467 – Disorganizing Principle
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In which Nightcrawler has a type; the Hill is a bad place to raise your kids up; Colossus introduces Marrow to art; we come out against autotrepanation; Mikhail Rasputin never learns; Destiny leaves clues from beyond the grave; and The Twelve looms.
X-PLAINED:
- That one universe where Mystique raised Nightcrawler in an attic
- An event in name only
- Some shit that went down a while ago
- The Hill (more) (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #373-374
- X-Men #93-94
- Marrow as a child soldier
- Rural Boston
- Some asshole
- Mikhail Rasputin (more) (again)
- How to prove that you’re a god
- The souls of furniture and some other things
- The green psychic entity who’s been secretly controlling Mikhail Rasputin, I guess?
- Ninja problems
- B. Byron Biggs
- Ronnie Lake
- A Conspiracy
- How Rogue and Destiny met
- Compulsory heterosexuality
- Destiny’s diaries
- Prognostication vs. agenda-setting
- Skrullverine’s power mimicry
- How the Mannites could’ve been used in the Krakoan era
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, we know now that Nightcrawler's original origin, that one where Mystique threw him over a bridge to save herself, was a false memory. |
| 0:09.0 | Right, because Destiny figured out it was the only way he could then grow up to stop Azazel. |
| 0:14.0 | It still seems like a bummer that they couldn't raise him, though. |
| 0:18.1 | At least not in the main reality. In what if 98, Mystique doesn't abandon nightcrawler. |
| 0:22.3 | Instead, she... |
| 0:23.3 | Goes on the run with him? |
| 0:24.9 | Keeps him hidden in an attic |
| 0:26.1 | until she founds the brotherhood, |
| 0:27.5 | at which point he... |
| 0:28.6 | Rebels. |
| 0:30.1 | Falls in love with Rogue. |
| 0:31.5 | What? |
| 0:31.9 | What? I'm Jay Edidon. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:46.4 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:49.3 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to episode 467. |
| 0:53.8 | God, that's a lot. |
| 0:55.0 | Of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:56.8 | where we walk you through the ins, |
| 0:57.9 | outs, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:01.5 | And welcome to the event The Shattering, |
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