S1E14 - Issue 14 - Legion

Our first ever President-picked episode - LEGION! Anthony & Dr. Issues go inside David Haller's shattered mind to revisit dissociation, talk about what it's like being the son of the most famous mutant in the world, and the most auditorally challenging couch visit yet! SHOW NOTES: IntroductionResponse to comments (3:06)Background (9:55) David Charles Haller - Created by Chris Claremont & Bill Sienkiewicz - New Mutants #25 (Mar. 1985)Son of Charles Xavier & Gabrielle Haller - they had an affair, but Charles didn't know of his existence for many yearsSole survivor of terror attack - absorbed the mind of terrorist leader into his own mindKept under observation by Dr. Moira McTaggert on Muir Island for many yearsDetermined that he split his personality, with each one able to control a different ability Early personalities included Jack Wayne, who was telekinetic, and Cyndi, who was pryokineticAfter emerging from catatonia, he was possessed by the Shadow King, who used him to kill DestinyAs he grew, he learned to control his personalities, and decided to go back in time to kill Magneto to help his father's vision of mankind & mutantkind coexistingEnds up accidentally killing Xavier, who jumps in to protect Magneto - creates Age of Apocalypse eraBishop goes further back to kill Legion with his own psi-bladeDiscovered to be alive in a box - now has thousands of personalities, each of whom have a different abilitySome of his personalities are in Limbo - they battle each otherUsed to battle Sentinels during Second ComingDuring Age of X, new personality created to protect Legion - looked like Moira McTaggertAvengers vs. X-Men - Death of Xavier causes David to lose control of his personalities, creating death & destruction across the planetX-Men Legacy - Begins to merge with everyone on the planet, eventually Blindfold stops himTV show portrays mental illness in visually creative styleIssues (20:15) Dissociative identity disorderSon trying to outdo fatherTV show - schizophreniaTreatment (40:44) In-universe - Get inside his mindOut of universe - Treated like schizophrenia with anti-psychoticsCouch skit (49:27)Ending (52:39) Next episodes: The Question, Sentry, Casey Jones References: Three men make a tiger/Blind men and an elephant - the idioms Anthony conflated at 20:05 iTunes: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: hereTwitter FacebookE-mailPatreon