28 – What’s New, Shadowcat? (Featuring Greg Rucka)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary

In which we welcome back Greg Rucka, Rachel makes a valiant effort to read Secret Wars, Earth-200500 is still the best Earth, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine is kind of dodgy, Ogūn is low-rent Mister Sinister, Miles talks about empathy, Greg has an Edna Mode moment, and we all love Kitty Pryde.
X-Plained:
- X-Men #153
- Kitty’s Fairy Tale
- Earth-5311
- Earth-200500 (again)
- Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-6
- Samurai eyefucking
- Ogūn
- Special cuddles
- Some really dodgy stuff
- The best Kitties Pryde
- Professor K.
- Smart kids in fiction
- Why we love Shadowcat
- Point-of-entry characters and gender
- Costume theory
- Our favorite new podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, is Wolverine dead yet? |
| 0:02.0 | Pretty much, Miles. |
| 0:03.0 | I mean, as of last week, he was still cranking along an amazing X-Men, |
| 0:06.0 | but that seems sort of divorced from general continuity, |
| 0:08.0 | so I think it's fair to say that he's dead for all practical purposes. |
| 0:11.0 | I mean, at least for now. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay, so how do you kill a guy with a healing factor? |
| 0:15.1 | Well, the Xavier protocols indicate decapitation, |
| 0:17.5 | but in the case of the death of Wolverine, |
| 0:18.8 | they just bypassed the issue entirely |
| 0:20.2 | by getting rid of his healing factor first. |
| 0:21.8 | How do you lose it? |
| 0:22.7 | Virus from the microverse. |
| 0:24.1 | The microverse. |
| 0:25.4 | It's where the micronauts toys come from. |
| 0:27.0 | It's the subatomic universe plus a bunch of Star Wars stuff with a serial numbers filed off. |
| 0:30.7 | I don't, don't go into it. |
| 0:32.3 | Okay, but I want to go back to the Xavier protocols though because that's bugging me. |
| 0:35.8 | I mean, would decapitation actually kill him, you know, with his healing factor and all? |
| 0:39.1 | Unlikely, I mean, at this point he survived not only ground zero at an atomic explosion but |
| 0:44.2 | having literally all of his soft tissue burned off by solar radiation I mean how can |
| 0:48.4 | he even survive that well he doesn't always and he was in hell for a while |
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