60 – Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In which Rachel Summers went to sleep with Wolverine’s claws in her dreams and now there’s claws in her lungs and when she got out of bed this morning she tripped on her traumatic backstory and by mistake she dropped the Phoenix Force in the sink while the water was running and she could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
X-PLAINED:
- Freedom Force
- Supervillains’ day jobs
- Uncanny X-Men #206-209
- The X-Men’s first brief tenure in San Francisco
- Terrible house guests
- Lindsay McCabe
- David Ishima
- Bree Morrell
- A metaphorical ghost story
- Lycanthropy, but dumber
- The crossing of several ethical lines
- Death by narrative stasis (and also impaling)
- Craft night at the Hellfire Club
- Death by costume satin (and also heart failure)
- One way to write someone out of a book
- Our favorite Summers kids
- X-Music
Special thanks to Elle Collins
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel I've been thinking about Freedom Force. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, that's certainly one way to spend it afternoon, Miles. |
| 0:05.0 | What do you think they do on their downtime? |
| 0:07.0 | I mean, the X-Men have other interests or day jobs or whatever, |
| 0:10.0 | but we don't see that much of Freedom Force when they're not at work. |
| 0:12.0 | Are they just 24-7 super villains? |
| 0:14.4 | And they're not even particularly good ones, so you've got to figure they'd have backup skills, right? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:19.0 | I mean, ultimately, Avalanche actually quit crime completely to open a bar in San Francisco. |
| 0:22.6 | Nice, did it work out? |
| 0:24.1 | Until he was kidnapped by the Red Skull, lobotomized and forced to kill himself to save New York. |
| 0:28.0 | Ooo, ouch. |
| 0:29.0 | What about the rest? |
| 0:30.0 | Let's see, there's Blob. |
| 0:32.0 | Blob's pretty committed to Supervilliney, but he's gone back to the circus on and off, |
| 0:35.1 | and he was briefly a reality TV star after M-Day. |
| 0:37.7 | Spiral? |
| 0:38.7 | Spiral has like six jobs at any given time. |
| 0:41.3 | It's just that they generally involve things like warping the space-time |
| 0:43.9 | continuum and giving people evil robot eyes. Fair enough. What about Pyro? |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, Pyro's done a ton of stuff. Before he fell in with the Brotherhood, he was mostly |
| 0:52.2 | a journalist in war correspondent and even as a super villain I think he was the only member of the Brotherhood or Freedom Force to keep a consistent second job. |
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