 they tried to in the first movie, but gave it up when they realized how much screen presence he had, there have been interviews where he's talked about it.
True, but it was still the perfect casting regardless.
It's gonna be difficult when it comes time to cast a new Wolverine.
@@wayneb6583 agreed, i just hope they pick a short king, not enough representation of smaller people in powerful roles
Cyclops being immune to his own powers actually makes a lot of sense. If you think about it, with Newton's 3rd law, every time he used his beams, his head would be ripped off his body. This unfortunately would also be why he could never fly with the beams.
I constantly rewatch/listen to old videos and I think my favorite Karl and Brad moment of all time is “you’re a smart guy!” “Here’s this thing, I trusted him.”
Kills me every time
An intro that always stuck with me was Batman Beyond (Of the Future) due to it being all instrumental to set the atmosphere. Also favourite X-men for me was Shadowcat, passing through solid objects and how she used it to mess with robotic enemies or disable security systems was a nice twist on a power that could be useful to a criminal but the person using it didn't want to.
In comics: Cyclops is a fucking beast, universally respected as a leader and tactician.
Everywhere else: Cyclops sucks
Karls sheer look of disgust and incredulity when hearing the obsession with wings at the start is brilliant
Maybe the Punch Dimension is where DBZ takes place, and the infinite kinetic energy is from all the force of power all the characters have combined.
Also, yo, those monster in the Japanese Intro were the Brood, a classic X-Men cosmic enemy. To my knowledge, no episode of the cartoon featured them.
They were in a Mojoverse episode, but were called "The Colony" for some reason
The sound track to FLCL by the pillows is probably my favorite intro ever
For me the best opening of a Superhero animated show was X-Men the Animated Series on Fox back in the 90's. No spoken or sang words, just pure adrenaline-pumping instrumentals
The same era Spider Man theme was a damn close second place.
The problem with their explanation of why he is so good with his powers is that it negates the learning curve that he had in the comics. The X-Men were training constantly in the "danger room" for hours on end to hone their powers both individually and as a team. Cyclops was professor Xavier's first recruit as a teen.
With all the training and then having to adapt when facing new enemies it would only be natural for Scott to have an awareness of how his powers worked. As for him being a square. He was essentially groomed to be the leader of the X-Men, and he was also afraid to lose self control because of the need to be constantly in control of his eye beams so as not to hurt anyone.
As soon as I saw the title of the video, the first sentence that came into my head was: "Geoffrey, break out Lucille."
Are we going to gloss over the fact that a man named after the ONE-EYED greek mythological creature has TWO EYES?!
His codename is based on the fact that his visor makes it like he has one eye.
17:45 - I believe they actually have brought up the Flash’s quick reflexes a couple of times, or at least his faster perception of the world; eg I’ve heard that at least one comic has mentioned that when he’s at home watching TV with his wife, for her the TV is normal, but from his perspective it’s an agonisingly slow slide show because his brain is able to process each frame individually so he watches every show, film, etc frame by frame.
I really liked that scene in Invincible where the flash type character accidentallly pissed his girlfriend off by explaingin how he sees the world.
That’s how cats see television
nice, I'm glad you all got footage from the marvel 3 cyclops mod :D
14:33 oh this aged very well
14:46
That clip of godzilla flying had me in stitches...
That pokémon theme goes so hard and it's so out of nowhere.
I fucking love it...
14:57 scott does fly using optic blasts in some incarnations.and in one comic theres a version of scott thats a brain in a jar eyes on eother side for 360* coverage.
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Karl got hit in his -Smallwood- *Big Wanger INC*
For TV show intro's my favourite is the season 2 intro for Fire Force, the song is "Mayday" by coldrain
After the joke of "what does cyclops need" with the punch dimension I'm envisioning him shooting his eye beams and it's just Saitama's hand shooting out of his eyes.
My favourite Japanese intro for a western cartoon is the Japanese version of the transformers animated intro. It’s kind of missleading, showing off side characters as if their gonna play a major part like iron hide and arcee, but the music and animation are INCREDIBLE
lets not forget Scott was hurt as a kid and got brain damage, witch was the part that truned his powers on /off so his powers are always on that why he needs the visor .
Well obviously Scott is tapping into the speed force. Barry absorbs the energy into his body as a diluted or "softer" form (the lightning), and Scott's eyes are portals through which he can expel the purer form of kinetic energy.
That's like Nightcrawler and every other teleporter having an innate spacial sense so he doesn't teleport into objects. It's something you would need to have to successfully use a teleportation power.
I can’t believe they didn’t bring up spectacular Spider-Man intro it’s always the first one I think of
Yoahimitsu Banno: I'm gonna make Godzilla *FUGGIN' FLY!!*
Me: But *WHY* ???
My favorite x-men is Nightcrawler.
The op that never fails to get me pumped: The third OP of Hajime no Ippo. The instrumental one.
I’d imagine that if you were to enter the punch dimension you’d either be immediately pushed back out his eyes, be crushed against his eyelids, or both
Key ingredients for a perfect MCU Cyclops:
- Classic Power Origin
- Trained for spatial awareness and looks around every time he enters a room
- Geometry teacher
- Not a wet blanket, he's a Chad like in the comics
I think the problem with Movie - Cyclops will always be that the Character can't be very dynamic on screen when using his powers.
He just looks around, there is not even jazz-hand magic or scenery-bending .. only cold Blue Steel.
Death Note opening 2 (What’s Up People by Maximum The Hormone).
Goes so god damned hard.
have you heard the hard rock remix of the ben 10 intro from the live action movie: “Ben 10 Race Against Time”?
cause that one really goes hard
25:08 Speaking of the “monsters” in the Japanese intro, they are called “The Brood”. En they are a intergalactic species and long time enemies of the X-men. They are heavenly based on the aliens from the Alien-franchise, and the X-men has battled them loads of times.
Cyclops was right
Magneto did nothing wrong.
"Griffith did nothing wrong and sasuke is cool"
Copyrights was wrong
Oh god here we go again 😂
Yeah the rumbling goes so hard. Amazing song to train to especially heavy lifts
Don't forget how unlucky James Marsden was in "West World"... "Teddy" is like an analog of James Marsden career of characters... it's the ultimate final form of James Marsden!!!!
The first opening song to Fire Force goes so hard 🔥
Cyclops is the embodiment of the saying "if looks could kill"
I would love to have the" IT Crew" clip when Roy says "Nonononono, we can never talk about it NECER AGAIN"
One of my favorite moments is when he 1v1 Juggernaut. He he flat out gave him his MvC Super move.
Favourite X-Men for me is Gambit.
I just always loved his style. He was an anti-hero, like Wolverine. But while Wolverine is the anti-hero in the Clint Eastwood mold Gambit was more of the suave gentleman-thief/trickster type. Plus his jacket, wild spiky hair and cards just looked badass to me.
And of course, he got other dimensions to like his relationship with Rogue.
As for favourite anime intro, I've always loved Tank! from Cowboy Bebop. It's the one I never skip.
But I also want to do a shout-out to Again! from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. It's so good.
And if we're just talking animation, Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes is pretty damn good.
And as an old school DuckTales fan and life-long Carl Barks fan I love the new version of the classic theme they made for DuckTales 2017. Might not be the most epic intro. But damn if it isn't one of the catchiest.
Also his power is interesting to me. Turning any amount of potential energy into kinetic is cool. Imagine being able to do that.
Speaking of anime intros, you need to look up JAM Project. They’ve done SO many themes, plus each member has done individual anime intros too. One of the members, Hironobu Kageyama did Cha-La-head-cha-La (the original DBZ intro) and We Gotta Power (the second DBZ intro after the Cell Saga).
When they were talking about people traveling through the punch dimension thats who nightcrawlers teleportation works whenever he BAMFs away he goes into the dimension and physically travels while unconscious to another location that will put him where he wants to go
I think Scott sees normal like us, it’s exactly like wearing shades we all have normal vision (unless colour blind) but when we wear shades it’s darker or toned and because Scott’s visor and shades contain Rose Quartz “he sees red”
My favorite x-man is Forget me not -- his power is to be forgotten the moment he is isn't observed, even cameras malfunction in his presence and hes apart of the original x-men team along side cyclops .
"it's better to do something that matters and not be noticed than the other way around. Now comes the hard part. Actually doing something that matters. "
Our facial expressions when the guy said "Angel" were identical.
Cyclops works better when he's a villain! That determination and attention to detail! He's scary AF when he's gone over the edge!
Most depictions of speedster power shows them moving at normal speed and everyone else moving very slowly or not at all. That doesn't necessitate that they have super reflexes too. Their power could actually being manipulation of special relativity/time, so that the things they do just looks like it's super fast.
That explanation also solves the problem with the people/things they save not just immediately being smashed into dust, as there isn't an infinite amount of energy zooming through them, it's just a normal amount going quickly through time.
Scotts eyes are actually portals to the dimension of cytorok or whatever juggernauts god lives in. Both are beings of force, one channels it physically the other through his eyes.
when i first heard the Japanese Xmen intro.... i didn't even get through the first 12 seconds of it without pausing it and just restarting it over and over again because of how EPIC it was .... i was actually confused ... at how powerful and ULTIMATELY BETTER IT WAS
I'd think the beams would be absorbed by his hands, rather than reflected. If it were merely reflected, his eyelids would require additional mutations to justify.
Yessss!! Thank you for acknowledging that Iron Man intro it hits too hard for a children's show.
The intro song by Buck-Tick to the horror anime Shiki was good enough that bothered to look up the band. It's good stuff.
Wait, so if Cyclops' eye-beams are kenetic energy, that means they can't be reflected, since they aren't light energy and should just break through any surface.
23:40 So, from my Taiwanese, ex-Japanese occupied region, understanding, it's less that it's popular thing to do and more that a) a lot of modern words in Japanese were adopted from English. Cup, lamp, radio ( カップ、ランプ、ラジオ), etc. b) Rock and roll is an American thing. So words like "shock" (used a lot in the 80's and 90's) are breaking the mold and, hence, has a lot more impact as well as more in line with the style of music. And... yeah, it was kind of the "cool kid" thing to put English words into songs.
So, for Americans watching, I just googled Dragon Soop and it's label looks like it was designed specifically by the designer of Four Loco. So basically it is Four Loco. Just Caffeine and Alcohol mixed with Koolaid.
Infinite energy out of his face and he uses it to blast people
Imagining cyclops flying around with a makeup mirror on a selfie stick
14:39 not to "☝️🤓 Um ackshully" but in issue #12 of Champions when kid Cyclops gets hit by an emotion-ray thing that makes him un-repressed, he fires a blast at the ground and flies for a bit, he also yells "why have i never done this before ?!?!"
Those "monsters" were the Brood. Although I am unsure if they fought them in the cartoon (been so long I cant remember) they have fought them many times in the comic. The stab you like a bee and inject you with DNA altering substance that turns you into one of them.
I mean turtles and armadillos are extraordinarily durable, yet they can't lift the weight that's crushing them
ok. I fucking died at the hard cut to Godzilla and that music as he flies away
I never watched or heard that transformers show, but that intro went so hard it made me emotional. I'm going to look it up to hear that whole thing now
Gambling by syudou for the anime tsukimichi moonlit fantasy
As far as rad intro songs go: Cautionary Warning. An anime called The Legend of Black Heaven, about saving the world with the power of rock, fittingly went hard for it's opening. They hired John Sykes, who has been part of Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake. Specifically, he was with Whitesnake for their self-titled album, which apparently went octuple-platinum.
I hears about the portals in his eyes but didn't hear where it went and figured it was to the Crimson Cosmos the realm of Cyttorak as that at least made some sense
The first way his powers worked made so much more sense since he also losed his powers if out of the sun for to long
I know you were only talking about Anime intros, but I still have to shout out to the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer theme. It's one of my favorite theme songs.
_Teen Titans_ had another excellent theme tune, a preformed by Puffy AmiYumi
The guy who said the spiderman unlimited intro is so valid
The summer's brothers are immune to each other's powers because their bodies emit the same energy frequency.
One major note I love about the afternote of this vid: a lot of the Japanese themes are done by JAM PROJECT -- the supergroup that does the ONE PUNCH MAN themes, which even contains a member that came up with the original DBZ OP themes. xD
Moving out of the anime space, Buffy has an amazing theme.
"Having the sex with the bees and the eagles"
For a hard anime opening I still love Deadman wonderland, and for an outro song has to be fear and loathing in Las Vagas from hunterxhunter
I really like Rogue. I think she's neat. Also gambit, cuz he's Cajun
"Brits drink like we want to die"
Someone show this man JOOSE XD
Probably late to the table but those monsters were the Brood. A knockoff of the Aliens schtick where the person who was captured didn't incubate a new alien but had the gene code rewritten to become a new Brood. Was a huge thing during the Shi'Ar Empire arcs of the late 80s and early 90s
Now that you mention it, Newtons Law would knock Cyclops' head clean off his body if the force that came out of his eyes were infinite. Heck, he'd get a concussion just by peeking lol
One intro I loved was the intro for a cartoon called: "Bob Morane".
Since it’s pure kinetic energy and seeming infinite they’d probably be squished to death, the energy would probably work like a shit load of pressure if anyone somehow ended up in the “punch dimension”
How cyclops powers work: takes off visor and an army of jojo Stands emerge on target and oro oro the target to death
Mysterious third person drinking a legal version of a speedball, damn
I've been watching Xmen TAS the past week (nice timing on this video) and when they first meet the Morlocs, Scott said "My powers don't work without the sun".
So now i'm wondering when the eye portal change happened.
I would like to nominate The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes as one of the hardest openings ever
Hmmm... I could be making a jump here, but, I think his energy could be being harvested directly from the realm of "Cittorrak", who empowers The Unstoppable Juggernaut (sorry, I probably horribly misspelled that name). Red energy energy from another universe which is a Concept of strength made physical. There's other examples of mutants( like Wanda with the existential chaos aspect access), who's ability is basically to have access to some existential building block, domain, or aspect of their universe that's beyond their mortal realm. Like a Uber cheat code.
I believe in the old comics the explanation of why is lasers don't come outside of his glasses that the Ruby court strix is body into thinking he's already firing lasers so is power doesn't really activate