119 – Red Night of the Soul (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In which Elisabeth hacks the Matrix; Magneto is the worst at small talk; Hela overreaches; parents just don’t understand human speech; everything is better with super-rings; Selene has a Xena moment; almost anything can be solved with a kiss; and even if you transform Doug Ramsey into a giant red murder monster, he’ll still be a huge nerd.
X-PLAINED:
- The S-Men
- New Mutants Forever #1-5
- Magma’s revised family tree
- Updating the New Mutants
- The delicate balance of the Forever line
- The web
- Idiom confusion
- A flawed cultural analogy
- Tiberius the Generic
- Several profoundly dubious costumes
- Family resemblance
- Skull v. Skull
- The dearth of canonically asexual X-characters
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Miles here – in one of the questions for this episode, I conflated asexuality and aromanticness. Those are totally two different things. Apologies – I’m still learning!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Elizabeth. |
| 0:02.8 | Aside from New Mutants Forever, I was trying to remember if the X teams had fought the Red Skull before. |
| 0:07.0 | Sure, someone wrote a novel where the X-Men fought a bunch of villains who were trying to rewrite reality with a cosmic cube. |
| 0:12.8 | Red Skull was in that. |
| 0:14.1 | And I guess Wolverine fought the skull in the 90s cartoon and the original Old Men Logan series. |
| 0:19.0 | But those aren't main continuity either. |
| 0:20.7 | What about Earth 616? |
| 0:22.2 | Miles, have you ever heard of the |
| 0:23.7 | S-Men? That's a silly name. What's their deal? They were Red Skulls team of |
| 0:28.8 | supervillans a few years back. Avalanche's daughter, Dancing Water, a guy named Honest John, the Living Propaganda. |
| 0:35.4 | Okay, THAT is an awesome name. |
| 0:37.6 | They worked with a skull around the time he got telepathy by stealing Professor Xavier's |
| 0:41.2 | corpse and grafting part of Xavier's brain to his own. |
| 0:44.0 | Am I seriously not supposed to yell what to that? |
| 0:46.8 | It wasn't the first time Red Skull has experimented with moving brain stuff around though. |
| 0:50.5 | Before that, he'd tried to move his consciousness into Captain America's body while |
| 0:54.0 | Cap was lost in time and space. |
| 0:55.7 | Cool, cool. Villains possessing heroes is a time-honored comic book trope. |
| 0:58.9 | That wasn't Plan A though. |
| 1:00.5 | The body he really wanted to take over? Oh, okay. |
| 1:03.0 | What body could he possibly want to control more than that of Steve Rogers? |
| 1:05.0 | The dude's like a freaking superhuman Adonis. |
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