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266 – They’re Good Dogs, Miles
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In which Havok goes surfing; Malice eats a poodle; Strong Guy’s ex is a big jerk; Sinister’s gotta Sinister; and Miles learns about a meme.
X-PLAINED:
- The Puppet Master
- X-Factor #103-105
- Comparative Summers brooding
- Perks of being a mutant geologist and/or geophysicist
- Malice and Polaris’s complicated history
- A somewhat convoluted plan
- Several reasons to go to Rhinebeck, NY
- Friendship
- The extended Carosella family
- Candy stripers
- Mary, who is a big jerk
- A Sinister entrance
- The Nasty Boys (more) (again)
- Karate pants
- 14-year-old Chris Gethard’s feelings about Jamie Madrox
- Ionic vampirism
- Misguided vengeance
- Pushing back against whitewashing in comics
NEXT EPISODE: Emma Frost takes a joyride
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At the End of the Fight
Do you wish Les Miserables were about X-Men? TODAY YOU ARE IN LUCK: Here is a downloadable version of the parody of “At the End of the Day” that closed Episode 226!
lyrics &c.As Mentioned in Episode 179 – Sincerely, An Evil Individual
179 – Sincerely, An Evil Individual
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In which X-Factor gets a revamp; Larry Stroman is the best part of 1991; Havok used to have principles; Multiple Man is his own worst enemy; Jay’s Doonesbury knowledge finally becomes relevant; Strong Guy breaks the Washington Monument; and Val Cooper may or may not have married Mister Sinister.
X-PLAINED:
- The Madrox who got away
- Alan Disambiguation
- The X-Factor that might have been
- X-Factor #71-75
- Banter™
- A small selection of a gratuitously large volume of pop-culture references
- An evil individual
- One of the many deaths of Multiple Man
- Larry Stroman extras
- Professor Vic Chalker
- A Sinister scheme
- The iteration of X-Factor most likely to end up naked on television
- Your real-life Jamie Madrox reference
- GeeCees
- A canonical Doonesbury reference
- One way to get out of writing a term paper
- The proper plural of Madrox
- Ricochet
- The Nasty Boys
- Death by irony
- The evolution of Magik’s Soul Sword
- Why female superheroes rarely date civilian men
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As Mentioned in Episode 114 – Meltdown
114 – Meltdown (feat. Susan Beaver)
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In which Havok and Wolverine head to Mexico; Havok tries his hand at noir; Wolverine gets serious about hair gel; Meltdown is probably not actually a common Russian surname; Susan X-Plains nuclear reactors; and we are pretty thoroughly besotted with Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown.
X-PLAINED:
- Age of Apocalypse Corsair
- Epic Comics
- Marvel Comics Presents #24-31
- Leila O’Toole (Plasma)
- The Cold War
- Samantha Smith
- Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown #1-4
- General Meltdown
- Dr. Neutron
- The varying deadliness of vices
- Scarlett McKenzie (Quark)
- Some exceptionally gorgeous artwork
- Why we love Havok
- Chernobyl
- How nuclear reactors do and don’t work
- Other characters we’d like to see in Meltdown-type stories
- Adamantium vs. vibranium
NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men Anime
Special thanks to guest reactor X-Pert Susan Beaver!
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