55 – How Nightcrawler Got His Groove Back
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In which Secret Wars II ruins everything (more) (again) (forever); Rachel Summers hates the Beyonder almost as much as we do; Miles gets mad at comics; Nightcrawler does not do gritty well; Lady Deathstrike gets wired; and we consult our favorite 3-year-old for book recommendations.
X-PLAINED:
- Rogue vs. Carol Danvers
- Life before social media
- Uncanny X-Men #202-205
- Alpha Flight #33-34
- Phoenix II vs. the Beyonder (twice)
- The Reverse Gwen Stacy
- Still more miracles of magnetism
- Kitty Pryde disambiguation
- SFLANNG!
- Good times in Murderworld
- The third-worst honeymoon
- Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama)
- Spiral’s Body Shop
- The Reavers
- One way to build a Wolverine antagonist
- Skirting the Comics Code
- Sound-effects lettering as a narrative device
- Good X-books for a 3-year-old
Special thanks to Katie and Kestrel P.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, how much do you know about Rogue's powers? |
| 0:02.2 | Enough to use protection? |
| 0:03.4 | Why? |
| 0:04.4 | How much does she retain of the people she absorbs? |
| 0:06.0 | Because usually she loses them, right? |
| 0:07.8 | But there have been a few stories where they all come back and there's the whole Carol thing. |
| 0:11.1 | Okay, so first of all, like pretty much everyone else on the X-Men, |
| 0:14.8 | Rogue's powers aren't written all that consistently. |
| 0:17.2 | Usually she loses absorbed personality traits and powers pretty fast, but sometimes they stick |
| 0:21.1 | around longer. |
| 0:22.1 | Length of contact seems to be a factor, |
| 0:23.6 | but I'd chalk more of the differences up to narrative necessity. |
| 0:26.2 | Much like the miracles of magnetism. |
| 0:28.2 | Exactly. |
| 0:29.2 | Okay, so, but what about Carol Danvers? |
| 0:31.4 | I mean, she was in Rogue's head for a long time, right? |
| 0:33.8 | Years. |
| 0:34.4 | How'd she get out? |
| 0:35.1 | Did she just gradually fade the way |
| 0:36.6 | short term powers seem to? |
| 0:37.8 | Oh, God, no. |
| 0:38.6 | In fact, her presence in Rogue's head intensified. |
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