Tag: X-Force
489 – The Eyepatch of Love
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In which Pete Wisdom does his best Charles Xavier; Alastair Stuart has not aged well; San Francisco has monster problems; and there’s probably an alternate universe where Dr. Niles Roman fronts a metal band for toddlers.
X-PLAINED:
- The value of Pete Wisdom
- X-Force #102-105
- Revolution (more) (again)
- Counter X (more) (again)
- Flight
- Elf stuff
- Alastair Stuart (again)
- The eyepatch of love
- Science City 53
- Meatspore stormtroopers
- Project Cuckoo
- Dr. Niles Roman
- Tactics vs. Strategy
- Monster problems
- The Violence Machine
- The apparent death of Pete Wisdom
- What a good X-Force HQ needs
- The most X-treme possible lineup
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As Mentioned in Episode 482 – The Mutant Gene for Murder
482 – The Mutant Gene for Murder
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In which Pete Wisdom canonically smells weird; we are inordinately entertained by a villain; everyone levels up their superpowers; and you probably shouldn’t shave the logo of your secret super team into the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
- Nasty Boys disambiguation
- X-Force #106-109
- Counter X (more) (again)
- Shockwave (more) (again)
- Turn-of-the-millennium cool
- X-Force (more) (again)
- How to dress for funerals, I guess?
- How Pete Wisdom smells
- Romany Wisdom (again)
- Marcus Tsung
- Mind bullets
- Nightman
- Our first audience challenge in a really long time
- A bad nickname
- X-Force’s new looks
- A thing growing out of Domino’s back
- Several enigmas shrouded in mystery
- The worst birthday party
- Abel, Baker, and Charlie
- Fish
- The Factory
- Telepathic “voices”
- The miracle of magnetism
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As Mentioned in Episode 478 – The Monologue Tube
478 – The Monologue Tube
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In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.
X-PLAINED:
- Side effects of Decimation
- Uncanny X-Men #379-380
- X-Force #101
- X-Men #99
- Cadre K
- Summers family drama
- The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
- The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
- Kevin
- A very beautiful book
- The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
- The Neo (slightly)
- To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
- Sinister monologues
- Herbert Evolutionary
- The New New Men
- The ‘90s, in general
- What makes a Morlock
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As Mentioned in Episode 475 – Cross-Time Crisis
475 – Cross-Time Crisis
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In which we wrap up John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; the Demon Bear returns (kinda); four Moonstars are not in fact better than one; the Queen of Star Swords is an extremely rad villain; and X-Force takes a very contained multiversal tour.
X-PLAINED:
- Multiversal canon
- X-Force #99-100
- The Demon Bear (more) (again)
- Arcadia DeVille (more) (again)
- Mary Weather
- Fenwick
- Meridian
- The Queen of Star Swords
- The Cathedral
- Cable (but not that Cable)
- The X-Forces of several universes
- Earth-3100
- Earth-10003
- Earth-130000
- Earth-8280
- Earth-23100
- Non-mutants on the X-Men
- The provenance of the Brood X-men
NEXT EPISODE: Mondo! (The real one, this time.)
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As Mentioned in Episode 473 – The Baker’s Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)
473 – The Baker’s Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)
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In which you know it’s serious business when a logo gets smashed; the prophecy of the Twelve is an elaborate prank; we have a lot of Summers family feelings; Apocalypse is not a very good planner; and the Twelve reaches its conclusion.
X-PLAINED:
- Who Madelyne Pryor’s psychic ghost really is
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #377
- Cable #76
- X-Men #97
- Perks of immortality
- A slightly gratuitous way to destroy an airplane
- Several doppelgangers
- Apocalypse’s big, stupid plan
- A fancy science machine
- The Atomium
- The Twelve
- The three elements
- The best issue of the Twelve
- Orb action
- Cable’s knowledge of history
- Summers feelings
- How to establish stakes
- Potato storms
- The mutant Skrulls (more) (again)
- Cadre K
- Categories of mutants
- How to beta test an Armageddon machine
- Alpha nerd Charles Xavier
- Weaponized continuity
- The color(s) of Cyclops’s eyes
- How to evoke Uncanny X-Men #137
- An unfortunate twist
- Mundane uses of superpowers
- The Altar
- What would have improved the Twelve
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