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what is up Earth's Mightiest subscribers
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it's Ernie Blerd Without Fear welcome
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back to the channel so today's video
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we're gonna be talking about wolverine
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number one by benjamin percy Victor
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Bogdanovich and Andy Kubert and while we
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do that we're gonna address a couple of
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things largely in regards to what
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happens when the curcumin flowers that
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have been the lifeblood now of you the
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mutant economy what happens when someone
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takes those very same drugs are being
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used for good and then turns them into a
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dangerous narcotic more importantly
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we're finally gonna kind of see the ugly
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side of the order of X a group of humans
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who worship mutants what happens when
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you see the seedy underbelly of a group
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like that and also we're gonna find out
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exactly why a certain powerful being in
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the Marvel Universe wants Wolverines
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blood we're gonna talk about all that
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and more right now but first let's is
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that intro for the wise grass on the
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agree no one is fertilized
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chief any songs they prefer to lies
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book is well over sixty pages worth of
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content and it's there's a lot it's a
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tale of two different Wolverine stories
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and that's not a bad thing it's just
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yeah man it's a lot in the first half of
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this comic we're mostly dealing with
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equal cowan drugs being perverted into
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becoming something more of a narcotic
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called pollen it is something that's
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being distributed by the flower cartel
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now originally when I saw this
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originally the thing I started thinking
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about immediately was oh this must be a
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tie back to a horde culture which I want
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to say they debuted an x-men number
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three when Don of X kicked off but
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that's actually not the case this seems
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to be completely unrelated and this
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flower cartel they're basically coming
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into territories and muscling out any
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competition shutting them down or
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absorbing them and there seems to be one
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common denominator amongst event and
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that's a figure by the name of the pale
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girl who seems to in some way shape form
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or fashion at least be telepathic
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because she does seem to be able to make
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people do things that they don't want to
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do not only is that going on right now
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but we also have a new character by the
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name of Jeff banister a guy who's kind
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of a narco style cop he's going after
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this this flower cartel and it just so
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happens that he doesn't really seem to
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be overly fond of mutants but he needs
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Luger Cohen flowers because his child is
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ill and she needs these drugs in order
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to get better his daughter while dying
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of leukemia and waiting on these new
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drugs that are supposed to save her life
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things kind of get gummed up in the
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works when the drug start falling in a
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short supply
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people can't get their hands on them and
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this is coming from a place where the
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drugs are being not just manufactured
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you know Carcosa they're being
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manufactured on Mars in the Savage Land
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reason whole shipments are winding up
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missing maybe a quarter of a shipment
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here a third of a shipment there a half
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of a shipment here and a whole boat
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there something is going on right now
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and no one knows what it is even sage
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can't really pinpoint it and what it's
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kind of seeming like it's boiling down
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to here is it Wolverine he is being sent
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out to try and track this down and all
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roads wind up pointing to Russia and
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when they get to Russia they discover
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that this order of X is operating in
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some really shady ways while the order
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of X has no like exact hierarchy they
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have no you know structure of anything
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to speak of they're all kind of just
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this ragtag band of people who worship
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mutants but we start to learn that
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apparently there are some sects of order
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of X who worship mutants so much that
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they are willing to offer their own
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bodies women are willing to give their
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wombs over to house the next mutant
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birth there are men out there willing to
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give their seed in hopes that they will
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birth a mutant child where we live in a
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world where everybody wants every man
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wants a son every mother wants a
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daughter these particular humans they
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just want to birth a mutant because it
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makes them feel like they're that much
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closer to godhood even worse is that
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yeah we know these people go crazy here
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they go gaga for memes we've seen this
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over the course of the last you know
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dozen or so Donna Beck's you know issues
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for me across multiple titles but we
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also learned that apparently there are
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even other groups who think that
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sacrificing and consuming the flesh of a
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mutant will make them become a mutant
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couple that with the fact that there's
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this new drug on the street pollen that
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makes people feel like they're twice as
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smart as they actually are twice as
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strong as they actually are and it's not
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hard to believe that some of these
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people from order of X are crazier than
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cat shit if that weren't enough when
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Wolverine takes his x-force squad which
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also want to point out I actually think
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it's really interesting that in x-force
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which did remember see of course also
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writes Domino is still missing half of
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her skin but in this she seems perfectly
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fine so I don't know what
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I'm line is here anyways that's not
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important what is important here is that
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Wolverine and the rest of X Poor's pull
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up on the order of X things go bad
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because they try to sacrifice kid Omega
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well before any of this can happen
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before even kid Omega and his brashness
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can kill every single human that just
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literally tried to eat him come to find
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out the drug Pollan already did the job
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for them and what makes things even
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trickier here is the fact at the
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beginning of this book we see the
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Wolverine has killed all of his
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teammates he's killed Domino
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he's killed kid Omega and of course he's
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also killed Jean and he doesn't even
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know why he has no clue what was going
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on and all we know is that he's left
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wandering in the cold wilderness of
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Alaska pondering what could have
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possibly happened and the only thing he
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keeps seeing is the pale girl but before
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we can even figure out what's going on
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there this is when he runs afoul of Jeff
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banister who's working undercover to try
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and procure these quick Owen flowers so
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that he can build a case because he
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thinks this black market of cocoa and
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flowers and this narcotic he thinks that
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they're the root of it and who knows
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Sebastian Shaw is very much involved
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with a lot of what's going on the shady
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side of you know krakoa so considering
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what he's doing selling drugs to the
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vendee this wouldn't be much of a
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stretch not only that this book does
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have a second story and I'm not gonna
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spend a whole heap of a lot of time on
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this one because it's really easy to sum
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up its the fact that Omega Red has come
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to the island and he wants amnesty but
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Wolverine having history with Omega Red
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he ain't here for it but magneto does
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bring up a very interesting point that
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yes at one point in time and maybe even
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right now the same thing you're thinking
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about Omega Red people still think about
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magneto green now grander megared is a
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much worse case because I mean he is for
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all intents and purposes
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yeah he's literally a walking death
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machine well the thing is that omega red
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comes to Gore Khoa covered in blood not
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Argus victims on his own and the day
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that he came from leads back to France
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and there's something on the other side
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of that gate that even he don't want no
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now all roads point back to him of
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course they do
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Wolverine keeps digging he even keeps
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coming back and asking Omega Red what's
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the deal and Omega Red he's trying to
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convince them that maybe just maybe he
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may have changed even talks about the
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fact that you know Omega Red
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he has to consume life in order to
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maintain himself the death pheromones
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that are a major part of his powers if
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he doesn't consume life he's toast he's
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been feeding on animals and you know
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maybe even occasionally the random dog
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but he's been trying to find ways to get
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away from killing humans and he's hoping
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that krakoa can give him what he needs
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so where he doesn't have to kill
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innocent people or you know so he claims
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well when Wolverine does a little bit
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more digging into where Omega Red came
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from when he went through that gate he
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ends up discovering a whole ass coven of
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vampires vampires who do manage to get
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the drop on Wolverine but of course
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because of his healing factor he can
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only stay knocked out for so long before
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he wakes up and begins running fades on
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every vampire in his presence because
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even if they bite him he's not gonna
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turn his healing factor is just that
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strong it would destroy the enzymes
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before they even take hold in his body
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but the thing is the vampires they're
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coming after him hard body they want to
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drink from him so bad they can literally
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taste it already and leave it to what
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Wolverine originally thought was a woman
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trying to sell him flowers is actually a
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whole last vampire hunter named Lewis
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from the night guard the secret order of
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vampire hunters and killers of other
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supernatural things they take out a
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whole coven of vampires here they take
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out a coven of vampires their thing is
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they're not getting at the actual leader
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and the leader of the vampires that
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really wants a piece of them is Dracula
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because not that long ago an Avengers
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you can't remember that the vampire
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nation has risen up and there was like
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this insurrection that was actually kind
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of a fake coup that was basically
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setting dracula up to become the next
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big bad in the Marvel Universe right now
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I don't want to put Eric Bischoff's
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theme music in E in anybody's head
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[Music]
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and right now the one thing he wants is
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Wolverines blood there is something in
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his blood that's gonna help rejuvenate
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him and honestly what makes sense
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Wolverine has a healing factor the guy's
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been shot stabbed burned blown up
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vaporized and he hidden every single
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ass's has come back and maybe some of
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this was a ruse during the adventures
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run but it seemed like Dracula's powers
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had kind of waned some and what better
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way to bring his powers back then by
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drinking the blood of one of the most
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prolific killers with a healing factor
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in the Marvel Universe not only that but
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his blood is eerily similar to a
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vampire's the biggest differences being
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that when Wolverines blood leaves his
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body it begins to lose these potent
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properties that it possesses where's the
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vampires doesn't but on the flip side of
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that his blood doesn't deteriorate when
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it's exposed to UV light which a
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vampire's will that and it is compatible
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with any other blood type even more
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reason why Dracula would want it worse
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yet we learned that Omega Red is not
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exactly out of the woods yet
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he needs a carbonadium synthesizer to
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keep him from having to kill other
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people to maintain his lifeforce and it
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just so happens that Dracula is
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bankrolling this whole thing he is
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giving Omega Red the synthesizer he
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needs a beard one that is rigged to
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explode should Omega red start him
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feeling himself a little too much but at
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the same time he wants to make a red to
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stay on krakoa
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and get all the information that he can
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and feed it back to him he wants Omega
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Red there as his own personal spy he
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wants to make a red to pledge his
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loyalty to crack OA but ultimately obey
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Him above all else so right there in
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this book a mean granny it took him
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almost 60 some on pages
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but they told two complete stories that
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I'm here for originally this was the
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book I was least interested in of any of
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the new God help us fuse five six I'm on
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different x titles they're introducing
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and I gotta admit this one caught my
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attention I'm like okay let's let's do
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this I like the idea of going in some
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different directions where it seems like
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yes some of this is gonna lean a little
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more heavily on what's going on with the
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side of you x-force but some of this is
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gonna lean on something that has nothing
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to do with Wolverine in a lot of respect
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some stuff though
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bo started technically with the Avengers
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I'm here for it I want to see more of
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this and yeah in a lot of ways I
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actually kind of prefer you the second
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story this vampire story most of you
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guys I have a soft spot in my heart for
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vampires but still I'm actually more
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interested in this story than the one
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they told the very beginning because
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really the only bad thing I can say
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about this book but honestly I think
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there's something to like for anybody
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who's a wolf or anything even if you're
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not a Wolverine fan which I'm not I'm
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not the biggest Wolverine fan what this
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book it did something for me I like it I
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will blithely keep up with it you know
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until it gets bad which means Benjamin
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Percy it probably won't get bad but you
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never know I like the themes gonna hear
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I think the writing was solid I like the
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artwork in both sides of this book I
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don't like to have me kind of playing on
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some of the themes from house of X that
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people thought were kind of weird the
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fact that Wolverine seems happy now and
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you know kind of even going even further
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into that I thought that was really
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interesting and the whole thing doing
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the weirdness between Wolverine and Jean
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Grey I'm still not used to that I just
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yeah whatever anyway point of the matter
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is this book is solid you should
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definitely be checking it out and who
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knows maybe I'll do more videos about it
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if it keeps being good but anyways let
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number one by Benjamin Percy Victor
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