452 – Hot Nothing
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In which Magneto is not full of mirth; nobody real or fictional likes Fabian Cortez; when you’re a speedster, every problem is a metaphorical nail; The Zealot makes some valid points; and when Quicksilver declares himself your conscience, it’s time to examine your life.
X-PLAINED:
- How Magneto got his powers back
- Morally ambiguous hair
- Genosha (more) (again)
- Magneto Rex #1-3
- Magneto vs. Conan
- Trish Tilby
- Omniscient narrative condemnation
- Magneto’s true archfoe
- Magistrates (more) (again)
- Mutates (more) (again)
- Dr. Alda Huxley
- Phillip Moreau (more) (again)
- Jenny Ransome (more) (again)
- Pipeline (Cormac Grimshaw)
- Teleportational nudity
- The Zealot
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- Amelia Voght (more) (again)
- Several of Magneto’s on-again-off-again children
- The Bastille (but not that one)
- Mutant numbering
- When to use full frontal nudity in your comic
- The X-books we’re not covering
- The Amulet of Right vs the Sword of Might
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, so did Magneto keep his powers after House of M? |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, hell no. |
| 0:07.0 | But he did get them back. |
| 0:09.0 | Obviously. |
| 0:10.0 | How? |
| 0:11.0 | Well, first Magneto went to the High Evolutionary who... |
| 0:15.0 | Evolutioned him? |
| 0:17.0 | Built him a fancy battle suit that replicated his powers. |
| 0:20.0 | Then the High Evolutionary made a Fancy Powers restoring machine with parts that they'd stolen from the shiar. |
| 0:26.0 | Apocalypse. |
| 0:28.0 | The dreaming Celestial, the ancient cosmic giant who slumbered under the earth for 20,000 years before judging humanity and becoming a statue in Golden Gate Park. |
| 0:35.6 | What? I'm Jay Eddidden and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:53.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to episode 452 of J and Miles |
| 0:58.0 | explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the rat cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:03.0 | And welcome to more Magneido, the magnetic gift that keeps on magnetic giving and also probably sticks to your fridge. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, it would if it keeps on magnetic giving that's true well there's also like there's the |
| 1:15.5 | attraction attraction is you know sort of taking it's pulling right I don't know |
| 1:18.9 | maggots how do they work are you saying that you find Magneto attractive? I mean, look at his |
| 1:25.8 | hair in the cartoon these days. Yeah, oh that's his morally ambiguous hair. I think his morally ambiguous hair maybe his most attractive hair like I love him as a good guy with a super long hair but that morally ambiguous hair I mean you know I've said this before on the show and I say it again I love a good mullet. |
| 1:43.0 | It gets great volume of that length too. |
| 1:46.0 | Probably because of all the magnetism. |
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