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In which Rachel refuses to back down from a challenge, we reject a point of canon, Leprechauns know Wolverine’s secrets, Erik the Red is (still) awful, Professor X is (still) a dick, the X-Men are your D&D party, the Shi’ar do a Star Trek riff, Phoenix is kind of a big deal, the circus comes to town, and Magneto gets creepy.
X-Plained:
- Cassandra Nova
- More early Claremont
- Sound effects
- Cassidy Keep
- Seneschals
- Shillelaghs
- Image inducers
- Black Tom Cassidy
- Supervillain bromance
- Bronze-age pacing
- Leprechauns
- Hovercraft rental
- Muir Island
- The Shi’ar Imperial Guard
- The M’Kraan Cyrstal
- Phoenix 101
- Secret volcano lairs
- Magneto’s mercifully short-lived age-play fixation
- The (dis)continuity of mutant powers
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Next week: Wolverine punches a pterosaur, Cyclops grows a mustache, and everyone gets possessed!