108 – What Price Glory
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In which we recap nearly 200 issues in under three minutes; Madelyne Pryor is the Medea of X-Men; Mister Sinister takes the stage; Dazzler is basically an ’80s movie refugee; Scrambler may or may not be an exchange student from the Riverdale Marauders; Marc Silvestri is excellent at some things and less so at others; nothing good happens in Nebraska; Trish Tilby is the April O’Neil of X-Factor; and we swear that it was a total coincidence that this episode went up on Mother’s Day.
X-PLAINED:
- One solution to the existential conundrum of the Carol Danvers who is also kind of part of Rogue
- Pretty much everything that’s happened since the Dark Phoenix Saga
- The structure of Inferno
- Uncanny X-Men #239-241
- X-Factor #36-37
- The rise of the Goblin Queen
- Several deaths in elevators
- Mister Sinister and his amazing action-figure collection
- The evolution of Mark Silvestri
- Madelyne and Alex
- A very symbolic dress
- The Rainbow Room
- M-Squad
- That damn costume
- 1989 in outfit form
- Jay’s favorite Marauder
- Rats-R-Us
- Wolverine vs. a mail box
- The X-Men, but evil
- The secret origin of Madelyne Pryor
- A long-anticipated reunion
- Objects we’d demonically animate
- Which X-Man should do your taxes
NEXT WEEK: The Passion of Madelyne Pryor
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay. What's on your mind, Miles? |
| 0:03.0 | So right now, I mean, not 2016, but where we are in continuity. |
| 0:07.0 | Rogue is still sharing a mind with Carol Danvers. |
| 0:09.0 | Right. |
| 0:10.0 | Except Carol is also out there somewhere in her own body. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, what's in Rogue's head isn't exactly Carol so much as Carol's absorbed personality and memories. |
| 0:17.0 | There's still a Carol Danvers running around the Marvel Universe. |
| 0:20.0 | Which one's the real one? |
| 0:21.0 | That is an excellent question and also an existential puzzle we probably don't have time to crack open right now. |
| 0:27.0 | A point. |
| 0:28.0 | Okay, so the Carol in Rogue's head, she's not around anymore, right? |
| 0:32.0 | Right. What happened to her? |
| 0:33.0 | Died. |
| 0:34.0 | Isn't she literally part of Rogue? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, yeah, but when Rogue went through the siege perilous, |
| 0:38.0 | they were split into two separate bodies. |
| 0:40.0 | That's an unusually neat solution. |
| 0:42.0 | Not really, because they were still running around. That's an unusually neat solution. |
| 0:42.6 | Not really, because they were still running around on one person's worth of energy, |
| 0:46.9 | and it was pretty obvious it wasn't going to be enough to sustain them both. |
| 0:49.9 | They were going to slug it out, but then Magneto showed up and straight up murdered Carol. |
| 0:54.4 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
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