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378 – The Unstoppable Huggernaut
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In which our favorite(?) fear lord returns; Sirocco Sprawl is an extremely unpleasant fictional town; the Juggernaut is not a subtle man; we really need to get our hands on the Generation X novels; Tarot gets a logo font; and Banshee is menaced by spectral leprechauns.
X-PLAINED
- Several Juggernauts
- Soap Operas
- D’Spayre (again)
- D’Spayre vs. Nightmare
- Juggernaut #1
- Generation X Annual 1997
- Magical pants
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) and what he’s been up to lately
- Incidental reptiles
- Sirocco Sprawl, NM
- Marvin T. Rocksalt
- A spree of cartoonish destruction
- Spite (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- A really cool skeleton
- Generation X novels
- Several episodes we should probably do someday
- A very poorly-drawn butt
- The Hellions (more) (again)
- One way to put out a fire
- Garden Plots with Skeletor
- Several nightmare scenarios
- Alex Summers’s adoptive family
- What would happen if Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau met Cameron Hodge
NEXT EPISODE: Space!
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As Mentioned in Episode 255 – Rules of the Game
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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING
- Miles was on Unpacking the Power of the Power Pack, which you can listen to right here!
- We were both all over the Internet in June.
255 – Rules of the Game
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In which the Upstarts are the worst at Calvinball; Moonstar remains a non-mystery; Speedball gets a new costume; Shinobi Shaw never gets to finish a bath; Gamesmaster comes perilously close to getting context; Cable gets a new superpower; and Rahne Sinclair is too good for your crossover.
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- The time Husk went evil
- An anniversary
- A guest appearance
- X-Force #32-33
- New Warriors #45-46
- A crossover
- A game
- Younghunt
- The semi-debut of Paige Guthrie
- Deeply uncomfortable bathing-suit choices
- A toy that never actually existed
- The New Warriors
- Justice (Vance Astrovik)
- Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)
- Nova (Rich Rider)
- Silhouette (Sil Chord)
- Kymaera
- Speedball (Robbie Baldwin)
- Rage (Elvin Haliday)
- Firestar (Angelica Jones) (more) (again)
- A plan
- Bantam
- A lot of mind control
- A very ambiguous game and its potential implications
- Favorite ads
- The narrative economy of resurrection
NEXT EPISODE: Mullets of time & space!
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As Mentioned in Episode 225 – Class Reunion (feat. Austin Gorton)
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- We talked all about Firestar in Episode 42 – A Firestar Is Born
- Check out Austin Gorton’s X-Aminations – writeups of every X-issue from 1963 on!
- Listen to Austin on his podcast, A Very Special Episode!
225 – Class Reunion (feat. Austin Gorton)
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In which we check in on Firestar and the New Warriors; superheroes often celebrate Bring Your Mom To The Amazon Day; Fabian Nicieza employs only the finest of lampshades; and Emma Frost still doesn’t apologize for blowing up that pony.
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- Vance Astro(vik)
- Penance (but not that one)
- Austin Gorton’s X-Aminations
- New Warriors #10
- Firestar (Angelica Jones)
- The New Warriors
- Visual representations of invisible mutant powers
- The Hellions (more) (again)
- Tarot and her Morrisonian powers
- Bevatrons
- Oxy-cution
- The inevitably increasing complexity of superhero origins
- The Miracle of Microwaves
- New Warriors #31
- Nova Roma
- Magma (Amara Aquilla) (or Allison Crestmere, I guess)
- A brief and futile attempt at Roman soldier disambiguation
- Empath and his large collection of red flags
- Gender-based intuition
- A massive, stupid, and quickly undone retcon
- Super-nature versus super-nurture
- The hypothetical psychological roots of Emma Frost’s fashion phases
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor finally makes it to Genosha!
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As Mentioned in Episode 180 – Lawful Badass
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FURTHER READING, WATCHING, & LISTENING:
- Jay won comics.
- Key and Peele’s “Sexy Vampires” sketch is delightful (but dubiously work-safe).
- We talked about X-Men whom we’d be interested in seeing retconned as trans in Episode 171 – Badly Punctuated Equilibrium.
180 – Lawful Badass
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In which Jay is deeply invested in The Gifted; Trevor Fitzroy is generally inexcusable; there are a lot of reasons to be uncomfortable in the Hellfire Club; the mix just got altered in this little clambake; Jean Grey (kind of) dies (again); Earth-1191 gives the Age of Apocalypse some glam competition; Lucas Bishop is a pretty decent metaphor for fan culture; everyone is probably Kang the Conqueror; and now Miles really has no excuse for not watching The Prisoner.
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- The Chronomancer and his Chronobots
- The Gifted
- Lucas Bishop’s creative origins
- Trevor Fitzroy
- Goatee Theory
- X-Factor #67
- Uncanny X-Men #281-283
- Dapper Lesbian Shinobi Shaw
- A briefly useful mnemonic
- Cybernetic fuckboys
- The return of Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s hair
- Beef and Bevatron
- The deaths of the Hellions
- Warhammer
- Some of the challenges of X-Plaining the ’90s
- Bringing a knife to a Sentinel fight
- Bantam
- A bunch of bad guys from the future
- Bishop
- Randall
- Malcolm
- Earth-1191
- The Gamemaster
- X-Men we’d like to see come out as trans (revisited)
- Whether either or both of us are Kang the Conquerer
NEXT EPISODE: Pouches and Guns
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119 – Red Night of the Soul (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
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In which Elisabeth hacks the Matrix; Magneto is the worst at small talk; Hela overreaches; parents just don’t understand human speech; everything is better with super-rings; Selene has a Xena moment; almost anything can be solved with a kiss; and even if you transform Doug Ramsey into a giant red murder monster, he’ll still be a huge nerd.
X-PLAINED:
- The S-Men
- New Mutants Forever #1-5
- Magma’s revised family tree
- Updating the New Mutants
- The delicate balance of the Forever line
- The web
- Idiom confusion
- A flawed cultural analogy
- Tiberius the Generic
- Several profoundly dubious costumes
- Family resemblance
- Skull v. Skull
- The dearth of canonically asexual X-characters
NEXT EPISODE: Different Nazis
Miles here – in one of the questions for this episode, I conflated asexuality and aromanticness. Those are totally two different things. Apologies – I’m still learning!
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