116 – The Pooper of This Party
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In which Jubilee makes her fabulous debut, the X-Ladies visit Hotbods, the X-Dudes accidentally (and drunkenly) save the world, Longshot is Sexy Johnny Karate, the only thing worse than one anti-mutant super-robot is two, and we say goodbye to a quarter of the team.
X-PLAINED:
- Hellfire Club leadership
- Uncanny X-Men #244-247
- Team-relative Inferno after-effects
- Jubilation Lee
- Teddy girls
- The surprisingly not-dead M Squad
- Chaos (but not KAOS)
- Dazzler, heart and/or steamroller of the X-Men
- Miles’s alternate career as alien archivist
- DC’s Invasion
- Logan’s Guide to Kissing Etiquette
- Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown continuity disambiguation
- Sexy dead girls
- Perils of the Siege Perilous
- Sharon Kelly
- Rogue, Carol Danvers, and relative (im)maturity
- The MTV Generation
- Wolverine’s hair
- X-(misc.) Forever
- Storm’s threads
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what's up with the Hellfire Club these days? Are they even still around? |
| 0:04.4 | Maybe? They haven't shown up in a pretty long time. |
| 0:07.7 | Shah's still around though, right? |
| 0:09.3 | Well, he popped up briefly in the mighty Thor, but since then he's MIA. |
| 0:13.2 | So who's running the club? |
| 0:14.8 | You know, I think Sunspot might technically still be Lord Imperial, |
| 0:18.4 | but if so, he's a really absentee Lord Imperial. |
| 0:21.3 | Wait, Sunspot is running Aym and the Hellfire Club? |
| 0:25.1 | Like I said, the latter is really just a name and honestly I think it's more that the current |
| 0:29.0 | administration just didn't think to depose him because he never shows up to anything. |
| 0:33.0 | The current administration? |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, you know, Kate Kilgore, Wilhelminic Kensington, Manuel Anduche, and Baron Maximilian |
| 0:39.3 | Von Katsunine Bogan. |
| 0:40.6 | What's their deal? |
| 0:41.6 | Well, let's see. Kilgore is a |
| 0:43.3 | super genius and an international arms dealer. Kensington is a martial arts |
| 0:46.9 | expert and a collector of rare exotic and exceptionally dangerous animals. |
| 0:50.3 | And Duque is involved in the slave trade, owns most of New York, and has interests in extraterrestrial |
| 0:54.8 | gambling, and Katsenine Bogan is an unseated Bavarian prince and the last living descendant |
| 0:59.2 | of the original Dr. Frankenstein, as well as a mad scientist in his own right. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, and they're all like 12 years old. |
| 1:05.1 | What? What? I'm J Rachel Eddittin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
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