Thunder Rosa wants another chance to pay homage to the X-Men… or one of their greatest enemies in Magneto.
During a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Thunder Rosa spoke about the inspiration for her Wolverine/X-23 ring gear that she wore on the New Year’s Smash episode of Dynamite in December. The AEW Women’s Champion spoke about her X-Men fandom and explained what she loved about the comic book franchise and the two different versions of Wolverine that inspired her attire.
“X-Men has always been one of my favorite cartoons, I think. I remember a lot of the cartoons, when I was little, I used to watch them in Channel 6, black-and-white, because we didn’t have a regular TV. It’s like, little TV, and that was the only channel I can watch, so I’ll watch it. And I remember watching it and not understanding anything they were saying because it was in English. So I just liked the action,” she explained, “then they translated them, and they used to play them on TV, Mexican TV. So we were glued to it, and I loved the storytelling or everything, how the mutants, how they didn’t like it. And I don’t know, I just identify myself with the mutants because I always feel like an outsider, everywhere. And for Wolverine, I think it’s… Once the movies came out and stuff, they give it more of a human part of him and made him more mainstream.
“And then, when they make the girl from Spain (Dafne Keen in Logan) play the daughter, she looked a lot like when I was little, so everybody always made fun of me. Like, ‘You should call her Wolverine because she looks like you.’ And I did it, and everybody lost their crap. And I really enjoy it. I’m reading more old, excellent comic books,” Thunder Rosa shared, “and I also have my own personal comic book because I think it’s important to tell your story in an easier way that everybody can relate to, with images. So yeah, it’s my thing with X-Men.”
Asked if there were any other mutants she’d like to portray, Thunder Rosa said she would be up for using a Magneto-inspired design that she had made up.
“They had designed one for Magneto, a Magneto one,” she stated. “I really love Magneto and his motives about why he hates humans and everybody else.”
Thunder Rosa successfully defended her AEW Women’s Championship against Serena Deeb at AEW Double Or Nothing. Check out full results from the event at this link.
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