427 – Standard Deviation
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In which we have grown to love Adam Pollina; the Vanisher is delightfully awful; Ekaterina Gryaznova gets a new look; Domino rejoins X-Force; superheroes actually have a conversation instead of fighting; Cannonball rejoins X-Force; we don’t even remember recording this one; and something cool is coming (stay tuned).
X-PLAINED:
- Arcadia DeVille
- The Deviants
- X-Force #81-84
- What’s been up with X-Force
- The goddess Pele and the heart thereof
- Beachwear
- An episode of The Brady Bunch
- Krotok the Lava Man
- Lava Men, in general
- Gortokians
- Jinku the Lava Man
- A diabolical plan
- Jesse Aaronson (Bedlam) (but not that one)
- Terry and/or Christopher Aaronson
- The Aguilar Institute
- The Griffin (Ekaterina Gryaznova, again)
- Infinite Guthries
- Ulysses Dragonblood
- Odysseus Indigo
- Lucas Wyndham
- M.U.S.E. (Mutant Underground Support Engine)
- A very Summers situation
- Foreshadowing
- Whether Shard can (and should) be resurrected by the Five
- Accidental foreshadowing
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Jay, is Arcadia a deviant or a mutant or what? |
| 0:05.7 | Arcadia Deville, it's unclear. |
| 0:10.0 | All we really know is that she's got intense reality-warping powers, which the deviance |
| 0:14.0 | want to use to their own ends. |
| 0:16.3 | And the deviance are the first offshoot of humanity created by the Celeste Geals, yeah? |
| 0:21.0 | It's not just like a kink thing. |
| 0:23.1 | Right. |
| 0:24.3 | And they have powers. |
| 0:26.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:27.0 | Like, say, a thumbnail version of mutants, evolved from homo erectus instead of homo sapiens. |
| 0:32.7 | So what do they need Arcadia for? |
| 0:34.4 | Again, she's a really powerful reality-warper, and her powers are undeveloped enough that |
| 0:39.2 | presumably they see her as potentially controllable. |
| 0:42.2 | How out of control are we talking? |
| 0:44.1 | Is this gonna be another house of M situation where she remakes the world in her image? |
| 0:48.5 | No, nothing on that scale. |
| 0:50.5 | Although, at one point, she is going to manifest… |
| 0:53.4 | Don't tell me, psychic armor, a car, a fortress, the demon bear, what?! |
| 1:12.6 | I'm Jay Edited, and I'm Milestokes. |
| 1:15.4 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:18.2 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:20.0 | Welcome to episode 427 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men, where we walk you through |
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