Tag: Rachel Summers
405 – Morally Purple
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In which Jay returns; babies are bad at pretty much everything; continuity flies straight out the window; Cable should speak English with a Scottish accent; Harry Leland knows how to dress; Tanya Trask makes the same time travel mistake everyone makes; and we love Al Kennedy forever.
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- Sentry (but not that one)
- Babies
- Flashback
- Cable #-1
- Excalibur #-1
- Generation X #-1
- Uncanny X-Men #-1
- The preturn of Angus McWhirter, angry hovercraft-rental guy
- Hippie Cable
- Veins of science
- Yet another time travel loop
- What may or may not be how Nightcrawler quit the circus
- Sabu
- “Science”
- A large volume of dubious continuity
- Larry Trask (more) (again)
- Jay’s cosplay aspirations
- Sanctity (Tanya Trask)
- The Twelve (somewhat)
- A possible splinter timeline
- The X-Men of 1602
- Rube Goldberg
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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.
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- 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 256 – Mullets of Time and Space
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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING:
- You can hear all about D’Spayre’s first clash with the X-Men (or at least one of them) in Episode 14 – Look Upon My Man-Thing and D’Spayre!
- We talked about the time Margali Szardos build Nightcrawler his own private hell in Episode 134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival.
256 – Mullets of Time and Space
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In which you raised a lot of money for Trans Lifeline; we continue to miss Alan Davis; Rory Campbell should not be narrating a climactic event; Daytripper needs to dial up her eldritch patter; the universe is dubiously self-correcting; Britannic is not nearly weird enough; and we have ongoing concerns about the anatomy of incarnate concepts.
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- The X-Men of Earth-77995
- Excalibur #75-77
- Daytripper
- A somewhat pointless sacrifice
- Rough times in the timestream
- Britannic
- X-theology
- D’Spayre’s butt
- The rest of D’Spayre
- Margali Szardos
- The blood-brain barrier
- Acrobatic flirtation
- The Winding Way
- Stark emptiness
- A shocking possible resurrection
- Major X
- Essential characters
NEXT EPISODE: The Adventures of Rachel Summers in the 37th Century!
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As Mentioned in Episode 254 – Carry Each Other
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254 – Carry Each Other
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In which Nicole Miller is fashion designer to Earth-1218 and Earth-616, Jay rejects the word “bestest”, we kind of want to just read every word of X-Men #30 aloud, One is a perfect wedding song for Scott and Jean, and you save the last dance for who brought you.
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- The perils of animated weddings
- X-Men: The Wedding Album
- Nonstandard trim sizes
- Misattributed Oscar Wilde quotes
- Shatterstar’s favorite Olympic event
- Jean Grey’s short-lived modeling career
- Computo, Commander of the Robot Hive
- A most excellent wedding dress
- Cursive fonts in comics
- Jean Grey and Jubilation Lee, ambiguously excellent chosen family
- X-Men #30
- An event decades in the making
- Wolverine, Master of Penmanship
- Charles Xavier, reader stand-in
- The largely forgotten Madelyne Pryor
- The understandably tentative Rachel Summers
- The bow-tie scene
- A phenomenal two-page spread
- A set of perfect vows
- A bittersweet song for a bittersweet couple
- Victor Creed, vengeful kitty-cat
- Rogue and Gambit, best worst wedding guests
- Video albums vs. Instagram
- Beast and Banshee, jazz combo
- Scott and Jean as a couple vs. individuals
- The necessity of Scott and Jean’s relationship context
NEXT EPISODE: Goodbye, Phoenix. Hello, Britanic.
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As Mentioned in Episode 248 – Destructo Woman
248 – Destructo Woman
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In which Tom Cassidy and Cain Marko may be the most stable couple in the Marvel Universe; Rory Campbell is no Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau; Siena Blaze remains a big jerk; the Cassidy family has some issues; and we are dismayed by an inexplicable dearth of leprechauns.
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- Birthday presents
- What Excalibur has been up to
- Excalibur #72-74
- X-Force #31
- How to be mysterious
- The Proteus Room
- The continually terrible choices of Moira MacTaggert
- Porridge ghosts
- An unnatural disaster
- Chekhov’s solid rock
- Rory Campbell
- Destructo Woman
- Limitations of CD-ROMs
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
- The Cassidy family
- How not to treat a gunshot wound
- Kelvin Donaghann and his fancy hair
- An intervention
- The future of the New Mutants feature film
- Underwear
NEXT EPISODE: Family Reunion!
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