The Monstrefact: Ice Cream Mutants of Marvel Comics

We also love to ponder the curse slash blessing dynamics of certain superhero abilities, such as the power draining touch of X Men's rogue in many other examples where great power is achieved but something else is lost. However, we also can help but ponder some of the more useless seeming superpowers out there, and two of the best examples from Marvel Comics concerned the power of ice cream. First,

there is ice cream that's spelled like eye scream. This character was created by Alan Cooperberg in nineteen eighty three as a mutant antagonist of the X Men. His superpower the ability to transform his body himself into any flavor of ice cream. He's a clear cut comedic villain, to be sure, as his signature power does him little to no good in his vendetta against the X Men, and

then they're soft Serve. Created by Bob Quinn in twenty twenty one, she's a mutant citizen of the island of Krakoa with the power to poop or otherwise excrete any flavor of ice cream. She's essentially a background character with obvious comedic intent, reminding us that not every mutant ability

is useful, desired, or certainly Omega level. One character transmutes their own body into a sweet, frozen dairy treat, while the other excretes it, either as a byproduct of digestion or as some other sort of more mystical or extra dimensional process. In either case, it does really feel almost alchemical, doesn't it. While not as valuable as gold, ice cream is certainly novel and almost otherworldly. It's clearly a food,

but doesn't really feel like a food, does it. It's like some sort of mystical manna or pure emotion that has phase shifted into a frozen treat that we can eat again. Both of these characters were clearly created with comedy in the forefront, but they somehow both feel on the very cusp of profundity and honestly have trouble working

out exactly why. I think on one level, I am reminded of the line from poet Wallace Stevens, the only Emperor is the Emperor of ice cream, invoked in a poem of sinister cold sweets dished out at a funeral or awake. So maybe it's this poetic connection that stirs these feelings when I'm considering ice cream and soft surf.

Wallace dances lyrically with the idea of sweet treats and death, while these characters are a dance between surreal comedy and body heart and the hyper desirable properties of ice cream

itself somehow confuses everything. Again, I'm not exactly sure what to make of it, but I'd love to hear what you have to say, what your insight is on ice cream based superpowers, and hey, maybe there are some other ice cream based superheroes out there within the Marvel universe or in some of the other comic universes that you can share with me. Tune in for additional episodes of The Monster Fact, The Artifact, or Animalius to Pendium each week.

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