Tag: Danger Room
438 – The Man of Harsh Business
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In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to take over Madripoor
- Uncanny X-Men #361
- X-Men #81
- Wolverine: Black Rio
- The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
- Steve Comicraft
- The fork of loneliness
- Cyttorak (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- Peacocks
- Sarasota Jungle Gardens
- What’s sticking out of Juggernaut’s pants
- Favorite versions of the Danger Room
- Floriography
- Kali (kind of)
- Mary Purcell (a bit)
- Rio Carnival
- An outfit
- Detective Antonio Vargas and his mustache
- Saint Cyrus Leviticus
- Ezra
- Comparing mutant and Inhuman culture
- Demonic homage
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As Mentioned in Episode 432 – Weird Little Adventures
432 – Weird Little Adventures
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In which we reach the end of Larry Hama’s run on Generation X; Gaia remains remarkably normal for someone who has spent millennia chained up alone in a citadel; Synch practices radical forgiveness; we ponder the nature of Emma Frost and Sean Cassidy’s relationship; and Forge is extra unqualified to lecture on ethics.
X-PLAINED:
- How Jubilee stopped being a vampire
- The Draco, kinda
- Generation X #44-47
- Bianca LaNeige (again)
- Polaroid cameras
- Gaia (more) (again)
- Reality warping
- Woody and Arlo Guthrie
- Iceland
- Several continuity errors
- Psi War fallout
- Paul Weller
- New school uniforms
- Accreditation
- Miss Pickwick
- Penance’s nationality
- Guthrie manifestation
- Teamwork
- Forge’s decision-making skills
- Paradox
- Indoor/outdoor moppets
- Four theoretical horsemen of Apocalypse
- Awkward family holidays
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As Mentioned in Episode 391 – Mansion of Theseus
391 – Mansion of Theseus
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In which the X-Mansion has unusually large vents; Cable’s hair should not be floppy; Nate Grey meets his maternal grandparents; and we would really like to know more about the Siege of the Vapor Ants.
X-PLAINED:
- Cable #45-47
- X-Man #30
- What various Nathans have been up to
- Operation Zero Tolerance (again)
- The Siege of the Vapor Ants
- Three grenades
- Beefy vents for beefy men
- Danger
- Shi’arese
- Cable vs. Bastion
- So much beer
- Three rad ladies
- Several Greys
- Roust
- Every appearance of Joey and Gaylin Bailey
- Several faked deaths
- Possible impact of the MCU on the X-comics’ status quo
- Character ages
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X
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As Mentioned in Episode 365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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In which you can now listen to a unique episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men every day for a year; Shi’ar tech support leaves something to be desired; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau does not appear in a story; it’s Deathbird, not Dueprocessbird; Zenn-La gets destroyed a lot; and we shall never speak of this incident again.
X-PLAINED:
- Where babies come from
- The Shi’ar (again)
- Cable/X-Force Annual 1996
- X-Men Unlimited #13
- Organs
- Shi’ar ship names
- Pulse
- Unconventional use of the Danger Room
- Butt-first framing
- Interplanetary extradition
- The word “contemplative”
- Binary (again)
- More Shi’ar ship names
- Zenn-La
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
- The Inciters
- A giant metal space skull
- Junction, NY
- A metaphor for America
- Marie Cavendish
- Mutants with synthetics-based powers
- Literary intersections
NEXT EPISODE: Beast!
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As Mentioned in Episode 253 – Autumn in the Uncanny Valley
253 – Autumn in the Uncanny Valley
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In which an engagement begins; Jean Grey’s Walden Puddle counterpart is definitely Nicole; Cyclops is the telepathic equivalent of a pit trap with spikes at the bottom; Charles Xavier’s subconscious is very dialogue-heavy; nobody ever has appropriate professional boundaries; Cable dabbles in passive aggression; and the best is yet to come.
X-PLAINED:
- Some of Blaquesmith’s recent activities
- Uncanny X-Men #308-310
- A very sweet retcon
- Thanksgiving “traditions”
- How to scare crows
- Emplates
- Feelings and telepathy
- A proposal
- A misprint
- Thanksgiving at the Xavier School
- A somewhat alarming manifestation of a conscience
- The lies Charles Xavier tells himself
- Xavier’s depression beard
- The evolution of Amelia Voght
- Angry Claremontean Narrator: The Movie
- The anticlimactic return of Carl “X-Cutioner” Denti
- An unexpected resolution
- Foreshadowing
- Trans voices in the larger comics conversation
NEXT EPISODE: The wedding!
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