26 – The Other Team America (featuring Chris Sims)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2014
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which Danielle Moonstar is the Wolverine of the New Mutants, Henry Peter Gyrich is the Walter Peck of the Marvel Universe, Michael Rossi is no Peter Corbeau, Xavier is a Brood Queen (who is a jerk), Bob McLeod draws really good teenagers, the New Mutants do an after-school special, Chris Sims drops in for some emergency X-Plaining, Elsie Carson is the Harvey and Janet of Hydra, and Team America is generally sort of baffling.
X-Plained
- Viper
- Brood stuff
- The original New Mutans (more) (again)
- The New Mutants #1-6
- Denial
- Dani vs. the Danger Room
- Mall stories
- Neighborhood kids
- Henry Peter Gyrich
- Sebastian Shaw (again)
- Project Wideawake (sort of)
- Michael Rossi
- A poorly-timed crossover
- Gabrielle Haller
- A profoundly unethical relationship
- A Very Special Episode
- Overkill
- Magnum, P.I.
- Team America (but not that one)
- Elsie Carson, middle manager of Hydra
- The Girl With the Silver Eyes
- X-Men reading order
The visual companion for this episode will go up mid-week, due to New York Comic-Con generally kicking our asses (Among MANY other things, Rachel is tweeting–mostly cool X-cosplay pics–from the show floor, and Miles is working at the Dark Horse booth. Come say hi!). Meanwhile, for further supplemental material, we recommend reading Chris’s in-depth history of Team America:
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's the deal with Viper? |
| 0:01.6 | Dude, Miles, what isn't the deal with Viper? |
| 0:04.0 | She's like a grab bag of super villains. |
| 0:05.9 | She's mostly a Wolverine villain though, right? |
| 0:07.8 | What? No, no, she's from Hydra originally. |
| 0:10.1 | She was an orphan raised with a bunch of other girls by Commander Krakhan and she fought |
| 0:13.2 | Captain America a bunch. Later on she faked her own death. |
| 0:16.2 | As one does. |
| 0:17.2 | And then killed the original Viper and took his place as leader of the Serpent Squad. |
| 0:20.5 | For a while she had a bunch of doubles of herself called the Pit Vipers, but that didn't really last. |
| 0:24.0 | So what is the Wolverine connection? |
| 0:26.0 | That was a later thing. I think the first time she thought Wolverine was actually when she was messing up his wedding and uncanny X-Men. |
| 0:31.0 | She was piling around with the silver samurai at that point. |
| 0:33.0 | Maricotus disgraced brother. Yeah, yeah, that guy. So anyway, later on she took over a mad report and she blackmailed |
| 0:38.2 | Wolverine into marrying her so she can consolidate control of the country, but then he later |
| 0:41.5 | blackmailed her back into divorcing him. |
| 0:43.2 | Does she work with Hydra anymore? Not really. She teamed up with the red skull |
| 0:46.8 | once a while back. If you're following the axis lead up, he's the Nazi skeleton |
| 0:49.7 | who stole Professor X's brain and is using it to build a concentration camp for mutants, but it didn't really go well. |
| 0:54.0 | What happened? Oh, he thought her plans were financially on sound. |
| 0:57.0 | What? I'm Rachel Laddeiden and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:14.2 | Welcome to the 26th episode of Rachel and Miles |
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