you curse at your little cousin's snuffleupagus doll....
you can spot the emplate action figure in the movie Jingle All The Way (I found it!)...
when your obsession with Jono has led to making a voodo doll with Paige's face on it,and doing unmentionable things to it...
you daydream about brutally murdering Paige...
when you start calling guys "Sparky"...whenever you
hear the song "What Would Happen" you think of Jono (listen to the lyrics. it says "what would happen if we kiss?" and things like "would we melt together or combust". I always think of Jono when I hear it :)
Note from Tigrr: Thanks to everyone who is sending in their obsessed lists, keep them coming! Now Mrs. Starsmore has sent in her obsessed list, and I mean an obsessed list! Mrs. Starsmore has RESPONDED to every single list on this page this far! To see her review of the obsessed list, click on the link.
Doc Samson says you know you're obsessed when.....
You made everyone in your class watch that Gen X movie when it came out. (This wasn't me.)
After said movie, everyone in your class joined a Gen X fan club, where your young classmates were named after Gen X
members. (Really! Not me! I swear!)
Considering there were only about seven or eight Gen X members, when you ran out, you started naming people after
Cordelia Frost, Leech, and even -shudder- Russell Tresh. (No loser I! Really!)
You had a member in France. (-sigh-. All right. It was me. But Nadjib was our finest member!)
You played with that sparking Chamber toy until the insides caught fire and melted. (No comment.)
You're making a scene-by-scene, page-by-page soundtrack to accompany you while you read the series. (Just a little
wonky, I'll admit.)
Without any previous warning or provocation, you go into a 40-minute lecture on the origin of Penance and how you
would fix it.
You spend valuable class time writing down reasons you're obsessed with Generation X. (And you're sitting next to
former club member Chamber!)
A typical experience during the Hama issues: We see the living room. Dad sits on the couch, reading the sports section. Mom sits on the opposite end, sewing quietly. Suddenly, a piercing scream is heard. Dad: What was that?
Mom: Oh my God! It came from little Billy's room!
They run to little Billy's room, where little Billy has curled himself into the fetal position in the corner. Generation X #37 has been flung into the opposite corner.
Dad: What is it, son?
Mom: What's wrong?
Little Billy looks up from his haze, then points to the comic and screams: EEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dad pulls out a match, lights it, then drops it on the comic. He then stomps it out.
Dad: That's okay, son. That comic will never bother you again!
Little Billy: Thank you, Father! Thank you!
The family sits together, hugging, as the camera fades to black.
You name pets (real, stuffed and or giga-) after your favorite Gen X characters.
If you own Pokemon and name all the cute pokemon after the Gen X Girls, and a ghost Pokemon after Emplate... (I plan on doing this one :-) )
If you play a role playing game under the name of a Gen X character
This is doubled if you use a fan fiction characters name. (Know anyone fiting that description Tigrr. :-) )
If you search the web looking to find stories with character names which might be linked to Gen X in some way. (They are out there. I should know. :-) )
If you worship the ground Jubilee walks on...
If you worship the ground Penance walks on...
If you worship the ground Emplate walks on... (I'm in therapy for this one. They say I'm lucky. I don't praise a Purple dino that looks like he had too many happy pills.)
If you had Penance come to you in a dream begging you to complete a story.. (NO JOKE. THIS ONE ACTUALLY HAPPENED)
(THIS LAST ONE WAS CENSORED BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO PROVOKE AN ILLEGAL ACT) If you hired a hitman to get Larry Hama for what he did to Generation X. (Keep in note, no way does Skitz condone or agree with this act)
If you beg to see the day that Penance will talk and say that she is not just the flipping twins. (DAMN YOU HAMA)
If you asked for a picture of you with a Gen X character :-)
If someone actually drew it for you and it looks like you're really in it :-)
If you adore the cartoon Beetlejuice, because the voice of Lydia, is the same person as the voice Jubilee of X-Men/Gen-X fame. (Whoa, now that's a stretch... oh sorry Angelo :-)
At any time in this list you refered to a Gen X-er in passing.(lololol)
You bought 2 of each issue one to preserve and cherish forever and another to read.
Yes you bought doubles for even the horrible Hama ones.
You did your hair just like Jubilee but found it hard to keep up with her ever changing hairdo.
You looked for sugar bombs, but ended up with corn pops and pasted a sign to it that says sugar bombs.
You dyed your curtains red and yellow
you try to make your own Gen-x costume out of them. Insisting to your 4 year old cousin that your "NOT WEIRD", but that its the "Cool thing to do".
You have five different colors of contacts changing them when one of the member change their eye color.
You tried to find the those (X) earrings that Jubes used to wear.
You ended up making your own.
You jump fanatically up and down outside in front of your neighbors when you see that the next issue has come. (Ok I did this ONCE peoples but I didn't know they were watching)
You change your name to Skin just because.(My friend legally changed his name to the star wars character Obi-Wan Kenobe he says he'll change it back when all the star wars come out to rent on video ~~ hate to see him pulled over next week when he changes his license to that name)
When the colorist makes Artie green and Leech pink, you fly a plane to where
he lives, crash through his roof, and kick him in the shins.
You make him chant "Artie pink! Leech green!"
When the scripter makes Artie talking, you call his house and ask "Is Hugh Jass there?" and hang up.
In two minutes, you call back, "Is Ivanna Killyou there?"
When you see and M&M commercial, you think of the twins.
You're glad Pepsi changed their slogan from "Generation Next" to "Joy of Cola."
You can name all the differences of Gen-X and their AOA counterparts in one big run-on sentence......in one breath.
When you get up in the morning, you immediately turn on the TV to see if the Gen-X Show is on yet.
You strap some TNT to your chest and see if you can blow a hole in it.
You do......
In the process, you disable your girlfriend.
The girlfriend befriends a strange looking guy with claws and an elephant trunk.
She tries to kill you.
You realize it was a dream and say, "That crazy Nightmare. Trying to induce fear in my dreams, HA!"
You take your little cousin's Bert and Ernie slippers, tear the heads off, and replace them with Artie and Leech heads.
You try to figure out what M's unknown powers are.
When you address the quiet girl in your class as "Penance"
You laugh when you see a Bostonian woman and Irish guy arguing.
When you do a report on Ireland, you mention it was the birthplace of Banshee.
On St. Patrick's day, you go to the parade and try to find someone who looks like Banshee.
You wonder who could play DOA in the TV series.
You pick Danny DeVito.
You call the producers of the show, and they ask, "DOA? Who's that?"
You faint cos the producers aren't going to use DOA.
You realized the Frankie Ray's friend on the Silver Surfer cartoon was voiced by the actress that did Jubilee in the X-Men cartoon. (I have a good ear!)
You name your fastly reproducing rabbits after Gen-x characters.
When one baby rabbit dies pointlessly, you name it Blink.
When one dies after it was revealed as an "evil bunny" you name it Mondo.
You wonder what it's like in the Penance form, so you dip yourself in fast-drying cement.
Your friends spray paint you red.
While in the "shell" you start to have a craving for apples.
You wonder if the twins from "Sister Sister" have an evil older brother
You try to tear the skin off of a blonde girl from Kentucky.
You take Spanish for 3 years in high school so you have a basic knowledge of Skin's speech. (Still don't know what "vato" means)
Nearly all of the fan-fiction ideas you write involve characters from Generation X.
You write fan-fiction about Monet or Jubilee and use it to place them in potentially embarrassing situations together.
You think Skin would make a good solo crimefighter /ala/ Spider-Man.
You still think that Synch should be team leader (let Chamber and Husk fight it out amongst themselves!)
You still think that Husk should be written as an overacheiving bookworm and not the "City-Girl wanna-be" of recent issues.
You actually prefer Jono as his old, bitter, cellar-dwelling self.
One of the things you say when you answer "What if I wrote Generation X" threads is that you'll create two or more original characters who'll join the team.
You use one of said threads to say that Generation X isn't being portrayed as though they are real teenagers.
You think that Mondo is still alive; and that he can still become a member of Gen-X.
You think that Cordella Frost could still make a decent character although her full-story appearance cast her as a trashy villainess.
You think that Emma Frost should get together with /somebody/; it doesn't matter who, so long as it's either Banshee or Iceman.
You hated the Larry Hama issues, but still think of Jay Faerber as the best GEN-X writer although he changed his plans for Adrienne Frost by making her a homicidally-obsessed sibling rival for Emma.
You put up with Larry Hama's retcon of Monet as having always existed, being trapped within the form of Penance, and still being a royal b**ch in spite of years of physical and psychological trauma being heaped upon her by her evil brother Emplate.
You think that in any /real/ fight between Monet and Jubilee, Jubilee would win once she made up her mind to cut loose with her powers.
In the case that one member of Generation X /does/ hook up with another, the Ev/Jubes sounds natural (while Monet/Angelo sounds fun!).
Your favorite GEN-X issues will always remain the first four written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham.
You remain devoted to Generation X even though they are still a part of Marvel's X-Men universe, which you would otherwise avoid because of continuing disagreements with the way in which they handle the characters and leave the main conflicts unresolved.
Your dream comicbook debut involves getting a stint on Generation X as a writer or artist (or both) even though you're already finishing college majoring in a different field and on the verge of finding work in said major.
If you're still trying to get Webster's Dictionary, your computer spell check, and your teachers to recognize 'Paff' as a word.
If you have tattoos like those potrayed in the AOA storyline.
You write a fan-fiction featuring yourself as a mutant dating your favorite character.
You've searched the supermarket for some 'Sugar Bombs'.
If you've ever visited the proposed birth place of your favorite character.
If your saving money up for plastic surgery to look like your favorite character [Beast fans I don't thick electrolysis works in reverse/also Wolvie fans metal hurts when in goes into your skin].
If you call everybody you meet 'BUB'.
If you think that Jubes makes a better team leader.
If you wear a yellow jacket like Jubes even in summer.
You dye your hair magenta in tribute to blink.
The railroad cross brings fond memories of the many X-groups.
You're looking forward to one of your characters being featured in a story written by another fan fic author.
You search the pharmacy for black bandages (ya gotta luv Chamber's fashion sense).
You buy 3 copies of your favorite x-title each month;(1)to read (2)for your collection and (3)to wallpaper your room [I'm sad to my friend used to have an X-Man shrine on his wall].
You've added every conceivable comic book SFX to your computers built in dictionary (it finally recognizes 'PAFF' as a word--Now I've gotta work on those nay-sayers at Webster's).
You have Marvel's number on your speed dial.
You wonder how big an explosion you'd get if you gave Jubes a case of Jolt Cola (heh heh heh!!!)
Write a fan fic about said Jolt incident.
You can relate to Jono because you too have blown up a girls dorm over a kiss.
You get into a heated debate over who would win an electrical fight Storm or Pikachu.
You think that in real life Paige would look like Brittany Spears (okay! maybe in our wildest dreams).
You ask your Astronomy teacher where the Shi'ar Imperium is located.
You wonder if Marrow is afraid of 'dogs'.
You wait for a GenX writer to give Marrow one of the following lines: 'Got Milk?' or 'Milk does a body good'
when you look for the "real" names of GenX characters in the phone book
when you find them
you prank call hama and say that emplate is coming for him
you cut out a picture of hama and put it on your dartboard
you cut out a picture of hama and put it on your paintball gun target
you cut out a picture of hama, tie it to a grenade and throw it
you blow up hama's car
you keep track of how many times blink has "died"
you cut out pictures of all the xmen and put them on your wall and then have a section for "those who have fallen"
Aqua's Shadow says you know you're obsessed when.....
Even though you got into GenX recently, you're buying every comic with any of the members in it.
You look everywhere for a yellow, Jubi-style coat.
You wrap up your face to see what you would look like as Jono/Jono and Paige?s daughter/son.
You give lectures to friends on the Penance/Monet/Emplate/St. Croix family tangley.
Repeatedly . . .
They eventually begin to threaten your life . . .
You keep talking anyway and end up running away as they chase you, screaming at you to shut-up.
You get very sad every time you read the Come On, Die Young arc.
You reenact it with Barbies.
You stop before you finish because you get too sad.
You think your Ken doll with a black and white checkered scarf over his face doesn't look like Chamber because Chamber has a thinner nose, higher cheekbones, and better hair.
When your sister is being mean, you scream,"Adrienne!" and slam the door.
When she pretends she knows everything, scream, "Monet!" and slam the door.
When she makes a dirty joke, you say, "Angelo!" Possibly slam the door.
Your a Goth, but what gave you the extra push to dress it was that people kept referring to Jono as a Goth.
The sole reason you bought Siouxsie and the Banshees CDs was because you were reading every single record cover in Jono?s room in GenerationX #71 and one was of Siouxsie.
You now have a Siouxsie T-shirt.
You wear it the next day after writing this list.
You found the record that said GenerationX.
You're begging your mom to let you use her credit card to buy the GenX movie online (Hey, I?m a 1 year newbie!)
WHERE CAN I FIND THE GENERATION X ACTION FIGURES?! *Tackles person from Wizard.*
You buy Generation X: Genogoths PB with your mom's credit card (soon, Mother, soon . . . )
When your sister wears a leather jacket, you begin addressing her as "Chamber!"
She knows who this is.
She now hates GenX (and all other X-Men) with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns, a Chamber bio-blast, and a Jubilee firework!
Well, she hates all GenX, with the exception of Banshee, who she thinks is hot.
You and her were both pissed that Marvel reduced Banshee to a drunken Irish stereotype.
You secretly suspect it was all Hama's doing. maybe he didn't really finish dying when Tigrr ran him down outside his own home (which is a cardboard box after Freefall torched it).
You place random people from this site in your lists to make yourself feel special and to *ahem* kiss-up to the people who run Kindred Spirits.
You name the raccoon living in your basement "Penance".
When your parents ask, "Why name it Penance?" you yell, "Hama what done it!" and storm off.
"Penance" has been very quiet and you wonder if s/he died. So consider leaving an apple down there for him/her.
You're heartbroken when you find out Penance might have been locked out of the basement. You say, "Hama what done it!" Your mom is confused about who Hama is and who Penance is.
Your sister isn't.
When are they making Generation X: The Animated Show, oh, WHEN?! (They are making it, but it's on hold. You probably already knew that.)
You know what "Vato" means (slang for dude, guy, etc.)
You live in constant fear that one of the characters will fall into Marvel Limbo.
You practice in front of the mirror so you will know how to shoot pyrotechnics when the need arises.
When it doesn?t work, you use party poppers.
You alter pics of yourself online to make yourself into a GenX member/GenX character.
You think Jono is cute.
You think Banshee is cute.
You think Skin is cute.
You have done each and every one of the things from 1 to 43! Yeah, baby! That's me!
