Tag: juggernaut
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 353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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LINKS & FURTHER SPINOFFS
- I’m pretty sure we’ve linked to Robert Cop before, but just in case, here you go.
353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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In which Dark Beast is an unlikely father figure; Wild Child remains low-budget Wolverine; X-Factor foreshadows the XSE; no one else thwarts Richardses on Doom’s watch; the cow goes “hate”; and Juggernaut fails to grow as a person.
X-PLAINED:
- The Red Ghost
- Onslaught thus far
- X-Factor #126
- Fantastic Four #416
- X-Men Unlimited #12
- Random’s origins (kind of)
- Pinochle
- Kristoff Vernard
- Several villains
- Juggernaut’s adventures in the Gem of Cyttorak
- Gomurr the Ancient (again)
- Spite
- Unreliable narrators
- The evolution of Cyttorak
- Wolverine’s hair
- X-arcs we’d like to see as video games
NEXT EPISODE: To nobody’s surprise, Onslaught.
CORRECTION: Kristoff Vernard is not in fact a clone of Doctor Doom.
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As Mentioned in Episode 347 – Onslaught Begins
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LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- Muscle March sure is a real video game that actually exists.
347 – Onslaught Begins
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In which we stop procrastinating and dive headfirst into Onslaught; Professor Xavier is a jerk; Dark Beast wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Onslaught declaims like it’s the Silver Age; Bishop gets some long-awaited closure; and we pitch alternate candidates for the X-traitor.
X-PLAINED:
- Hyperstorm
- Onslaught (entity)
- Onslaught (event)
- Uncanny X-Men #334
- X-Men #54
- Onslaught: X-Men #1
- How to pronounce “Buccellato”
- The opposite of a pep talk
- Nate Grey vs. Professor X
- The Z’noxx (again)
- One of several times Charles Xavier has faked his own death
- Muscle March
- Franklin Richards
- The Gem of Cyttorak
- A villain speech
- That one recording Bishop found in the future
- The X-traitor
- Li’l Charlie
- Magneto’s hood ornament
- Alternate takes on the X-traitor
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught continues.
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As Mentioned in Episode 306 – Between Here and There
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LINKS & FURTHER ATROCITIES:
- Check out Episode 203 – The X-Man’s Burden for more on the apparent death of the Morlocks!
- WHOA, DANG! Jay wrote an official X-Men comic, which comes out on September 16!
306 – Between Here and There
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In which we continue our ongoing tour of the post-Age of Apocalypse X-Universe; Onslaught gets a name; nobody’s sure what Noah Dubois is doing there; Iceman gets to be the practical one, for once; T&A should not generally appear on the same visual plane; someone needs to talk to Cannonball about kink safety; and Emma Frost lets a call go to voicemail.
X-PLAINED:
- Tarzan fandom
- X-Man, summarized
- Uncanny X-Men #322-324
- Color as a narrative tool
- The evolution of Storm’s shower etiquette
- How not to relax with Lucas Bishop
- Seat-of-the-pants plotting
- Parenting
- Noah Dubois, sort of
- A road trip
- Sexiness vs. sexualization
- Emma Frost as Caprica Six
- How not to walk a supervillain
- Cannonball’s uniform
- Sack
- Vessel
- Greycrow (more) (again)
- The worst morgue and/or disco ever
- Edna and Norton McCoy
- Times Rogue has absorbed Colossus’s powers
- X-Men: Marvels Snapshot
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X
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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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