31 – Chekhov’s Raygun
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In which there is a whole, whole lot going on; we continue to have no use for Michael Rossi; Wolverine should be an advice columnist; Forge makes bold fashion choices; the health of a timeline is directly tied to the awesomeness of Storm’s hair; and the X-Men get their first dark-future refugee.
X-Plained:
- Dire Wraiths
- ROM
- Tailoring
- Uncanny X-Men #182-188
- Just how much story can be shoehorned into seven issues
- A dubious Silent Hill metaphor
- The people in Rogue’s head
- Inexorable momentum
- Several profoundly uncomfortable conversations
- Parallel narrative in comics
- Being friends with Wolverine
- Casual enmity
- Forge
- Miles’s X-doppelganger
- Tiny shorts
- Chekhov’s Raygun
- Rachel Summers (again)
- Timeline disambiguation
- Rachel disambiguation
- “Lifedeath: A Love Story”
- Feelings
- Storm, powers, and identity
- X-Men Mad-Libs
- Hound marks
- X-Men: The End
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's up with these dire wraiths? They seem kind of out of place in X-Men. |
| 0:03.6 | Well, Miles, the dire wraiths are an offshoot of the scrolls, and they are kind of out of place in X-Men. |
| 0:08.6 | They're ROM Space Night villains. |
| 0:10.1 | Wait, who the what night? |
| 0:11.6 | ROM Space Night, like read-only memory. |
| 0:14.0 | Seriously? |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, totally. |
| 0:16.0 | Actually, his original name was Kobol, but they changed it for marketing reasons. |
| 0:19.0 | Huh, so how does he relate to the X-Men? |
| 0:22.0 | That is an excellent question. |
| 0:23.5 | Remember Team America? |
| 0:24.8 | How could I forget five motorcycle guys |
| 0:27.0 | with a mutant power to make a sixth motorcycle guy? |
| 0:29.4 | Well, yeah, but see the relevant part here |
| 0:31.1 | is that they were a toy license, Marvel picked up and as as a result they got shoehorned into a bunch of unrelated stories. |
| 0:35.7 | I think I see where you're going with this. |
| 0:38.3 | That's right. |
| 0:39.1 | Ram was a Parker Brothers property and Parker Brothers made a deal with Marvel to make a comic to promote the toy line. |
| 0:44.0 | Toys were a colossal failure, but the comic actually did okay. |
| 0:46.4 | It ran 75 issues and it was pretty well integrated into the Marvel Universe. |
| 0:49.6 | So he's officially Marvel? |
| 0:50.8 | Kinda. |
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