133 – Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars (Judgment War, Part 2)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In which the plot thickens; Jay and Miles fix Avatar; Ship is a good bro; you are in space right now; the Beginagains go full This Island Earth; Cyclops weaponizes love; voting is really important; and you’re listening to ten straight hours of soft jazz and subversion on ZZ-105
X-PLAINED:
- The other Dazzler (Bertram Worthington)
- Our newest t-shirt
- X-Factor #48-50
- A metaphor within a metaphor, in space
- The first half of Judgment War (briefly) (again)
- A prisoner exchange
- Hairstyles of the possessed and famous
- Proper use of Cable
- A case for retcons
- Iceman vs. Archangel
- A feisty little fellow from the stars
- The secret origin of Ship
- The Celestials
- The core of Iceman’s personality
- Several kisses
- Beast and the Rejects
- Some terrible hats
- An unfair fight
- A nefarious plot
- Contagious heroism
- Arishem
- The power of love
- Why we use the word “queer”
- Several theoretical and unlikely crossovers
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| 0:00.0 | Man, whatever happened to Dazzler? |
| 0:02.6 | Which one? |
| 0:03.6 | There's more than one? |
| 0:04.6 | Well, sure. |
| 0:05.6 | There's the Mutant Disco Queen Allison Blair. |
| 0:07.3 | And then there's Bertram Worthington. |
| 0:09.3 | Worthington. |
| 0:10.3 | Does he have anything to do with Angel? |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah, in fact, he's Angel's uncle. |
| 0:13.4 | He's the younger brother of Warren Worthington Jr. |
| 0:15.7 | Wait, Warren's uncle is a superhero? |
| 0:17.8 | Super villain. |
| 0:18.8 | You'd think that would come up? |
| 0:20.2 | I've never heard of him. |
| 0:21.1 | What did he do? |
| 0:22.1 | Well, in the silver age, he roped his brother into abetting a diamond smuggling operation, then murdered him. |
| 0:26.7 | Ah, well, damn. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, you know, and it seemed like he was gone for good after that. |
| 0:30.7 | But apparently he'd just been regrouping and he popped back up in X-Men |
| 0:34.0 | the Hidden Years, just in time to... |
| 0:35.6 | Getting the dance off with the good dasler? |
| 0:37.6 | Go full Hamlet and marry then Murder Angels mother. |
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