47 – The Price of Power (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In which Emergency Backup Co-Host Elisabeth Allie saves the day; the Berserkers are not the breakout hit you’ve been waiting for; Paul Smith continues to be awesome; nothing good ever happens in the Danger Room; Charles Xavier dabbles in cosplay; Nightcrawler has serious hat game; Rachel Summers lacks healthy coping skills; your life would be way more epic if Claremont narrated it; Northstar is a surprisingly good prom date; Loki is a total dick; and Longshot is totally Miles’s favorite.
X-PLAINED:
- Madelyne Pryor
- X-Men/Alpha Flight vols. 1&2
- The Berserkers
- An unconventional model of family therapy
- Aggressive foreshadowing
- NPC dialogue
- Jazzercise superheroes
- Superhero color theory
- Sasquatch
- Aurora
- Those Who Sit Above in Shadow
- Norse fashion of the ‘80s
- Very specific superpowers
- Some sweet boots
- The price of power
- A deus ex machina squared
- Kitty and Piotr’s first date
- Snowbird’s powers
- Miles’s favorite X-Man
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Elizabeth, I've been thinking about Madeline Pryor. |
| 0:02.5 | Yeah, she's really great in this era. |
| 0:04.4 | Right, but I've specifically been thinking about how she gets powers in the X-Men and |
| 0:07.5 | Alpha Flight miniseries. That's the only time she did, right? |
| 0:10.1 | Oh, not even close. Her psychic power started to manifest when she was captured in genocia, telepathy and telekinesis. |
| 0:16.5 | Like gene-gray's powers? |
| 0:17.5 | Exactly. She found out from sinister that she was a seemingly powerless clone of Gene who had been awakened by a |
| 0:23.2 | shard of the Phoenix force. And then also got demonic reality warping powers |
| 0:28.2 | after being broken by that revelation. Oh right the whole goblin queen thing. |
| 0:32.4 | Worst costume ever or worst costume ever. |
| 0:35.0 | You mean when she was Queen of the Underboob? I mean, underworld? Worst costume ever. |
| 0:39.0 | That was it though, right? I mean, she died in Inferno right after and... |
| 0:42.0 | Well, later on she came back from the dead a few times. |
| 0:45.0 | Once is the Red Queen, who seemed to have magical powers in addition to the psychic stuff. |
| 0:50.0 | Once in the body of a former Lady Death Strike host where she was just psychic again, and once is a scionically constructed astral ghost. |
| 0:57.0 | Ghost? |
| 0:58.0 | Well, sort of. Eventually, it turned out she was really an evil incarnation of Gene Gray from an alternate universe. |
| 1:03.6 | What? I'm Miles Stokes and I'm Elizabeth Alley and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:18.8 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:20.6 | Welcome to the 47th episode of Rachel and Miles explain the X-Men, where we walk you through |
| 1:24.3 | the ins, outs, and retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 1:27.6 | So Rachel's out this week and I am joined by Elizabeth Ali, former senior marketing manager of |
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