33 – Crossoverload
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which we dive into two crossovers; our DCU is the DCAU; the Greys just cannot catch a break; Darkseid is basically Santa Claus; the Phoenix Force has Cyclops feels; Baron Karza is the sonic screwdriver of supervillains; and the Enigma Force is aptly named.
CONTENT NOTE: The Micronauts portion of this episode involves not-particularly-graphic but still fairly involved discussions of sexual violence. If that’s not something you want to listen to, we’d recommend stopping the episode after the Teen Titans portion at 26:26, and fast-forwarding to 47:52 for conclusions, questions, and outro.
X-Plained:
- Crossover Earth
- Amalgam
- Crossovers
- The Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans
- The Teen Titans
- The One True Flash
- Cosmic Kirby
- Darkseid
- Metron
- The Source Wall
- Deathstroke the Terminator
- Ravok
- Butte sex
- Cyclops and the Phoenix Force
- The X-Men and the Micronauts #1-4
- Bill Mantlo
- The Hero Initiative
- Micronauts
- The Microverse
- Baron Karza
- Evil Xavier (more)(again)(seriously, how is anyone still surprised when this happens)
- Several moral event horizons crossed in quick succession
- Female protagonists in X-books
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel, I was thinking about crossovers. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, Miles, I am so sorry. |
| 0:03.7 | I know, I know, but Axis kind of put those wheels in motion and it took me back to |
| 0:08.0 | Avengers versus X-Men and I was thinking, |
| 0:10.0 | how come everyone forgot that Cyclops had already been a Phoenix host? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, he hadn't. |
| 0:14.0 | But he had, though. |
| 0:15.1 | In the X-Men and Teen Titans crossover, |
| 0:16.6 | he briefly hosts the Reconstituted Phoenix Force. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, honey, no. |
| 0:20.1 | What? |
| 0:21.1 | What? Well, first of all, that wasn't exactly the Phoenix Force. It was sort of a patchwork dark Phoenix that dark side cobbled together from residual energy. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay. But the important detail there is that it's also a different Cyclops. |
| 0:31.0 | Wait, what? Well, the Cyclops in Avengers versus X-Men is vanilla 6-16 Cyclops. |
| 0:35.6 | The Cyclops and the Teen Titans crossover, in fact all the characters in the Teen Titans |
| 0:38.6 | crossover are Earth-7642 versions. |
| 0:41.0 | Earth-7642. Earth 7642. |
| 0:43.0 | Right, see I think its official name is Crossover Earth, and it's the multiverse |
| 0:46.5 | designation for the Earth where the Marvel and DC characters share a single universe. |
| 0:50.3 | There might be a couple other properties thrown in as well, but it's definitely at least those two. |
| 0:53.6 | So, amalgam? No, amalgam is Earth 9602. |
| 0:57.0 | How's that work? I mean, it's the Marvel DC crossover Earth, isn't it? |
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