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Oh this is a great one—Bobby Drake lives and dies on charm. You need someone who can juggle:
Goofy humor and quick quips
Big-brother warmth
And that surprising emotional depth when things get serious
Here are some standout choices depending on the vibe you want for Iceman ❄️
🏆 Top Pick: Ben Schwartz
Known for: Sonic the Hedgehog, Parks and Recreation
Why he’s PERFECT:
Rapid-fire comedic timing (Bobby’s quips would shine)
Naturally likable and energetic
Can pivot into sincerity when needed
👉 He captures that “class clown who actually cares deeply” energy that defines Bobby.
“AFTER THE FALL”
The room smells faintly of antiseptic and fresh flowers.
Candy Southern sits propped against pillows in the X-Factor infirmary, a blanket tucked around her shoulders. The bruises are fading now—yellow and pale green where purple once lived. Machines hum softly, steady and reassuring.
Warren stands at the window.
He’s been there a while.
Candy watches him the way she always has—quietly, thoughtfully. His wings are folded tight against his back, feathers still a little rough at the edges where they were torn and singed. He hasn’t realized she’s awake yet.
“Warren,” she says softly.
He turns so fast he almost knocks over the chair.
“Hey—hey, you shouldn’t—” He stops himself. Swallows. “Hi.”
She smiles. A real one this time.
“Come here,” she says.
He hesitates, like he’s afraid he might break something just by moving. Then he crosses the room and sits beside her, hands folded in his lap like he doesn’t trust them. They sit in silence for a moment. Candy reaches out and takes his hand. He flinches—not away, just in surprise—and then grips her fingers like a lifeline. “I kept thinking,” he says quietly, staring at their joined hands, “that if I’d been faster… if I’d angled the dive differently… if I hadn’t—”
Candy lifts his hand and presses it gently to her cheek. “Warren,” she says. “Look at me.” He does. Her eyes are steady. Warm. Alive. “You caught me,” she says. “Twice.” His voice breaks. “I still almost lost you.” “But you didn’t,” she replies. “And I need you to hear this part, okay?” She shifts, wincing slightly, but doesn’t let go of him.
“I didn’t survive because you’re perfect,” she says. “I survived because you never gave up. Even when you were scared. Even when you were bleeding. Even when you thought it was already over.” He shakes his head, tears finally spilling. “I was so afraid. I don’t think I’ve ever been that afraid.”
She smiles softly. “Good.” He blinks. “Good?” “It means you love something more than yourself,” she says. “That’s not weakness, Warren. That’s the bravest thing there is.” He laughs weakly through tears. “You always know what to say.” She leans forward and rests her forehead against his. “I almost didn’t get the chance to say anything ever again,” she whispers. “So I’m not wasting time now.”
His breath catches. She kisses him. It’s not dramatic. It’s not rushed. Just gentle pressure—warm and grounding and real. Warren’s hand comes up to cradle the back of her head, careful, reverent, like she’s something sacred.
When they part, he rests his brow against hers again. “I don’t care what comes next,” he says. “I don’t care how bad it gets. I’m not doing this without you.” She smiles, thumb brushing under his eye where a tear escaped. “Good,” she says. “Because I already told the nurses I’m not letting you fly off into danger alone anymore.”
He exhales a laugh. “Guess that’s fair.” She squeezes his hand. Outside the window, the sky is just beginning to turn gold. For the first time since the bridge, Warren lets himself believe in tomorrow. And this time—she’s still there.
“THE LAST FLIGHT OF CAMERON HODGE”
ACT I — “SHE’S GONE.”
The sun has not yet risen when Warren returns to the Xavier Institute.
He lands in the courtyard, wings dragging on the ground, body trembling from exhaustion. Candy’s blood still stains his hands. When he opens the doors, the team is waiting:
Jean, red-eyed from crying
Scott, grim and silent
Hank, shoulders slumped
Bobby, fists clenched
Warren doesn’t look at any of them.
He just whispers:
“Hodge killed her.”
Silence settles like dust.
Jean steps forward. “Warren… there was nothing you—”
Angel cuts her off.
“I’m going to find him.”
Scott says, “Warren… we want justice too. But we need a—”
“No,” Angel snaps. “This isn’t justice. I’m going to end him.”
And before they can respond, he’s airborne again—faster than they’ve ever seen him fly.
ACT II — TRACKING THE MONSTER
Angel’s world is a blur of rooftops and wind.
He hunts by instinct. Hodge’s techno-organic body bleeds a faint trail of synthetic fluid—glowing, oily, unnatural. Warren follows it across the city.
He remembers Candy’s last smile. He remembers the way her fingers slipped from his. He remembers the soft exhale that ended everything.
And a fury he didn’t know he possessed burns inside him.
The trail leads to an abandoned corporate high-rise—one Hodge had once used for Right operations long before his transformation.
Warren lands on the broken balcony.
Inside, sparks flicker in the darkness.
A familiar voice echoes.
“I was wondering how long it would take you.”
Warren’s wings spread wide.
“Get up, Hodge.” “You and I are finishing this.”
ACT III — “DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU TOOK FROM ME?”
Hodge emerges from the shadows—limping, damaged, cables sparking from his torso. He’s worse for wear after falling from the bridge, but alive. Always alive.
He grins with exposed metal teeth.
“She really meant that much to you?”
Warren lunges.
The fight is savage.
Angel slams Hodge through a concrete pillar. Hodge claws back, tearing feathers from Warren’s wings. Warren tackles him through a wall. Hodge grapples him, pinning him with mechanical limbs.
Warren’s voice cracks:
“Do you know what you took from me?!”
Hodge laughs.
“Oh, Warren. Everything I ever did—I did because you had the life I deserved. The spotlight. The admiration. The girl.”
He twists the blade deeper:
“Candy only ever pitied you.”
Warren’s roar could shatter glass. He beats Hodge down—strike after strike—every blow a piece of grief he can’t bear to keep inside. At last Hodge collapses, circuits sputtering. Warren lifts him by the throat.
“Give me one reason,” Warren growls, voice shaking, “not to drop you.”
ACT IV — THE CHOICE
Hodge spits blood and oil.
“Do it. Kill me. Be the murderer I always knew you could become.”
Warren’s fingers tremble. If he lets go—Hodge will fall fifteen stories. He deserves it. He deserves worse. But Warren sees Candy’s face in his memories—her warmth, her optimism, her unshakable belief that Warren was good, even when he didn’t believe it himself. Angel loosens his grip.
“…I’m not you.”
Hodge sneers.
“Then you’re weak.”
He suddenly lashes out with hidden blades—stabbing Warren through the side. Warren stumbles backward. Hodge crawls toward a console.
“Goodbye, Warren. And goodbye, Team First Class.”
He triggers a self-destruct sequence—detonators wired into the building’s support beams.
Warren’s eyes widen.
“You’re going to kill everyone in a mile radius!”
Hodge grins.
“If I can’t hurt you any further… I’ll hurt the city you love.”
Warren races to stop him—but the console explodes, blowing Hodge backward into a gaping hole in the floor. He falls—screaming in rage, in hatred, in disbelief—as fire engulfs the lower floors. Warren doesn’t watch him hit bottom. He’s already flying upward.
ACT V — FIRE IN THE SKY
The building collapses in flames. Angel bursts through the windows at full speed, smoke trailing behind him. He barely clears the eruption of fire as the tower implodes. He lands on a nearby roof, coughing, wings singed. Jean, Scott, and the others arrive seconds later. Bobby calls out, “Warren! Where’s Hodge?!” Warren stares at the inferno.
“…Gone.”
Scott nods, relief mixed with worry.
Jean puts a hand on Warren’s back, gently.
“Is it over?”
Warren closes his eyes.
He remembers Candy’s voice. Her touch. Her laugh. Her final breath.
“No.” “It’s never going to be over.”
EPILOGUE — “FOR CANDY.”
The next morning, Warren stands on the remnants of the George Washington Bridge—the place she died. He places a single white rose where he last held her. The wind ruffles his wings. He speaks softly.
“Candy… I couldn’t save you. I tried. God, I tried.” “But I promise you this…”
He looks to the sky.
Eyes hard. Heart broken. Resolve absolute.
“I will never let anyone else fall because of him. Not ever again.”
The camera pans up as Warren spreads his wings—silhouetted against the rising sun. He takes off.
Not triumphant. Not healed. But moving forward.
Because that’s what Candy would have wanted.
THE NIGHT CANDY SOUTHERN FELL
A re-imagining of Amazing Spider-Man #121–122
ACT I — THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL
It begins with a scream Warren never forgets. The Xavier Institute is in chaos—walls ripped open, alarms shrieking, metal torn as if by some wild creature. Warren darts through the wreckage, wings beating furiously, trying not to think the worst. But he sees the signature of the destruction: precision, sadism, showmanship.
Hodge.
Cameron Hodge’s voice crackles over the building’s loudspeakers, warm and cheerful, dripping venom beneath every syllable.
“Oh Warren… I have a surprise for you. You took everything I ever wanted, so I thought it only fair to take something of yours. Something precious.”
Warren’s heart stops.
He sprints toward the rooftop access—but the doors are sealed with Hodge’s machine-tendril grafts. Angel smashes through them with brute force.
The cold night air hits him—
—and Candy Southern hangs unconscious in Hodge’s metal-clawed grasp, high above the Hudson River, suspended from the mechanical rigging attached to his mutated techno-organic body.
Warren shouts her name. Candy’s head lifts weakly.
Hodge laughs, mechanical eye lenses irising like camera shutters.
“Come, Warren. Let’s see which falls first—your precious Candy… or your faith in me.”
And he drops her.
ACT II — THE FALL
Angel dives like a comet. The wind burns his eyes. His wings scream in protest. Time dilates—Candy plummeting, the river a black mirror below. Hodge swoops alongside on mechanical wings, taunting.
“You always were faster, Warren. Let’s see if you’re fast enough.”
Angel pushes harder, feathers tearing from the force. Candy’s fingers twitch. She’s still alive.
He reaches her—
—grabs her around the waist—
—and pulls up.
But Hodge dives after them, slashing at Angel’s wings with razor-sharp appendages. Warren shields Candy with his body, but the sudden jerk, the violent mid-air collision—
Candy goes limp.
Not dead. Not yet. But hurt.
Angel forces them upward, muscles trembling, wings bleeding. He lands hard on the old George Washington Bridge tower. He checks Candy’s pulse. Still there. Faint. He allows himself one breath of relief—A roar erupts behind him. Hodge crashes onto the tower like a monstrous steel gargoyle.
“No more running.”
ACT III — THE DUEL
The fight is brutal.
Angel moves with raw fury—slamming Hodge with the full span of his wings, buffeting him with gusts that could snap bones, striking with a desperation born only from love.
But Hodge is enhanced—metal limbs, servo-muscles, cutting lasers, a hatred so dense it feels physical. Every blow feels like hitting steel. Because it is.
Hodge taunts with every strike.
“You never deserved her affection.” “She only pitied you.” “She’ll die thinking you failed her.”
Warren rams Hodge off the tower—but Hodge catches a steel cable and swings back, stabbing Angel through the shoulder with a pincer blade. Warren screams—
—and sees Candy stir.
“Hodge—stop!” she cries weakly.
Hodge freezes… and smiles.
“Oh, Candy… you always did have terrible taste.”
He lunges at her.
Angel intercepts him mid-swing, wings flaring with blinding force. They crash against the bridge cables, Warren’s blood spraying onto the cold steel.
Warren yells, “If you touch her again, I swear—”
“You’ll what? Fly at me? Again?”
Hodge hurls him across the tower.
Candy tries to crawl toward Warren.
Hodge turns toward her—
—and suddenly Candy gasps, clutching her ribs. The earlier fall—the impact—something inside her has ruptured.
Her vision blurs.
Warren sees her sway on the edge.
His heart stops.
“Candy—don’t move!”
Hodge’s eyes glow.
“Perfect.”
He rips a support cable free with his cybernetic arms.
The shock tremor knocks Candy off balance.
She falls.
ACT IV — THE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE
Angel dives. He catches her again—this time just feet above the bridge deck. But her eyes don’t open. Her pulse is weaker. Warren whispers, “Candy, stay with me. Please.” A metal shadow descends behind them. Hodge lands on the roadway, grinning. Warren lays Candy down gently, wings wrapping around her like a shelter. “I’m begging you,” Warren says, trembling. “Stop this. She has nothing to do with us.” Hodge tilts his head.
“She has everything to do with us. She’s what makes you human, Warren. And humans can be broken.”
Angel lunges with a roar so fierce it shakes the beams. The two slam into the bridge railings, battered and bleeding. At last Warren gains the upper hand—heaving Hodge over the edge. Hodge dangles by a single cable, sparking and sputtering.
“Do it, Warren,” Hodge hisses. “Be like me.”
Angel’s eyes are wet. Filled with hate. Filled with grief.
But he cannot.
He turns away.
“I’m nothing like you.”
He goes back to Candy.
Hodge’s grin widens.
“No. You’re weaker.”
He cuts the cable intentionally.
He falls into the river below.
ACT V — THE END
Warren lifts Candy into his arms, careful, gentle—almost reverent.
Her eyes flutter half-open.
“…Warren…?”
“I’m here,” he says instantly.
She smiles faintly.
“I… knew you’d catch me…”
Her fingers brush his cheek. Then fall away. Her breathing stops. Warren’s wings sag. His knees buckle. He presses his forehead to hers. He whispers her name over and over, as if saying it could anchor her spirit to the world. But Candy Southern is gone. And Warren Worthington III, standing alone on the cold bridge in the wind, understands something he never wanted to: He saved her twice…but he didn’t save her at all.
EPILOGUE — WHAT HATE LEAVES BEHIND
Team First Class finds Angel hours later, still holding Candy. Jean touches his shoulder. Hank bows his head. Scott can’t meet his eyes. No one speaks of Hodge. No one needs to. The river already took him. But Warren knows hatred like Hodge’s doesn’t drown. It festers somewhere. And he knows something else: He will never forgive Cameron Hodge. Not for the fall. Not for the fight. Not for the death. Not even for surviving him. But for what he took from Warren’s life on that bridge— for stealing Candy Southern’s tomorrow.
X-MEN: CHILDREN OF THE ATOM (1954–1963)
A Cold War Period Drama
PROLOGUE — 1953 | “THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB”
The desert in Nevada glows brighter than the sun.
Charles Xavier watches from behind reinforced glass as the nuclear test detonates. Scientists cheer. Generals shake hands.
Hank McCoy does not.
Later that night, Hank says quietly,
“If we can split the atom, we can justify anything.”
Xavier replies,
“Or prevent everything.”
The camera lingers on a Geiger counter clicking… then cutting to a teenage boy screaming as steel bends around him in a junkyard thousands of miles away.
Mutation has begun to accelerate.
ACT I — 1954 | “THE FIRST CLASS”
Historical Backdrop:
Brown v. Board of Education
McCarthyism at its height
America obsessed with conformity
Westchester County, New York
The Xavier Institute opens as a “school for the gifted.”
Inside, five teenagers arrive—each afraid for different reasons.
Scott Summers doesn’t remove his ruby visor, even when he sleeps.
Bobby Drake jokes nonstop to avoid thinking.
Warren Worthington III hides his wings beneath tailored suits.
Jean Grey hears everything—every thought, every fear.
Hank McCoy, already an adult, watches them all like a worried older brother.
Hank teaches science. Xavier teaches philosophy.
Neither tells the students the full truth.
ACT II — 1955 | “A HUMAN BOY”
Historical Backdrop:
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
Young Americans begin quietly questioning authority
Enter: James “Rhodey” Rhodes (16)
Rhodey is:
Smart
Grounded
Son of a Tuskegee Airman
Attending a nearby prep school on scholarship
Jean meets him at a public library.
He talks about planes. Engineering. The future.
For the first time, Jean is near someone whose thoughts are clear, focused, calm.
She doesn’t read his mind.
She doesn’t have to.
They begin dating quietly—milkshakes, record shops, walks where Jean can pretend she’s normal.
Rhodey never asks why she sometimes flinches.
He only says:
“You don’t have to explain yourself to me.”
ACT III — 1956 | “FIELDS OF FIRE”
Historical Backdrop:
Suez Crisis
Hungarian Revolution crushed by Soviet tanks
The X-Men undertake their first real mission: A mutant teenager exposed during a nuclear cleanup operation in Nevada.
The boy is radioactive—burning from the inside out.
Scott freezes. Bobby panics.
Hank steps forward.
He carries the boy away from civilians, taking the radiation dose himself.
Later, in the infirmary, Hank tells Xavier:
“They’re still children.”
Xavier replies:
“So is the world.”
Jean feels the boy die in her mind.
That night, she cries in Rhodey’s arms, unable to explain why.
He holds her anyway.
ACT IV — 1957 | “THE MAN WITH THE HELMET”
Historical Backdrop:
Sputnik launches
Fear of being “outpaced” grips America
Erik Lehnsherr appears publicly for the first time, tearing apart a secret missile transport in Eastern Europe.
Xavier recognizes him instantly.
Hank does too.
“He’s not wrong,” Hank says. “He’s just finished believing people can be better.”
The students overhear the argument.
Their innocence cracks.
Jean begins having nightmares of fire and wings.
Rhodey notices she flinches at loud sounds—sirens, engines.
He asks:
“Are you scared of the future?”
Jean answers honestly:
“I’m scared I won’t survive it.”
ACT V — 1959 | “THE BEAST”
Historical Backdrop:
Castro takes Cuba
The world polarizes further
Hank attempts a serum meant to stabilize mutant genetics.
It works.
Then it doesn’t.
His body transforms violently—blue fur, fangs, elongated limbs.
The students watch in horror.
Hank hides for days.
Jean is the first to knock on his door.
She says simply:
“You’re still you.”
Later, Hank gives a lecture—standing openly as Beast.
“They will tell you to hide. Or to hate. Or to become weapons. Don’t.”
The students listen.
Jean listens hardest.
ACT VI — 1960 | “LINES IN THE SAND”
Historical Backdrop:
U-2 spy plane incident
Civil Rights sit-ins across America
Sentinel technology debuts in prototype form.
The X-Men stop one—barely.
A farmer sees Beast clearly.
A newspaper prints “MONSTER SAVES TOWN.”
Public fear begins.
Rhodey asks Jean outright:
“Are you in danger?”
She hesitates.
Then she tells him everything.
He doesn’t recoil.
He only says:
“Then we’ll be careful.”
They know it can’t last forever.
But they choose now.
ACT VII — 1962 | “THE EDGE OF THE WORLD”
Historical Backdrop:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Mutants sense it first—the psychic pressure of extinction.
Jean collapses during training, overwhelmed by thoughts of annihilation.
Rhodey watches nuclear bombers fly overhead during a school drill.
That night, they sit on the Institute roof.
Jean admits:
“If this ends… I’m glad I met you.”
Rhodey replies:
“If it doesn’t end… you don’t get rid of me that easy.”
Below them, Hank and Xavier argue quietly about Magneto’s actions in Cuba.
The world does not end.
But it comes close enough to leave scars.
EPILOGUE — 1963 | “THE DREAM CONTINUES”
Historical Backdrop:
March on Washington
The X-Men stand older now.
Not hardened—resolved.
Hank watches the students prepare for their next mission.
He says softly:
“They grew up too fast.”
Xavier replies:
“So did the world.”
The camera pulls back on the Institute—no longer hidden by innocence, but by choice.
The future is uncertain.
But it is no longer faced alone.
THE FIRST CLASS: A COLD WAR X-MEN TIMELINE
1940–1949 | The World That Creates Mutants
World War II ends, but leaves behind nuclear anxiety, genetic experimentation, and unexplained phenomena.
Early mutation cases are quietly documented by governments.
Charles Xavier, a decorated veteran and emerging geneticist, begins theorizing that mutation is the next step in human evolution.
1951 | Project: Xavier
Xavier establishes a private research institute in Westchester County, New York, under the guise of a gifted youth academy.
He secretly recruits Dr. Henry “Hank” McCoy, a prodigious biochemist and athlete in his late 20s.
Hank is already mutated (enhanced strength, agility, enlarged hands and feet), though still mostly human-looking.
Hank McCoy becomes:
Xavier’s co-founder
The team’s field supervisor
A bridge between scientist and soldier
1954 | The First Students
Xavier identifies five teenage mutants (ages 14–17):
Scott Summers – optic blasts, emotionally restrained, natural tactician
Jean Grey – telekinesis and telepathy, unusually powerful
Bobby Drake – cryokinesis, playful and underestimated
Warren Worthington III – winged mutant from a wealthy family
Hank McCoy – officially listed as a faculty member, not a student
The term “X-Men” is coined internally.
1955 | Birth of the X-Men
Xavier begins covert training, emphasizing:
Rescue operations
Containment over combat
Absolute secrecy
Hank serves as:
Tactical overwatch in the field
Emergency extraction
Moral counterweight when missions turn dangerous
The students see Hank as:
A mentor
An older brother
Proof they can grow up and survive as mutants
1956 | First Field Mission
Location: Nevada test site Threat: A mutant destabilized by radiation exposure
The X-Men’s first mission is not a fight—it’s a rescue.
Hank takes point when things go wrong, saving Scott from lethal exposure.
Xavier realizes the team needs real-world experience, not just theory.
1957 | The Cold War Notices
Government agencies become aware of “anomalous youths.”
Xavier rejects military partnership offers.
Hank strongly supports independence, having seen wartime misuse of science.
The X-Men officially operate off the books.
1958 | Magneto Emerges
Erik Lehnsherr surfaces publicly after attacking a secret weapons convoy.
He and Xavier reunite—philosophical allies turned ideological enemies.
Hank is deeply unsettled by Magneto:
“He’s what happens when survival becomes the only virtue.”
The students are shaken—this is the first mutant who hates humanity.
1959 | Beast Becomes “Beast”
Hank’s experimental serum (meant to suppress mutation and help mutant children pass unnoticed) backfires.
He undergoes a secondary mutation, becoming fully simian and blue-furred.
The students witness:
Fear
Shame
Acceptance
This solidifies Hank as:
A living lesson in self-acceptance
The emotional backbone of the team
1960 | Public Incident
The X-Men stop a runaway Sentinel prototype in upstate New York.
Civilians catch glimpses—rumors spread.
Xavier tightens secrecy protocols.
Hank argues mutants shouldn’t hide forever—but agrees the world isn’t ready.
1961–1962 | Graduation Years
Scott is named field leader of the X-Men under Hank’s supervision.
Jean’s powers escalate; Xavier begins psychic safeguards.
Warren questions balancing heroics and his family’s corporate legacy.
Bobby matures, realizing humor is armor.
Hank transitions fully into:
Head of Science
Field Commander when Xavier cannot act directly
1963 | The Ideological Split
Magneto forms the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Xavier and Hank debate intervention vs diplomacy.
Hank supports measured confrontation, not pacifism.
The X-Men stop their first mutant-on-mutant conflict.
1964 | The World Changes
Mutants are no longer a rumor.
Xavier’s dream is now fragile—but real.
The X-Men are no longer students.
Hank McCoy stands beside them—not above them—as proof that adulthood does not mean abandoning hope.
LEGACY OF THIS ERA
The X-Men begin as children guided by a man who chose compassion over power.
Beast becomes the model for future mutant mentors.
This era defines the X-Men not as warriors—but as custodians of a future struggling to be born.