Tag: Penance
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 429 – Slightly Sticky
429 – Slightly Sticky
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In which you should stop hatin’, there’s a big difference between fill-ins and filler, Snow Valley needs higher Ferris wheel standards, Todd DeZago must really hate video rental clerks, and we’re all monsters – some of us just smell better than others.
X-PLAINED:
- Strong Guy’s hellacious history
- The nature and purpose of X-Men Unlimited
- X-Men Unlimited #20-21
- Rock Trolls (Chambliss, Nettles, and Munson)
- What Asgard was up to in 1998
- Magik vs magic
- The Snow Valley Harvest Festival
- Jubilation Lee, one of the guys
- Eagles vs Hats
- Fatman, Beardlady-o, Stickman-o, & Frogman-o
- Tic Tac Toe fundamentals
- Angry mobs
- Paige Guthrie, Angry Mom
- The many potential applications of Husk’s powers
- Falls Edge, VA vs Eagle Ridge, WV
- Payphones & video rental stores
- X-friends
- Rutland, VT (again)
- Melvin J. Weals
- Helen Back
- The Donnybrook Country Club
- Cat Fancier & Motorcycle Conventions
- The Shi’ar Wardrobe Transmogrifier
- Steel (the Shaq one)
- The worst pun we’ve ever seen in a comic
- Earth: the Hipster Planet
- Which X-Men throw the best and/or wildest Halloween parties
- Fan-casting X-voices
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As Mentioned in Episode 419 – Stuff Happens
419 – Stuff Happens
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In which the St. Croix family is constructed largely of retcons; Generation X adjusts surprisingly quickly to a massive status quo shift; Psi-War is coming soon to a podcast near you; Snow White – I mean, Bianca LaNeige – has an intriguing but exceptionally minimal backstory; and if you die in this podcast episode, you die in real life.
X-PLAINED:
- Hellfire Club history
- Generation X #40-43
- MillXnials
- Mercy General Hospital vs Our Mother of Mercy Hospital
- Ambiguous psionic overlap
- Nicole & Claudette & Monet & Marius St. Croix
- The Downtown Stomp
- Synch, agreeable and bland (for now)
- Vincent Adultman
- The nature of Penance
- A glacial but effective pace
- Bianca LaNeige, evil Snow White from space
- Warpy, Stinky, Spiky, Windy, Greasy, Brainy, and Blurry
- The Enchanted Forest of Oregon
- Claremont:Body Swaps::Hama:Getting Stuck In Other Dimensions
- Jay vs. Accents
- Terminal Dream Syndrome
- A surprisingly gruesome fill-in
- An underrated era for Emma Frost
- Betty & Veronica, presenting like mandrills
- Zak the Neutrino
- Albert & Elsie-Dee (briefly)
- The Dodsons vs Mike Allred
- Dr. Bronner’s uncredited Marvel career
- Our coverage of Ultimate X-Men (or lack thereof)
- Dr. Phil Zimbardo’s xplainthexmen study
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As Mentioned in Episode 401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
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401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
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In which Santa Claus makes problematic choices; we make good on a promise; Sebastian is the new Deadpool; Skrulls get stuck as animals more than you’d think; Nanny and Orphan-Maker celebrate; and Jubilee stops worrying and learns to love Christmas.
X-PLAINED
- Santa Claus’s flirtations with villainy
- A new direction for Generation X
- Larry Hama
- Al vs. U.S. geography
- Generation X #32-33
- Generation X Holiday Special
- New Mutants #92
- Thing One & Thing Two St. Croix
- The Circus of Crime
- The Pirates of Dark Water (somewhat)
- Hacker T. Dog
- Why Wolfsbane is scared of clowns
- Skrull Kill Crew
- Carnie Voltron
- Chief Authier
- Phat beats
- A reality biscuit
- Emplate’s pocket dimension
- Chimera and Dirtnap
- Variant interiors
- Nanny & Orphan-Maker (more) (again)
- Santa Claus (in general)
- Benefits of inconsistent characterization
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As Mentioned in Episode 380 – Arbor Day
380 – Arbor Day
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In which no one wants to be compared to Chris Bachalo; it’s always a holiday for Generation X; you may already be a Guthrie; M is a fascinating mystery; and Black Tom Cassidy (finally) makes his move.
X-PLAINED:
- What Black Tom Cassidy is up to these days
- Generation X #23-25
- Generation X (again)
- Seasons
- Visual representations of Banshee’s powers
- Several holidays
- The Blue Ridge Mountains
- A slumber party
- Emplate (somewhat)
- Bad times with Black Tom Cassidy
- The apparent death of Emma Frost
- What we do and don’t cover when
- Leech on Krakoa
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