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432 – Weird Little Adventures
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In which we reach the end of Larry Hama’s run on Generation X; Gaia remains remarkably normal for someone who has spent millennia chained up alone in a citadel; Synch practices radical forgiveness; we ponder the nature of Emma Frost and Sean Cassidy’s relationship; and Forge is extra unqualified to lecture on ethics.
X-PLAINED:
- How Jubilee stopped being a vampire
- The Draco, kinda
- Generation X #44-47
- Bianca LaNeige (again)
- Polaroid cameras
- Gaia (more) (again)
- Reality warping
- Woody and Arlo Guthrie
- Iceland
- Several continuity errors
- Psi War fallout
- Paul Weller
- New school uniforms
- Accreditation
- Miss Pickwick
- Penance’s nationality
- Guthrie manifestation
- Teamwork
- Forge’s decision-making skills
- Paradox
- Indoor/outdoor moppets
- Four theoretical horsemen of Apocalypse
- Awkward family holidays
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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 410 – Jubilee, Don’t Eat That
410 – Jubilee, Don’t Eat That
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In which the M-Plate Saga continues; Jay gets into the spirit of the day; we briefly give up on our primary mission; the story is coordinated if not coherent; Miles is not allowed to continuity-shame about Tolkein; Gaia is extra chill; Dirt Nap discovers altruism; and Jubilee should absolutely not have eaten that.
X-PLAINED:
- Vampires vs. Marrow (again)
- Whether Marrow is a mutant
- Drugs
- X-Plaining the inexplicable
- Generation X #37-39
- M-Plate (more) (again)
- A Boojum
- How to correctly identify a snark
- The Universal Amalgamator (more) (again)
- A door
- Moria, kind of, I guess?
- Mysterious topiary
- An equally mysterious train
- The Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator
- Gaia
- How to make a deal with a Token
- Orange milk
- A network of interdimensional water closets
- The Bill the Pony Effect
- An attempted murder
- Monet vs. Northstar
- Characters we’d like to see come out of the subtext
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CORRECTION: Miles said that the previous episode was #410. This episode is in fact #410; the previous episode is #409.
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As Mentioned in Episode 409 – Lurid Malarkey
409 – Lurid Malarkey
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In which nobody is sure what Emplate actually eats; airport food is not a good peace offering; Larry Hama writes a good Jubilee; the St. Croix siblings merge; and we honestly have no idea what a Token is.
X-PLAINED:
- Emplate vs. Marrow
- What’s been up with Generation X
- Generation X #34-36
- Claudette and Nicole St. Croix
- Emplate (more) (again)
- Controlled chaos
- Tracy Authier
- Bullying
- Dorian and Weasel (again)
- Treasures
- EAT
- Some unusually friendly blackmail
- Wizard Magazine
- Husk’s diary and hypothetical fanfiction
- Chimera
- A Lepton imploder
- Dirt-Nap
- M-Plate
- A dream, we think, probably
- Jubilee in Wonderland
- A Token
- Chief Authier
- Elwood
- Landau, Luckman, & Lake (again)
- The Citadel at the Edge of Reality
- The Universal Amalgamator
- Magik on screen
- Our favorite villains and alignment shifts from the Krakoa era
NEXT EPISODE: The M-Plate Saga concludes
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