This Is Too Icky To Do A Post About (But I Will Anyway)

No matter how cool you might think it would be to live in the Marvel Universe, there's one thing you'd better take into account:



There are pervs who dress up like X-Men so they can snatch/abuse children.

Fortunately, the real X-Men aren't too far away...


This is from Be X-Tra Safe With The X-Men (1996), a giveaway to promote Blockbuster Video's "Kidprint" program, wherein parents would bring their children in to videotape them, have their fingerprints taken, sample their DNA, implant them with a GPS chip, equip them with an electro-shock collar so they can't wander too far, and encase them in carbonite.

Far be it from me to criticize such efforts, but setting such tales in the X-Men universe raises a few troubling questions:



"Trust your feelings?" In a world where your thoughts and feelings can be controlled, or impenetrable illusions cast to fool you, I'm not sure how good a bit of advice that is, especially when it's a mutant telling you that.

Plus, maybe if you don't want kids to get fooled by fake X-Men, maybe you should get standard, matching uniforms. I'm just sayin.'

Bottom line: Any strange adult = potential evil, but...

Hanging around with people who look like this? No problem...