About this episode

The episode explores Firestar's origin story and her struggles as a mutant in school.

This is Firestar's origin story, arguably a more accurate and official one than the (worse) one that she gets in the comic books later on because Angelica Jones was invented specifically for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. We loved this origin story for her because it involves her pushing back against a sociopathic mean girl at school and, perhaps best of all, the X-Men are in this episode. Storm makes the mistake of asking Firestar for her backstory, which is why we get to hear an extremely lengthy summary of every single time Angelica got bullied for being a mutant (and for being poor). You know who else is in this episode? The Juggernaut, bitch. Further reading: https://screenrant.com/xmen-emma-frost-firestar-horse-butter-rum/ Next episode: "Spider-Man Unmasked," Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends E-mail us questions and feedback at themutantages@gmail.com, or follow us on social media at TheMutantAges. If you like what you hear, please consider supporting us via patreon.com/themutantages. Thanks!

People in this episode

Host: The Mutant Ages

Topics covered

• Firestar's origin story
• mutant bullying
• X-Men
• Spider-Man
• animated series

Keywords

• Firestar
• Angelica Jones
• X-Men
• Juggernaut
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
• mutant
• origin story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

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