Tag: magneto
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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SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
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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As Mentioned in Episode 452 – Hot Nothing
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LINKS & OTHER ACADEMIA:
- The book Jay mentioned is The Metaphysics of Fiction, by Amie L. Thomasson
- Star Trek: Into Darkness was not a very good movie.
452 – Hot Nothing
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In which Magneto is not full of mirth; nobody real or fictional likes Fabian Cortez; when you’re a speedster, every problem is a metaphorical nail; The Zealot makes some valid points; and when Quicksilver declares himself your conscience, it’s time to examine your life.
X-PLAINED:
- How Magneto got his powers back
- Morally ambiguous hair
- Genosha (more) (again)
- Magneto Rex #1-3
- Magneto vs. Conan
- Trish Tilby
- Omniscient narrative condemnation
- Magneto’s true archfoe
- Magistrates (more) (again)
- Mutates (more) (again)
- Dr. Alda Huxley
- Phillip Moreau (more) (again)
- Jenny Ransome (more) (again)
- Pipeline (Cormac Grimshaw)
- Teleportational nudity
- The Zealot
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- Amelia Voght (more) (again)
- Several of Magneto’s on-again-off-again children
- The Bastille (but not that one)
- Mutant numbering
- When to use full frontal nudity in your comic
- The X-books we’re not covering
- The Amulet of Right vs the Sword of Might
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men ’97!
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As Mentioned in Episode 451 – Meanwhile in Another Dimension
451 – Meanwhile in Another Dimension
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In which we remain fascinated by Magneto’s robot butler; murder is Logan’s love language; the Juggernaut punches a hole in reality; Professor Xavier makes it weird; and Storm lectures several gods.
X-PLAINED:
- Silly mutant powers
- Uncanny X-Men #368-369
- X-Men #88
- Alan Davis’s X-Men run
- Magneto’s robot butler
- Joseph’s funeral
- Nun-sense
- A voyage to another dimension
- Eyebrow power
- Ejulp
- The Trion
- The other Gem of Cyttorak that’s like the first one but somehow worse
- Several comas
- Juggernaut vs. Juggernaut
- Evil, kind of
- Vacationing with X-Men characters
- Illyana Rasputin and Rachel Summers
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto Rex
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As Mentioned in Episode 445 – Dick War
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LINKS & FURTHER ADVICE
- Birthday shenanigans! Be there, or be… somewhere else, I guess.
- The Harkness Test is the gold standard for ethical monsterfucking.
- Waiting for the Trade is the gold standard for Suburban Magneto.
445 – Dick War
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In which not every story needs to be an event; Alan Davis returns to the X-line; X-mansion security is not what it once was; Rogue needs some new fantasies; and Magneto wants a country.
X-PLAINED:
- A poor governance decision
- X-Men: The Magneto War #1
- Uncanny X-Men #366
- Astral demerits
- A very dramatic dream
- The yolk of oppression
- Several Acolytes
- Nightcrawler’s nightcap
- Our standards for advertisers
- Suburban Magneto
- Ferris
- Magnet problems
- Forged DNA
- Mutants from Georgia, Florida, and Indiana
- Flying with Storm
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto wins.
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