53 – Sometimes They Come Back
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In which Wolverine doesn’t care about your baby; Storm takes charge; duels are terrible bases for systems of government; editorial mandate is hell on a marriage; Magneto is a pretty cool teacher; Jean Grey comes back; and we have mixed feelings about the Phoenix retcon.
X-PLAINED:
- Kenji Uedo
- Uncanny X-Men #201
- New Mutants #35
- Avengers #263
- Fantastic Four #286
- Classic X-Men #8
- The post-Trial of Magneto status quo
- Nathan Christopher Charles Summers
- A small cross-section of Cyclops’s myriad issues
- The wrong means to the right end
- Magneto’s educational philosophy
- The politics of creative credits
- “You Know Who”
- The Phoenix retcon
- Several unrelated break-ins
- The return of Jean Grey
- Jean and the Phoenix Force
- Alternate-timeline Madelynes Pryor
- Jean Grey’s code names
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel I was reading Storm Number 10. |
| 0:02.0 | Ooh, good pick, Miles. |
| 0:03.2 | I know, right? |
| 0:04.4 | Anyway, who's this Kenji dude? |
| 0:05.8 | He's from Generation Hope, isn't he? |
| 0:07.8 | Yeah, he's one of The Lights. |
| 0:08.8 | Actually, he also ended up being the main villain of the series. |
| 0:11.1 | The Lights? |
| 0:12.0 | A group of newly manifested mutants tied to hope. She was able to |
| 0:14.8 | help stabilize their powers but she ended up with a lot of residual and |
| 0:17.3 | varyingly conscious influence over them which Kenji did not dig even a little |
| 0:20.6 | ironically. Ironically how so? |
| 0:23.0 | Well, because he was all about mind control himself. |
| 0:25.6 | Wait, wait, wait, I thought his powers were physical, like growing tentacles, |
| 0:28.4 | expanding and absorbing people, stuff like that. |
| 0:30.8 | Well, yeah, but early on he used them to make a new body for Martha Johanson, that's |
| 0:33.0 | early on he used them to make a new body for Martha Johanson, that's no girl, and he |
| 0:35.0 | discovered that since it was technically still his body it let him tap into |
| 0:38.0 | her telepathic powers. |
| 0:39.0 | And he used those powers to mind control people? |
| 0:41.0 | Well, not directly. |
| 0:42.0 | Because of the way Kenji's powers worked, he could only control people? Well not directly because of the way |
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