14 – Look Upon My Man-Thing and D’Spayre
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In which Canada is complicated, the X-Perts join Twitter, Rachel cares about a Wolverine story, Angel had one job, Kitty Pryde is pretty cool, Cyclops gets a hat, neither of us knows how to pronounce “Aleytys,” Doctor Doom is a terrible date, and the X-Men have an awful lot of signature moves.
X-Plained:
- Department H
- Department K
- Director X
- The Weapon Plus Program
- Weapon P.R.I.M.E.
- Weapons I-XVI
- The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage
- The new normal
- Stevie Hunter
- The Wendigo
- Berserker rage
- Yard work
- Wolverines
- Angel’s one move
- The N’Garai (again)
- Lee Forrester
- D’Spayre
- Magic-Feather villains
- Man-Thing
- Doctor Doom
- Arcade
- Why it sucks to be Havok
- The X-Perts’ relative areas of X-pertise
- Cyclops vs. Storm
- Signature moves
CORRECTIONS: Lee’s dad’s house is in Florida, not Louisiana; Doctor Doom is not in Europe but in New England, where has taken over Toad’s theme park, because that was definitely a thing.
If you’re looking for our coverage of X-Men 141 and 142—”Days of Future Past”—you can find that in Episode 6, “Days of Future Whatever.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, Alpha Flight works for Department H, right? |
| 0:02.7 | Alpha Flight was organized by Department H, but their actual affiliation with the department |
| 0:06.5 | has been on again off again. |
| 0:07.5 | They've been laid off a few times and spent a while operating independently. |
| 0:10.5 | Why do you ask, Miles? |
| 0:11.7 | I'm trying to figure out how they connect to |
| 0:13.2 | weapon X. That was a Canadian project, right? Weapon X was a joint |
| 0:16.6 | American Canadian project that grew out of the much larger weapon plus program |
| 0:19.6 | which has at various times involved the United States Great Britain, Canada, |
| 0:22.4 | Germany, and Mr Sinister, |
| 0:23.6 | who's basically nationally affiliated with Mad Science at this point, operating under yet another |
| 0:27.7 | pseudonym. Its Canadian affiliation is through Department K, which is basically the Department of |
| 0:31.9 | Shady Cover coverups. |
| 0:32.8 | Department H was the superhuman operatives were concentrated, |
| 0:35.5 | so Weapon X used it as a recruiting pool, |
| 0:37.2 | but as far as I know that's the only direct link. |
| 0:39.2 | Okay, so Department H, Department K. |
| 0:41.6 | What about Director X? |
| 0:43.2 | What's his connection? |
| 0:44.4 | The shady unnamed Director of Department H? |
| 0:46.6 | As far as I know, it's actually a coincidence. |
| 0:48.7 | The weapon program is iterative, so like Phantom X's Weapon 13, the Stepford Coucoos, or weapon 14, etc. |
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