146 – Asshole Factor (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In which Elisabeth plans for her reign as Omniversal Majestrix; Hulks and moons are two great tastes that go great together; Nightcrawler takes the lead; Alastair gets a new gadget; it’s just not a cosmic event without Alan Davis; Mastermind is still the absolute worst; Excalibur fixes problems by playing dress-up; Moira MacTaggert desperately needs to hire some staff; and Jamie Braddock is legitimately terrifying.
X-PLAINED:
- M’gubgub
- Nth Man
- Excalibur #25-27
- Nova (Frankie Raye)
- The continually poor decisions of Brian Braddock
- A convergence of cosmic forces
- Lumberjack Death
- Character growth both literal and metaphorical
- A cosmic snit
- Asshole Factor
- A villainous ruse
- Several rounds of reality warping
- Definitive incarnations of characters
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| 0:00.0 | Elizabeth, what the hell is a Magub-Gub? |
| 0:04.0 | Hey Miles, what's a what now? |
| 0:06.0 | Magub-Gub-Gub, it's something Jamie Braddock yells at a big Galactus-looking guy in one of the issues we're talking about today. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, right. Magub-Gb-gub is a giant alien that the nth man fought. |
| 0:17.0 | Treebeard fought an alien? |
| 0:18.0 | Not the n-man, the nth man. |
| 0:21.0 | John Doe, the Ultimate Ninja. |
| 0:24.8 | Okay, I am way more confused than when we started. |
| 0:27.6 | What's his deal? |
| 0:29.2 | You know, the usual. |
| 0:30.6 | Grew up in an orphanage with his friend Alfie, taken in by a Ninja Master who worked for the CIA, |
| 0:36.0 | can reverse time and gravity. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay, sure, nothing out of the ordinary there. |
| 0:41.0 | You mentioned his friend, though. |
| 0:42.0 | Alfie, was he a Ninja too? |
| 0:44.4 | No, no. He was an omniscient reality warper who loved comic books and calls play. |
| 0:48.8 | Okay, wait, was he the guy dressed as Galactus and that one-excalibur issue? |
| 0:52.6 | Yep, and he kind of earned the space theme too. |
| 0:55.6 | He traveled the galaxy for a while trying to help various aliens. |
| 0:58.8 | That's when he fought Magub-Gub-Gub, he was trying to save the Bourborgum. Magub-Gub-Gub-Gub, he was trying to save the Borborgim. |
| 1:03.0 | Magub-Gub was attacking the Borborgim. |
| 1:05.0 | No, that came later. |
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