Tag: Uncanny X-Men
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
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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
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As Mentioned in Episode 357 – The Semiotics of Regret
As Mentioned in Episode 351 – His Mighty Hand
351 – His Mighty Hand
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In which we enter Phase 2 of Onslaught; Cable is a man of many purposes; Onslaught gets a makeover; Intentions only matter if you’re Longshot; and Sue Richards will pull over this crossover event right now if you don’t behave.
X-PLAINED:
- Red Onslaught
- Onslaught Phase 1
- Uncanny X-Men #336
- Cable #35
- X-Man #19
- X-Force #58
- A large number of team-ups
- Onslaught, but make it a seder
- Watcher undercarriage
- Onslaught’s second form
- Cable and Apocalypse vs. Onslaught
- Nate Grey vs. Sinister
- A trap
- Several flashbacks and fantasies
- Symbolic roles within X-Force
- What Banshee’s sonic scream sounds like
- Pecs as envisioned by Franklin Richards
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught, of course.
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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 339 – Luck Be a Lady
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LINKS & FURTHER TOMFOOLERY
- Learn more about Preacher in Episode 317 – Acquaintances of Humanity.
- Kate Beaton’s Wolverine is an eternal delight.
- Please note that Dave Cockrum’s art of Nightcrawler and Storm doing that is not remotely work-safe.