473 – The Baker’s Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which you know it’s serious business when a logo gets smashed; the prophecy of the Twelve is an elaborate prank; we have a lot of Summers family feelings; Apocalypse is not a very good planner; and the Twelve reaches its conclusion.
X-PLAINED:
- Who Madelyne Pryor’s psychic ghost really is
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #377
- Cable #76
- X-Men #97
- Perks of immortality
- A slightly gratuitous way to destroy an airplane
- Several doppelgangers
- Apocalypse’s big, stupid plan
- A fancy science machine
- The Atomium
- The Twelve
- The three elements
- The best issue of the Twelve
- Orb action
- Cable’s knowledge of history
- Summers feelings
- How to establish stakes
- Potato storms
- The mutant Skrulls (more) (again)
- Cadre K
- Categories of mutants
- How to beta test an Armageddon machine
- Alpha nerd Charles Xavier
- Weaponized continuity
- The color(s) of Cyclops’s eyes
- How to evoke Uncanny X-Men #137
- An unfortunate twist
- Mundane uses of superpowers
- The Altar
- What would have improved the Twelve
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, while I know that the Nate Gray Madeline Pryor thing is weird as hell, I've also got to admit I really like her bit in this story. |
| 0:09.3 | Well, yes and no, Miles. I mean, yes, it is a great bit of the story. But that's not actually Madeline Pryor. |
| 0:18.1 | Uh, fine, Madeline Pryor's psychic ghost, whatever. Oh, she's not Madeline Pryor. Oh, fine. Madeline Pryor's psychic ghost, whatever. |
| 0:21.9 | Oh, she's not Madeline Pryor's psychic ghost either. |
| 0:25.0 | Who is she then? |
| 0:26.3 | An evil Gene Gray from another dimension. |
| 0:28.5 | What? |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Jay Eddden. |
| 0:43.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:45.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:47.7 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to episode 473 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:52.7 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:54.9 | and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:56.2 | And welcome to |
| 0:57.4 | the culmination |
| 0:58.6 | of the 12. |
| 1:00.4 | We are on part |
| 1:01.1 | three of three |
| 1:02.5 | covering that story. |
| 1:04.8 | Yay. |
| 1:05.8 | Yay. |
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