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422 – Cairn Touch This
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In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur rushes toward its conclusion
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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 411 – Tearaway Pants
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
NEXT EPISODE: Back to the core!
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321 – Revolving Doors
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In which Sabretooth does not get effectively rehabilitated; nobody has the moral high ground; Val Cooper is the worst possible person to call in any emergency; Bishop needs a better support system; Jay knows several things about onions; and not everything has to be a mammal.
X-PLAINED:
- Sabretooth (more) (again)
- X-Force #48
- Uncanny X-Men #328
- Sabretooth Special #1
- Bunny slippers
- An intervention
- Stages of grief
- What not to do with Sabretooth
- An evil squirrel
- Onions
- The three genders
- Mutant Massacre callbacks
- Caption disambiguation problems
- The overabundance of boobs on fictional non-mammalian species
NEXT EPISODE: INTO THE CLONE ZONE!
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236 – Baggage of Traumas Past (Fatal Attractions, Part 3)
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In which Decimation was kind of sketchy; you should definitely come see us in Seattle; Wolverine has a rough day; Colossus has yet another rough day; Excalibur plans for the future; and Fatal Attractions comes to a close.
X-PLAINED:
- How Professor X got his groove and/or powers back
- Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
- Wolverine #75
- Excalibur #71
- Psychic trauma
- High-stakes references
- The personal Ragnarok of a shattered soul
- A really effective sound effect
- The first day of the rest of Logan’s life
- Butterflies of the Xavier School
- Muir Island’s psychiatric ward
- Medical consent
- The worst bar, probably
- Professorial disambiguation
- What Micromax and Kyluun are probably definitely up to
- Several variably awkward Grey-Summers family reunions
- A betrayal
- Amelia Voght
- Unuscione
- Katu
- The future of Excalibur
- Proactive superheroism
- How not to make a White Russian
- Shadowcat’s recovery post-Mutant Massacre
- Our etymological destinies
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204 – Naughty By Nurture
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In which Jay runs away to Latveria (but Hub is here to save the day!); you shouldn’t eat the brown promethium; Magneto and Cap fight over the world’s tiniest man; Rom is somewhat set in his ways; all anyone in the 616 really wants out of a disguise is plausible deniability; and Hub was inside your heart all along (and you might want to see a doctor about that).
X-PLAINED:
- Several Limbos
- Captain America Annual #4
- Captain America vs. Magneto
- The return of the theoretical Magnetostache
- The Great Mutant Massacre (but not that one)
- Drunk-at-a-wedding Magneto
- Mister One
- Mister Two
- Ghost Writer
- Peeper
- Lifter
- Burner
- Slither
- Shocker
- Skin suffocation
- Rom #17-18
- The Toy Collector
- Dick Warlock, revisited, more, again
- Bill Mantlo
- Rom: Spaceknight
- Dire Wraiths
- The secret lives of inanimate objects
- Brandy Clark and Steve Jackson
- Jacob the Dire Wraith and His No-Good Son Jimmy
- The smell of evil
- Swiss army eyeballs
- Sidekicks for the Transformers
NEXT EPISODE: The Return of Rictor!
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