Tag: Remy LeBeau
411 – Tearaway Pants
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In which we actually kind of like a Sabretooth story; we’re not asking for viscera, here; all pants on Earth-616 are tearaway pants; we’d like to see more Wolverine stories about bodily autonomy; Gambit’s hallucinations have hallucinations; and there are probably too many X-books.
X-PLAINED:
- Punch-clock villains
- Hydro-Man’s secret weakness
- 411
- ‘90s fashion
- X-Men Unlimited #17-18
- X-Men Unlimited vs. annuals
- A difficult casting decision
- Forge’s neutralizer gun
- Costume injuries
- Color symbolism? Kinda? I guess?
- Mrs. Hoo
- Saberine & Wolvertooth
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III vs. shirts
- How to dress for Earth-616
- Hot buttered whatever
- Boob foliage
- Clones
- Very tenacious blood stains
- The return of the Angry Claremontean Narrator
- Lots of hallucinations
- Oscar the Fixer
- Hydro-Man
- Redemption, symbolic and otherwise
- The evolution of Magneto’s name
- Our ideal X-line
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As Mentioned in Episode 400 – Loud Noises
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NOTES & FURTHER READING:
- All that remains of Gambit Cyber Comic: The Hunt for the Tomorrow Stone
400 – Loud Noises
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In which legacy numbering is best left alone; all roads lead to the Antarctic; we finally learn Gambit’s big secret; Erik the Red gets yet a third identity; no one soils the Juggernaut; Maggott saves the day; and we have somehow made (technically more than) 400 of these things.
X-PLAINED
- Spat
- The tragic loss of the Cyber Comics
- How not to back up your work
- Uncanny X-Men #350
- X-Men #70
- A shambles
- What’s been happening since Operation Zero Tolerance
- A very fancy cover
- Insufficient outerwear
- Senses
- Justice as a decorating theme
- Baffling statuary
- The return of Erik the Red
- Erik the Red (again)
- Ferris
- Gambit’s big secret
- A large number of continuity errors
- A total dick move
- De-icing
- Untitled Marrow Game
- A big fight
- Living room surgery
- Legal documents
- Favorite anniversary issues
- Dangling plot threads
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As Mentioned in Episode 398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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- Motormouth (Harley Davis)
- Motormouth and Killpower
- Uncanny X-Men #347-349
- Grovel and Spat
- A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy
- An extraordinarily half-assed action figure
- Load-bearing backstory
- Landscape
- The other Nanny
- Elegant foreshadowing
- Beast’s appearance as a mutant power
- Gambit’s chest hair
- The end of playtime
- CCA-compliant foliage
- Deathbird and Bishop
- A vanity plate
- Eany and Meany
- One-off psychometry
- Psylocke vs. Maggott
- Decompression
- Havok’s enduring lack of a Ph.D.
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As Mentioned in Episode 386 – No Puppy for Storm
386 – No Puppies for Storm
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In which treading water isn’t always a bad thing; Storm remains an irresponsible leader; nobody should ever trust Dark Beast; we are befuddled by a large metal man; Maggott makes his debut; and we ship the heck out of Deathbird and Bishop.
X-PLAINED:
- The time Captain America dated a supervillain
- Treading water
- Gene Nation (again)
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1997
- Uncanny X-Men #345
- Razors
- Humanity’s Last Stand
- Surprise
- Boost and Tether
- D’gard
- A Star Trek allusion
- The Morlock retcon
- Maggott (Japheth)
- A large metal individual
- Foreshadowing
- A large, inconvenient spaceship
- Magneto’s relationship to Judaism
- Recovery from the Legacy Virus
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As Mentioned in Episode 379 – Stardate: Today
379 – Stardate: Today
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In which what happens in space stays in space; a horse is imperiled; Joseph does some dubious science; Gladiator’s name is absolutely not Gary; everybody gets new costumes; and we learn where babies come from.
X-PLAINED:
- Shi’ar taxonomy, sort of
- The Shi’ar (again)
- The Phalanx (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #341-344
- A whole bunch of callbacks to X-Men #98
- A carriage ride
- The Z’noxx chamber (again)
- One way to have safer sex
- FAO Schwarz
- The Shi’ar Imerial Guard (again)
- Diplomacy, kind of
- Space outfits
- Trademarks
- Pure Phalanx
- Dinosaur Kingdom 2
- Where Shi’ar babies come from
- Flirting
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vs. Isca the Unbeaten
- Characters we would happily voice if invited to do so
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
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