Who is Blink? - The Exiles' Fearless Leader

Fine, Nando, I’m convinced. When’s the Exiles pitch video?

"...and now she's a robot or something." is the most comic book way to quickly summarise a character 🤣

not a hardcore Xmen fan, and only ever knew about her existence from the DOFP movie... loved her ever since

Blink being the season pass card was what got me to actually purchase the season pass for the first time. I'm looking forward to the Exiles content over the next month!

Love how whenever there is a season im less interested in then after watching your videos im suddenly on board

Honestly? The series finale of The Gifted provides a great way for some mutants to enter the mcu! And it totally is a great representation of her, but of 616 her… she’s not that great at her powers and hates her powers in the beginning of the show, but she gets better and better at them until in the last season she spoiler but then shows up using portal daggers, seemingly from another universe, there to recruit everyone to her world to save things! Definitely an interesting plot point that feige could play with!

I first met Blink in AoA. I've always liked her. Her powers are really cool.

I read Exiles a few years ago to find designs for certain multiversal characters for a art project, and it's basically a Multiversal Suicide Squad or Sliders, but dark, and with superpowers, but with the added fact that the mission they're on, with other characters... don't also get attached, they get it BAD. Blink has also been X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, she's your instant teleporter that take you back to your base, and has conversations with Sabretooth of course. Plus she was in Wolverine and the X-Men, in her Exiles design... but she has no lines, but does stuff, and is named. The Gifted's version is pretty normal all things considered, but gets more comic booky by the time the series ended, but she's barely there by then.

Love Blink. She‘s cool. I think most of her arc is about beimg an assertive leader instead of hiding behind someone else. She can also be absolutely savage with her powers.

Atop the Fourth Wall has a good retrospective video on the Exiles comics. Check them out for info on their adventures.

I loved her in the Exiles series, that’s one of my favorites, I hope to see an adaptation of it someday

The Exiles sounds like a really cool direction for the TVA to go if they don't want to destroy it, bring in some supes, have some characters we know coordinate the team, and just have them fix timelines instead of pruning them like the old TVA would.

I really enjoyed the original run of the Exiles. Never finished it and haven't thought about them in many years, but it was a lot of fun because practically anything could happen. Usually that meant a lot of morally grey missions and lots of characters getting killed. Remember they had an "evil" rival team of Exiles who did particularly nasty work. Those guys almost always died. Anyway, didn't know the Exiles had come back a few times! It's a good concept. Blink is cool.

This is a good video, I had no idea who this character was. I really appreciate your naming the artists and pointing to a comic to read.

Turns out she works really well with Jubilee probably her best synergy actually

OG Exiles is a bit like Quantum Leap- zapped to a world where something is "wrong" and needs to be fixed before they can leave. Seeing a world where Xavier was a villain was pretty damn terrifying, considering he shuts down the brains of every person in a city at once, by himself.

I loved that first run of Exiles. It was compelling because they weren’t afraid of killing off members, even long standing ones. Best arc was when Proteus infiltrated the team and jumped universe to universe to find a powerful enough body that he could inhabit without burning out. Best issue was when the other team of evil Exiles went to a universe to save the Inhumans from Iron Man turned Dr. Doom (think it was called Iton Fist of Doom). First season of What If is basically reimagining of Exiles. Crystal room where Watcher watches the multiverse even resembles the crystal palace where the time brokers originated from.

Saying most people were introduced to Blink in eXiles and not in the original AoE storyline that made her such a fan-favorite that people DEMANDED she return (or the Phalanx Covenant where her 616 counterpart was equally beloved) , is crazy.

Hey Nando, I enjoy your breakdowns and how they relate to Marvel Snap.

Blink is GREAT on The Gifted, such an underrated show! The show left off on cliffhanger that was clearly setting up some version of Exiles