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The Body Horror of Weapon X

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 Hey guys I'm back talking about X-Men and horror again. In the future I think I'll devote some time to exploring all avenues of horror in X-Men from supernatual stuff like the demon bear to more traditonal gore or slasher type horror. For now though we're gonna focus on more body horror, but this time across the genreal X-Men mythos, we'll cover a fan favorite who I believe is most connected to body horror in some way. This time I won't be writing the whole post in italics, I don't know why I did that on the last post! Lets cover everyones favorite mutant, the savage Wolverine. Where do we begin with this guy, everything about his time as weapon X is so disturbing and overtly body horror. He's kidnapped and expirmented on against his will. They treat him like an animal while they forcibly bond adamanteum to his skeletal structure. It's so terrifying, to see them carry out these expirments on him that will permantly alter his body, and would kill any nor...
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Body Horror Elements in Marvel's Ultimate X-Men (2024)

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  Recently, I've been reading the current Ultimate X-Men run from 2024, and let me tell you it's jam packed with horror! It's wild guys, with Peach Momoko's art, it takes such a inoccent watercolor style and twists it into unimaginable nightmares. In this post we're mostly going to cover some instances of Body Horror within the current issues out. Before we jump into the terrifying frights, let me introduce you to what Body Horror is exactly. Well not exactly, Body Horror has some very flexible definitions attached to it, but my interpretation is that it's a violation of the human body. It's taking the human form we know and transforming or distorting it in some sort of horrific way, this can also be through things like mutating. To take it a step further, I think a large part of body horror is the loss of autonimy over yourself, not being able to fully control your own flesh. It gives me the creeps just thinking about it. To give you a famous example of bod...
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