I'd love to see this become a regular series by Dael as she reports on fantasy fashion on popular cosplays, TTRPG character art, and comic book heroes and villains.
This is exactly what I needed to see today. Quick fashion thoughts: 1. The men's shirtless outfits were saying, "We don't have to hide ourselves anymore." 2. I hate Von Doom's mask for the Gala. The rest of the outfit, though, reveals something: see the joints in his suit? No? That's because he doesn't have any hard joints at the elbows and knees or anywhere else. He always has then in his regular armors, but not here. However, Doom is always armored. So he has Stark's soft magnetic armor tech, but only wears it as a flex at a party where Tony Stark is attending. 3. The whole reason the third Xavier outfit works is because the man only looks right with a shirt on. 4. Magik's and Rachel's outfits are a bit upsetting to me because Magik was only Queen of Limbo because she was kidnapped there, and Rachel wore the red, studded outfit as a "hound" for mutant-hunters. So they're wearing their respective traumas as Gala costumes in an attempt to own their own histories. It just makes me wonder if it's working for them. 5. Re the shoeless looks: Namor is Atlantean and Vision is a robot. Everybody else should have the sense to consider broken glass at one of these events. If it couldn't be avoided at the Richards' wedding, how could the Gala possibly be drama-free?
Honestly, my issue with both Magik and Rachel is that thos gala outfits are just... bedazzled versions of their regular costumes. Like, that's just what Magik LOOKS like 90% of the time, and while Rachel's outfit is cool(ish), that's also just what she tends to look like whenever she goes ✨CRAE-ZEE!!!✨ AND, they're clearly not putting as much time into the dude's outfits, other than shirtless=sexy.
One thing I love about Dael and her channel is that you never know what kind of video you’re gonna get. Go from TTRPG advice to ice cream making to rating fashion choices of the X-Men. What’s next week’s video gonna be about? It could be literally anything lol.
This video really just highlights some of the reasons the Hellfire gala is perhaps the apotheosis of everything great about the Krakoan age. Celebration of a defined mutant culture??? The opportunity for creators to go wild and reinvent popular characters??? The goodest of shit.
This video broke the Dael sass-o-meter. I have no idea what is going on, or why Xmen have a fashion gala, but I do love that artists get to do it. Also wtf Charles, that helmet is ridiculous.
They did my boy Jamie so dirty. I genuinely LOVE the idea of the Hellfire Gala and was so excited when Madrox joined X-Corp and they gave him an overconfident fashion student's first semester midterm project.
I feel like Cyclops just always forgets about the Gala until the night before. First year: "I'll just wear my fanciest costume." Next year: Alex loans him his rough draft. Year after that: Magneto gives him a costume and he borrows a helmet from someone.
Thank you, @MonarchsFactory, for giving us the content we didn’t know we needed. I will trust your judgement from now on, even when I am thoroughly confused by the thumbnail. 10/10. She wakes up in the morning and she pisses excellence.😂
Honestly, I draw so much D&D and writing inspiration from both the Met and Hellfire Galas for things like cities of wizards, or other groups of powerful magical weirdos. Fae, infernal courts, the realms of the elemental princes. Anywhere that people should look amazing, but also defy practicality, these fits provide excellent set dressing. (Colossus dressed like this as a powerful prince of elemental earth? Think about it!) Agreed with all your takes, though I kind of like Emma's head slice headdress, I like how it suggests her powers without being too flashy. That diamond dress is amazing. So incredibly over the top, and yes, very sexy in a very unsubtle way, but also really regal and confident in a totally unrepentant way, and also gives a bit of that deific grandiose simplicity you were ascribing to Prodigy--who looks a bit more like a fey than and angel to me. Emma frost, Diamond Queen, her dress is just diamonds, she's practically naked, she looks better than all of you. Who else could really pull it off? {not Vision...} Her getting a haircut mid way is hilarious, can you imagine being at a big party and the hostess comes out missing a foot of hair and makes 0 comment?
I had no idea the hellfire gala existed before this video, and I had no idea what I was clicking on, but this was better than the best idea I could think of when I saw it and I want to judge the outfits with my friends now
As someone with only a passing understanding of both topics here, I will nonetheless always love watching someone geek out about their hobbies colliding.
As someone who loves X-men, and not so much high fashion,All of this NEEDED to be said and I'm Glad you said it! I love this kind video. Algorithm be with ye.
This made me realize I never saw a lot of discussions on the outfits at any gala and that's shocking. Eye Boy (one of my favorites) also went no shirt and shoes, but I thought it would with his power.
This has now become one of my favourite, most fantastical Monarch Factory videos yet. Can only decry the fact we didn't get the full hour and a half, would've been here for it.
this is a whole new genre of video i didnt know i wanted! love the covers they did for these and im happy that you enjoy them too. Magik is one of my favorites, glad she got so much love :) i have no idea what kind of video youll do next and it's really exciting lol
I am playing Marvel Snap and they had a big wave of variants (special art versions of cards) added for the Hellfire Gala. Several of these are included and I am loving the critique!
Thank you for trimming out the other 70 minutes. I admire your passion for the topic, but I don't think I'd have stuck to the end of the unedited version. Also, I love your videos!
Every now and then I realise it isn't immediately obvious from my online presence how much I love X-Men and it genuinely stressed me out, so I'm happy to have finally left a little fingerprint of it
Cerebro helmet Charles is great. He has atrophy from 50 years in a wheelchair, so he wears a blimp on his head to help him carry the weight. Icy what you did saying "I see" over and over when talking about Bobby.
Wait. When did we decide Kitty should look exactly like Wanda!? Her colors have ALWAYS been yellow and blue, with the odd in-between blonde-brown WHY DOES SHE LOOK LIKE WANDA NOW!?
This was delightful. Also, I am now mad about Kitty Pryde. How dare they do one of my favorite characters dirty like that. She deserved so much better. As did Bobby. I swear his whole head, from the sunglasses to the hair, looks like it came out of the late 80's or early 90's.
I love that you put this much energy into this video. I love that this gave you content, but the Hellfire Gala and really the Krakoan age past HoX and PoX has been a disaster of mangled incoherent story lines that go nowhere.
Thank you for acknowleging that Emma wasn't wearing a shirt either! Pity you didn't announce the winners of best/worst dressed. My votes go for Dr Doom and Charles Xavier. Might be controversial to not pick the Jugernaught, but I think Charles' rediculous outfit took EFFORT to be so bad, while the Jugernaut's is just lazy. This was a fun video!
Been meaning to watch this for months. And I got the exact Dael energy I had hoped for. This was fun. Also, the can of worms that is Juggernaut trying a fancy outfit. Where would he even start?
As someone who isn’t really into high fashion or the X-men, most of this was utterly incomprehensible to me. 5 stars.
The vibe of this video for me is 'slightly intoxicated inconsequential arguments you get into with your friends' and I love it.
Oh that's so real, this exactly what I'm like at parties
“This was all very important” cracked me up
I'd love to see this become a regular series by Dael as she reports on fantasy fashion on popular cosplays, TTRPG character art, and comic book heroes and villains.
I remember seeing that Doom outfit on marvel snap and just thinking my GOD no one man should have all that swagulosity. weapons-grade drip.
He's got the heckin LEWK
Gambit wearing a jacket with no shirt should just be his normal look tbh
Got that right, mon cheri.
Namor being shirtless and shoeless is the least surprising one.
The Rasputin siblings putting in the work. You love to see it.
This is exactly what I needed to see today. Quick fashion thoughts:
1. The men's shirtless outfits were saying, "We don't have to hide ourselves anymore."
2. I hate Von Doom's mask for the Gala. The rest of the outfit, though, reveals something: see the joints in his suit? No? That's because he doesn't have any hard joints at the elbows and knees or anywhere else. He always has then in his regular armors, but not here. However, Doom is always armored. So he has Stark's soft magnetic armor tech, but only wears it as a flex at a party where Tony Stark is attending.
3. The whole reason the third Xavier outfit works is because the man only looks right with a shirt on.
4. Magik's and Rachel's outfits are a bit upsetting to me because Magik was only Queen of Limbo because she was kidnapped there, and Rachel wore the red, studded outfit as a "hound" for mutant-hunters. So they're wearing their respective traumas as Gala costumes in an attempt to own their own histories. It just makes me wonder if it's working for them.
5. Re the shoeless looks: Namor is Atlantean and Vision is a robot. Everybody else should have the sense to consider broken glass at one of these events. If it couldn't be avoided at the Richards' wedding, how could the Gala possibly be drama-free?
Honestly, my issue with both Magik and Rachel is that thos gala outfits are just... bedazzled versions of their regular costumes. Like, that's just what Magik LOOKS like 90% of the time, and while Rachel's outfit is cool(ish), that's also just what she tends to look like whenever she goes ✨CRAE-ZEE!!!✨
AND, they're clearly not putting as much time into the dude's outfits, other than shirtless=sexy.
One thing I love about Dael and her channel is that you never know what kind of video you’re gonna get. Go from TTRPG advice to ice cream making to rating fashion choices of the X-Men.
What’s next week’s video gonna be about? It could be literally anything lol.
my brain: bro, what are you watching?
also my brain: shh... just.. shush.
I laughed out loud for actual
Charles Xavier's outfits always looks like he's starring in a steampunk remake of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Number 2 looks like a Judge Dredd ripoff
This video really just highlights some of the reasons the Hellfire gala is perhaps the apotheosis of everything great about the Krakoan age. Celebration of a defined mutant culture??? The opportunity for creators to go wild and reinvent popular characters??? The goodest of shit.
Cyclops wearing an outfit that is basically his uniform is kinda on-brand for him.
We could've gotten 70 more minutes of Mutant Fashion Photo Ruview??????????
19:08
Emma: Check out my shoes
Commenter: Is Lourdes Chantel dying?
Emma: This ain't about her
This video broke the Dael sass-o-meter.
I have no idea what is going on, or why Xmen have a fashion gala, but I do love that artists get to do it.
Also wtf Charles, that helmet is ridiculous.
They did my boy Jamie so dirty. I genuinely LOVE the idea of the Hellfire Gala and was so excited when Madrox joined X-Corp and they gave him an overconfident fashion student's first semester midterm project.
I feel like Cyclops just always forgets about the Gala until the night before.
First year: "I'll just wear my fanciest costume."
Next year: Alex loans him his rough draft.
Year after that: Magneto gives him a costume and he borrows a helmet from someone.
"desaturated Willy Wonka" too me out at the KNEES
Just emailed this to my grandma.
"In my day, X-Men modelled swimsuits on the beach!"
Thank you, @MonarchsFactory, for giving us the content we didn’t know we needed. I will trust your judgement from now on, even when I am thoroughly confused by the thumbnail. 10/10. She wakes up in the morning and she pisses excellence.😂
Honestly, I draw so much D&D and writing inspiration from both the Met and Hellfire Galas for things like cities of wizards, or other groups of powerful magical weirdos. Fae, infernal courts, the realms of the elemental princes. Anywhere that people should look amazing, but also defy practicality, these fits provide excellent set dressing. (Colossus dressed like this as a powerful prince of elemental earth? Think about it!)
Agreed with all your takes, though I kind of like Emma's head slice headdress, I like how it suggests her powers without being too flashy. That diamond dress is amazing. So incredibly over the top, and yes, very sexy in a very unsubtle way, but also really regal and confident in a totally unrepentant way, and also gives a bit of that deific grandiose simplicity you were ascribing to Prodigy--who looks a bit more like a fey than and angel to me. Emma frost, Diamond Queen, her dress is just diamonds, she's practically naked, she looks better than all of you. Who else could really pull it off? {not Vision...} Her getting a haircut mid way is hilarious, can you imagine being at a big party and the hostess comes out missing a foot of hair and makes 0 comment?
I had no idea the hellfire gala existed before this video, and I had no idea what I was clicking on, but this was better than the best idea I could think of when I saw it and I want to judge the outfits with my friends now
Honestly I need the 90 minute cut
This is the content I didn’t know I needed, but now I simply cannot be without!
I love that "The Bad" is twice as long as the other segments.
😆 I swear I had more positive entries but they weren't as entertaining so they didn't make the edit
As someone with only a passing understanding of both topics here, I will nonetheless always love watching someone geek out about their hobbies colliding.
I haven't been following the comics, but I absolutely love this
Same!
Release the Kingsmill cut. I could watch an hour of this
RELEASE 👏 THE 👏 FULL 👏 DAEL 👏 CUT
This was super fun. Well done Dael!
Had no idea that I needed this in my life until I saw it...
Every opinion expressed in this video was 100% correct and also very important
As someone who loves X-men, and not so much high fashion,All of this NEEDED to be said and I'm Glad you said it! I love this kind video. Algorithm be with ye.
I love All monarchs factory videos!
Dael this is excellent content. More like this :)
I know we’ll probably have to wait till 2042, but I’m looking forward to the MCU’s multiversal hellfire galas
This made me realize I never saw a lot of discussions on the outfits at any gala and that's shocking. Eye Boy (one of my favorites) also went no shirt and shoes, but I thought it would with his power.
Yeah, Eye Boy wins the award for "I'm unapologetically a Mutant. Lump it hooman"
This has now become one of my favourite, most fantastical Monarch Factory videos yet. Can only decry the fact we didn't get the full hour and a half, would've been here for it.
I would love to see that hour and a half version!
Now I'm in love with emma frosts mafia boss look.
I didn't know I need a video like this but now I'm left wanting more! We need an uncut version
Scott 2022 is very "Pirates are in this year" x KPop
Thank you for introducing me to the Hellfire Gala
Nate Grey did the no shirt/jacket and no shoes look more than two decades before these and he did it better.
Your ability to overthink things into smithereens is so wonderful and one of the best things in the youtube of all.
I think Scott is just honouring his step-mother Hepzibah the space pirate skunk with his second outfit
This video is going to have me fed for months, I tell ya.
this is a whole new genre of video i didnt know i wanted! love the covers they did for these and im happy that you enjoy them too. Magik is one of my favorites, glad she got so much love :) i have no idea what kind of video youll do next and it's really exciting lol
On the one hand I don't like to be reminded of that one panel from Hellfire 2023, on the other hand thank you for this feat of flawless journalism.
🙏
It may just be a bow tie, but it's a DESIGNER bow tie.
Holy SH!T Victor looks AMAZING with the gold filigree!
Heck yeah! I am so glad this popped up in my feed today because these looks were just *chef's kiss*
This is in a very specific spot in a Venn diagram of my niche interests, a spot that I thought was empty!
I am playing Marvel Snap and they had a big wave of variants (special art versions of cards) added for the Hellfire Gala. Several of these are included and I am loving the critique!
I have most of the Hellfire Gala album complete, but I'm so sad because it's the only album that doesn't give an emote 😭
This was very important work, thank you Dael.
I'm not sure what I just watched, but boy did I watch it.
Thank you for trimming out the other 70 minutes. I admire your passion for the topic, but I don't think I'd have stuck to the end of the unedited version. Also, I love your videos!
8:37 Kitty's outfit looks like she jumped over to DC and raided one of the Robins' closets
Haven’t even watched the video yet but i just need to say that Colossus's outfit STILL takes my breath away.
This was a delightful video. I love the X-Men and not sure I'd ever really heard you talk about them before. Very fun
Every now and then I realise it isn't immediately obvious from my online presence how much I love X-Men and it genuinely stressed me out, so I'm happy to have finally left a little fingerprint of it
Juggernaut with a bowtie, absolutely iconic (loved the video)
The fact Iceman's outfit appears to be made out of ice is really what gets me. Just put something on. Literally anything. It's a fricken Gala!
Please, sir... Some pants... Please....
i didn't know what i was stepping into, I'm glad to be here because it's not only worth it, i know just the person who needs to see this video
I didn’t know how much I needed this, thank you for this gift
petition to release the Kingsmill cut
Xavier absolutely looks like the Greendale Human Being from the nips down.
I want that Colossus fit so bad what.
This felt like a fever dream. Loved it! Five stars. Would reccomend.
All this and no shout out to the Drip that is Miles Morales ... Other than that. Amazing :) well done
In fairness to King Namor he has never worn a shirt a day in his life.
loved this ahaha, totally out of nowhere but its great!
I want the extended cut
The Iceman '21, I was wondering if he was trying to be the Macho Man Randy Savage.
No bests Doom in haut couture! Especially you, Richards!
This was brilliant Dael, I want you to roast/review all the X-men uniforms now!
wow, truly amazing important work.
It should be noted that at least in 2021 Charles and Eric matched like all good couples should.
You're right. They are the annoying matchy couple
Okay someone should check to see if any ancient evils have been released because this is definitely a planetary alignment here
9:53 "We've landed in a happier place with the ruffled shirt" - glances at picture - well, this video definitely isn't marked for children.
Another comment: Did...did they give Xavier and Erik a couple's costume the first year, and then just not mention it?
Cerebro helmet Charles is great. He has atrophy from 50 years in a wheelchair, so he wears a blimp on his head to help him carry the weight.
Icy what you did saying "I see" over and over when talking about Bobby.
I've never read the comic but i am devastated to discover that there will be no more Marvel galas.
Juggernaut in the bow tie was camp! He was doing camp!
Dael roasting superhero fashion. *chef's kiss*
What's in the cup? Looks fancy.
Chai Latte 😎
I don't care for the X-men, or honestly comics at all that much, but I would absolutely watch another one of these.
Wait. When did we decide Kitty should look exactly like Wanda!?
Her colors have ALWAYS been yellow and blue, with the odd in-between blonde-brown
WHY DOES SHE LOOK LIKE WANDA NOW!?
"Stupid hero outfits at a fictional event" is exactly why I adore you. Never change ... Unless you feel like it.
This was delightful. Also, I am now mad about Kitty Pryde. How dare they do one of my favorite characters dirty like that. She deserved so much better. As did Bobby. I swear his whole head, from the sunglasses to the hair, looks like it came out of the late 80's or early 90's.
I love that you put this much energy into this video. I love that this gave you content, but the Hellfire Gala and really the Krakoan age past HoX and PoX has been a disaster of mangled incoherent story lines that go nowhere.
I dunno about Scott's first outfit, he looked less like a guest and more like security.
Jumbo Carnation take notes
I'd like a quick word with jumbo
Is the hour and a half version for Patreon? XD
Hilarious video! Haven't read a new X-Men comic in years but love the Red Carpet looks I've seen.
Thank you for acknowleging that Emma wasn't wearing a shirt either! Pity you didn't announce the winners of best/worst dressed. My votes go for Dr Doom and Charles Xavier. Might be controversial to not pick the Jugernaught, but I think Charles' rediculous outfit took EFFORT to be so bad, while the Jugernaut's is just lazy. This was a fun video!
Maybe we should hold a ballot. Become the academy. Make it official.
No shoes, no service!
Been meaning to watch this for months. And I got the exact Dael energy I had hoped for. This was fun.
Also, the can of worms that is Juggernaut trying a fancy outfit. Where would he even start?
Love this video, especially how earnest it is 😂 more please ❤
Xavier's suit looks like the Zeo Power Rangers' suit, without the belt and a WAY oversized helmet XD
There is no way you did this video and didnt had at least one glass of wine before recording it.
I had no idea I would be into gala fashion shows. Oh how silly I was!