Tag: Cable
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
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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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As Mentioned in Episode 471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve, Part One)
471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve: Part One)
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In which we begin our coverage of The Twelve; Scott and Jean get sucked back in AGAIN; Apocalypse probably doesn’t tip; and we have become awfully fond of Cable.
X-PLAINED:
- A codename that deviates from common patterns
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #376
- Cable #75
- X-Men #96
- Fiz the Skrull (again)
- The Twelve
- Foreshadowing, both accurate and otherwise
- The Living Monolith (more) (again)
- That one font
- Time-travel logic
- Cable vs. eyes
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- A trap
- Why the Twelve are the Twelve
- The evolution of Cable
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As Mentioned in Episode 470 – Large Adult Men
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- For more about Wolverine, penetration, and pig masculinity, listen to Episode 420 – The Legendary House of Wolverine.
470 – Large Adult Men
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In which Cable may or may not have been a spokesperson for AT&T; it’s impossible to draw a CD dramatically; Wolverine gets his adamantium back; Apocalypse says the thing; and we probably can’t keep putting off The Twelve forever.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to dispose of a corpse
- Cable #73-74
- Wolverine #145
- Cable (more) (again)
- Poor font choice
- Sarcophagus nipples
- Caliban (more) (again)
- Impromptu tailoring
- A cliched vignette
- People talking on couches
- A compact disc
- Unpleasant reunions
- An impressive outfit
- Prior generations of horsemen of Apocalypse
- Wolverine (more) (again)
- How Wolverine ended up a horseman of Apocalypse
- Apocalypse’s aesthetic
- Wolverine vs. Hulk (yet again)
- Which version of Magik was on Krakoa
- An X-Men pitch in the style of Spidey and his Amazing Friends
NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve begins!
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