2 – Sentinels in the Mist
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In which we introduce the villains of the Silver Age: Magneto makes some valid points, Mastermind is a Nice Guy of OkCupid, the Scarlet Witch predicts Cat Breading, the Trasks should really have known better, and the Comics Code Authority is down with pterosaurs.
X-Plained:
- Common characteristics of enduring X-villains
- Mutant identity politics and moral relativism
- Context-agnostic Juggernaut flashbacks
- An unorthodox approach to anthropology
- Cyclops’s greatest diplomatic achievement
- Silver-Age haberdashery
- An innovative modification to vampire mythology
- Cultural assimilation
- The propaganda-and-sweater-vest machine
- Hex bolts
- Supplemental reading
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel I was reading X-Force, you know, the new Cy Spurrier one. |
| 0:03.2 | Yeah, what's on your mind, Miles? |
| 0:04.6 | So what's the deal with cables, kid? |
| 0:06.8 | Tyler, wasn't he actually Strife's kid? |
| 0:09.1 | Either way, he's been dead since like 96. |
| 0:11.2 | Why do you ask? |
| 0:12.1 | Uh, no, not him, the other one that's in the coma right now. |
| 0:15.4 | Oh, okay, that's Hope. She was the first mutant baby born after the Scarlet, |
| 0:18.9 | which reality warped the mutant population to near extinction after House of M. |
| 0:22.2 | House of M. House of M. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay, that's the magnetocentric utopia |
| 0:26.0 | where the Scarlet Witch is imaginary |
| 0:28.0 | but not actually imaginary kids were, right? |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, that one. |
| 0:32.0 | Okay, so Hope. Right, she's not actually cables kid. |
| 0:35.4 | Cyclops just sent her off with him because so many people were trying to kill her |
| 0:38.8 | they figured she'd actually be safer growing up on the run in a post-apocalyptic future. Oh, the one in the stone with the sentinels. |
| 0:44.0 | No, no, the literally post-apocalyptic Iskani timeline. |
| 0:46.5 | Okay, the one where Cable's from? |
| 0:48.0 | Well, the one where he grew up. |
| 0:49.4 | Cable's actually from the main timeline, but when he was a baby Cyclops had to send him to that |
| 0:53.4 | future with this none who turned out to be the far future version of his alternate |
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