fanart, X-Men/Sesame Street doodle

[ratcreature]

Fandom: X-Men/Sesame Street
Characters/Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr (as Magneto), Grover (as Super Grover)
Media used: pencil doodle
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: A while ago one of cereta's Grading Hell Theater posts prompted me to think about the X-Men characters visiting Sesame Street. Ever since I've been thinking about the many awesome opportunities this crossover would bring. I mean, Sesame Street started 1969, a few years after the events of XMFC, so in the intervening years I imagine some ending fixit happened for Charles & Erik (and by extension the X-Men and the Brotherhood) or at least a temporary truce. Meanwhile with Charles trying to advance his cause of peaceful coexistence with humans, he'd manage to get Sesame Street to promote mutant acceptance alongside other diversity, and would be enthused about the opportunity to guest star with his students. (Of course in this universe the muppets are real, and working in the entertainment industry or something like that.)

Erik has no idea how exactly he got roped into the project, but it probably started with Charles arguing the importance that mutants who can't pass also appear, so that got the Brotherhood involved (so Hank wouldn't be the token non-passing mutant), and it all went downhill from there. And in the end because he can't refuse Charles anything, Erik somehow finds himself appearing in sketches with Super Grover featuring capes, helmets, and the letter "M" which after all is for so many awesome words as metal, monster and Magneto... (I'm not sure when Super Grover first appeared, but he was introduced later there just has to be some canon bending, because the opportunity of these two is just too good to pass up.)

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Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

I can't see the full version?

[ratcreature]

That is odd. Sometimes my cheap webspace is glitchy, but it's not longterm down or protected or anything. If reload doesn't help, you can look at it on dA:
http://ratcreature.deviantart.com/art/X-Men-Sesame-Street-256780566
or on Tumblr:
http://ratcreature.tumblr.com/post/9810491906/image-a-pencil-doodle-showing-magneto-and-super

[ilyena_sylph]

It must just have been glitching, because now it's behaving!

I'd tried two or three times before I commented, but whoot, I can see it now!!

OH, Super Grover, you are my heart!!!!

And heee, Erik looks so serious!!!

[ratcreature]

I'm sorry you had trouble getting the image. Sometimes it has the hiccups or something, but it usually doesn't glitch long enough that complaining would be worthwhile, and their service is really crappy anyway. (I could probably find some better webhost, but I fear the hassle.)

But I'm glad you like the doodle (once you got to it). Super Grover is just awesome. I was going for a somewhat resigned expression for Erik, but part is probably habit in that once he dons his costume he just has practice not breaking out in giggles no matter what, or he could never pull off his helmet and cape. *g*

[musesfool]

Hee! This is adorable!

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[lilacsigil]

I can't see the full version either, so I went to DeviantArt and will comment here. This is absolute genius! I love Grover's ever-enthusiastic expression, and Magneto's M, and the way he is taking this VERY SERIOUSLY...but still looks a bit confused to be there.

[ratcreature]

Charles probably steamrollered over all of Erik's objections and he found himself in a skit before he had fully acclimatized to the singing monsters.

The other scene I imagined Erik in is him trying to figure out Oscar's garbage can, what with it being larger inside than out. That must feel really odd to Erik's metal sensing. And then they could maybe be misanthropic together...

And thanks that you made the extra effort going to dA, I'm sorry you had trouble. *kicks stupid webhost*

[lilacsigil]

Ah ha ha, Oscar and Magneto would be awesome! Who is the greatest grouch of all?

[cereta]

Eeeeeeeeeeee! I love it!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it, after all it's partly your fault that I have Sesame Street skits with mutants in my head... ;)

[goss.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeee!! LOVE IT. ♥____♥

And that you put the "neighbourhood" wall in too! *g*

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. I just couldn't resist the image of those two together. And of course the wall is the classic setting. (Also much simpler than the doorway with stairs or the park or such. *g*)

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Haha. Awesome!!

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I just couldn't shake the thought that these two as mutant and monster would make for an awesome Sesame Street skit for the letter M...

[lynx212.livejournal.com]

NICE!! ^_^

[ratcreature]

Thank you.