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369 – Carly Askani
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In which Storm & Joseph X-Plain the X-Men, Alex Summers is not brainwashed this time, he promises, Scott Lobdell writes better moments than stories, Ed McGuinness draws very large chins, and it’s Denver the Last Dinosaur, not Denver the Lost Dinosaur
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #339
- Spider-Man disambiguation
- A. Kubert disambiguation
- J. Jonah Jameson (again) (hooray!)
- Sneaking songs
- The history of smoking regulation on airlines
- Creed disambiguation
- Havok’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Bonding while falling out of planes
- X-Men #59
- The copyright status of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Well-drawn Wolverines
- Hercules vs The Tick
- Wolverine Annual 1996
- The tragic death of Mariko Yashida
- Silver Samurai (Kuniuchio Harada)
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) and what he’s been up to since Fatal Attractions
- Josef Stalin, apparently?
- Red Ronin and its nemesis, a time-lost dinosaur who we assure you is not Godzilla
- Jedi and/or samurai vs. doors
- Our logo fonts
- James Howlett, guidance counselor
- Onslaught but not evil
- Whether Magneto could wield Mjolnir
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As Mentioned in Episode 357 – The Semiotics of Regret
As Mentioned in Episode 348 – Onslaught Continues
348 – Onslaught Continues
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In which all the heroes fight each other, a lot.
X-PLAINED:
- Teenage Iron Man
- Onslaught thus far
- What Onslaught wants
- Uncanny X-Men #335
- X-Men Unlimited #11
- Avengers #401
- The rebirth of Apocalypse
- The Apocalocophagous
- The Age of Wonders
- X-Man vs. Professor X
- Nate Grey-sitting
- Humanity’s Last Stand
- Simon Trask
- Bastion
- Rogue and Joseph
- Avengers fashion
- Assumptions
- Other characters who could merge Onslaught-style
- Origins of the Angry Claremontean Narrator
NEXT EPISODE: Yes, still Onslaught.
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As Mentioned in Episode 299 – Toaster Ovens of the Gods
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LINKS & FURTHER HYPOTHETICALS
- You can hear all about Be X-Tra Safe With the X-Men in Episode 177 – The Less You Know.
- Read Teen Vogue. Seriously.
- You can see the Havok Care Bear–along with the Cyclops one that Jay made–over here.
- Waiting for the Trade Magneto is the One True Magneto, now and forever.
299 – Toaster Ovens of the Gods
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In which some universes are more pleasant than others; Havok is basically a Care Bear; Wolverine is a P.R. nightmare; Nate Grey tries; stealth is not among the Silver Surfer’s strengths; Night Thrasher ascends to godhood; Jay and Miles dive down the What If rabbit hole.
X-PLAINED:
- Earth-200500 (again)
- Earth-42409
- What If? vol. 2 #77
- What If? Featuring X-Men: Age of Apocalypse
- What If? vol. 2 #81
- Earth-77995
- Fashion editorials
- One of the worse versions of Forge
- Superheroes x fashion
- Care Bears vs. X-Men
- The Hellfire Club of Earth-77995
- A surprisingly normal Grey-Summers family
- Several uses for the Phoenix Force
- Worst-case scenarios
- Earth-93074
- Savage Land home ec
- Bad choices
- The Defenders of Earth-93074
- How to manipulate Nate Grey
- Narrative benefits of omnipotence
- A time loop
- Earth-9601
- A meeting on the moon
- What the Watcher watches
- Galactus
- The Silver Surfer
- Grandpa Magneto
- Some remarkable technology
- A heavy-handed metaphor
- Our takes on What If scenarios
- The Corbeau-Grey scale of decision making
- Storm’s eyes
- Our character voices
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As Mentioned in Episode 296 – Hard Choices
296 – Hard Choices
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In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; Amazing X-Men is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 Quicksilver and Earth-616 Cyclops would probably get along; OSHA would probably like a word with the Madrii; Gambit had ONE JOB; and there are no superheroes in the Age of Apocalypse.
X-PLAINED:
- An unlikely team-up
- Relative amazingness
- Amazing X-Men #1-5
- Color separations
- Comics credits
- The Brotherhood of Mutants and/or Chaos
- The Great Human Airlift
- Exodus (more) (again)
- Best Quicksilver (Earth-295)
- Abyss
- A dubiously aerodynamic cape
- One last job
- Several points of semantic distinction
- Lone Nanny & Cub
- The most punchable man on Earth-295
- A difficult choice
- What it means to be X-Men
- Dick Valentine
- Jamie Madrox (Earth-295)
- A world without superheroes
- Universe numbering
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CORRECTION: The line about fence-straddling that Jay attributed to Wonder Woman was in fact spoken by Hawkgirl.
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