29 – Mutant in a Box
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In which Cyclops is the worst at vacations, Mystique is your favorite MurderMom™, Havok is eternally ABD, Kitty Pryde does science, Callisto doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation, Xavier has a Troy Barnes moment, Miles may be the only person with fond memories of Secret Wars, and Rachel finally gets to make Spalding Gray references.
X-Plained:
- Fantomex
- Uncanny X-Men #176-181
- Reset issues
- Scott Summers’s second-worst honeymoon
- Cephalopod disambiguation
- Project Wideawake (more) (again)
- Valerie Cooper
- Foreshadowing
- Public displays of affection
- Leech
- How X-Men age
- A sewer wizard
- Doug Ramsey
- Secret Wars
- Japan
- Mystique’s kids
- Douglock
- Mystique’s powers
- The other X-Men Forever
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| 0:00.0 | So, Phantom X. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh God! |
| 0:03.0 | I thought you liked him. |
| 0:05.0 | I do, I love him, but he's a whirling vortex of complex continuity. |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, we can go there if you want, but I don't know if we're ever going to come back. |
| 0:12.0 | I believe in you. |
| 0:14.3 | Okay, so. |
| 0:16.3 | Phantom X is one of the weirder characters introduced in Grant Morrison's already deeply weird run. |
| 0:20.0 | He's a product of the Weapon Plus program. |
| 0:21.6 | Technically, he's Weapon 13, |
| 0:22.8 | Raised in the world, that's world with a capital |
| 0:24.2 | W, a capsule environment maintained by Weapon Plus, |
| 0:26.4 | where time can be dilated or accelerated as desired. |
| 0:29.0 | He's named after Fantomas, right? |
| 0:30.6 | The French Pulp character. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, self-named. His given name, to what extent he has one, is just the name ofp character. Well, self-named. |
| 0:33.0 | His given name to what extent he has one is just the name of his Experiment batch, which is Charlie Cluster 7. |
| 0:37.0 | Out of code name, he generally goes by Jean-Philippe in reference to John Philip Law. |
| 0:41.0 | The actor from Danger Diabolique, which is where Phantom X got his look in his more benevolent |
| 0:44.7 | mannerisms. |
| 0:45.7 | Okay, this is kind of tangled, yeah, but I'm following it fine so far. |
| 0:49.3 | What's his mutation? |
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