18 – You’ve Got a Dracula Problem
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In which Dr. Nemesis is delightful, Bill Sienkiewicz foreshadows himself, Dracula hits on absolutely everyone, Blade Godwins a crossover event, Jubilee get a jet ski, the X-Men do Castlevania 2, Rachel and Miles pick a vacation destination, and Cyclops wants you to follow your heart.
X-Plained:
- Dr. Nemesis
- A very good page of a very good comic
- Dracula variations
- X-Men #159
- Appropriate use of holy symbols
- “The D”
- Tomb of Dracula
- Bloodstorm
- Carrotstorm
- Curse of the Mutants
- Jubilee
- Crossover events
- Why we can’t have nice things
- Some really sweet weaponry
- The Dracula Reassembly Machine
- Phone sex with Gambit
- The point of being Lord of the Vampires
- X-Club
- Authorial voice in comics
- Why there probably won’t be a Starjammers movie
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what are Dr. Nemesis's powers? |
| 0:02.0 | You mean aside from being absolutely delightful? |
| 0:05.0 | Well, Miles, his mutation is superior intellect, but he's basically a science hero. |
| 0:09.0 | Tiny cameras for eyes, using ambiguous chemicals to extend his lifespan by decades, that sort of thing. |
| 0:14.0 | Decades? Wait, how old is he? |
| 0:16.0 | Let's see, um, 108. He was born in 1906. |
| 0:20.0 | Wasn't Namor born in 1915 though? |
| 0:22.8 | Oh yeah, the first mutant stuff is as far as I can tell basically Atlantean propaganda. |
| 0:27.0 | Nemesis isn't actually technically the first mutant either though. |
| 0:29.6 | There were a handful of Victoria Narrow ones and of course there's apocalypse. |
| 0:32.8 | So he's been around for most of the Marvel Universe? |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, totally. |
| 0:35.8 | He helped build the first human torch, the robot one. |
| 0:38.3 | And then he was a Nazi for a while, but he got better. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:41.3 | Well, when did he join the X-Men? |
| 0:42.4 | In 2009, Beast recruited him for X- Club, which was the science team that was trying to figure |
| 0:46.6 | out how to keep mutants from going extinct after decimation. |
| 0:49.0 | How'd that go? |
| 0:50.0 | Nemesis was the oldest living mutants they had much information on, so they decided the logical thing to do was travel back in time to get DNA samples from his parents, which led to his father being killed by a proto-sentinel before Nemesis could be born. |
| 1:01.0 | Ouch, that sounds like a time paradox. How do you survive? |
| 1:04.4 | Well, his mom was already pregnant. |
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