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440 – Fightin’ and Ballin’
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In which the Hunt for Xavier remains vaguely disappointing; Gambit is good with kids; nanomachines are the new unstable molecules; Marrow is a walking armory; and we recommend comics for babies.
X-PLAINED:
- The Hunt for Xavier, Part 2
- Babies and/or ghosts
- Chekhov’s repowering
- X-Men #83-84
- Uncanny X-Men #364
- Cerebro / Cerebro Prime
- Cerebrite Alpha
- Cerebrite Beta
- X-Men serial numbers
- What Gambit’s friends call him
- How Miles stopped worrying and learned to love Gambit
- Evil robot sperm
- Mary Purcell
- Multiple-monitor displays
- A computer with a computer
- AI
- The Florida facility
- Post
- Pile-Driver X
- A glimpse into the butt of all humanity
- Comics for babies
- Name-based powers
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As Mentioned in Episode 439 – Fishfic
439 – Fishfic
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In which we reach the beginning of an end; Jay totally forgot Gambit was there; we’re all living in the Mary Purcelliverse; the X-Men split the party; and we explore The Bay Area’s Bohemian Hotbed of Student Anarchy.
X-PLAINED:
- Mary Purcell (sort of)
- The re-defaulting of the X-Men
- Uncanny X-Men #362-323
- X-Men #82
- Nebraska
- Pyro (Saint John Allerdyce) and his endless illness
- Legacy Virus variations
- Going home again
- Running back and forth in quarries
- Marrow, who’s come a long way
- The two forms of fire: skeleton monsters and sexy ladies
- Cerebro (the evil one)
- San Francisco and Tajikinistan
- Asphalt ball pits
- A topsy-turvy nonsensical impossible hell
- Nina the Mannite
- Desire, love, loss, and fear
- Skulls and spines
- The New (New) Brotherhood of Mutants
- Cerebrites Alpha and Beta
- A lost, smelly fish
- Ambiguous art
- Blood, sweat, and fears
- Which mutants would cause the most chaos at holiday gatherings
- Hopes for post-Fall society
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As Mentioned in Episode 438 – The Man of Harsh Business
438 – The Man of Harsh Business
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In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to take over Madripoor
- Uncanny X-Men #361
- X-Men #81
- Wolverine: Black Rio
- The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
- Steve Comicraft
- The fork of loneliness
- Cyttorak (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- Peacocks
- Sarasota Jungle Gardens
- What’s sticking out of Juggernaut’s pants
- Favorite versions of the Danger Room
- Floriography
- Kali (kind of)
- Mary Purcell (a bit)
- Rio Carnival
- An outfit
- Detective Antonio Vargas and his mustache
- Saint Cyrus Leviticus
- Ezra
- Comparing mutant and Inhuman culture
- Demonic homage
NEXT EPISODE: The Hunt for Xavier begins!
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As Mentioned in Episode 436 – The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
436 – The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
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In which Colossus has had a rough time of it; the X-Men are at their best in bar fights; Bronze-age Wolverine was a jerk; Ursa Major deserves more page space; kids dig Nightcrawler; and we imagine an X-Men newspaper comic strip.
X-PLAINED:
- Notable incidents in Iceman’s romantic history
- X-Men: Liberators #1-4
- Nostalgia
- Friendship
- A bar fight
- Province 13
- General Sergei
- Several dead deer
- Gregor and Valeri
- Nikolas
- Zener cards
- Several children
- Omega Red (more) (again)
- Ariana
- Ideal formats
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- A theoretical X-Men newspaper comic
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As Mentioned in Episode 435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)
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435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)
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In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Our tenth birthday party!
- 2023
- Longshot vol. 2 #1
- Longshot as a folkloric archetype
- Longshot (more) (again)
- Dismal Nitch, Washington
- The Thingee
- Baum, Kansas
- Corn
- Betty
- Barrie, Kansas
- The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
- Innocence, broadly
- The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
- Love
- Immortal X-Men
- Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
- Defining Mister Sinister
- Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
- Reset phrases
- Eternals
- The 10th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
- Many people to whom we are grateful
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators
NOTE: If you want to avoid Immortal X-Men spoilers in our interview with Kieron Gillen, you can skip to 01:38:50 for the Corbeau Awards!
Special thanks to:
- Matt Hunter
- Dylan Higgins
- Al Kennedy
- Max Carleton
- Kieron Gillen
- Tea Fougner
- Anna Stokes
- All of our patrons
- All of you listening, always <3
“Sinister Is Cloning This Town” performed by Steve and Erin Pence
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