Tag: Doug Ramsey
410 – Jubilee, Don’t Eat That
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In which the M-Plate Saga continues; Jay gets into the spirit of the day; we briefly give up on our primary mission; the story is coordinated if not coherent; Miles is not allowed to continuity-shame about Tolkein; Gaia is extra chill; Dirt Nap discovers altruism; and Jubilee should absolutely not have eaten that.
X-PLAINED:
- Vampires vs. Marrow (again)
- Whether Marrow is a mutant
- Drugs
- X-Plaining the inexplicable
- Generation X #37-39
- M-Plate (more) (again)
- A Boojum
- How to correctly identify a snark
- The Universal Amalgamator (more) (again)
- A door
- Moria, kind of, I guess?
- Mysterious topiary
- An equally mysterious train
- The Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator
- Gaia
- How to make a deal with a Token
- Orange milk
- A network of interdimensional water closets
- The Bill the Pony Effect
- An attempted murder
- Monet vs. Northstar
- Characters we’d like to see come out of the subtext
NEXT EPISODE: The Angry Claremontean Narrator Returns
CORRECTION: Miles said that the previous episode was #410. This episode is in fact #410; the previous episode is #409.
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As Mentioned in Episode 396 – Giant-Size Special #11
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396 – Giant-Size Special #11
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In which we spend too long trying to place a time-travel miniseries in continuity, Al Kennedy does us a solid, Bernard Chang draws some excellent New Mutants young and old, Al Ewing x-plains X-Men: Red, Forearm and Random play Nintendo, and we reveal the winners of The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence!
X-PLAINED:
- Jay’s spatial and temporal whereabouts
- Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, and Douglock
- New Mutants: Truth or Death
- Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin, gal pals
- Triple-dog dares
- Nova Roma, or not
- Mikhail F**king Rasputin
- The arrogance of reality warpers
- How to write Magma
- The Technarchy and the Phalanx
- Hardee’s X-Men: Time Gliders
- Farmboy chic
- Bernard Chang’s 21 Panels
- Branching vs. overwriting timelines
- The effects of de-aging and history rewriting on immunology
- Found family
- She Who Swam With The Acanti
- Sleep-Eeze Mattresses Starring The Hulk
- Arrako
- Continuity synchronicity
- S.W.O.R.D. as a workplace drama
- The moral downfall of Abigail Brand
- The leadership styles of Storm, Magneto, and Sunspot
- Himbo disambiguation
- The fates of Armor, Risque, and Peeper
- Mysterium Clicker
- Santa Claus
- The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
(Note: Our interview with Al Ewing contains spoilers for X-Men: Red!)
NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth betrays an X-team! Again!
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As Mentioned in Episode 371 – Beware of Psychodrama
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LINKS & FURTHER MISADVENTURES
- We allude frequently to Warlock piloting around Doug’s corpse, which story we covered in Episode 91 – The Saddest Story Ever Told.
371 – Beware of Psychodrama
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In which Douglock is Douglock; Kitty Pryde gets lost in nostalgia; it continues to suck to be Colossus; Professor Xavier is a jerk; the MLF makes one and only one valid point; Ben Raab’s Excalibur run begins; the Acolytes try to get the band back together; and the land mines are a metaphor that are also real land mines.
X-PLAINED:
- Exodus
- Excalibur #104-106
- The current state of Excalibur
- Douglock
- B.P.R.D.
- New Mutants #64 callbacks
- Wolfsbane’s default form
- Nostalgia
- The Xavier Protocols (again)
- The MLF (again)
- The Mysterious Moonstar
- Selby
- The Prodigy
- Character shifts between writers
- Age of Jay and Miles
- How not to write a letter in a comic book
- Assless chaps
- Land mines
- Unuscione
- Scanner
- Mutant lawyers
- Cyclops’s color vision
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, now with his own miniseries!
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As Mentioned in Episode 294 – The Infernal Gallop
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LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- That really depressing historical anecdote about ballast tanks came courtesy of friend of the show Joe Streckert, of the Weird History Podcast. Thanks, Joe!
- Seriously: Mystique-295 is Tovah Feldshuh as Naomi Bunch on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
- We differ on the quality of the X-Files episode “The Field Where I Died”; your mileage may vary.
294 – The Infernal Gallop
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In which a whole lot of things burn; Nightcrawler gets gritty; it’s hard to be Dead Man Wade; Apocalypse’s IT department has some explaining to do; Mystique is the most mom of all moms; Doug Ramsey dies (again); and Jay will fight anyone who says comics can’t be “real” literature.
X-PLAINED:
- Damask
- X-Calibre #1-4
- Switchback
- Cain Marko of Earth-295
- Avalon
- Destiny of Earth-295
- Nightcrawler of Earth-295
- Ghost Dance (actual)
- Ghost Dance (fictional)
- John Proudstar of Earth-295
- The Infernal Gallop vs. the Infernal Galop
- Moonstar of Earth-295
- Dead Man Wade
- The Pale Riders
- Videoconferencing software of Earth-295
- The Excalibur
- Walter Newell
- Callisto of Earth-295
- A lot of murders
- A really dark historical precedent
- Parenthood
- Death by existential crisis
- The worst plan
- Variations on the death of Doug Ramsey
- Geography of the Age of Apocalypse
- The rest of the Marvel books during the Age of Apocalypse
- Jay vs. Western canon
NEXT EPISODE: Gambit and the X-Ternals
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As Mentioned in Episode 274 – The Red Shoe Prophecies

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LINKS & FURTHER RECORDINGS:
- Read Chris Eddleman and Robert Secundus’s X-Annotations at Xavier Files and Polygon!
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- Listen to Chrises on Infinite Earths…
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274 – The Red Shoe Prophecies (feat. Chris Eddleman)
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In which Chris Eddleman joins us for a close look at House of X and Powers of X; Doug Ramsey is highly relevant; resurrection is problematic in a universe with a documented afterlife; there is no reasonable in-continuity justification for the lack of trans Marvel characters; and your OT3 is canon.
X-PLAINED:
- The Phalanx (more) (again) (retconned)
- House of X
- Powers of X
- Krakoa (more) (again) (retconned)
- Moira MacTaggert (retconned)
- Bar Sinister
- Sinister Secrets
- Portentous red shoes
- The Man-Machine Ascendancy
- Chimeras
- North
- Cardinal
- Rasputin
- Homo Novissima
- Transhumanism in the Marvel Universe
- The metaphysics of Krakoan resurrection
- The Five
- The true nature of Goldballs’ powers
- Trans representation and its absence
- Retroactive foreshadowing
NEXT EPISODE: Still not quite Generation X
CORRECTION: The story Jay referred to as “Everything Burns” is in fact titled “Time Runs Out,” although a good many things do burn over its course.
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