22 – Through Death and Through Life
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2014
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In which Rachel and Miles celebrate an anniversary with a retrospective of one of the great romances of the Marvel universe; the Summers/Grey family tree is more of a transdimensional strawberry patch; the X-Men play some football; Professor Xavier is not a jerk; and Scott Summers and Jean Grey are the power couple of existentialism.
X-Plained
- Summers kids
- Scott and Jean
- Feelings
- X-Men #32
- The worst date ever
- Madelyne Pryor
- Plot-relevant prosopagnosia
- Three proposals
- X-Factor #53
- Uncanny X-Men #308
- “Fatal Attractions”
- That one panel that gets us every time
- X-Men vol. 2 #30
- Some really excellent wedding vows
- The best kiss in X-Men
- Cats Laughing
- Why “One” is actually a pretty decent first dance
- Existential ramifications of fictional romance
Next week: Rachel and Miles take a much-needed vacation.
Week after next: The New Mutants!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles Scott and Jean got married in 1994, right? |
| 0:03.2 | Yeah, Rachel, our 10th anniversary is their 20th. |
| 0:05.7 | The year anyway, they got married in March. |
| 0:07.6 | That doesn't add up. |
| 0:08.6 | Yes, it does. |
| 0:09.7 | 1994 to 2014, that's 20 years. |
| 0:12.3 | Yeah, but they spent 12 years in the Ascani future, so in subjective time, that'd be 32 years, or 22 given |
| 0:18.0 | that Jean died in 2004. |
| 0:19.4 | I mean, assuming you ignore the weird Marvel Time stretch anyway. |
| 0:22.2 | Okay, that's the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, right? |
| 0:25.0 | Where Rachel Summers pulls them to the future to raise cable? |
| 0:28.0 | Right. |
| 0:29.0 | So Rachel's their kid from Earth 811 timeline, yeah? |
| 0:32.0 | Technically, she's the kid of the Scott and Gene of Earth 811, but close enough. |
| 0:35.7 | And cables from 4395, the Ascani Future. |
| 0:38.6 | No, he's from good old 6. |
| 0:40.1 | A future version of Rachel pulls him to 4395 when he was a baby to save him from a techno-organic virus. |
| 0:45.2 | It's sort of like how I'm technically from Indiana, but basically grew up in Florida. |
| 0:48.7 | Well, okay, so how did she end up there? |
| 0:51.0 | Traded places with Captain Britain in the time stream. |
| 0:53.0 | Huh, so what about Nate Gray? |
| 0:55.6 | He's from the age of apocalypse, Earth 295. |
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