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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

398 – Shanna the Wee Devil

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which the rest of the X-Men return from space; Maggott is the new cool; Gambit's past catches up with him; Chris Bachalo takes over as regular artist on Uncanny X-Men; Deathbird flirts singularly aggressively; Eany and Meany eat a truck; dating a telepathic ninja is going to take some getting used to; and Havok predictably remains ABD. X-PLAINED Motormouth (Harley Davis) Motormouth and Killpower Uncanny X-Men #347-349 Grovel and Spat A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy An extraordinarily half-assed action figure Load-bearing backstory Landscape The other Nanny Elegant foreshadowing Beast's appearance as a mutant power Gambit's chest hair The end of playtime CCA-compliant foliage Deathbird and Bishop A vanity plate Eany and Meany One-off psychometry Psylocke vs. Maggott Decompression Havok's enduring lack of a Ph.D. NEXT EPISODE: X-Force hits the road! NOTE: In this episode, Miles theorized Grovel's voice as sounding halfway between Cable and Kermit the Frog without realizing that he was in fact just describing Sweetums. -Jay Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0

Hey, L. Hey, Miles, what's up? I was just wondering. So you're from Scotland. Do you know

0:06.7

anything about the Marvel UK heroes from the early 90s? Oh, yeah. They were a big thing

0:12.9

when I was just starting to get into Marvel. So what's the deal with motor mouth? She showed

0:19.2

up on a couple issues of Peter David's Hulk run, but other than that, she doesn't seem to

0:22.9

have made much of an impression in Marvel in the US. Well, Mozart was a teenage girl by the name

0:29.2

of Harley Davis, who accidentally got mixed up in the plans of the evil mistech corporation

0:35.4

when she stole some of their experimental dimension-hawking equipment. Okay, okay. So I'm guessing

0:42.9

they wanted that stuff back. They really did. So they sent Kill Power, who was this massively

0:50.2

powerful hitman with a mind of a child to take her out. But wait a minute, wasn't her book called

0:57.7

Motor Mouth and Kill Power? It was. Kill her quickly switched sides, decide with Motor Mouth,

1:05.2

and everything was going totally fine until she caught a stray ricochet from a bullet he'd fired.

1:11.1

Luckily, he was able to save her. With some kind of battlefield medical training? Yeah.

1:18.4

Okay, maybe an advanced mistech healing do Hickey. Not even.

1:24.0

Well, how did he save her?

1:28.2

But I'm planting bits of her sneakers in her throat. What?!

1:42.6

I'm Milestokes. And I'm Al Kennedy, filling in for Jay Edadon while he's on parental leave.

1:48.0

And we are here to explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did.

1:52.6

Welcome to Episode 398 of Jay and Miles explained the X-Men, where we walked

1:57.4

through the ins, outs, and retcons of comics, greatest superhero soap opera.

2:02.0

And welcome back from space!

2:08.0

There's half of the X-Men, at this point in time, have been dealing with Operation Zero Tolerance

2:12.9

for what feels like about 150 years. And the rest of them have been off-gallavanting

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