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106 – The X-Terminators
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In which Nextwave is both canon and not-canon; Inferno officially begins; X-Terminators is basically a cartoon; Bill Gaines cannot catch a break; Artie and Leach are superbabies; Takeshi Matsuya is fantastic; you should probably never take our advice about anything; Boom Boom is pretty good at superhero costume design; Walter Peck was right; Miles still won’t stop saying that one line about stealing a baby; N’astirh is no pigeon; and “No Mutant Is an Island” is a patently inaccurate statement.
X-PLAINED:
- The Beyond Corporation
- The Defilers
- X-Terminators #1-4
- The first 35 issues of X-Factor, briefly
- Two teams with the same name
- Fredric Wertham
- Bill Gaines
- Crotus
- Babies
- A boarding school that may or may not be Phillips Exeter Academy
- Muffy
- Saint Simon’s Academy
- Wiz Kid (Takeshi Matsuya)
- Nuprin
- Medical advice from goblins
- The Goblin Buster
- Metareferential snack food
- RadSport Sport Fashion Outfitters
- An exceptionally specific Ghostbusters reference
- Helen and Tim
- Dubious spell semantics
- How not to incorporate a crossover into a miniseries, and vice versa
- “No Mutant Is an Island”
- A brief history of Magneto’s helmet
- Definitive Magnetos
NEXT WEEK: The fall of Magik.
Special thanks to multiversal metacontinuity wizard Al Ewing for the last-minute assist on the cold open!
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As Mentioned in Episode 88 – …Just Before Dawn
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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING:
- Teen Titans Wasteland is amazing, and you should listen to it right now.
- Learn more about the Emu War in Interesting Times!
88 – …Just Before Dawn (Fall of the Mutants, Part 3 of 3)
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In which X-Factor finally comes out ahead; Jay and Miles weigh in on the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer; En Sabah Nur is better at theater than tactics; no one does scale like Simonson; Iceman pulls an Xavier; Cyclops and Marvel Girl totally do it; and we conclude our three-part coverage of Fall of the Mutants.
X-PLAINED:
- A potential (but unlikely) vector for resurrecting Cyclops-616
- Events vs. crossovers
- Our thoughts on the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer
- X-Factor #24-26
- Power Pack #35
- Incredible Hulk #340
- Captain America #339
- Fantastic Four #312
- Daredevil #252
- Newsletters of Apocalypse
- Some deeply dubious immunology
- The fall of Caliban
- Sense of scale
- The kiss we’ve been waiting for
- Teen Titans Wasteland
- A recognizable ruse
- A thematically significant crash landing
- Some long-awaited resolution
- How to judge an original-5 book
- Sweatsuits of Apocalypse
- The iconic X-Factor costumes
- Fall of the Mutants tie-ins
- Emus
- The best-dressed X-Men
NEXT WEEK: GIANT-SIZE WINTER SPECIAL #2!
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As Mentioned in Episode 66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
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In which we wrap up our first official two-parter; Gambit ruins everything; Rachel has a theory about Mister Sinister; Marvel communication technology is behind the times; Trish Tilby is tired of your bullshit; Walter Simonson is the best of the best; X-Factor pulls it together; Power Pack gets uncomfortably dark; Miles has Thor feelings; and even more mutants die.
NOTE: This episode is the second of a two-parter! If you haven’t listened to Episode 65, where we cover the first half of the mutant massacre, you should probably do that before you listen to this one!
X-PLAINED:
- Masque
- Tentacle disambiguation
- More of the Mutant Massacre
- A Sinister hypothesis
- Several Marauder-related retcons
- X-Factor #9-11
- Power Pack #27
- The Mighty Thor #373-374
- Trish Tilby
- Artie & Leech
- Several awkward reunions
- Walter Simonson
- The fall of Angel
- Apocalypse’s horsemen
- Yet another crossover that will probably scar the Power kids for life
- Franklin Richards
- Thor, Donald Blake, and Sigurd Jarlson
- The best issue of any comic, ever.
- The Tunnelers
- Ongoing repercussions of the Mutant Massacre
- Rachel & Miles’s horseman identities
- Which X-Men could and should wield Mjolnir
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants party like it’s 1299!
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As Mentioned in Episode 65 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 1
65 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 1
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In which we hit the first big X-centric crossover; a lot of Morlocks die; X-Factor is a dark farce; Kitty Pryde talks down a mob without using racial slurs; when Doug Ramsey tells you there’s a problem, you listen; and Callisto should be one of the iconic leaders of the Marvel Universe.
X-PLAINED:
- Death by intellectual-property dispute
- The Mutant Massacre
- Mutant Massacres that might have been
- Uncanny X-Men #210-213
- New Mutants #46
- The Marauders
- The best way to guarantee the New Mutants’ involvement in a storyline
- Limbo fashion
- The responsibility of leadership
- Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
- Psylocke vs. Sabretooth
- The evolution of crossovers
- Characters we’d like to see more of post-Secret Wars
NEXT WEEK: The Mutant Massacre, Part 2!
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