110 – Lights, Camera, Apocalypse!
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which the X-Men cinematic universe is a really mixed bag; Kang the Conqueror ruins everything; everyone wants a Sphinx hovercraft; Elle was right; and we bring you up to speed on all things En Sabah Nur–just in time for X-Men: Apocalypse!
X-PLAINED:
- How Chamber got his torso back (and then lost it again)(twice)
- Several ways to count X-Men movies
- X-Men
- X2: X-Men United
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- X-Men: First Class
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Adaptation anxiety
- Distillation vs. dilution
- Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)
- Rise of Apocalypse #1-4
- Akkaba
- Dubious survival tips
- Fantastic Four #19
- Doctor Strange #53
- Ozymandias
- Various horsemen of Apocalypse
- Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295)
- The Twelve
- Cinematic X-costumes
- Cast Party
NEXT WEEK: Excalibur joins Inferno!
CORRECTION: In this episode, Jay states that Kieran Shiach explained Kang in the Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts. It was, in fact, the amazing Paul O’Brien. Mea culpa.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what's worrying you, Miles? |
| 0:02.0 | The blood of Apocalypse. |
| 0:03.3 | Have you tried cold water? |
| 0:04.7 | Cold water? |
| 0:05.7 | Well, unless it's dried and then you're probably going to want to go straight to bleach. |
| 0:08.4 | What? No, no, I mean the whole Dracula thing where Apocalypse's blood is canonically extra tasty. |
| 0:13.6 | You know, I think it's less a matter of tasty than almost as versatilely super-powered as |
| 0:19.2 | Apocalypse himself. |
| 0:20.2 | How so? |
| 0:21.2 | Well, according to Cable and Dead Deadpool, Apocalypse can regenerate from a single cell of blood, for starts, Wolverine style. |
| 0:27.0 | Is that part of his mutation? |
| 0:29.0 | Well, it's a mix of that techno-organic upgrade, celestial tech, and good-old narrative sleight of hand. |
| 0:34.0 | What else? |
| 0:35.0 | Well, he's got healing powers, or at least for mutants. |
| 0:37.0 | Wait, I think I remember that. |
| 0:39.0 | That's how Chamber got fixed up, right? |
| 0:40.0 | Which time? |
| 0:41.0 | It's happened more than once. Oh yeah. The first time was |
| 0:44.8 | Weapon X, but then that got screwed up by decimation and Chamber was basically |
| 0:48.1 | stuck on life support with no internal organs to speak of. Ouch. Right? |
| 0:51.6 | Fortunately for Chamber, it turned out his family was actually |
| 0:54.2 | Klanakaba going way back, so they grabbed him and fixed him up again. |
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