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175 – Lady Windermere’s Fan Club

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In which Gambit is transatlantically terrible; Rick Leonardi is the poor man’s Alan Davis (but in a good way); we try and fail to care about British royals; Miles should probably read some Oscar Wilde already; Jay has a lot of feelings about The Rocketeer; Shadowcat gets a genuinely stylish costume; and we would read the hell out of a series about Destiny, Mystique, and Wolverine’s WWII adventures.
X-PLAINED:
- Why Gambit isn’t welcome in the United Kingdom
- X-Men: True Friends #1-3
- The poor man’s Alan Davis
- Trad night
- Laird Alasdhair Kinross and his nonthreatening but convenient heterosexuality
- Inexplicably absent familial relationships
- Queen Lilibet the Second
- Lady Regina Windermere
- Several notable British fascists of the 1930s
- A snazzy airplane
- Several nefarious plots
- Formal pajamas
- The mystery of the Hypercolor™ kilt
- A large number of strong feelings about The Rocketeer
- Kitty Pryde’s best costumes
- Weaponized cosmic queerness (again)
- Power, agency, and the Dark Phoenix Saga
- How characters end up with their specific mutations.
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine, again.
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As Mentioned in Episode 151 – Czars of Kung Fu
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151 – Czars of Kung Fu

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In which Laura easily is worth a dozen Old Mans Logan; Charlotte Jones is the EveryCop; Genosha remains a fairly versatile allegory; Hydra are totally Nazis; Jubilee gets the best sound effects; Rogue has a bad day; and it’ll take more than a sun to stop Lila Cheney.
X-PLAINED:
- Graydon Creed
- Logan oversaturation (more) (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #264, 268, 269
- A somewhat convoluted status quo
- Death by Derrida
- New York’s sewers (kind of) (maybe)
- The Misty Knight rule
- Jackets of the ’90s
- Cap’s cape
- Mustache metaphysics
- The Press Gang (again)
- VR.5
- The Doctrine of Hot Pursuit
- Dazzler, in handy grenade form
- A prescient scenario
- Jim Lee signature cocktail dresses
- A dubious approach to first aid
- Wolverine’s sexy friends
- Nazi ducks
- Seraph
- Ivan Petrovitch
- Sexy subversion
- Rogue vs. Carol Danvers
- Mutants vs. the Terrigen Mists
- TaXonomy of ambiguously X-characters
NEXT EPISODE: Days of Future Present!
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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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