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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.
X-PLAINED:
- 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 395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- The Marvel Universe of Superheroes Exhibition (currently at OMSI in Portland, Oregon).
- You can check out Jay’s article Beyond the Mutant Metaphor in the exhibit’s catalogue!
395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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In which Jay has exciting news, Rick Leonardo draws an impressively creepy mad scientist’s lair, the clouds are purple and so is the prose, Powers of X gets a subtle prequel 21 years early, Cable’s own tolerance has finally reached zero, and we summarize Bastion’s backstory way, way faster than Bastion does.
X-PLAINED:
- Machine Man (X-51) (Aaron Stack)
- Operation Zero Tolerance (more) (again)
- Jay’s upcoming parental leave
- Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti)
- M-Tech
- Powerman 5000
- Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998
- Hobgits and their sound effects
- Street Fighter: the Roleplaying Game
- Batroc ze Lepair
- Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
- X-51 / X-23 overlaps
- Classic Summers Family Bullshit
- Psionic soapboxes
- What makes Bastion a compelling villain
- The necessity of companions
- Master Mold 3.0 & Nimrod 2.0
- Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998
- Terrible font choices
- ZORCH
- Cable vs. floors
- The carbon footprint of robotic fascism
- Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (just a little)
- Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (just a tad)
- The Siege Perilous
- The future of Machine Man
- The hypothetical 2022 version of Bastion
- Historical events in which we’d love to see long-lived mutants take part
NEXT WEEK: We take a break for the holidays!
IN TWO WEEKS: The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men 2022 Giant-Size Winter Special!
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As Mentioned in Episode 391 – Mansion of Theseus
391 – Mansion of Theseus
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In which the X-Mansion has unusually large vents; Cable’s hair should not be floppy; Nate Grey meets his maternal grandparents; and we would really like to know more about the Siege of the Vapor Ants.
X-PLAINED:
- Cable #45-47
- X-Man #30
- What various Nathans have been up to
- Operation Zero Tolerance (again)
- The Siege of the Vapor Ants
- Three grenades
- Beefy vents for beefy men
- Danger
- Shi’arese
- Cable vs. Bastion
- So much beer
- Three rad ladies
- Several Greys
- Roust
- Every appearance of Joey and Gaylin Bailey
- Several faked deaths
- Possible impact of the MCU on the X-comics’ status quo
- Character ages
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X
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388 – Deceit and Death
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In which there’s a lot of good television out there; Shang-Chi says the title of the story at every possible opportunity; Wolverine is probably not a Deadhead; Sebastian Shaw thinks he’s a bigger deal than he is; and Operation Zero Tolerance officially begins.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm’s ruby
- X-Men #62-65
- The Story So Far
- Space LEGOs
- Shang-Chi
- Shang-Chi’s dad
- An excellent fight scene
- Word balloon placements
- Agent Reston
- Elixir Vitae
- Several varyingly unexpected resurrections
- Cyber Ninjas
- Product placement for your own product
- Bludgeon, Katana, Fist, and some other guy
- Fujikawa Enterprises
- Richard Fisk
- Rambo heresay
- Prime Sentinels
- Children of Apocalypse
- Carol Danvers substitutions
NEXT WEEK: Hawk talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X floats on
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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
NEXT EPISODE: Pryde & Wisdom
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