54 – Who You Gonna Call? (feat. Elle Collins)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In which the X-Men get their third ongoing series; Elle drops in to x-plain the Defenders; the band gets back together; rich people are not like the rest of us; Cyclops is in desperate need of some kind of intervention; and X-Factor is basically Ghostbusters.
X-PLAINED:
- Cameron Hodge
- The fairly spectacular secret origins of X-Factor
- The Champions
- The New Defenders
- The evolution of Hank McCoy
- X-Factor #1
- The death throes of Scott and Madelyne’s marriage
- Rusty Collins
- A really bad first date
- The increasingly dubious life choices of Scott Summers
- The worst job interview
- Sushi-a-Go-Go
- How not to have an intervention
- X-Factor
- The X-Terminators
- The Phoenix Force on Earth-811 (and its relationship to Rachel Summers)
NEXT WEEK: The Beyonder ruins everything. Again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, you know who's the absolute worst? |
| 0:02.9 | Mastermind? |
| 0:03.9 | Well, him too, but I was thinking of Cameron Hodge. |
| 0:06.6 | I mean at this point in X Factor, he's still ostensibly a good guy. |
| 0:09.7 | But knowing where he's headed, there is literally nothing he says or does that doesn't creep me out. |
| 0:14.4 | You mean the thing where he hacks all the X-factor computers to convince Scott the |
| 0:17.3 | Gene is turning into Phoenix and then he's gradually losing his mind? |
| 0:20.0 | Well, or the thing where X-factor turns out to be a really complicated plot for revenge on Warren for being cooler, culminating and amputating his wings and driving him to suicide. |
| 0:28.0 | Or the thing where he makes a deal with a demon to |
| 0:33.5 | mutant babies in exchange for immortality. |
| 0:33.0 | Or that thing where after Arganj |
| 0:35.0 | cuts his head off, Hodge attaches it to mechanical spider legs |
| 0:38.0 | becomes the secret power behind a totalitarian anti-mutant slave state |
| 0:41.0 | and then destroys and consumes warlock, triggering the phalanx and almost bringing the technarchy to earth. |
| 0:45.6 | What? Hi, I'm Rachel Additon. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:00.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:02.0 | Because it's about time someone did. Welcome to the 15th. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:02.5 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome to the 54th episode of Rachel and Miles, |
| 1:06.6 | explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins outs and |
| 1:09.1 | retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
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