43 – It’s Not a Secret If It’s in the Title
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In which we cover 21 issues in one episode; Secret Wars is a toy commercial; Jim Shooter’s X-Men are not the X-Men to which we are accustomed; Doctor Doom makes a surprisingly benevolent god; Secret Wars II is neither secret nor a war; The Beyonder learns to poop; and Boom-Boom is the best thing to come out of Secret Wars.
X-Plained:
- Secret Wars
- The not-particularly-secret origin of Secret Wars
- Binary morality
- Battleworld
- The Wrecking Crew
- Klaw
- The Beyonder
- Molecule Man
- Doki-Doki Universe
- Titania and Volcana
- Zsaji
- Secret Wars II
- The Passion of Jim Shooter
- Stewart Cadwall
- What people do
- Tie-ins
- Pooping
- What it means to be Spider-Man
- Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)
- The time a bunch of superheroes saved the universe by killing a baby
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, which- |
| 0:01.0 | Whoa, whoa-Woe? |
| 0:02.0 | Is that Secret Wars? |
| 0:04.0 | Yep, I think it's time. |
| 0:05.0 | Well, as long as we don't have to cover them. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, I was thinking about that, and Secret Wars II is starting to cross over into most of the |
| 0:11.0 | ex-books where we are. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus there's that whole big 2015 event |
| 0:14.0 | coming up. |
| 0:15.0 | Miles, Miles, that's like 20 issues. 21. And we usually do what, for an episode? We just |
| 0:20.6 | don't have time for this. I mean size coming on next next week to talk about Legion. We've got all the 50th episode stuff that we're trying to schedule around. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, it's cool. I figured we could just knock it all out in one episode. |
| 0:29.0 | What? Hi, I'm Rachel Eddenden. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:43.8 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:46.2 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the 43rd episode of Rachel and Miles Explain the X-Men where we walk you |
| 0:51.9 | through the ins-outs and ret cons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 0:55.0 | So yeah, Secret Wars 1 and 2. |
| 0:58.0 | Now, I should say we were not originally planning to cover this. |
| 1:01.0 | In fact, we were rather adamantly originally planning to not cover this. In fact, we were rather adamantly |
| 1:02.8 | originally planning to not cover this. |
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