Tag: Phoenix
492 – Brain Sharks
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In which the Shockwave Riders are exceptionally silly; we are deeply impressed by brain sharks; and chrome plating and gun arms are among the lesser explored recurring Claremont motifs.
X-PLAINED:
- The fate of Sara Grey
- Revolution Claremont X-book disambiguation
- Uncanny X-Men #381-383
- The Neo (again)
- An unmarked anniversary
- A secret treasure trove
- Vagaries of telekinesis and telepathy
- The Shockwave Riders
- Brain sharks that eat memories
- The stuff of legend
- The Lost Souls
- Dirges and non-dirges
- One way to start a conversation
- Simyon Kurasov
- Colonel Alexi Vazhin (again)
- The Slash
- How to dress to go clubbing
- Blinkers, somewhat
- Ransom Sole
- Big Casino
- Sketch
- Revenant
- Major Debra Levin
- Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Manacle
- Houndification
- The best 21st century X-characters
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490 – Chekhov’s Angel Dust
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In which Chris Claremont tries to make the Neo happen; Cecilia Reyes continues to have no time for this bullshit; Rogue gets some action; Shadowcat flees the comic; and Tessa returns.
X-PLAINED:
- The Evolutionaries
- X-Men #100-102
- The current X-Men rosters
- Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)
- Claremont vs. continuity
- Dove crimes
- The Neo
- Domina
- Jaeger
- Rax
- Fancy space suits
- What to do with someone else’s bone claws
- Some guy named Seth
- The High Evolutionary’s love nest
- A Phoenix-saga callback
- Rave
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s weird fantasies
- Whether unstable molecules are self-cleaning
- Seventeen deaths of Mister Sinister
- Salvo the Living Gun
- How to keep track of X-Men
- Time travel problems
- X-Men LEGO sets we’d like to see
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As Mentioned in Episode 483 – Piotr Lovely Locks
483 – Piotr Lovely Locks
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In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.
X-PLAINED:
- Some big news
- X-Men: Black Sun #1-5
- Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap
- Implied continuity
- The N’Garai
- Belasco
- Limbo
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
- New costumes
- Priests vs blood magic
- An impressively overcomplicated evil plot
- Chekhov’s skeleton
- Body swaps and/or possession
- Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)
- Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)
- Astral meetups
- Confusing bloodstone math
- A Triple-Tech
- Magik (Amanda Sefton)
- Counting X-generations
- Our favorite X-decades
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As Mentioned in Episode 478 – The Monologue Tube
478 – The Monologue Tube
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In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.
X-PLAINED:
- Side effects of Decimation
- Uncanny X-Men #379-380
- X-Force #101
- X-Men #99
- Cadre K
- Summers family drama
- The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
- The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
- Kevin
- A very beautiful book
- The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
- The Neo (slightly)
- To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
- Sinister monologues
- Herbert Evolutionary
- The New New Men
- The ‘90s, in general
- What makes a Morlock
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As Mentioned in Episode 477 – Ages of Apocalypse
477 – Ages of Apocalypse
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In which reality shatters; Ghost Rider wants friends; Jay’s toddler weighs in on the X-Men; the Phoenix costume is pretty much perfect; Caliban puts all his resources into an epic mount; and the future is so bright you’re gonna need shades.
X-PLAINED:
- The Triune Understanding
- Ages of Apocalypse
- Uncanny X-Men #378
- Cable #77
- Wolverine #148
- X-Men Unlimited #26
- X-Men #98
- Earth-23378
- Things you can leave to people in a will
- The Silver Age, but different
- Apocaclops
- Aliya Dayspring
- Chronological inconsistencies
- Earth-2841
- The Harpy (Betty Ross)
- A very different Fantastic Four
- Earth-32000
- Siphon
- The moon
- Zackat (Wolverine) (long story)
- Erik the Red (more) (again)
- The Ladies Mastermind
- Cadre K
- Earth-32098
- X-World
- The prettiest X-Man
- The moon’s mutant power
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