You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

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The mantra "you really want to know what being an X-Man feels like?" is used by Warren Worthington III to encourage his younger brother Bobby, while bringing up the fact that he is not accepted into the X-Men. The phrase comes from a line in "The Little Mermaid" and is used for comic effect.

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