42 – A Firestar Is Born
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In which Miles has a brush with nostalgia; Angelica Jones is secretly a Thomas Hardy protagonist; it doesn’t need to make sense if it’s awesome; and Emma Frost really needs a mustache to twirl.
X-Plained:
- Trevor Fitzroy
- Firestar (Angelica Jones)
- Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
- Nostalgia
- X-Men, if sometimes the main characters were bears
- Inexplicably Australian Wolverine
- Ms. Lion
- Marvel Divas
- Sudsy fun
- Superhero sitcoms
- Firestar #1-4
- Basic palmistry
- Generic mean girls
- Coen Brothers YA
- The reinvention of Emma Frost
- Some epic gaslighting
- Butter Rum
- Mutivac
- Miles’s favorite star-crossed ‘ship
- Why Thunderbird I has stayed dead
- Contextual definitions of “organic”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, whatever happened to the Hellians? |
| 0:02.0 | Eh, died mostly. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, they were good kids. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, I guess except for Empath, and roulette, and maybe Taro. |
| 0:08.0 | Anyway, some of them were good kids. |
| 0:10.0 | What happened? |
| 0:11.0 | Trevor Fitzroy. |
| 0:12.0 | Wait, the dude with your green hair from Bishop's future? |
| 0:14.0 | That's the one? |
| 0:15.0 | I thought he was part of the Hellfire Club. |
| 0:16.0 | Why do you go after the Hellions? |
| 0:18.0 | Dude, it's the Hellfire Club. |
| 0:19.0 | Backstabbing is practically a membership requirement, literally in some cases. |
| 0:22.0 | Anyway, Fitzroy was part of the up-starts, |
| 0:24.0 | this group of upcoming Hellfire kids who went around assassinating mutants for points. |
| 0:27.2 | What a dick! It's not entirely his fault. He was actually a good guy originally, |
| 0:31.2 | but he got killed in the summer's rebellion and then Lila Miller brought him back without a soul. |
| 0:34.4 | Ouch! |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, he went super evil, infiltrated the ex-see and jumped back in time to lay general waste to the past which was when the Hellions thing happened. |
| 0:40.6 | How did they end up stopping him? |
| 0:41.8 | Well, remember Bishop's sister |
| 0:43.0 | shard? The one who was a hologram? Photon-based life form, thanks. And that was |
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