Episode #16: The Drunk History of Mantis

We dive into the wild, mind-bending story of Mantis —the empathic, martial arts master, cosmic Madonna of the Marvel Universe!

From her traumatic origins in Vietnam (you read that right … she’s human!) to being trained by pacifist alien monks, communicating with sentient plants, and knocking out literal gods, Mantis’s life is anything but ordinary. Did we mention she married a plant alien in the form of her dead lover and gave birth to a cosmic Messiah? Yeah, it’s that kind of story. 🌱✨

Grab your favorite brew and join us as we explore:

Grab your favorite brew and join us. We explore Mantis’s dramatic love triangles and her Avengers days. 🍺 Her empathic abilities, martial arts mastery, and connection to the Cotati. 🍺 Her time with the Guardians of the Galaxy and how she helped defeat Thanos. 🍺 The chaotic soap-opera-level twists of her life! Whether you’re a comic book superfan, you want to hear how the comic book Mantis varies from the MCU Mantis we all have grown to love, or you’re just here for the laughs with some background noise as you sip some brews, this episode has something for everyone. Cheers to Mantis and all the glorious chaos of her story! 🥂

Beers of the Episode

Lua Brewing: Say Yes – Fruited Sour – Brewed with Blackberry, Boysenberry, Blue Raspberry. Literally every single Lua Brewing beer we’ve had has been incredible so of course we rated this one a very high 4.75.

(I Rated it a 4.75) It’s Untappd overall rating is (4.34)

Lyric Brewing X New Image Brewing: Fear Addicted IPA – Imperial / Double New England / Hazy – Hazy DIPA aggressively hopped with Citra and ’24 Galaxy. We had to balance the fruited sour with the hazy for this episode and neither one disappointed. Slappin episode and slapping beer no doubt.

(We rated it a 4.25) It’s Untappd Overall Rating is (4.45)

I sadly didn’t rip a picture of the Fear Addicted IPA because I’m a dingus but I did rip a little warm beer which was the Glorious Spotted Cow which I one of my favs all time to casually crush.

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Let’s chat all things Mantis or Guardians of the Galaxy! What do you think of her in the MCU? Do you have some more Mantis history that we may have missed? Fill in the blanks in the comments so we can learn even more. Or we can just talk cool beer that you’ve had lately. We’re always on the hunt to try something new to add to our Untappd.