10 – Not All Mandroids
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In which Phoenix has nothing on Jamie Madrox when it comes to retcons, Pterosaurs have super punchable faces, Colossus gets laid, we are uninterested in the Savage Land, Wolverine and Storm are both pretty interesting, smiling costs extra if you’re Doctor Doom, Banshee saves the day, Alpha Flight tries, Angry Hovercraft Guy comes back, and Proteus is fairly upsetting.
X-Plained:
- X-Men #109, 114-16, 118-122, and 125-128
- Multiple Man
- Metacontinuity
- The Savage Land
- Pterosaurs
- Shi’ar mustache technology
- Karl Lykos
- Misty Knight
- Colleen Wing
- Wolverine in Japan
- Mandroids
- Moses Magnum
- A Heist
- Angus McWhirter, disgruntled hovercraft rental guy
- Alpha Flight
- Team Dynamics
- Why you always leave a note
- Proteus
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| 0:00.0 | You know what? This is bullshit. |
| 0:02.0 | Whoa, Rachel? What's up? |
| 0:04.0 | Miles, how come Jean Gray gets to be the Queen of Retcon's? |
| 0:07.0 | Look, I know there's the whole clone thing and the dead not actually dead weight, actually dead stuff |
| 0:11.0 | and then the being possessed. |
| 0:12.5 | But you know, honestly, that's a really low bar for the X-Men. |
| 0:15.4 | So did you have somebody else in mind? |
| 0:16.9 | Jamie Madrocks. |
| 0:17.9 | Multiple man? |
| 0:18.9 | I love that guy. |
| 0:19.9 | So his superpower is self-duplication. |
| 0:21.2 | I mean, that dude is built to be a ret contool. Like look at a significant story arcs. |
| 0:25.5 | Well there was the time he died of the legacy virus. Nope, duplicate. Ran off to join |
| 0:29.9 | the fallen angels. Dup. Hooked up with Monet? Dup. H Hooked up with siren? |
| 0:34.0 | Doop, both times and the second time he impregnated her with another dupe, which he then reabsorbed after its birth. |
| 0:39.5 | That is really messed up. |
| 0:41.8 | Right? See, MadraX Wettcon's make the Gene Phoenix |
| 0:44.5 | Madeline prior stuff look straight up lucid. You know, not to mention wholesome. |
| 0:47.8 | Okay, so what has Madrocks Prime done? |
| 0:50.3 | Leila Miller mostly. The kid who broke house of M. Wasn't she like 12? Yeah, but she jumped into the forever yesterday |
| 0:56.6 | future learned magic from Dr. Doom and came back over the age of consent. That is awfully summers of her. |
| 1:01.7 | Did they at least get a happily ever after? |
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