128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn’t actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to kill a Celestial
- Judg(e)ment War
- Drunk Mark Trail
- X-Factor #43-46
- Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you’re X-Factor
- A completely inappropriate show pitch
- Celestials
- The true secret purpose of Ship
- The Chosen
- The Rejects
- Dualers
- Perfect Seera
- Rask
- Zarka
- Monster ladies in cultural context
- Lev
- A stupid way to die
- Jammers
- Plot-relevant amnesia
- The Most Perfect
- ZZ-105
- Baby theft (more)(again)
- Ryest
- The Beginagains
- Whether and when there’ll be another all-question episode
- The current status of the Jean Grey school
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| 0:00.0 | So ship. Is that an imperative miles or a question? I mean like do you want my favorite ship or are you just suggesting that I start shipping or should I be... |
| 0:09.0 | No, no not ship Jay, ship the definite article. |
| 0:12.8 | Ah, okay. That I am familiar with. |
| 0:16.0 | It's celestial, right? |
| 0:17.6 | In both senses of the word, in fact. |
| 0:19.6 | It is from space and it belongs to the celestial's. |
| 0:22.1 | Again, definite article in that second instance. |
| 0:24.6 | Well okay so it's basically immortal right I mean the Celestial's are... |
| 0:28.3 | Whoa whoa dude the Celestial's can totally be killed, or at least temporarily disembodied. |
| 0:33.8 | It's kind of vague. |
| 0:34.8 | Wait, what? I thought they were basically space gods. |
| 0:38.0 | Dude, you're a Thor fan. If there is any lesson to be learned from years of following that character? |
| 0:43.7 | It's that gods are mortal. |
| 0:45.5 | Right, right. Okay, so how do you even start killing a celestial? |
| 0:48.9 | Well, yeah, let's stick with Thor and we can say you know if you are Thor you bless your |
| 0:53.2 | badass axe with your own blood thereby imbue it with the ability to pure celestial |
| 0:57.4 | armor. That is a very mythic solution. Well it's a very mythic axe |
| 1:00.9 | and then when you're done with that you team up with the Century and with Rogue who by that point |
| 1:05.0 | will have absorbed the powers of every single Avenger. |
| 1:08.0 | The Voltron Special. |
| 1:10.0 | Of course, the victory will lose some of its sweetness |
| 1:13.0 | when you find out that Kang, the conqueror, |
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