Tag: Uncanny X-Men
440 – Fightin’ and Ballin’
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In which the Hunt for Xavier remains vaguely disappointing; Gambit is good with kids; nanomachines are the new unstable molecules; Marrow is a walking armory; and we recommend comics for babies.
X-PLAINED:
- The Hunt for Xavier, Part 2
- Babies and/or ghosts
- Chekhov’s repowering
- X-Men #83-84
- Uncanny X-Men #364
- Cerebro / Cerebro Prime
- Cerebrite Alpha
- Cerebrite Beta
- X-Men serial numbers
- What Gambit’s friends call him
- How Miles stopped worrying and learned to love Gambit
- Evil robot sperm
- Mary Purcell
- Multiple-monitor displays
- A computer with a computer
- AI
- The Florida facility
- Post
- Pile-Driver X
- A glimpse into the butt of all humanity
- Comics for babies
- Name-based powers
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As Mentioned in Episode 438 – The Man of Harsh Business
438 – The Man of Harsh Business
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In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to take over Madripoor
- Uncanny X-Men #361
- X-Men #81
- Wolverine: Black Rio
- The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
- Steve Comicraft
- The fork of loneliness
- Cyttorak (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- Peacocks
- Sarasota Jungle Gardens
- What’s sticking out of Juggernaut’s pants
- Favorite versions of the Danger Room
- Floriography
- Kali (kind of)
- Mary Purcell (a bit)
- Rio Carnival
- An outfit
- Detective Antonio Vargas and his mustache
- Saint Cyrus Leviticus
- Ezra
- Comparing mutant and Inhuman culture
- Demonic homage
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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
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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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