140 – Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In which writer Dennis Hopeless returns to the show for an informal introduction to the (first) mutant messiah; Cable is the best-case retcon scenario; Summerses don’t get to retire; calculating relative character age remains functionally impossible; Cable is Marsha to Stryfe’s Jan; and there’s probably already a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about all of this.
X-PLAINED:
- That one time Cable and Stryfe shared a body
- Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)
- Spinning nonsense into gold
- Cable and X-Force
- Cable’s controversial creative origins
- Collaborative character creation
- Cable origins that might have been
- A whole lot of time travel
- A whole lot of Summers family nonsense
- Professor (Ship)
- Tyler Dayspring (Tolliver)
- Hope Summers
- How to make Cable interesting
- What to do after you save the world
- Still more time travel
- Look, there’s a lot of time travel, okay?
- Old-man strength
- Stryfe
- David Willis’s theory of Batman humor (and Jay’s derivative theory of Stryfe humor)
- Muscle March
- Cable’s role on teams
- Stryfe vs. Hope
- Cable’s theoretical legal career
- Quantum operetta theory
NEXT EPISODE: Cable’s on-page debut!
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| 0:00.0 | Miles are you okay you look harrowed I think cable might be my arch nemesis what gives man I thought you liked cable I |
| 0:09.2 | I like him as a character as a continuity continuity riddle, he is literally why I drink. Jay, I've been doing |
| 0:15.3 | research for this spotlight all week. I haven't slept in two days because I can't figure out |
| 0:19.3 | Klanaskani. Okay, okay fine, but if you're going to be Cable Large Nemesis, I don't think Strife's going to take that well. I mean, he's pretty territorial. |
| 0:28.0 | Man, I don't care what Strife thinks. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, nobody cares what Strife thinks. |
| 0:32.0 | That's true. |
| 0:32.8 | Man, now I feel kind of bad for him though. |
| 0:34.4 | I mean, living in cable shadow, can't get hugs because of all the blades. |
| 0:37.6 | To be fair, that part is kind of his own fault. |
| 0:40.2 | Is it, though, Jay? |
| 0:41.5 | Is it? Yes. |
| 0:43.4 | Okay, but still, he and Cable never even got to have any wacky twin hijinks. |
| 0:47.7 | They had clone confusion. Does that count as wacky twin hijinks? |
| 0:51.2 | No. Okay, look, you know, this really isn't my bailiwick. |
| 0:54.9 | Dennis, you wrote Cable for a really long time. |
| 0:57.1 | Have he and Strife ever gotten to like bond or do twin stuff? |
| 1:00.3 | Not really. |
| 1:01.5 | Oh, man. |
| 1:03.0 | Unless you count the time they shared a body for a while. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, that's definitely a situation ripe for wacky hijinks. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, it was less sharing and more strife getting killed, hitchhiking along, and occasionally wrestling control to enact his agenda. |
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