46 – Shadows Over Cairo
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In which we bid a fond farewell to Bill Sienkiewicz; Secret Wars II continues to ruin everything; the New Mutants end up in an improbable number of gladiatorial arenas; Shadowcat’s secondary mutation is queer subtext; Magik gives no fucks about your crossover event; Warlock transcends storytelling conventions; and Karma rejoins the team.
X-PLAINED:
- The chronologically inconsistent mobility of Professor Xavier
- The Shadow King
- New Mutants #29-34
- Steve Leialoha
- The Arena (more) (again)
- Evil group projects
- Easter eggs
- Rachel Summers: butch fashion icon
- Some major failures of positive size diversity in comics
- Madripoor
- Ashake
- The incredible changing Guthries
- The wickedest club in Cairo
- Default X-teams
- Cypher’s powers
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, remind me, how did Xavier lose the use of his legs again? |
| 0:03.3 | Well, which time, Miles? There was more than one. |
| 0:05.6 | You're joking, right? Dude's in and out of a wheelchair just about every other week. |
| 0:09.2 | Okay, first time. Korean War, right? What? No, no, no, the first time was Lucifer. |
| 0:13.4 | No, I'm pretty sure it was a childhood accident. |
| 0:15.8 | I mean I remember him saying that sometime in the early silver age. |
| 0:18.5 | Oh he did, but it's been retcon so often that no one's even certain anymore. |
| 0:21.6 | Except in the ultimate universe and then it was |
| 0:23.1 | definitely magnito with a spear. God this is worse than clue what about the |
| 0:26.7 | Shadow King? What about him? Well didn't he paralyze Xavier? Oh yeah he totally did but |
| 0:30.8 | that was one of the later times and that was when they fought on the astral plane in Cairo, right? |
| 0:34.0 | The same day Xavier first met Storm, only she wasn't Storm. |
| 0:37.0 | No, no, no, no, no. See, that was when Xavier killed the Shadow King, or at least his human vessel. |
| 0:40.0 | The Shadow King paralyzed Xavier during the Muir Island |
| 0:42.7 | saga when he possessed Legion. The Shadow King, I mean, had possessed Legion, not |
| 0:45.6 | Xavier. What's his deal anyway? |
| 0:47.6 | Legion? We covered that back with sigh. No, the Shadow King. |
| 0:50.1 | Well, he's a disembodied Telebath. |
| 0:51.9 | Kind of like Proteus. Well, kind of like Proteus. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, kind of, but the Shadow King can actually survive without a host body. |
| 0:56.0 | So he's a mutant? |
| 0:57.0 | Originally he was, but then he was retconned. |
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