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As Mentioned in Episode 383 – A Dude and His Ninjas

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You definitely fight this dude in a Street Fighter game. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #1)
Is Warren Kenneth Worthington III a worse boyfriend than Matt Murdock? Show your work. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #1)
Kuragari may be kind of pointless, but damn does he know from thrones. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #1)
This is literally why Jay doesn’t live in SoHo. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #1)
Betsy, buddy, why did you program your dead friend into your murdering-to-blow-off-steam program? (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #1)
I recognize we’re not dealing with reality persay, but I’m still pretty sure this shouldn’t work. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #2)
Do you ever want to force fictional characters into therapy? (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #2)
Spirit Halloween, all the way down. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #2)
There are worse ways to store skeletons, I’m just saying. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #3)
Oh, no. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #3)
Hi, Force Ghost Tar. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #4)
It’s so convenient that souls come in the form of little figurines, so you know whose they are. (Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #4)
NEXT EPISODE: It’s probably pronounced like “risk.”

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383 – A Dude and His Ninjas

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In which the Crimson Dawn is secretly a bad Daredevil arc; shadow-based transportation requires careful lighting; Dark Phoenix Saga references will not always do you favors; and Earth is big.

X-PLAINED:

  • Atlan the Dolphin
  • Psylocke and Archangel: Crimson Dawn #1-4
  • What the Crimson Dawn arc should actually be
  • Archangel (more) (again)
  • Psylocke (more) (again)
  • The Crimson Dawn (to what extent it can be explained)
  • Tar, Proctor of the Crimson Dawn (again)
  • Kuragari
  • Aesthetics of the Crimson Dawn
  • Undercloaks
  • How not to deliver a present
  • The worst thing about living in NYC
  • Sooooo much Orientalism
  • One way to put out a fire, I guess
  • “Infiltration”
  • Skeleton storage
  • The Overdrawn at the Memory Bank problem
  • Energy shuriken
  • Soul economics
  • Ninja Turtles on X-teams
  • Which X-Man would win a Pinewood Derby race

NEXT EPISODE: Risque!

NOTE: Jay’s Gollum voice is unfiltered. He can just do that at will, and it’s kind of upsetting.

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As Mentioned in Episode 382 – Seven Swords

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TECHNOLOGY! Large men putting screwdrivers into things, turning them, and adjusting them! (Excalibur #107)
Nobody trusts Spiral. (Excalibur #107)
Meet the Dragons of the Crimson Dawn! (Excalibur #107)
Do you ship it? We kinda ship it. (Excalibur #108)
The part of Marvel Editorial will be played by Daytripper in this sequence. (Excalibur #108)
Built your own atom storage box! (Excalibur #109)
That’s a lot of swords! (Excalibur #109)
Xiandu X-Plains the Dragons of the Crimson Dawn. (Excalibur #110)
I don’t know what makes this panel so funny, but it really is. (Excalibur #110)
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: More Crimson Dawn

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382 – Seven Swords

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In which Brian Braddock has grown as a person; we remain unimpressed by the Crimson Dawn; Marvel discovers email; seven swords to two people is a pretty good ratio; everyone hates Spiral; and love may or may not save the world.

X-PLAINED:

  • Where Brian Braddock is these days
  • Excalibur #107-110
  • Post-Onslaught fallout
  • Excalibur (more) (again)
  • The difference an inker makes
  • Nigel McWhirter
  • A trip to London
  • Spiral (again)
  • Engineering outfits? I guess?
  • A machine which would be Cerebro
  • Several flashbacks
  • The most meta bike shorts
  • Time-travel safety
  • Forgotten characters who turned out to be secretly evil
  • A character moment that may actually be an art error
  • Shamrock (Molly Fitzgerald)
  • Email
  • The Dragons of the Crimson Dawn
  • A ghost
  • X-folks who knit
  • Best X-guest star moments

NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk

NEXT EPISODE: Yet more Crimson Dawn

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As Mentioned in Episode 363 – Licked by a Shadow

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It’s hard to be Warren Kenneth Worthington III. (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Hey, feathers! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Peep those teeny peepers! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? SHE’S TOTALLY POUNCING ON PSYLOCKE! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
That’s our J. Jonah Jameson! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Guys. GUYS. (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Ouch. (X-Men #58)
In which William Drake has a rare moment of conscience. (X-Men #58)
Rogue can’t sleep without dramatic irony. (X-Men #58)
“What do kids like these days? Dirtbikes, right?) (X-Men Annual 1996)
Well, that’ll ruin a baseball game. (X-Men Annual 1996)
Aw, man. (X-Men Annual 1996)
Can we discuss the apparent existence of X-Beer? (X-Men Annual 1996)
ALLL RIIIGHT indeed. (X-Men Annual 1996)
LOOK AT ALL THOSE X-MANS! (X-Men Annual 1996)
NEXT EPISODE: Pryde & Wisdom

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

NEXT EPISODE: Pryde & Wisdom

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As Mentioned in Episode 330 – Suddenly, Ninjas

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Photo backgrounds are among his arcane talents. (Uncanny X-Men #329)
*skitter* (Uncanny X-Men #329)
Seriously, I love this concept. (Uncanny X-Men #329)
If I had a dollar for every time I’d seen an angry man pull a tiny dude out of the back of an old woman, I would be… well, broke, but that’s not the point. (Uncanny X-Men #329)
Ah, yes, the sacred goth club. (Uncanny X-Men #329)
Seriously, there is no reasonable justification for this. (Uncanny X-Men #330)
Note: He pulled that figurine out of Archangel’s chest. (Uncanny X-Men #330)
Looks like one of those days. (X-Men #50)
Sure, why not? (X-Men #50)
WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE BEAST? (X-Men #50)
Another day, another giant floating head in the Xavier manor. (X-Men #50)
NEXT EPISODE: Brooding.

330 – Suddenly, Ninjas

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In which the podcast turns seven; Matt has officially edited half the podcast; a lot of things are made by metal; Doctor Strange is a big weirdo; Gambit is a scoundrel, not a villain; Wolverine goes goth; Onslaught could probably use a better herald; Bishop fires two guns whilst going aaaaaaa; and we commit to making what sense we can of Onslaught.

X-PLAINED:

  • How Betsy got her body back
  • Several simultaneous anniversaries
  • Uncanny X-Men #329-330
  • X-Men #50
  • Some ninja bullshit
  • A lot of less-benign-than-it-looks racism
  • Excellent use of a neon sign
  • An odd couple
  • The evolution of art tools
  • Steam vs. metal
  • Gomurr the Ancient
  • The Ebon Vein
  • Catastrophic magic
  • Our favorite iterations of Doctor Strange
  • The Crimson Dawn
  • How one becomes Gomurr the Ancient
  • Tar (Proctor of the Crimson Dawn)
  • Post (Herald of Onslaught)
  • An entity who may or may not be Onslaught
  • Continuity party tricks
  • Survivors of the Age of Apocalypse

NEXT EPISODE: Brood X!

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