Tag: Caliban
321 – Revolving Doors
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In which Sabretooth does not get effectively rehabilitated; nobody has the moral high ground; Val Cooper is the worst possible person to call in any emergency; Bishop needs a better support system; Jay knows several things about onions; and not everything has to be a mammal.
X-PLAINED:
- Sabretooth (more) (again)
- X-Force #48
- Uncanny X-Men #328
- Sabretooth Special #1
- Bunny slippers
- An intervention
- Stages of grief
- What not to do with Sabretooth
- An evil squirrel
- Onions
- The three genders
- Mutant Massacre callbacks
- Caption disambiguation problems
- The overabundance of boobs on fictional non-mammalian species
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As Mentioned in Episode 304 – Explosive Ops
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LINKS & FURTHER NONSENSE:
- Rutland, Vermont had multiple Marvel and DC stories set in it during the 1970s – but it’s also a real place. Apologies for telling everyone it was imaginary, and thank you to all the listeners who kindly pointed out that it wasn’t!
304 – Explosive Ops
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In which Jay discovers a continuity loop; phonetic spelling reaches a new level of implausibility; it’s always already Onslaught; X-Force’s roster gets shaken up; Siryn goes undercover; and the Upstarts remain vaguely plot-relevant despite our fervent wishes.
X-PLAINED:
- Mimic (Calvin Rankin)
- Wing problems
- X-Force #45-47
- One of Adam Pollina’s more remarkable non-Marvel art credits
- One of many homages to the cover of X-Men #138
- X-Force, its members, and its recent history
- Phonetic spelling
- Warpath’s hair
- Baffling managerial decisions
- Whether Reed Richards is machine washable
- Many pouches
- An unlikely friendship
- Sabretooth’s state of mind
- Rutland, VT
- The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane
- Dr. Rachel Weisman
- Jeremy Stevens
- Part of why we like following X-books over time
- Character redesigns
CORRECTION: In addition to being the setting of a number of 1970s Marvel and DC stories, Rutland, VT is actually a real place with a famous annual (and largely superhero-themed) Halloween parade!
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As Mentioned in Episode 297 – Blood Is Compulsory
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297 – Blood Is Compulsory
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In which Nate Grey is a drama kid; Forge-295 is the hero we need; Mister Sinister is a graduate of the Danielle “Moonstar” Moonstar school of secret identities; and we really, really, really wish that the theater troupe had gotten the ongoing series.
X-PLAINED:
- Just how powerful Nate Grey is
- X-Man’s somewhat baffling ongoing appeal
- X-Man #1-4
- A theater company
- The Best Forge (Earth-295)
- Toad (Earth-295)
- Sauron (Earth-295)
- Brute (Earth-295)
- An extended Tom Stoppard allusion
- “Essex”
- Domino (Earth-295)
- Theater in and as resistance
- An ineffectual ruse
- A lot of death
- Caliban (Earth-295)
- A family reunion
- The story we really wanted out of this series
- The X-Man ongoing series
- Chronically missing New Mutants
- X-arcs we’d like to see animated
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As Mentioned in Episode 267 – The Saddest Joyride
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LINKS & FURTHER ACTION POINTS
- Here’s where to send your strongly worded letter about why Marvel should give us Earth-441:
- Marvel Entertainment, LLC
135 W. 50th Street
New York, NY 10020 - You can also tweet at them with the hashtag #EarthXPlain!
- Or e-mail the X-office directly at [email protected]!
- Marvel Entertainment, LLC
- For more in-depth discussion of Emma Frost, check out Episode 219 – Brutal Hearts: An Appreciation of Emma Frost (feat. Seanan McGuire, Leah Williams, Tea Fougner, Kel McDonald, and Diana Fox)!
- Yes, SoftPaws are a real thing.
267 – The Saddest Joyride
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In which Emma Frost is a better Iceman than Bobby Drake; Generation X is aggressively foreshadowed; Malcolm and Randall are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Bishop’s Hamlet; and we launch a campaign for our own Multiversal designation.
X-PLAINED:
- The first time the X-Men met Emma Frost
- Uncanny X-Men 314-315
- X-Men Annual #18
- A game show nobody should ever under any circumstances actually make
- Emma Frost’s recruitment tactics
- Previously unexplored ice powers
- The direct prelude to Generation X
- Caliban (more) (again)
- SoftPaws(TM)
- The giant squids of New York
- The neophyte
- A trial, kind of
- X-Men power fantasies
- Earth-X-Plain
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Game show music by MusicManiac301; used with permission.
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As Mentioned in Episode 211 – A Cornucopia of Mayhem
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LINKS & FURTHER EXPERIMENTS:
- Listen to Part 1 of our X-Cutioner’s Song coverage here.
- Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love is a really cool book made by some people we like very much.
211 – A Cornucopia of Mayhem: X-Cutioner’s Song (Part 2 of 3)
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In which Jubilee is underwhelmed by X-Force; Havok and Gambit make weirdly good buddy cops; Department K is a hot vacation destination; Cable is secretly a Coen Brothers protagonist; you can cancel Community but you can never take away Jay’s gratuitous Community references; Rusty goes full cultist; nobody is Stryfe’s real dad; smoking on a space station is a REALLY bad idea; Apocalypse is here to help; and Miles lies at length about music.
X-PLAINED:
- Kuurth
- Various Juggernauts
- The Story So Far
- More trading-card taxonomy
- Uncanny X-Men #295
- X-Factor #85
- X-Men #15
- X-Force #17
- Varyingly hilarious misunderstandings
- Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love
- What happened
- Good Cop / Sleazy Cop
- A deal
- A tragic absence of Draculas
- The Coen Brothers’ X-Cutioner’s Song
- Thanksgiving with Cable
- Miles’s summer camp hijinks
- Murderbots in space (again)
- A dubious strategy
- MLF Redshirts
- The second time someone force-fed superheroes baby food in space
- A dropped plot thread
- Things you shouldn’t do on space stations
- Additional awkward reunions
- Whether Stryfe is a Summers
- The X-Cutioner’s signature karaoke song
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