137 – Kicky Kinko Killers (feat. Sarah Kuhn)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2016
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In which author Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about Asian-American and Asian-British representation in superhero comics; Psylocke is the literal embodiment of British imperialism; Jubilee speaks for us all; representation isn’t a Boolean state; Wolverine fails at pop culture references; and somewhere there’s probably a really dark alternate universe where Betsy teamed up with Jamie instead of Brian.
X-PLAINED:
- Crimson Dawn
- Sarah Kuhn
- Uncanny X-Men #256-258
- A proactive approach to career advancement
- Matsuo Tsurayaba
- The Mandarin
- A highly symbolic dream sequence
- A controversial transformation
- Kwannon
- What badass looked like in 1990
- Several varyingly successful Batman references
- Rose Wu
- A fairly novel approach to hallucination
- Some high-quality invective
- Psylocke as a villain
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, let's go through this one more time. |
| 0:02.6 | Sylock comes out of the Siege Parilous semi-catatonic. |
| 0:05.4 | She's found by Matsuosurayaba, who switches her brain with his comatose girlfriend's brain, |
| 0:10.1 | gives her ninja skills and a sweet face tattoo and... |
| 0:13.0 | Nope, try again. |
| 0:14.0 | Damn it, I really thought I had it this time. |
| 0:16.0 | You were doing pretty well until the tattoo. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay, Sylock totally had a face tattoo, the red one over her eye, remember? |
| 0:22.0 | Well, yeah, but she didn't get her from Matsuo. I assume it's got... the I mean it's from The Crimson Dawn. The Patrick Swayze movie. |
| 0:33.4 | You're thinking of Red Dawn. |
| 0:35.1 | The Crimson Dawn is a magical healing elixir from an eponymous dimension. |
| 0:39.3 | Huh. |
| 0:40.3 | Okay, how did Syllock end up with it? |
| 0:42.6 | Okay, so she was attacked and critically injured by Sabretooth. |
| 0:45.6 | Wait, she was still in her original body at that point. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, no, you're right. |
| 0:49.0 | She was attacked and critically injured again by Sabertooth and Wolverine and |
| 0:53.4 | Archangel went to one of Wolverine's buddies who decided that the best vet for |
| 0:56.5 | saving Sylock would be this inter-dimensional healing potion. |
| 0:59.4 | Accompanied by Dr Strange, they headed off on an epic quest and |
| 1:02.2 | ultimately ended up swapping a piece of Betsy's soul for the elixir. |
| 1:05.0 | Wait, Betsy was there on the quest? I thought you said she was critically injured. |
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