Tag: Erik Lehnsherr
363 – Licked by a Shadow
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In which standing in fields looking confused is a way of life; Psylocke gets a new superpower; when you gotta confess you gotta confess; Iceman’s dad stands up for justice; we mourn a Sentinel; and it’s probably a good thing that most companies don’t do mind melds as a team-building exercise.
X-PLAINED:
- Levels of mutant power
- Omicron-level mutations
- Miles’s brief baseball career
- Uncanny X-Men #338
- X-Men #58
- X-Men Annual 1996
- Archangel’s wings
- Joseph vs. Holographic Magneto
- Shadow teleportation
- The errand theory of confession
- Graydon Creed (more) (again)
- “Drake Roberts” and “Samson Guthry”
- Several ways to memorialize the Mutant Massacre
- Onslaught, but an anteater
- A fight
- Several JJJ cameos
- X-baseball games
- A highly atypical Sentinel
- Several oblique warnings
- X-Men ‘97
- Media inspired by the X-Men
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As Mentioned in Episode 354 – The Touch of Magneto
354 – The Touch of Magneto
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In which Onslaught is a party that goes on way too long; we are grateful that the Hand is mostly someone else’s problem; there’s always time to get hosed down by firemen; and Emma Frost should never, under any circumstances, cook.
X-PLAINED:
- The Golden Archer
- Wolverine #104-105
- Generation X #18-19
- Portions of Elektra’s deal
- Stick
- Wolverine’s nose
- Gateway and Onslaught
- Several flashbacks
- The Onslaught goblin
- Retcons and character accountability
- A wet open
- A somewhat atypical plane flight
- Toad by way of Chris Bachalo
- The mysterious DL
- Emma’s Montreal mansion and its staff
- Cooking with Emma Frost
- Quasi-benevolent mind control
- Surgeon
- A bonus Shadowcat power
- Digital invisibility
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NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught tie-ins!
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As Mentioned in Episode 347 – Onslaught Begins
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LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- Muscle March sure is a real video game that actually exists.
347 – Onslaught Begins
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In which we stop procrastinating and dive headfirst into Onslaught; Professor Xavier is a jerk; Dark Beast wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Onslaught declaims like it’s the Silver Age; Bishop gets some long-awaited closure; and we pitch alternate candidates for the X-traitor.
X-PLAINED:
- Hyperstorm
- Onslaught (entity)
- Onslaught (event)
- Uncanny X-Men #334
- X-Men #54
- Onslaught: X-Men #1
- How to pronounce “Buccellato”
- The opposite of a pep talk
- Nate Grey vs. Professor X
- The Z’noxx (again)
- One of several times Charles Xavier has faked his own death
- Muscle March
- Franklin Richards
- The Gem of Cyttorak
- A villain speech
- That one recording Bishop found in the future
- The X-traitor
- Li’l Charlie
- Magneto’s hood ornament
- Alternate takes on the X-traitor
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught continues.
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As Mentioned in Episode 324 – Snack Attack
324 – Snack Attack
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In which Cordelia Frost is a terrible friend; Mondo is better than the story arcs that surround him; and we’d really love to see a series about Sean Cassidy’s super groovy past.
X-PLAINED:
- The one who got away
- Generation X Annual 1995
- Generation X #10-11
- A failed seduction attempt
- Mondo and a plant-based facsimile thereof
- An emergency
- The very personal and private journal of Monet St. Croix
- A party
- Omega Red (again)
- Sean Cassidy’s Interpol days
- An unlikely informant
- A somewhat surreal monitoring system
- The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Wiki
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As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
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LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
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In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
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