Onslaught

No.

Look, so I was actually thinking, I was actually thinking about this, right? So one, I do want to paint the dong slot a little bit, but also I was thinking with X-Men having Onslaught as an additional, like, splash affiliation in there is, one, thematic, two, could be really fun because then you have an objective-focused squad and a beat 'em up focused squad that you could run.

And so i- it was a little bit intriguing and, and so we, as we were gonna talk about it as the show goes on, that was something that was in the back of my mind, if, you know, we could maybe think about that stuff.

And for the record, suits, we are not building a full roster today.

Yes.

It, I mean, that's my life indeed.

I mean, Onslaught's throw trigger, I think I got it one time in four games the other day, so [laughs] you know, there, there you go.

Absolutely.

Yeah, if you don't know who this character is, you're like, "What are they talking about?"

[laughs] It's Onslaught, one of the most popular characters ever in the Marvel comic books-

Oh

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So maybe this was your era then.

Yeah, probably.

Did you read any Onslaught stuff?

I don't recall.

Yeah, that's...

Oh, God, that's the thing that really pisses me off, because this fucking episode is when my brain first started piecing together, like, okay, season three, we're getting Onslaught, right? Like, we are a thousand percent getting Onslaught.

So when we get to the season finale post-ending, or the post-credits, so disappointed.

So, I mean, I don't know if I want to touch on this right now or wait till the end.

yeah

series because she was going to be the headmasters of the school and there was supposed to be a lot more looking at how that school works how it runs differently under her control and it was also gonna have like forge and colossus were gonna be main characters and then then Polaris was going to be the other main character.

But the big thing, and like Phoebe kept saying, Onslaught was indeed supposed to be in this season.

Oh, you've got to be

talking about there is the new costumes they get in this part of the season with the X-Men, where they've got the bright yellow big X's and kind of the black bomber jackets and stuff like that.

As Xavier begins to militarize his dream, moving the X-Men away from being heroes, with the final reveal being in the season two finale, which has been cut, that it was Onslaught slowly getting control of Xavier that made him defy the UN, start X-Corp, and militarize his team.

So a lot of...

I don't know if it was you as well.

There were a few people mentioning it felt like it was leading to Onslaught this season.

Well, season one ends with... a lot of taking a lot from the fatal attraction storyline where Xavier wipes Magneto's mind.

And that's, which is a terrible act in kind of a real betrayal.

Yeah.

It's all sort of on the drawing board and exciting, but also a bit daunting.

Brogan, do you want some spicy ideas I've had for Onslaught? Mate, I always expect some spice from you.

Oh yeah, I bring the spice.

How many, you know, 24 planets needs to align combos have you got for me?

This is great.

Yeah, it's funny.

The thing that I found with Onslaught was that he doesn't really have a hook that you want to build a roster around.

And I think with those catch-all leaderships, they... to make for me, to make it interesting, there needs to be something that the leadership does.

But, uh, anyways, Leland, welcome back.

We are gonna be talking about my recent tournament experience with Onslaught, because we took Onslaught to that over the weekend, and I figure this is a nice follow-up to last week's episode.

I can give some very real takes on w- his performance, and then we are also going to discuss alliances, like we wanted to discuss last week, and all of that fun stuff.

So strap in, buckle up.

And the represented affiliations were pretty cool here.

We had X-Men come in second place, a Criminal Syndicate Cabal come in third place, Hellfire took fourth place, Weapon X took fifth place, shout out to Yusef.

Then we had, uh, a Force Wakanda list that did well There was a Defender's Midnight Suns, Merzane played his Sentinels, we had Avengers, two Black Order players, and then obviously an Onslaught and Mighty Avengers splash was what I had, followed by a Hellfire and Asgard list.

So a really diverse group in there, and it was just a really fun time, and it's another one of those things where I was like, "Man, what a, what a fun game and a fun time to be playing MCP at these local events like this."