104 – The Noodle Incident (feat. Brett White and Dennis Hopeless)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In which Brett White joins us for a look at the current state of the X-line; Dennis Hopeless helps shed some light on a persistent mystery; Brett has a lot of feelings about the Dark Riders; All-New Wolverine is our everything; All-New X-Men is the new New Mutants; X-Men ’92 is the prize at the bottom of the continuity cereal box; we speculate on potential fatalities in the upcoming Death of X; and everything is probably going to be more or less okay.
X-PLAINED:
- Why everyone is mad at Cyclops
- The Noodle Incident
- How we variously define X-titles
- The current state of the X-line
- The 8-Month Gap
- Secret Wars
- Earth 616.1
- Extraordinary X-Men (Current series)
- Uncanny X-Men (Current series)
- All-New Wolverine
- Old Man Logan (Current series)
- All-New X-Men (Current series)
- X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever
- X-Men ’92 (Current series)
- The Dark Riders
- Being personally invested in characters you don’t own
- Favorite formats
- The mystic end of the X-Men cinematic universe
- Mysteries and mysteries
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Jay, question. |
| 0:01.6 | What can I do for you, buddy? |
| 0:03.0 | Did we ever find out what Cyclops did? |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah, Miles, that's an awfully broad category. |
| 0:07.7 | I mean, he's been running around the Marvel Universe for more than 50 years. |
| 0:10.8 | He's done a lot. |
| 0:12.0 | No, the thing everyone's upset at him about. |
| 0:14.1 | Okay, look, he's my favorite character, but I am the first person who will admit that, again, there |
| 0:18.7 | are a lot of reasons to be upset with Cyclops. Was it leaving Madeline Pryor? |
| 0:22.1 | No. Hooking up with Emma Frost. No. The entirety of the |
| 0:26.0 | first animated series. No, no, the thing everyone's pissed off at him about now. Killing Charles Xavier? |
| 0:31.0 | Because look, the case for culpability there is honestly pretty iffy, you know, given the whole |
| 0:35.1 | possession by a cosmic force deal. |
| 0:36.9 | No, not that, whatever he did after secret wars. |
| 0:39.2 | Oh, okay, you're talking about the noodle incident. |
| 0:41.9 | The noodle incident. Right so remember |
| 0:44.8 | how in Calvin and Hobbs people periodically reference something called the noodle |
| 0:48.0 | incident but you never actually get the whole picture just weird little details. |
| 0:51.0 | What Cyclops did is the noodle incident of current X-Men. |
| 0:54.0 | So you don't know? I do not. Does anybody know? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, I have no idea. |
| 1:00.0 | Hey Brett, do you know why everyone's so mad at Cyclops? |
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