131 – The Reaver Bunch
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle.
X-PLAINED:
- That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year
- The post X-Men X-Men
- What may be our deepest cut yet
- Uncanny X-Men #252-255
- Where’s Wolverine?
- The Reaver Bunch
- Major-League lumpoids
- Robot dingoes
- A prescient vision
- Trouble at sea
- Several significant deaths
- Subtext and queer erasure
- The key of agony
- Smile noises
- Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, whatever happened to Donald Pierce anyway? He's dead, right? |
| 0:03.7 | As dead as anyone gets in comics anyway. |
| 0:06.1 | Cyclops killed him back on Utopia. |
| 0:08.2 | Wait, Utopia? I remembered him dying earlier. |
| 0:11.2 | He kind of did. I mean, there wasn a body but it looked for a long time like he'd been killed when Fitzroy sent sent sent sentinels after the reavers. I'd say what a jerk, but in this case it's kind of good riddance. When did he resurface? |
| 0:23.5 | Fitzroy? |
| 0:24.4 | In X Factor, remember? |
| 0:25.8 | He was Ruby's boyfriend in the 1191 timeline, |
| 0:28.3 | at least until he died and Lila brought him back without a soul. |
| 0:30.9 | No, no, Pierce. |
| 0:32.2 | Oh, well, Pierce showed up on and off through the years |
| 0:34.4 | mostly around Hellfire Club business or to pick fights with Wolverine. And then he spent a while |
| 0:38.4 | running a team of young X-Men. Wait, seriously? Yeah, I mean when I say running, |
| 0:43.3 | I mostly actually mean manipulating |
| 0:45.2 | into committing assassinations, but, you know, whatever. |
| 0:48.2 | How do you get away with that? |
| 0:49.7 | By dressing up as Cyclops. |
| 0:50.9 | What? I'm Jay Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:06.5 | Because it's a bad time someone did. |
| 1:08.3 | Welcome to episode 131 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:16.6 | And welcome also to us recording a second episode in a row right after the Charles Soul One. |
| 1:20.5 | So if my voice still sounds kind of weird for me getting over a cold, that's why. |
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