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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 472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)
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LINKS & FURTHER FELINES:
- A metaphor that is also a very real space cat
- Jay is delighted to have been wrong! The Philharmonic Gets Dressed is totally still in print!
- Dave has been one of Jay’s comfort movies for longer than he entirely cares to admit.
472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)
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In which the Twelve should really be twelve chapters long; Archangel has issues; we continue to bemoan the absence of captions; the X-Men ditch their crossover event for a side quest; Magneto is Genosha’s official chaperone; and we would absolutely elect Emma Frost to a school board.
X-PLAINED:
- What Cable does next
- The event so far
- Wolverine #146-147
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999
- Whether the Shadow King is moist
- Why tiny cavemen can’t have nice things
- Numerous flashbacks and allusions
- Archangel’s third-stage evolution
- The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
- Abraham Kieros (again)
- Apocalypse as a self-help guru
- Fully nude Wolverine
- X-51 #8 (briefly)
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- A miracle of magnetism
- Scomp linking
- A big fancy machine
- Exodus (more) (again)
- Mutants we’d like to see in public office
- The (theoretical) Essex administration
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As Mentioned in Episode 469 – Killed by Death
469 – Killed by Death
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In which the Shattering officially concludes; you can’t swoop over the phone; toddlers are engines of pure chaos; the X-Men do some processing; and we are mildly scandalized by the absence of footnotes.
X-PLAINED:
- Rama-Tut
- Evan Sabahnur
- Uncanny X-Men #375
- X-Men #95
- X-Men Unlimited #25
- Skrull problems
- One very upsetting way to identify a traitor
- Skrullverine
- Fiz and Jaq
- The Ally
- A ruse
- Death’s mask
- A dramatic revelation
- Processing
- The unrealized potential of Spirit Halloween
- Wolverine memories
- Rogue’s temporary tattoos
- Yet another time loop
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As Mentioned in Episode 468 – Sasquatch Road Trip
468 – Sasquatch Road Trip
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X-PLAINED:
- Apocalypse’s influence
- The Big House (about which we are confused)
- Generation X #58
- Cartier and/or Louis St. Croix
- Our college’s Dean, naked jogger
- Things that are sharp in the woods
- HUMP
- Penance (Hollow)
- Emplate, spoiled teenager
- Generation X Annual 1999
- Epistolary fonts
- Jubilee’s pre-X past
- Round Wolverine
- Hunter Brawn (again, sigh)
- Recognizing random dudes from pictures
- Dad Things and Dad Pipes
- Juggernaut and Black Tom as a relationship model
- Jubilee, competent veteran
- A murder mystery
- Legault, cosplaying bodyguard
- Taking notes on comics
- Magneto’s telepathy-blocking (or not) helmet
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As Mentioned in Episode 462 – Angst and Continuity
462 – Angst and Continuity
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In which the 1990s were very long; if you die in the simulation, you die in real life; Adrienne Frost is a bad person with good clothes; we judge the number 57; things just keep happening; and Penance somehow gets even more complicated.
X-PLAINED:
- Bevatron
- Generation X #55-57
- The Hellions and their untimely demise (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #281
- A continuity conundrum
- Many allusions and references
- Cognitive dissonance
- Dancing between the raindrops of continuity
- Resolution
- Emma Frost, triumphant
- Fashion
- Emplate (more) (again)
- Propeller beanies
- Feelings
- Explosions
- One way to solve a problem
- Whether you should read Dazzler: The Movie
- The worst possible power swaps
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