Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Kyle XY
April 6th, 2008
Continuing a look at psychic nosebleed in other media besides comic books. Today’s example comes from the science fiction television show Kyle XY.
Kyle XY is an original series on the ABC Family network featuring a pair of genetically altered teenagers: the eponymous Kyle, and his female counterpart Jessi. They both seem to be developing a wide variety of powers, both mental and physical in nature. However, whenever they push their powers, they end up suffering a nice little nosebleed.
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The first scene takes place after Jessi uses her telekinetic powers to cheat at pool, and the second takes place after Kyle uses his powers to heal another character of cancer. Both scene come from Episode 19, Season 2: “The First Cut is the Deepest.”
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April 7th, 2008 at 12:45 am
… after Kyle uses his powers to heal another character of cancer.
Oh, hey, now we know who Supergirl has to hit up for help in the current issues of her series.
(Although, that said, I liked the book’s usage of Resurrection Man.)
April 7th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I’m glad to see I’m not the only adult who watches this show… I am actually a fan and watch every episode, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of this blog and the recurring psychic nosebleed posts when I saw it.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:41 am
FWIW, there was another sighting psychic nosebleed (incidentally, “noseblee” in your title) zen this week. In the latest Harry Dresden book, after a brief encounter with a fairy queen where he’s magically compelled to kneel, he starts bleeding out of his nose and ears. Then again, given Mab’s personality, she might have just hit him with sufficient pressure to cause him to black out and hit his knees, thereby leading to the bleeding from orifices.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Actually, this isn’t quite true. Kyle says that he didn’t cure the cancer, he just tried to make the girl feel better. We’re led to believe that Kyle has strained himself from curing the cancer, but this is a red herring. It turns out that what caused him to strain himself was subconsciously hearing a hidden message in a record.
Also, Kyle (and Jessi) aren’t genetically engineered. The premise is that by developing longer than nine months, their brain develops to a more advanced state, which is of course comic book biology, but an unusual type of comic book biology we rarely see any more. Adam Baylin had a 13 month gestation. Kyle has stronger powers because he spent his entire existence in a tube giving his brain years to develop.
They are clones, despite the lack of genetic engineering, and it’s sort of odd how they avoided typical comic book science here. They don’t have magical memories, and weren’t even grown fast (Kyle’s actually teenage–he just spent 16 years in the tube). And like a zombie movie never calling the monsters zombies, the show never calls them clones.
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