24 – Ororo, Queen of the Galaxy
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In which Professor X is (canonically!) a jerk, Miles has Sidrian Hunter feelings, Kitty Pryde is Clarissa Darling with a dragon, we introduce a drinking game, the X-Men do Barbarella, Rachel has a ‘shipper moment, Rogue joins the team, Storm gets a haircut, Mastermind is still the worst, and Madelyne Pryor is underrated.
X-Plained:
- Lockheed
- Uncanny X-Men #168-175
- Reset issues
- A one-sided rivalry
- The lowest-drama X-romance
- The Cream of Wheat box as a metaphor for infinity
- Kitty’s Kostume Korner
- Rachel’s questionably-canon ships
- The Morlocks
- Class privilege and the mutant metaphor
- Callisto
- Caliban
- Sunder
- Plague
- Masque
- A dubbing error
- Gender dimorphism in superhero media
- Storm’s first major character arc
- Our single favorite superhero artist
- Rogue
- Rogue’s accent
- A Charles Xavier we can believe in
- Yukio
- Punk Storm
- Madelyne Pryor
- Closure
- Cyclops vs. formalwear
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel. |
| 0:00.6 | What's the deal with Lockheed? |
| 0:02.6 | He's a space dragon. |
| 0:03.7 | Yeah, but he's also a dragon dragon, right? |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, he first shows up in Kitty's fairy tale. |
| 0:08.0 | Sort of. I mean, there is a purple dragon named Lockheed in that story, but it's not Lockheed proper. |
| 0:12.1 | He first shows up in the Brood Saga and Stows back to Earth with the X-Men. |
| 0:15.1 | What about the big Lockheed in Excalibur? |
| 0:17.2 | The one who powers Nazi Excalibur's inter-dimensional train? |
| 0:20.0 | Eh, he's just that universe's version of Lockheed. |
| 0:22.0 | As opposed to Earth 616 Lockheed, who's Kitty's pet? |
| 0:25.0 | Well, not exactly. Lockheed's sentient. |
| 0:27.0 | Huh? |
| 0:28.0 | He also has very strong opinions about Kitty's love life, and he ships her in Colossus. |
| 0:31.0 | Okay. |
| 0:32.0 | In fact, for a really long time, the only time Lockheed ever He ships her in Colossus. Okay. |
| 0:33.0 | In fact, for a really long time, the only time Lockheed ever talked was to tell Pete wisdom how much he hated him when no one else was around. |
| 0:38.8 | So maybe less pet than Sidekick. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, but I mean, he's also got his own stuff going on. He's a hero of his people and he gets occasional romantic subplots with Lady Dragons. |
| 0:46.4 | Well that's pretty cool. |
| 0:47.4 | Also he spent a really long time spying on the X-Men for Sword in exchange for political favors. |
| 0:51.4 | What? I'm Rachel Eddident. |
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