Tag: Mister Sinister
411 – Tearaway Pants
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In which we actually kind of like a Sabretooth story; we’re not asking for viscera, here; all pants on Earth-616 are tearaway pants; we’d like to see more Wolverine stories about bodily autonomy; Gambit’s hallucinations have hallucinations; and there are probably too many X-books.
X-PLAINED:
- Punch-clock villains
- Hydro-Man’s secret weakness
- 411
- ‘90s fashion
- X-Men Unlimited #17-18
- X-Men Unlimited vs. annuals
- A difficult casting decision
- Forge’s neutralizer gun
- Costume injuries
- Color symbolism? Kinda? I guess?
- Mrs. Hoo
- Saberine & Wolvertooth
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III vs. shirts
- How to dress for Earth-616
- Hot buttered whatever
- Boob foliage
- Clones
- Very tenacious blood stains
- The return of the Angry Claremontean Narrator
- Lots of hallucinations
- Oscar the Fixer
- Hydro-Man
- Redemption, symbolic and otherwise
- The evolution of Magneto’s name
- Our ideal X-line
NEXT EPISODE: Back to the core!
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As Mentioned in Episode 409 – Lurid Malarkey
409 – Lurid Malarkey
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In which nobody is sure what Emplate actually eats; airport food is not a good peace offering; Larry Hama writes a good Jubilee; the St. Croix siblings merge; and we honestly have no idea what a Token is.
X-PLAINED:
- Emplate vs. Marrow
- What’s been up with Generation X
- Generation X #34-36
- Claudette and Nicole St. Croix
- Emplate (more) (again)
- Controlled chaos
- Tracy Authier
- Bullying
- Dorian and Weasel (again)
- Treasures
- EAT
- Some unusually friendly blackmail
- Wizard Magazine
- Husk’s diary and hypothetical fanfiction
- Chimera
- A Lepton imploder
- Dirt-Nap
- M-Plate
- A dream, we think, probably
- Jubilee in Wonderland
- A Token
- Chief Authier
- Elwood
- Landau, Luckman, & Lake (again)
- The Citadel at the Edge of Reality
- The Universal Amalgamator
- Magik on screen
- Our favorite villains and alignment shifts from the Krakoa era
NEXT EPISODE: The M-Plate Saga concludes
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As Mentioned in Episode 351 – His Mighty Hand
351 – His Mighty Hand
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In which we enter Phase 2 of Onslaught; Cable is a man of many purposes; Onslaught gets a makeover; Intentions only matter if you’re Longshot; and Sue Richards will pull over this crossover event right now if you don’t behave.
X-PLAINED:
- Red Onslaught
- Onslaught Phase 1
- Uncanny X-Men #336
- Cable #35
- X-Man #19
- X-Force #58
- A large number of team-ups
- Onslaught, but make it a seder
- Watcher undercarriage
- Onslaught’s second form
- Cable and Apocalypse vs. Onslaught
- Nate Grey vs. Sinister
- A trap
- Several flashbacks and fantasies
- Symbolic roles within X-Force
- What Banshee’s sonic scream sounds like
- Pecs as envisioned by Franklin Richards
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught, of course.
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As Mentioned in Episode 349 – Onslaught Secret Weapon Force Power Slammers
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349 – Onslaught Secret Weapon Force Power Slammers
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In which Onslaught nomenclature has some consistency issues; electricity is the new magnetism; Nate Grey mopes; Sinister doesn’t care about your guns; the Xavier mansion blows up (again); and we track down an elusive Sentinel.
X-PLAINED
- Doctor Doom’s absolutely irrelevant Onslaught encounter
- Cable #34
- Incredible Hulk #444
- X-Man #18
- X-Force #57
- Onslaught Phases vs. Impacts
- Ozymandias (more) (again)
- Post (more) (again)
- Cable’s ridiculous motorcycle
- Several Hulks
- Behemoth
- Cable/Storm
- The Betty Conspiracy
- Rocks that yell
- Alpacalypse
- Multiversal disambiguation
- Some unlikely sound effects
- An anti-Sinister failsafe
- A self-destruct system
- Warpath and Risque
- A hug
- A very specific Sentinel
- Coming out in adulthood
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Somehow We Have Made 350 of These (and also more Onslaught)
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As Mentioned in Episode 333 – Fight Train
333 – Fight Train
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In which Miles discovers owl legs; Iceman dwells in subtext; Dark Beast overperforms; Daredevil is a delightful trash fire of a person; Graydon Creed’s presidential run is somewhat less shocking in 2021; Rogue does not enjoy playing ‘Got your nose’; and Mister Sinister is not a friend to public transportation.
X-PLAINED:
- Post-Decimation resurrections
- Owl legs
- Uncanny X-Men #331
- X-Men #51-52
- Iceman’s complicated personal life
- Casual crossovers
- The facial hair of Warren Kenneth Worthington III
- The terrible decisions of Matt Murdock
- How to subtly test your in-laws for mutant powers
- What Mister Sinister sounds like
- A bad plan
- The debut of Bastion
- DNA
- Foreshadowing
NEXT EPISODE: Emplate Sucks
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