25 – The Best at What He Does
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In which Wolverine gets his first miniseries, Yukio is still (and forever) the best, we categorically reject the classification “manic pixie dreamgirl,” everything is noir as hell, Wolverine gets an Iron Giant moment, Storm is too cool for your dress code, and we finally made “Probably a Summers Brother” t-shirts.
X-Plained:
- X-23
- The 1982 Wolverine miniseries
- Uncanny X-Men #172-173
- Rachel’s Wolverine feelings
- An auspicious road trip
- Early Frank Miller
- A really epic team-up
- Plug’n’play storytelling
- How to tell a good Wolverine story
- Mariko Yashida
- Honor
- Shingen Yashida
- Yukio
- The Inverse Law of Ninjas
- The Forty-Seven Ronin
- Silver Samurai
- Viper
- A Ninja meet-cute
- The Cyclops / Wolverine double standard
- The secret origins of Wolverine’s mask and hair
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what happened to Dagen? |
| 0:02.0 | Wolverine's son? |
| 0:03.0 | Wolverine drowned him back in on Canyx Force. |
| 0:05.0 | It was really sad. |
| 0:06.0 | And he was a clone, right? |
| 0:08.0 | No, no, he's just Wolverine's son. |
| 0:09.0 | But Wolverine does have a clone. |
| 0:11.0 | Miles, it's Marvel. |
| 0:12.0 | Everyone has a clone. Anyway |
| 0:14.4 | Wolverine's clone isn't Daken it's X-23. But X-23 is a girl. Yeah. |
| 0:18.9 | Wolverine's definitely biologically male, right? Yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay, either someone at Marvel is really confused about what clone means or I am. |
| 0:26.5 | Oh, no, no, no. |
| 0:27.5 | See, some of the DNA they were working from was damaged, so they just had to duplicate an |
| 0:30.6 | ex-chromoson. |
| 0:31.6 | I assume when you say they, you mean weapon X. Of course and |
| 0:34.9 | they did invest it a lot of time in adamantium until making Wolverine what he was so when he |
| 0:38.4 | went rogue they figured they might as well build a new one from scratch. And X23 she |
| 0:42.2 | first showed up in that comic NYX right? Well in the |
| 0:44.9 | comics she'd actually made her debut about a year before that in the high school alternate |
| 0:48.5 | universe cartoon X-Men evolution. Okay. Which basically makes her the Harley Quinn |
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