23 – Meet the New Mutants
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2014
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In which Rachel and Miles return triumphant, the X-Men get a second ongoing series, we hit peak Moira MacTaggert, R-A-H-N-E is definitely pronounced “rain,” Sam Guthrie is the nicest henchman, Claremont is hit-and-miss on cultural diversity, and Bobby da Costa is the teenageriest teenager of them all.
X-Plained:
- Nova Roma
- The New Mutants and The New Mutants
- Marvel Graphic Novels
- Greenberg the Vampire
- call-backs
- Karma
- Wolfsbane
- Sunspot
- Cannonball
- Mirage
- Whitewashing in superhero comics
- The mercurial Guthrie family
- Xi’an the Obscure
- The Dr. Claw Effect (and why Dr. Doom and Arcade are exceptions)
- Donald Pierce
- Eras of New Mutants
- Lila Cheney
- The Hellions
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, who would you say are the definitive new mutants? |
| 0:02.8 | There's a Mirage, Cannonball, Sunspot, Wolf, Spain, |
| 0:05.3 | Karma, Cypher, Warlock, and Magic, right? |
| 0:07.6 | Well, and Magma, everyone always forgets Magma. |
| 0:10.0 | I think I just kind of repress Magma, because when you think about Magma, you have to talk about nova roma and nova roma is dumb. |
| 0:15.8 | Nova roma is terrible. What's the deal with that place anyway? |
| 0:19.2 | Well at first magma thought it was an actual Roman colony in Brazil that never really grew out of ancient |
| 0:24.0 | Roman culture. |
| 0:25.0 | Okay, but it wasn't though, was it? |
| 0:26.7 | Well, it turned out at some point that Saline had set it up and populated it with brainwashed |
| 0:31.2 | kidnap victims so she'd have a dedicated pool of |
| 0:33.2 | worshippers. Saline? One of the last surviving externals you know runs with the |
| 0:36.8 | Hellfire Club on and off. And she created no for Roma? No that's the thing. |
| 0:40.6 | It turned out she just brainwashed them to believe she had, and it actually was an ancient Roman colony. |
| 0:44.7 | What? I'm Rachel Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:00.3 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to the 23rd episode of Rachel and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, outs and ret cons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 1:09.0 | So we were gone last week. Thanks for bearing with us, but we are now back from our anniversary |
| 1:12.8 | vacation to vampire island it was great we definitely recovered the dead body of |
| 1:17.2 | dracula right romantic I love being a couple sometimes we made out all over like |
| 1:21.7 | all the dead vampires yes Yes, what is this? Underworld? Come on. |
| 1:25.0 | No, no that would be well maybe that I think that would be that we made out with all the dead vampires. I haven't actually seen underworld |
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