Tag: Crimson Dawn
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 330 – Suddenly, Ninjas
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
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