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483 – Piotr Lovely Locks
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In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.
X-PLAINED:
- Some big news
- X-Men: Black Sun #1-5
- Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap
- Implied continuity
- The N’Garai
- Belasco
- Limbo
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
- New costumes
- Priests vs blood magic
- An impressively overcomplicated evil plot
- Chekhov’s skeleton
- Body swaps and/or possession
- Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)
- Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)
- Astral meetups
- Confusing bloodstone math
- A Triple-Tech
- Magik (Amanda Sefton)
- Counting X-generations
- Our favorite X-decades
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As Mentioned in Episode 477 – Ages of Apocalypse
477 – Ages of Apocalypse
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In which reality shatters; Ghost Rider wants friends; Jay’s toddler weighs in on the X-Men; the Phoenix costume is pretty much perfect; Caliban puts all his resources into an epic mount; and the future is so bright you’re gonna need shades.
X-PLAINED:
- The Triune Understanding
- Ages of Apocalypse
- Uncanny X-Men #378
- Cable #77
- Wolverine #148
- X-Men Unlimited #26
- X-Men #98
- Earth-23378
- Things you can leave to people in a will
- The Silver Age, but different
- Apocaclops
- Aliya Dayspring
- Chronological inconsistencies
- Earth-2841
- The Harpy (Betty Ross)
- A very different Fantastic Four
- Earth-32000
- Siphon
- The moon
- Zackat (Wolverine) (long story)
- Erik the Red (more) (again)
- The Ladies Mastermind
- Cadre K
- Earth-32098
- X-World
- The prettiest X-Man
- The moon’s mutant power
NEXT EPISODE: Powerless!
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As Mentioned in Episode 471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve, Part One)
471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve: Part One)
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In which we begin our coverage of The Twelve; Scott and Jean get sucked back in AGAIN; Apocalypse probably doesn’t tip; and we have become awfully fond of Cable.
X-PLAINED:
- A codename that deviates from common patterns
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #376
- Cable #75
- X-Men #96
- Fiz the Skrull (again)
- The Twelve
- Foreshadowing, both accurate and otherwise
- The Living Monolith (more) (again)
- That one font
- Time-travel logic
- Cable vs. eyes
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- A trap
- Why the Twelve are the Twelve
- The evolution of Cable
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As Mentioned in Episode 467 – Disorganizing Principle
467 – Disorganizing Principle
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In which Nightcrawler has a type; the Hill is a bad place to raise your kids up; Colossus introduces Marrow to art; we come out against autotrepanation; Mikhail Rasputin never learns; Destiny leaves clues from beyond the grave; and The Twelve looms.
X-PLAINED:
- That one universe where Mystique raised Nightcrawler in an attic
- An event in name only
- Some shit that went down a while ago
- The Hill (more) (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #373-374
- X-Men #93-94
- Marrow as a child soldier
- Rural Boston
- Some asshole
- Mikhail Rasputin (more) (again)
- How to prove that you’re a god
- The souls of furniture and some other things
- The green psychic entity who’s been secretly controlling Mikhail Rasputin, I guess?
- Ninja problems
- B. Byron Biggs
- Ronnie Lake
- A Conspiracy
- How Rogue and Destiny met
- Compulsory heterosexuality
- Destiny’s diaries
- Prognostication vs. agenda-setting
- Skrullverine’s power mimicry
- How the Mannites could’ve been used in the Krakoan era
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As Mentioned in Episode 369 – Carly Askani
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369 – Carly Askani
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In which Storm & Joseph X-Plain the X-Men, Alex Summers is not brainwashed this time, he promises, Scott Lobdell writes better moments than stories, Ed McGuinness draws very large chins, and it’s Denver the Last Dinosaur, not Denver the Lost Dinosaur
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #339
- Spider-Man disambiguation
- A. Kubert disambiguation
- J. Jonah Jameson (again) (hooray!)
- Sneaking songs
- The history of smoking regulation on airlines
- Creed disambiguation
- Havok’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Bonding while falling out of planes
- X-Men #59
- The copyright status of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Well-drawn Wolverines
- Hercules vs The Tick
- Wolverine Annual 1996
- The tragic death of Mariko Yashida
- Silver Samurai (Kuniuchio Harada)
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) and what he’s been up to since Fatal Attractions
- Josef Stalin, apparently?
- Red Ronin and its nemesis, a time-lost dinosaur who we assure you is not Godzilla
- Jedi and/or samurai vs. doors
- Our logo fonts
- James Howlett, guidance counselor
- Onslaught but not evil
- Whether Magneto could wield Mjolnir
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