118 – Extrude the Grappling Arms!
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which you really can’t compete with Cable; the X-Men may or may not ditch a funeral; Nanny extrudes the grappling arms; Boom Boom is more responsible than she looks; Jean Grey is the cool stepmom; we posit an alternate explanation for Brexit; and ravens are the best dinosaurs.
X-PLAINED:
- What happened to the Inferno babies
- X-Factor #40-42
- Madelyne Pryor’s funeral
- Post-Inferno X-Factor
- Archangel’s inconsistent appearance
- Secret origins of Nanny and the Orphanmaker
- Teenagers (more) (again)
- Tom Jones (Alchemy)
- Conversations we probably shouldn’t have with Neal Conan
- Trolls of London
- Dubious super-parenting
- Phy
- Phay
- Phee
- Phough
- Phumm
- Troll economics
- A grocery list
- The Ravenmaster
- Miles’s mom
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what ended up happening with the inferno babies anyway? |
| 0:03.7 | The ones the goblins kidnapped? |
| 0:05.3 | They got gathered up by the new mutants and X-factor. |
| 0:07.6 | And returned home, right? |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, Miles, you beautiful, innocent, naive wildebeest. |
| 0:15.0 | So not so much? |
| 0:16.5 | Not so much. |
| 0:17.5 | They got absorbed into Project Purgatory, a military project, dedicated to weaponizing the supernatural. |
| 0:23.0 | Okay, I know the demons wanted to use the babies to consolidate their power by opening portals to limbo. |
| 0:28.0 | What did the Army want with them? |
| 0:30.0 | To consolidate their power by opening portal to limbo. |
| 0:32.0 | What? |
| 0:33.4 | I'm J Rachel Ett. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm J Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:48.3 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome to episode 118 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the |
| 0:55.2 | ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:58.4 | So here we are and we are going to do the third, I guess, of our four post-Inferno episodes we are on our third |
| 1:04.8 | of four teams that being X Factor. So X-factor these days pre-Inferno had become |
| 1:10.8 | publicly out as as the good guys as mutant superheroes. |
| 1:15.0 | They're living on ship off the coast of Manhattan. |
| 1:18.0 | Ship being the big sentient talking friendly makes educational trips for the kids who live on it, formerly owned by |
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