138 – What Would Dazzler Do?
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which we continue to follow the post-Siege Perilous X-Men; Dazzler finally makes her big-screen debut; Callisto gets a day job; Colossus gets a ponytail; still more X-Men fake their deaths; Jean Grey gets tentacles; Professor Wolverine is a jerk; and Jay overthinks Community.
X-PLAINED:
- The new-new Howling Commandos
- Hit-Monkey
- Uncanny X-Men #259-263
- Dazzler: The Movie (again)
- Freddie Stanacheck
- Eric Beale
- What Dazzler would do
- Peter Nicholas
- Jenny Ransome and Phillip Moreau (again)
- Twin Peaks references, canonical and otherwise
- Genoshan foreign policy
- The value of allegory
- Some regrettable X-costumes
- That time Jean Grey got tentacles
- Molly the cat
- Dubious medical ethics
- Hardcase and the Harriers
- An unlikely pizza party
- A theoretical Community/X-Men costume party
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hell yes! |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on, Jay? |
| 0:03.0 | Dude, Old Man Logan is going to fight Dracula. |
| 0:05.0 | Ah, sweet. |
| 0:06.0 | Right? |
| 0:07.0 | Wait, is he going to be okay? |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, he's kind of old and Dracula is Dracula? |
| 0:12.0 | Ah, it's okay. He's got backup. |
| 0:14.0 | Jubilee? |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, no, no, no, the Howling Commandos. |
| 0:17.0 | Aren't they almost as old as he is? |
| 0:19.0 | Or older in relative terms, and also mostly dead? |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, no, no, not those Howling Commandos. of terms and also mostly dead? |
| 0:22.6 | Oh no, no, not those Howling Commandos. |
| 0:24.8 | These are the new Howling Commandos. |
| 0:26.2 | Well, the most recent new Howling Commandos. |
| 0:28.6 | There are new Howling Commandos? |
| 0:30.6 | There have been a few. |
| 0:32.0 | There were the all-New-An Commandos, but they were kind of a one-time gig. |
| 0:35.0 | So who are these guys? Are they all nationality-themed, like the originals, or like Street Fighter Two characters? |
| 0:41.0 | Oh man, no, they are not. This batch of howling commandos is a super kick-ass monster |
| 0:46.1 | squad. And they just showed up to help take out Dracula? No no, Shield had steak in the mission. |
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