Tag: Onslaught
375 – One Thousand Kicks to the Face
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In which there is definitely a wrong way to enjoy your comics; Storm could probably use a more secure storage system; the Externals need more camp; and Joseph makes some valid points.
X-PLAINED
- What Storm’s up to
- X-Men Unlimited #7 (again) (briefly)
- X-Men #60-61
- X-Men Unlimited #14
- Karima
- Jamil
- Candra (again)
- A surprising absence of Howard Mackie
- Candra’s heart
- Some excessively complex psychic powers
- Phylacteries
- The origin of Storm’s romance with T’Challa
- Kicks to the face as a unit of pain
- Undercloaks
- The alternate universe where the McCoys live in Indiana
- The moppet squad (again)
- Dunfee, IN
- Yet another angry mob
- Multiverse-variable powers
- Favorite X-relationships
Correction: The Brandalorian let us know that “Phylacteries (tefillin) are not Chasidic; they’re a ritual object mentioned by the Torah, used by Jews of all sorts.” Apologies for our error, and we appreciate the correction!
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As Mentioned in Episode 363 – Licked by a Shadow
363 – Licked by a Shadow
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In which standing in fields looking confused is a way of life; Psylocke gets a new superpower; when you gotta confess you gotta confess; Iceman’s dad stands up for justice; we mourn a Sentinel; and it’s probably a good thing that most companies don’t do mind melds as a team-building exercise.
X-PLAINED:
- Levels of mutant power
- Omicron-level mutations
- Miles’s brief baseball career
- Uncanny X-Men #338
- X-Men #58
- X-Men Annual 1996
- Archangel’s wings
- Joseph vs. Holographic Magneto
- Shadow teleportation
- The errand theory of confession
- Graydon Creed (more) (again)
- “Drake Roberts” and “Samson Guthry”
- Several ways to memorialize the Mutant Massacre
- Onslaught, but an anteater
- A fight
- Several JJJ cameos
- X-baseball games
- A highly atypical Sentinel
- Several oblique warnings
- X-Men ‘97
- Media inspired by the X-Men
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As Mentioned in Episode 359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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LINKS & FURTHER BACKSTORY
- We covered the preceding events in Excalibur in Episode 337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic!
359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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In which Excalibur has a lot going on; Margali Szardos is never up to any good; Nightcrawler grows into leadership; we delve into the politics of superheroism; Pete Wisdom earns his keep; Miles catches a Prisoner reference; and we reach the end of Warren Ellis’ Excalibur.
X-PLAINED:
- John the Skrull
- Excalibur #100-103
- The current state of Excalibur
- Black Air (again)
- The Hellfire Club (London Branch)
- Australia
- Margali Szardos (more)
- Demonic ethernet
- Captain Britain’s new-old suit
- Emma Steed
- Dune
- Several fights
- Combat IT
- Boolean definitions of madness
- The Department
- Laserdisks
- Patriotism
- Many doppelgangers
- Nightcreeper
- Another reference to Dante’s Inferno
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As Mentioned in Episode 357 – The Semiotics of Regret
As Mentioned in Episode 356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which it’s hard to be Joseph; we do our best to explain the inexplicable; Miles is full of feelings; Hulk smashes; and Onslaught finally (mostly) ends.
X-PLAINED:
- Heroes Reborn Return
- Wild times with the Dreaming Celestial
- Onslaught so far
- X-Men #56
- Onslaught: Marvel Universe
- Jay’s definitive Bond
- Joseph (more)
- The physical evolution of Onslaught
- Sense of scale
- Hawkeye (TV series)
- Onslaught’s goals, to what extent they exist
- The three genders
- A really big fight
- A miracle of magnetism
- The (nominal) end of the Age of Heroes
- Beast’s scientific career
- Chamber’s voice
NEXT EPISODE: Several epilogues
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