102 – Baby Race 2000
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In which Beast’s DNA is basically held together with spit and baling wire; Boom Boom wins MVP; Angel goes full goth; Cameron Hodge loses his head; Cyclops is basically a Silent Hill protagonist; and the Nebraska Department of Social Services is probably not adequately equipped to deal with Mister Sinister.
X-PLAINED:
- The Horsemen of Death
- X-Factor #32-35
- Xartans
- Superheroic triage
- A vague prophecy
- Fake Avengers
- Fake-band disambiguation
- KiLLeR DWaRfS
- Crippled Puppies
- Audiophile Apocalypse
- Shopping
- Dubiously zealous trademark protection
- Acronym disambiguation
- The death of Candy Southern
- The not-exactly death of Cameron Hodge
- Nanny
- Orphan-Maker
- Baby Race 2000
- An orphanage that is also a metaphor
- Unreliable narration
- The dubious partnership of Mister Sinister and Apocalypse
- Best iterations of Boom Boom
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- Malicious inanimate objects
- Early signs of Marvel Girl’s returning telepathy
- First clues of Cyclops’s connection to Sinister
- First mention of Goblin Queen by name
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| 0:00.0 | Angel, Calibon, Wolverine, who else? |
| 0:04.0 | Hey Miles, what's up to? |
| 0:05.0 | I'm making a list of all the X men who have been horsemen of Apocalypse. |
| 0:08.0 | Oof, you are definitely going to need more paper. |
| 0:11.0 | I know, right? |
| 0:12.0 | I mean, just off the top of my head let's see there's the three |
| 0:14.3 | listed gambit polaris sunfire caliban a second time siloc. Does apocalypse ever go for |
| 0:19.6 | non-mutants? Occasionally yeah deathbred and hulk have both been war and the future horseman who just showed up an extraordinary... |
| 0:25.0 | Ah, spoilers. Right, well, anyway, there are definitely some non-mutants in that lineup. I'm not going to say who. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, and Sentry and Grim Reaper were both in the Apocalypse Twins lineup. |
| 0:34.3 | Weird, who else was in that batch? |
| 0:36.0 | Uh, Banchi and Dacken. |
| 0:37.7 | I assume Grim Reaper was death. |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, but so was everybody else. |
| 0:41.6 | You mean they were all dead, right? |
| 0:43.6 | Well, that too. |
| 0:44.7 | But no, I mean, the twins decided to cut out the middlemen |
| 0:47.1 | and just make all four of the horsemen officially death. |
| 0:49.4 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome to episode 102 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the |
| 1:11.2 | ins the outs and the retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 1:15.0 | All right, so here we are back at you again with I believe some X-factor this time. |
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