50 – The People Vs. Erik Lehnsherr
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In which Magneto makes an official alignment shift; Claremont does a court drama; Professor Xavier makes poor choices; Rachel Summers comes by her communication skills honest; the Strucker kids are the evil Wonder Twins; and the podcast hits a major milestone!
X-PLAINED:
- Xorn
- Uncanny X-Men #196, 199, and 200
- The X-Men status quo circa 1985
- Magneto’s alignment shift
- Beyonder-related existential crises
- A hypothetical murder mystery
- Minor vandalism as a harbinger of dark futures
- Psi-scream
- Brood classified ads
- A thematic parallel
- The tipping point in Scott and Madelyne’s relationship
- The new, improved Magneto
- The Professor Who Cried Wolf
- Phoenix II
- Earth-811/Earth-616 disambiguation
- Freedom Force
- The Trial of Magneto
- NPR-616
- James Jaspers
- The best editor’s note
- The mystery of Magneto’s age
- Andrea & Andreas Strucker
- What not to wear to court
- A super icky sword
- Phoenix morality
- Sponsorship & conflict of interest
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel I was reading the trial of Magneto, as one does. |
| 0:02.8 | And it got me thinking about Zorn. |
| 0:04.4 | Which one? |
| 0:05.4 | There's more than one? |
| 0:06.9 | There's two, not counting Future Brotherhood Gene Gray, although she only really ever wore them |
| 0:10.9 | ask. |
| 0:11.9 | She wasn't really Zorn. Which one's Magneto? None of them. Dude no, Magneto created the identity of |
| 0:16.6 | Zorn as a means to infiltrate the Xavier school. Then yet hooked on kick, tried to destroy New York, |
| 0:21.1 | and killed Gene Gray before Wolverine killed him. |
| 0:23.0 | I remember this distinctly. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh yeah, I mean that all totally happened. |
| 0:26.4 | It just wasn't Magneto. |
| 0:28.0 | How'd they spend that one? |
| 0:29.3 | First of all, when Xavierafir went to Barry Zorn, who everyone still thought was |
| 0:32.4 | Magnito on Genosha, he then |
| 0:33.7 | snuck off to meet up with the real Magido. |
| 0:35.7 | Okay, so who was Zorn then? |
| 0:38.1 | He was Zorn. |
| 0:39.1 | Kwanyan Zorn anyway. |
| 0:40.4 | And he had a star in his head, like for real. Yep. |
| 0:43.0 | So why did he pretend to be Magneto? |
| 0:44.0 | Well, he had been using a ton of kick, which later turned out to be everyone's favorite |
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