Tag: Hellfire Club
481 – Chekhov’s Butt-Gun
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X-PLAINED:
- Several potential origins of Havok’s stupid hat
- Generation X #67-70
- Revolution (more) (again)
- Shockwave (more) (again)
- Adrienne Frost (more) (again)
- The New Xavier School and/or Massachusetts Academy (more) (again)
- Possible necrophilia
- Dorm life
- How not to draw clothing
- Rules of entry to Jubilee’s dorm room
- The Rich Person Store
- How to say the word “consigliere”
- The ‘90s
- Blackmail
- Limits of telepathy
- Arson
- Ninja Boogie
- Panic
- How to keep Synch safe
- Adultification
- Failure to keep Synch safe
- Where to pick up to follow along with us
- Plot threads we’d like to see picked back up
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408 – Yabba Yabba Yabba
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In which Bishop gets another miniseries; splinter timelines make fun narrative sandboxes; the X.S.E. goes detecting; the Statue of Liberty never fares well in dystopian futures; “Booger” is not a name you give yourself; and we can’t believe it’s taken us this long to make a hanky code joke about Bishop.
X-PLAINED:
- Graymalkin
- Bishop: X.S.E. #1-3
- Bishop (more) (again)
- Earth-1191
- The X.S.E.
- Hecate
- Malcolm
- Randall
- The popularity of Earth-1191 miniseries
- The solid-light hologram of Theseus
- The Fanatix
- Pulsar
- Dogface
- Hardball
- Razorback
- Kali (but not that one)
- Shadowbox
- “Quotations”
- Seldon Trask
- A mystery
- The Rook
- Annabella Knox
- Anthony Shaw
- The Bay Borough
- The best episode of Justice League Unlimited
- Organic LMDs
- A disguise
- An uncanny child
- Dazzler’s career
- X-Adjectives
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As Mentioned in Episode 405 – Morally Purple
405 – Morally Purple
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In which Jay returns; babies are bad at pretty much everything; continuity flies straight out the window; Cable should speak English with a Scottish accent; Harry Leland knows how to dress; Tanya Trask makes the same time travel mistake everyone makes; and we love Al Kennedy forever.
X-PLAINED:
- Sentry (but not that one)
- Babies
- Flashback
- Cable #-1
- Excalibur #-1
- Generation X #-1
- Uncanny X-Men #-1
- The preturn of Angus McWhirter, angry hovercraft-rental guy
- Hippie Cable
- Veins of science
- Yet another time travel loop
- What may or may not be how Nightcrawler quit the circus
- Sabu
- “Science”
- A large volume of dubious continuity
- Larry Trask (more) (again)
- Jay’s cosplay aspirations
- Sanctity (Tanya Trask)
- The Twelve (somewhat)
- A possible splinter timeline
- The X-Men of 1602
- Rube Goldberg
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As Mentioned in Episode 366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.
X-PLAINED:
- An off-panel death
- X-Force #62
- Beast #1-3
- Karma’s family and backstory (again)
- Twin absorption
- MacGuffins and/or children
- Clearcut and Mindmeld
- Unconsciousness
- Spiral (again)
- Marios
- What to do (visually) with six arms
- Spiral’s mutates
- Some very impressive body horror
- MId-fight stalling
- Misplaced revenge
- Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring
- The history of Karma’s sexual orientation
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As Mentioned in Episode 359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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LINKS & FURTHER BACKSTORY
- We covered the preceding events in Excalibur in Episode 337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic!
359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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In which Excalibur has a lot going on; Margali Szardos is never up to any good; Nightcrawler grows into leadership; we delve into the politics of superheroism; Pete Wisdom earns his keep; Miles catches a Prisoner reference; and we reach the end of Warren Ellis’ Excalibur.
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- John the Skrull
- Excalibur #100-103
- The current state of Excalibur
- Black Air (again)
- The Hellfire Club (London Branch)
- Australia
- Margali Szardos (more)
- Demonic ethernet
- Captain Britain’s new-old suit
- Emma Steed
- Dune
- Several fights
- Combat IT
- Boolean definitions of madness
- The Department
- Laserdisks
- Patriotism
- Many doppelgangers
- Nightcreeper
- Another reference to Dante’s Inferno
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