Patty Guggenheim remembers when we all used to yell at each other in the same room while playing video games. Perhaps most famous today for her role as the ditzy Madisynn in Marvel’s She-Hulk, Guggenheim’s coolest character right now is the duplicitous and scheming Raven in Twisted Metal Season 2. Based on the beloved video games of the 1990s, Peacock’s Twisted Metal series featured ’90s icon Neve Campbell playing a different take on Raven in Season 1. But in an early Season 2 twist, we’ve learned there are actually multiple Ravens, and the primary version of the character we get in Season 2 is embodied by Guggenheim, an actual elder elder millennial, and bona fide ’90s kid.
“I just wanted to find anything in the game that I could to see who this little creeper was,” Guggenheim tells Men’s Journal. “I remember her because, when I played the game as a kid, you had fewer female characters. So, when I was playing the game as a kid, I was like; Who’s this little chick?”
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Twisted Metal Season 2’s very ’90s Raven
Right at the start of Twisted Metal Season 2, we get a flashback to the late ’90s, where we meet the real Raven as a teenager. This sets up her tragic backstory: her girlfriend has been in coma for several decades and Raven is trying to keep her alive. Guggenheim feels the decision to start the new season of the show with a very ’90s house party helped capture the spirit of the show, which is more of a throwback to a very analog decade.
“Because we’re so saturated with AI, internet scrolling, we’re all on our phones all day. I think there’s this draw and nostalgia of a time where we weren’t doing that,” Guggenheim explains. “You would like to go to the store and pick out a game and bring it home, and look at it. Or a CD or something, and actually have it in your hands and look at it and read everything. You were just engaged with things in a different way back then.”
Guggenheim notes that not all of the ’90s CDs were good per se, and cites Ace of Base as being a particularly embarrassing favorite of hers back in the day. But, she does think that the yearning part of what makes Twisted Metal Season 2 so fun is a yearning for a return to the ’90s.
“I don’t know if it was a simpler time,” she says. “But it was maybe slowed down a little bit and more intentional.”
Patty Guggenheim is fine with Madisynn’s popularity
Prior to her excellent turn in Twisted Metal Season 2 as Raven, Guggenheim’s character in She-Hulk, the hilarious party girl Madisynn, changed everything. In some ways, Guggenheim says she’s closer to being Madisynn in real life. In Twisted Metal, Raven certainly shows off Guggenheim’s incredible range as an actress, but Madisynn, she reveals, was a kind of extra-turned-up version of herself.
“My character [in Twisted Metal] is scary and messed up,” Guggenheim says. “She has had her girlfriend in a coma in her garage for 20 years. Somebody who goes to those lengths is very unwell.”
In contrast, Guggenheim finds it “ironic” that the character of Madisynn has stuck with her, at least in terms of public perception, because Madisynn herself does the same thing. “That’s what she is to Wongers [in She-Hulk], she just follows him around everywhere. Now she’s done that with me.”
Guggenheim also elaborates that some of her background in improv comedy allowed her to create Madisynn without stepping too far from her own personality. “That woman is not so far from me when I’m in that mode of like ‘let’s go!’ It really blows my mind that anything I did resonated with people enough that they are still talking about it. I appreciate that.”
From Twisted Metal to Marvel, talking to Guggenheim makes her come across like the kind of person who is bringing fun snacks to the party or figuring out a way to have a memorable time no matter what.
“I think people are just attracted to the fun of it all,” Guggenheim says of her roles. “What are we doing next? What are we binging? What are we drinking? It’s all about not taking anything too seriously.”
Twisted Metal streams on Peacock.
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Patty Guggenheim Says She Summoned Big ’90s Energy To Play a ‘Little Creeper’ in ‘Twisted Metal’ first appeared on Men’s Journal on Aug 7, 2025