Tag: Jubilee
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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As Mentioned in Episode 460 – Setting Sons
460 – Setting Sons
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In which Synch is better with your powers than you are; Generation X gets some actual training; Artie and Leech are fully feral; everyone gets the hots for Paladin; Zeus has probably fucked a motorcycle at some point; many countries have valleys; and Adrienne Frost is terrible.
X-PLAINED:
- Generation X #52-54
- Tristan Brawn (more) (again)
- Grant Morrison on suspension of disbelief in superhero media
- Honor vs. privilege
- School dance themes
- Artie and Leech’s habitat
- Spider-Ham
- Ducktor Doom
- Role models
- What Gaia is probably definitely up to
- Paladin
- The Rising Sons
- Rollerblades
- Dragon problems
- Power emulation vs. reproduction
- Pokémans
- Cosplaying Emma Frost with a beard
- Diamond Patch
- Muir Island vs. Muir Isle
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force goes to Genosha!
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As Mentioned in Episode 457 – Stinking at the Moon
457 – Stinking at the Moon
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X-PLAINED:
- Dazzler’s murder trial
- X-Men Unlimited #24
- The past and future of X-Men Unlimited
- Doctor Cecilia Reyes
- Ghost Pirate Cap’n Bloodscream
- Wolverine and friends
- Pushing your kid out of a plane as a basic first aid skill
- Banter
- The Silver Samurai (Keniuchio Harada)
- Sunfire and the Big Hero Six
- Projectile-based wordplay
- Irene Adler, spoiler machine
- Genosha (again)
- The Cabinet of Doctor Lensherr
- Magneto’s panties
- Stupid metaphors
- Football stars and their football cars
- Magneto’s nuanced and baby-filled past
- Generation X #51
- Hunter & Tristan Brawn
- Helicopter grandparents
- Artie & Leech, perpetual moppets
- Emma Frost, forever traumatized
- Generation X’s new costumes
- Gaia as the Bird Boy of Generation X
- Peach Momoko’s Ultimate Armor
- Sauron and the Lizard’s agendas and fashion
- Comic book collecting preferences
NEXT EPISODE: Some damned fine X-Force.
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454 – X-Men ’97, Part 2
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In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.
X-PLAINED:
- Fabian Cortez’s name
- X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
- Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
- Varying levels of going in blind
- A somewhat different and possibly better Forge
- The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen
- Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes
- Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend
- Colonialism vs. Identity
- Delayed catharsis
- The narrative power of altered opening credits
- What makes allyship effective (and not)
- Justified mutant anger
- The worst version of Nina DaCosta
- What makes Prime Sentinels scary
- Summers family feels
- The best damned fight scenes out there
- Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy
- Simultaneous crossovers
- A psychic gay bar
- A last boss arena
- Acolyte equivalencies
- Phoenix Ex Machina
- Crying
- Whether Magneto was right
- Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts
- A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents
- Soft Serve
- Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU
- X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway
NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein
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453 – X-Men ’97, Part 1
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In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.
X-PLAINED:
- “Beyond Good and Evil”
- X-Men: The Animated Series and our respective feelings about it
- X-Men ’97, episodes 1-5
- Watching X-Men ’97 with and without context
- Making animated Cyclops work
- The Magneto’s-hair-length morality index
- Politics
- Voices
- Adaptation pacing
- Agency
- Abcissa
- Foreshadowing
- Time compression
- Horniest Rogue
- Death in cartoons
- A metaphor
- Nonbinary identity in 1997
- Character evolution
NEXT EPISODE: Episodes 6-10
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