Tag: Lila Cheney
385 – Super Whiny Adults Simulator 64
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In which we make an omission; X-Factor’s concept of “underground” is somewhat unconventional; Trevor Chase turns uncanny moppet; and Strong Guy and Lila Cheney have some very silly space adventures.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Factor #134-135
- Strong Guy Reborn #1
- The “deaths” of X-Factor (again)
- Lady Cop
- A contextually inappropriate pun
- The Adversary (more) (again)
- Why you use an air-gapped system
- How not to fake your own death
- Trevor Chase and his mysterious mutant powers
- Rusty Trail
- X-Factor X-Ploits
- A lot of wasted potential
- The Jorken-Kront war
- Space stuff
- Lila Cheney (more) (again)
- Kreetor
- Spiff’s Saucers
- Calvin & Hobbes licensing in the Marvel Universe
- The Chalker Brothers (briefly) (again)
- The most useful and fun mutant powers
- Musicals with Mister Sinister
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NEXT EPISODE: Maggott!
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As Mentioned in Episode 295 – The Nuclear Naked
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LINKS & FURTHER INVENTIONS:
- Read the comments. No, seriously–they’re really interesting and hella civil.
- Star Trek: Voyager was quite a show.
295 – The Nuclear Naked
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In which this episode may or may not be a temporal aberration; Gambit is bad at marketing; Jubilee’s sixth birthday was probably worse than yours; Earth-295’s chronology doesn’t make that much more sense than 616’s; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau wears this timeline well; Rictor makes a terrible Javert; Jubilee has no time for your makeouts; superheroes are basically preschoolers; there is only one Jahf; babies are bad at stealing; and Apocalypse is not a tactician.
X-PLAINED:
- How Magneto got his own country
- A numerical convergence
- Earth-295
- Gambit and the X-Ternals #1-4
- X-Ternals
- The human resistance
- The Temple of Human Redress
- A terrible way to celebrate your birthday
- Lila Cheney of Earth-295
- The Nuclear Naked
- Super Doctor Astronaut (mermaid) Peter Corbeau of Earth-295
- Julio Richter (Earth-295)
- Mudir
- Homage
- Cross-timeline vocabulary
- Cosmic peril
- The state of the Shi’ar Empire in Earth-295
- The Starjammers of Earth-295
- Varyingly versatile energy absorption
- Jahf
- An exchange
- Some fancy sewers
- Guido Carosella’s devil’s bargains
- Earth-295… IN SPACE
- The nominal justification for Apocalypse’s society
- Which Apocalypse is currently running around Earth-616
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk!
NEXT EPISODE: “Amazing” might be pushing it.
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As Mentioned in Episode 283 – Legion Quest Quest
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LINKS & FURTHER SPIN-OFFS
- WHOA DANG JAY IS WRITING A CYCLOPS ONE-SHOT! It is called X-Men Marvels Snapshot #1, or possibly Marvel Snapshots: X-Men #1; but either way, you can read more about it here and find preorder information here.
- Speaking of things Jay writes, if you didn’t get enough Lila Cheney in this week’s episode, she’s stealing hearts and valuables all over Episode 8 of Thor: Metal Gods!
- We talked a lot about Legion and the ways his powers intersect with mental illness in Episode 44 – Assembling Legion, feat. Si Spurrier.
- Here is some context for Jay’s joke about Autism Speaks. (If you’re looking for an organization to support that actually helps and amplifies the voices of Autistic folks, we like the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.)
283 – Legion Quest Quest
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In which Jay is writing a Cyclops one-shot; It is honestly truly almost Legion Quest; Mystique plays the long game; sometimes filler is a good thing; Havok is a geophysicist, not a geographer; Lila definitely stole it; and more stories should be set in space junkyards.
X-PLAINED:
- How Betsy Braddock got her original body back
- Marvel Snapshots: X-Men
- The lead-up to Legion Quest
- X-Factor #108-111
- Mystique’s skill set
- Legion (David Haller) (more) (again)
- Freedom Force
- The most powerful of devices
- A dream about a dream
- An intersection of unreliable narrators
- The narrative justification for Legion Quest
- A rock monster
- Jornick
- Lila Cheney (more) (again)
- A Kurt Vonnegut reference
- The K’Lanti
- A space junkyard
- The end of X-Factor’s second iconic era
- Our favorite male/female X-friendships
- Pros and cons of line cohesiveness
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As Mentioned in Episode 221 – Better Than LEGO
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LINKS & FURTHER MONSTROSITIES:
- Yes, Virginia, Dismal Nitch is a real place.
- Miles, this one’s for you.
- Secrets Behind the X-Men
- VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
221 – Better Than LEGO
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In which Miles stops worrying and learns to love X-Force; you should absolutely not google the phrase “face jam”; the kids take a field trip to Graymalkin; Jay reverse-engineers Shatterstar’s hair; Donald Pierce gets a new job; Sam Guthrie is the most trustworthy man in the Marvel Universe; Cable is your guns grandma; Professor earns its name; X-Force really only has one setting; and not every Sluggo is lit.
X-PLAINED:
- A bunch of stuff Quicksilver did
- Several cats
- X-Force #20-23
- The Externals (more) (again)
- A deeply unlikely hairstyle
- Graymalkin / Ship / Professor
- A somewhat one-sided reunion
- Yahoos
- Inaccurate arithmetic
- Why Feral sounds like that
- Neither Tom, Dick, nor Harry
- War Machine (James Rhodes)
- Salvage
- Sam Guthrie’s long trail of dead father figures
- Shatterstar
- How to fight an External
- The seventh plague
- What Domino’s been up to
- Hammer’s mom
- Tigerstryke (more) (again)
- Sluggo (but not that Sluggo)
- Learning to appreciate the ’90s
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As Mentioned in Episode 212 – Drumbeats of Despair
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LINKS & FURTHER MISHAPS:
- I know this Waiting for the Trade strip is years old, but the joke really never stops being funny.
- For all your old-school hacking needs.
- According to Wikipedia, the not-Stüssy S is in fact called the “Cool S,” which is a fairly bold claim.
- Ferruginous hawks are ridiculous, but they’re still not as ridiculous as Warren Kenneth Worthington III.
212 – Drumbeats of Despair: X-Cutioner’s Song (Part 3 or 3)
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In which nobody but Stryfe’s diary understands him; Apocalypse is the best at what he does (and what he does is remarkably versatile); Scott and Jean weaponize their clichés; Jae Lee does his best Patrick Nagel; Apocalypse is poisonous; Cable goes full T-800; nothing good ever happens to Cyclops on the moon; Stryfe dies as passive-aggressively as he lived; and X-Cutioner’s Song finally concludes.
X-PLAINED:
- How Cable dies
- The Story So Far
- Still more trading-card taxonomy
- Uncanny X-Men #296
- X-Factor #86
- X-Men #16
- X-Force #18
- An AU we’d like to read
- The not-Stüssy S
- How to effectively reference X-Men #137
- A decoy baby
- An abortive escape
- Moon gravity
- Revelatory vandalism
- A trip to the moon
- A probably excessive number of hawk facts
- Various daring rescues
- How to kill time in space
- Cathexes
- A very fancy moon base
- The cavalry, kind of
- Stryfe vs. Cable
- An X-Cellent epilogue
- Several Silent Hill 2 references
- Stryfe’s Legacy
- Pawnee, Indiana vs. Marvel
- Sexy high-security prisons of the future
NEXT EPISODE: Live from FlameCon, featuring Sina Grace, Magdalene Visaggio, and Leah Williams!
Special thanks to Matt for the subject of this episode’s cold open; and to the Protomen for use of their cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
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