472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which the Twelve should really be twelve chapters long; Archangel has issues; we continue to bemoan the absence of captions; the X-Men ditch their crossover event for a side quest; Magneto is Genosha’s official chaperone; and we would absolutely elect Emma Frost to a school board.
X-PLAINED:
- What Cable does next
- The event so far
- Wolverine #146-147
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999
- Whether the Shadow King is moist
- Why tiny cavemen can’t have nice things
- Numerous flashbacks and allusions
- Archangel’s third-stage evolution
- The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
- Abraham Kieros (again)
- Apocalypse as a self-help guru
- Fully nude Wolverine
- X-51 #8 (briefly)
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- A miracle of magnetism
- Scomp linking
- A big fancy machine
- Exodus (more) (again)
- Mutants we’d like to see in public office
- The (theoretical) Essex administration
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Jay, so the 12 and its immediate aftermath are supposed to be the final climactic |
| 0:05.6 | apocalypse story, right? |
| 0:07.2 | Right, Miles. |
| 0:08.8 | And Cable's whole purpose has always been to fight Apocalypse, right? |
| 0:13.3 | Right. |
| 0:14.8 | So, I know Apocalypse eventually comes back, but not for a while, and Cable is around |
| 0:19.9 | in the meantime. |
| 0:22.6 | What do you do when your life's purpose is no longer relevant? Well, you find a new purpose. So in Cable's case, for instance, |
| 0:28.0 | you'll lean into being a messianic figure and you create a utopia to inspire humanity to become |
| 0:32.0 | their best selves, not utopia with a capital U. This is a different utopia. |
| 0:36.1 | Okay, well, that sounds nice, but even with all his Asconi teachings, Cable's mostly experienced with firing comically large guns at a blue robot guy. |
| 0:45.9 | How does he know how to create an entire perfect society? |
| 0:49.0 | Well, like any good leader, Cable knows how to delegate. |
| 0:52.1 | He brings along some advisors, he's got a priest, he's got a rabbi. |
| 0:55.5 | What is this? |
| 0:56.4 | A walks into a bar joke? |
| 0:58.2 | And he's got a warrior from the crusades who got pulled through time by both King |
| 1:01.0 | the Conqueror and Thor bonded with both the evil eye and the infinity stone of power, |
| 1:04.1 | and there was then merged with the imagination of a child by a sentient cosmic cube to create |
| 1:07.1 | an alternate medieval earth. |
| 1:09.0 | What? |
| 1:10.5 | What? |
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