107 – Fairy Tale Ending
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which everyone’s got Inferno issues; Brett Blevins makes it work; Belasco is conspicuously absent from Inferno; you should never go into Hell barefoot; the greatest X-Men stories are about loss; and Illyana Rasputin finally gets a fairy tale ending.
X-PLAINED
- Tempus (Eva Bell)
- Storm and Illyana: Magik #1-4 (briefly)
- The two major Inferno plotlines
- New Mutants #71-73
- The best of Brett Blevins
- The rise and fall of Magik
- The ethics of time-travel interventions
- A weaponized retcon
- N’astirh Guy™
- A chair that is also a moral event horizon
- A significant soul-armor upgrade
- Several variations on a chapter title
- Possessed New York
- An overly complex conspiracy theory
- A bittersweet reunion
- The Kobayashi Maru scenario as applied to X-Men
- An even more bittersweet victory (of sorts)
- The eventual return of Magik (sort of)
- Why it’s really irresponsible to affiliate your school with a superhero team
- Our favorite versions of Wolfsbane’s transitional form
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, let's see. |
| 0:02.0 | Hijac, Triage, Goldballs, Tempest. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey Miles, uh, what's up to? |
| 0:06.5 | I'm trying to figure out where all the kids from Cyclops' school ended up after Secret Wars. |
| 0:10.3 | Well, Goldballs is fine. |
| 0:11.6 | He's been running around with Spider-Man. |
| 0:13.0 | And Triage showed up in uncanny. |
| 0:15.0 | I think hijack is still MIA, but he was never too big on the whole superhero thing to begin with, |
| 0:19.5 | so hopefully he's just off living his own life somewhere, bossing cars around or whatever. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, now I'm imagining them following him home like stray cats. |
| 0:27.0 | What about Tempus? |
| 0:28.0 | Eva Bell? |
| 0:29.0 | Oh, God, you know, I have no idea. |
| 0:31.0 | I don't think she's shown up at all. |
| 0:32.0 | What was her deal exactly? I know she could stop time. Is that where the fast aging came from? |
| 0:36.7 | Nah, she came by the extra years honest. I mean, in a jumping around the timeline and getting stranded in a far future for seven years where she got married had a kid and ended up apprentice to Leonore Ras Putin who was that future sorceress supreme type honest, but honest. |
| 0:49.0 | Awesome, right? What happened? |
| 0:52.0 | A future got destroyed. |
| 0:53.0 | Eva jumps instinctively and ended up in the distant past. |
| 0:55.0 | By the time she'd made her way back to that future, it had completely changed. |
| 0:59.0 | And the sorcerer Supreme told her that because of what had happened earlier, |
| 1:01.0 | neither the future she remembered nor the family she'd had there had ever even existed. |
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