109 – The Passion of Madelyne Pryor
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In which you should not presume to judge Madelyne Pryor by your standards; we wrap up the core plot of Inferno (but still somehow have two episodes left to go); sympathetic is not the same thing as right; Storm and Jean use friendship and it’s super effective; Iceman is basically incorruptible; Angel gets a new codename; Cyclops gets a backstory; Sinister is aptly named; and Inferno makes retcons into retconade.
X-PLAINED:
- Limbo vs. Limbo
- Hel vs. Hell
- Uncanny X-Men #242-243
- X-Factor #38-39
- A moment that does not speak eloquently for itself
- Several extended misunderstandings
- The difference between sympathetic and right
- N’astirh’s sweet ride
- A false binary
- The Goblin Prince
- Yet another reason Havok should have finished his dissertation
- The power of friendship
- The Rube Goldberg approach to combat
- Superconductivity, kind of
- Our least favorite retcon in Inferno
- The Summers brothers summed up in a single scene
- Clone ethics
- Why we like it when characters screw up
- Our favorite retcons
- How to prep for X-Men: Apocalypse
NEXT WEEK: Apocalypse for Beginners
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay, limbo isn't hell, right? |
| 0:03.0 | It's a hell dimension, Miles. |
| 0:05.0 | It's got a native-domonic population and most of the traditional trapping, so, you know, lakes of fire, all that fun. |
| 0:10.0 | But it's not say Inferno style limbo. |
| 0:13.2 | What? Dude, limbo is all over Inferno. |
| 0:16.2 | No, no, no, the other one with the righteous stun baptized? |
| 0:19.2 | Oh, that, no, no, it's not that limbo. |
| 0:21.3 | You know, I was wondering about that. |
| 0:23.0 | Is the traditional religious afterlife version of Hell a thing in Marvel? |
| 0:26.0 | Well, yeah, it's where the straw dead go. |
| 0:28.0 | Dude, you know that. You're a huge Thor fan. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, uh, Hell, no, I meant Hell, like with two Ls. It's the perils of audio I guess you can't really hear the second L. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, that gave the new mutants some trouble too. |
| 0:37.4 | How so? Well, they tried to head to one L Hell and ended up in 2 L Hell because they mispronounced it. |
| 0:43.0 | So it is a place? |
| 0:44.0 | At several places. |
| 0:45.0 | Whether there are parallel dimensions or all interconnected parts of the same realm is pretty |
| 0:49.0 | inconsistent though. |
| 0:50.0 | So how'd that go for the new mutants? |
| 0:52.0 | Better than you'd expect actually. Everyone got home safe. |
| 0:54.2 | Awesome! And magma got to have a whirlwind romance with the devil. |
| 0:57.6 | What? I'm J Rachel Edditan and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did. |
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