Daken

Yeah.

You know, my hope for her is that they write her as kind of like a Daken kind of type.

Yeah.

Oh, don't you?

In the X-Men, we are in the main series on my show as we do script reads, joining the Starjammers and Lalandra as they fight for the throne of the evil, colonizing alien empire of the Shi'ar, an avian race with slave pits who have conquered 10,000 worlds in the name of their gods.

Lalandra is the rightful Majestrix, but her mad brother Daken has taken over and now he has a genocidal weapon in the Emkron Crystal.

We just covered the first appearances of Deathbird on my show.

She's not going to come up a lot today, but we'll talk about her because she's one of my top five X-Men villains.

We are now in full space opera mode.

The Shi'ar are the Empire.

Daken is Palpatine.

The earliest consistent X-Men foe under the pen of Chris Claremont is Eric the Red, who I would argue in our conversation here is Darth Vader.

So you always have to choose whatever is the best discard package.

And currently, I would say it's like the Bullseye, Swarm, Daken, kind of like Frigga.

You copy the stuff and you do your thing, right? Or if you really want it, you can go like Jocasta, Prodigy, and really go in on Bullseye.

But it's mostly just Bullseye is the main discard card.

If I remember correctly, Deathbird—well, Lalandra was Empress of the Shi'ar and had exiled Deathbird for an attempted overthrow, right? Yeah,

so Deathbird is the oldest child, and underneath her are Lalandra and Daken.

Daken is the mad, crazy king, and Lalandra's like the noble warrior, but she also still commits war crimes, right? Deathbird is more savage.

She was born with kind of an evolutionary throwback.

She has wings on her arms, where Lelandra just has feathers and not actual wings.

Yeah, don't care.

Doing stuff with Daken, don't care.

Still don't care.

I think you should care-

I'm like, Wolverine's got a lot of nerve talking about being a shitty dad 'cause who knows at this point how many children he has, you know? [laughs] You know? I mean, there's one in the Savage Land.

He's got Daken, who's, you know, been born somewhere.

He's got this Amiko he dumps off, so.

Um, anyway, he then talks to Yukio about needing to take down Ogun once and for all, uh, a man that he once valued and considered a brother or best friend.

I was all happy about Cyber-

Daken.

There could be Daken.

They could do X23

... and now I'm, now I'm sad about Romulus.

X-Force versus X-Force.

This is, and it's from Akihiro's point of view-

Yes

... which I really enjoyed.

Um, so, and he's also like, "Oh, I've been a very, very bad person, and, and-

Yeah.

Okay, so, so they, they kinda up, up to date on what we're doing, and he's giving them a debrief about Domino, and they're like, "We gotta take out Domino." And, uh, [laughs] Akihiro's like, "Isn't this your ex-girlfriend?"

That should be everybody's cue.

Conor I have an infection alright everyone strap in this is going to be a long one please go on created in August of 2006 by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, first appearing in Wolverine Origins No. 5.

Born Akihiro, he was the son of Wolverine and a lady named Itsu.

In 1946, Itsu, while in the last stages of pregnancy, was murdered by the Winter Soldier, who was attempting to draw Wolverine out and collect a bounty on him.

He does have a history of doing things like that.

Romulus left the baby on the doorstep of Akihira and Natsumi, a wealthy, young and traditional Japanese couple.

They took the child's arrival as an answer to their prayers and raised him as their own.

Though he was named Akihiro by his father, the servants and other families of the town secretly referred to the boy as Dakin, which is Japanese for mongrel.

which is a slur on his mixed heritage.