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398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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- Motormouth (Harley Davis)
- Motormouth and Killpower
- Uncanny X-Men #347-349
- Grovel and Spat
- A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy
- An extraordinarily half-assed action figure
- Load-bearing backstory
- Landscape
- The other Nanny
- Elegant foreshadowing
- Beast’s appearance as a mutant power
- Gambit’s chest hair
- The end of playtime
- CCA-compliant foliage
- Deathbird and Bishop
- A vanity plate
- Eany and Meany
- One-off psychometry
- Psylocke vs. Maggott
- Decompression
- Havok’s enduring lack of a Ph.D.
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As Mentioned in Episode 386 – No Puppy for Storm
386 – No Puppies for Storm
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In which treading water isn’t always a bad thing; Storm remains an irresponsible leader; nobody should ever trust Dark Beast; we are befuddled by a large metal man; Maggott makes his debut; and we ship the heck out of Deathbird and Bishop.
X-PLAINED:
- The time Captain America dated a supervillain
- Treading water
- Gene Nation (again)
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1997
- Uncanny X-Men #345
- Razors
- Humanity’s Last Stand
- Surprise
- Boost and Tether
- D’gard
- A Star Trek allusion
- The Morlock retcon
- Maggott (Japheth)
- A large metal individual
- Foreshadowing
- A large, inconvenient spaceship
- Magneto’s relationship to Judaism
- Recovery from the Legacy Virus
NEXT EPISODE: Field Trip to Mount Wundagore!
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As Mentioned in Episode 379 – Stardate: Today
379 – Stardate: Today
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In which what happens in space stays in space; a horse is imperiled; Joseph does some dubious science; Gladiator’s name is absolutely not Gary; everybody gets new costumes; and we learn where babies come from.
X-PLAINED:
- Shi’ar taxonomy, sort of
- The Shi’ar (again)
- The Phalanx (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #341-344
- A whole bunch of callbacks to X-Men #98
- A carriage ride
- The Z’noxx chamber (again)
- One way to have safer sex
- FAO Schwarz
- The Shi’ar Imerial Guard (again)
- Diplomacy, kind of
- Space outfits
- Trademarks
- Pure Phalanx
- Dinosaur Kingdom 2
- Where Shi’ar babies come from
- Flirting
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vs. Isca the Unbeaten
- Characters we would happily voice if invited to do so
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X vs. Black Tom Cassidy!
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As Mentioned in Episode 301 – Can’t Beat the Real Thing
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301 – Can’t Beat the Real Thing
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In which we enter our fourth century of podcasting with brand new theme music; we have both Wolverine questions and wolverine questions; it is extremely rough to be Bishop; the creator of Garfield may or may not live in a sewer on Earth-616; Rogue needs better coping mechanisms; bigotry is depressingly timeless; and everything is Onslaught now.
X-PLAINED:
- Joseph’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Our new theme music
- X-Men Prime #1
- A genuinely cool cover gimmick
- What happened after the end of the world
- Boundaries
- War crimes vs. fashion crimes
- Destruction of real landmarks in fiction
- A mysterious assailant
- Actual embodied chaos god Jim Davis and his Earth-616 namesake
- Several memorable Garfield stories
- Marrow (Sarah Rushman)
- The secret origin of the Morlocks
- A friendship we miss
- Unhealthy coping mechanisms
- The perennially dubious journalistic ethics of Trish Tilby
- Dennis
- The death of Dennis
- Flaws of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
- Several refugees from Earth-295
- Mr. Summers and Mr. Summers
- The secret origin of the Genoshan mutates
- The Acolytes
- The continuing relevance of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
- Cross-universe characterization
NEXT EPISODE: The fall of Avalon!
NOTE: The Garfield strips Jay mentions appeared in newspapers, on purpose, in October 1989.
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As Mentioned in Episode 171 – Badly Punctuated Equilibrium
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171 – Badly Punctuated Equilibrium
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In which 1991 runs right into 2010, X-Factor: Endgame (and everything after it) never happened, Jay covets the hell out of Cyclops’s X-Factor: Forever jacket, Apocalypse’s alternative universe motives are actually pretty fascinating, and Miles will never call his junk Traitorous Unit.
X-PLAINED:
- The Strucker siblings (and the Strucker siblings)
- X-Factor Forever #1-5
- Earth-TRN237
- What makes a good Forever comic
- The best jacket in the X-universe (and some other redesigns)
- MaXimum pants
- Ship the ship
- The Celestial Host
- Dan Panosian’s Smug Apocalypse
- The Master Meld variations
- Force versus heat (and art versus word balloons)
- En Sabah Nur, thoughtful employer
- Gammenon the Gatherer and honey-related implements
- Combat (and podcasting) maneuver names
- The Apocalypse Journal
- Eternals versus Deviants versus Inferior, Shitty Humans
- Slow, crappy science and adorable mutant rats
- Mutant fertility
- Arishem the Judge and his magic space-thumb
- Definitive versions of characters and their relationships
- En Sabah Nur and Your Changing Body
- That time X-Factor threw a baby at a robot to save the world
- DC Comics’s Hellfire Club
- Trans X-Men
- But no seriously that jacket
NEXT EPISODE: The Muir Island Saga, part 1
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