#Alisa Tager

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Endless X-Men 97

[wakandas]

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Cipher and Boom-Boom dancing together at the gala in X-Men 97, this is not a drill!

[homonymph]

some stray observations about episode 5 of x-men 97 because I watched it a week late:

that was the best Kurt I've seen, live action or animated. exactly matches up with what I imagine when I read the comics.

holy shit I can't believe they had an ALISA TAGER AKA CIPHER CAMEO. they've all but forgotten her in the comics but her character and skill set have soooo much potential.

this was probably the best depiction of the Genoshan genocide, including the comics. if I'm not mistaken I think that was the first time we saw the attack happen on the ground. the genocide never was really felt deeply in the comics, not as much as Decimation, and this is arguably worse

they BETTER add Emma to the roster, and they better pull her out of the rubble, diamond-shiny and all!!!

[amageish]

Boom Boom + Cipher

From X-Men '97: Remember It.

My over-analysis of this 1.8 seconds of implied Sapphic content under the cut.

So... Let's dig in!

In Episode 5 of X-Men '97, we get a scene in a Genoshan Gala that intentionally feels like a gay club, despite it largely centering characters who, nominally at least, are straight. There is one moment of queerness in it, a scene of two women dancing together - who comic fans may recognize as Tabitha Smith AKA Boom Boom and Alisa Tager AKA Cipher.

My first reaction to this was to be confused? Like. The X-Men is a very queer brand. There are a LOT of textually queer characters who they could have used for their one moment of Sapphic desire. Hell, Karma and Galura got together while dancing at the Hellfire Gala - and Betsy and Rachel's romance began its road from subtext to text there as well. Cipher and Boom Boom feel so... random to me?

But then I began thinking about it more and talking about it with people... and I kind of really like it?

Cipher's entire thing is that she exists invisibly and intangibly. She debuts in Young X-Men, but it is revealed she has been around for years of comic history before then. She has been there the whole time, impacting the narrative from the sidelines, helping her classmates through their troubles despite being a secret to nearly everyone.

That experience can be mapped onto a lot of minority experiences, but it certainly works well for queer experiences. Queer people are historically ignored and have their stories sidelined, but they have always been around - acting in the shadows, waiting for the safety to come out and be themselves in public.

I think there's something interesting about the queer rep in this show set in the 90s being someone who has this sort of story. She may not be a protagonist, but she's the hero of her own story and is metatextually waiting for the chance to come out and show herself fully... It's neat!

On the other hand, I think this character choice could also be read as a sort of dig at Disney S&P by the animators?

Disney is often (rightfully) critiqued for having these blink-or-you'll-miss-it moments of queerness - and, when they do them, they often censor them out when releasing the films in more queerphobic markets... and so having the queer character be someone who can TURN HERSELF INVISIBLE is kind of funny in that way too? Her powers fit her role as a background Disney gay - she can make herself go unnoticed. Literally. So unnoticed that even TELEPATHS cannot read her mind.

Boom Boom, meanwhile, also makes sense as a sort of allegorical queer character, but in a less fun and interesting way... In the comics, she has a story about her father not accepting her mutanthood in a way that mirrors certain real-life queer experiences.

ANYWAY. That is probably too much opining on what is under two seconds of gay content... I do hope we see some comic book canon queers in more roles going forward - all we've gotten thus far is Northstar in a Mojoverse vision - but this gif-length of time was neat to me and got me thinking if nothing else!

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“I am NOT Scarlett Johansson!!! I…I understand the confusion tho….”

[insextras]

Seeing glob, pixie, shaw, exodus, boom boom and cipher in the most recent episode of x-men '97 was cool

[tournament-of-x]

The Tournament of X

Fun Fact!

There are 12 contestants in this tournament who share their codename with another character, of whom 2 pairs have codenames that only differ by a “y” versus an “i”! These codename-sharing contestants include:

Benjamin Deeds and Kevin Sidney, AKA Morph

James “Logan” Howlett and Laura Kinney, AKA Wolverine

John Proudstar and Neal Shaara, AKA Thunderbird

Genesis and Evan Sabahnur, AKA Genesis

Douglas Ramsey and Alisa Tager, AKA Cypher and Cipher

Evan Daniels and Gary Walsh, AKA Spyke and Spike

[pollackpatrol]

Round 1!

[moontheoretist]

So many cameos today! (Why human-like Apocalypse is so HOT?!) Also Tony at last looks like a metal bucket I remember him as xD

Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada) Captain America (Steve Rogers) Iron Man (Tony Stark) Daredevil (Matt Murdock) Dr Strange (Stephen Strange) Black Panther (T'Chaka) Dora Milaje Clock (Tyrone Johnson) Dagger (Tandy Bowen)

Winter Guard Team:

Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna)

Crimson Dynamo (Valentin Shatalov)

Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich)

Alpha Flight Team:

Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

Puck (Eugene Judd)

Cipher (Alisa Tager) Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock) Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) Polaris (Lorna Dane) Peter Parker (Spiderman) Mary Jane Watson

On the photos:

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

Havok (Alexander Summers)

Exodus (Bennet du Paris)

Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde)

Emma Frost

Mother Askani (Rachel Summers) Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)

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Annon-Guy: Human sized mecha-girl in a fighting game.

She looks and acts like a Gundam from the Gundam SD cartoon.

Would you like that character or do you orefer more traditional ones?

On the topic itself, it's not like I've never played mecha characters in a fighting game before.

Justice and Robo-Ky being the least of them, much less Iron Tager, Nu-13, Lamda-11, and Mu-12.

And let's not forget Alisa Bosconovitch from Tekken.

Or even Aria from Killer Instinct.

Broadly speaking, it depends on whether or not the character is played straight or being some sort of parody of something.

If it was the latter, I'd be less inclined to enjoy the character AS much (unless the parody was respectful and loyal to the source material).

I'm not exactly a fan of stuff like Arale from Dr. Slump, if I'm being perfectly honest...

Technically speaking Ramlethal Valentine is a "pseudo-tech mecha girl", but they took a lot of liberties with her.

I still think Justice is one of my favorite Guilty Gear designs, along with the "Black Justice Form" that Valentine took in GG2 Overture.

That's still my main aesthetic in terms of designs I prefer.

Of course, I do happen to like Mecha-Musume, make no mistake...

[wakandas]

morning at hellfire bay w/ sunspot, jetstream, and cipher

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Robert Walak & Alisa Tager To Exit As Presidents Of Film & Television At AC Studios, Segue To Producing With Anonymous

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Walak and Alisa Tager will be leaving their posts as Presidents of Film & Television at AC Studios, the independent film and TV production studio that sits inside Anonymous Content, when their contracts are up in a couple of months. Walak and Tager are expected to continue producing projects for AC Studios through an arrangement whose terms are still being worked out. There…

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Comics: Young X-Men (2008) and X-Men (2013)

Source: Marvel Fandom

[amageish]

I stayed up to watch X-Men 97 and it broke me, but I'll shout-out the obligatory background gays... partially because it has to be one of the most random crack pairings they could have gone with?

Tabitha Smith and Alisa Tager???? They're serving, love their dance moment, but like. There are canon gays they could have used, but they went for this instead... I don't hate it, but I am confused.

Now I am going to attempt to sleep. Wish me luck!