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- From: lore@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lore Christian Sjoberg)
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- Subject: Re: Stupidest Mutant Power -- top this if you can!
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 04:03:04 GMT
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- I now present the newest Marvel X-book, a sort of Legion of
- Substitute Heroes of the genetically aberrant crowd:
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- The X-TENDED WARRING TEENS!
-
- (Say it out loud a few times. You'll get it.)
-
- This team was assembled using the Doug Ramsey Memorial Grant
-
- CHAMPION V
-
- Secret Identity: Buck Von Tiffany
- Power: Can control anything beginning with the letter "V".
- Angst: Fears that his powers are too useful, and the rest of the
- team is jealous.
-
- THE HOSTESS
-
- Secret Identity: Glenda Grey (No relation)
- Power: Can make mass-produced fruit pies and cupcakes so irresistable
- that the victim will stop whatever he's doing and say "Mmmm!
- That Creamy Filling!"
- Angst: Misses her homeland, even though it's only a fifteen minute
- bus ride away.
-
- BALL PARK
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- Secret Identity: Murray Leftwich
- Power: Plumps when you cook him.
- Angst: Secretly in love with the Hostess, but won't tell her for fear
- she'll end up leaving him for a spin-off series.
-
- HALLUCINATION
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- Secret Identity: Patricia O'Sinclair MacMenzie
- Power: Can create a holographic projection of her own deepest fear.
- However, her deepest fear is of binder rings, so she's pretty
- much the only one scared.
- Angst: Not really Irish.
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- SQUARE MEAL
-
- Secret Identity: Del Summers (Still no relation)
- Power: Can turn his body into any one of the four food groups.
- Angst: Doesn't "get" Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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- ANGIE
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- Secret Identity: Angie Fnefnel
- Power: Finds pennies everywhere.
- Angst: Fears that a malvolent presence is slowly infiltrating her
- soul. Actually, she's wrong.
-