64 – Ski Lodge of Apocalypse
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary

In which Louise Simonson saves X-Factor; Apocalypse gets off to a rough start; Cyclops is bad at people; Apocalypse should be the Kingpin of X-Men; Jean Grey is sick of your bullshit; you should totally cosplay Skids; and Mystique fundamentally misunderstands branding.
X-PLAINED
- The Maximoff family tree
- The Whizzer
- X-Factor as sketch comedy
- Louise Simonson
- X-Factor #6-8
- Apocalypse
- Bulk
- Glow Worm
- Skids (Sally Blevins)
- Weaponized fashion
- Trish Tilby
- Favorite Claremontisms
- X-Finance
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Special thanks to Master of Maximoffs Max Carleton of Waiting for the Trade.
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel, I finished uncanny Avengers and I'm still pretty hazy on who the Maximoff twins parents are. |
| 0:05.0 | Jango and Mariam Maximoff. |
| 0:07.0 | I thought they retcon that away years ago. |
| 0:09.0 | I mean the Maximoff's adopted the twins, right? |
| 0:11.0 | I remember that. |
| 0:12.0 | You remember correctly? So they're just not adopted anymore no |
| 0:15.9 | they're still adopted why would you adopt your own kids well no one knew they were |
| 0:19.8 | Maximus twins bova thought they were Magda Eisenhower's wife. Right. |
| 0:24.6 | And Bova's the cow lady who hangs out with the high evolutionary. |
| 0:28.6 | Exactly. So how did she end up with the twins? Well despite being hidden way the hell up in the mountains |
| 0:33.9 | and guarded by a bunch of transformed animal people, apparently the high |
| 0:36.4 | evolutionaries fortress was briefly the place to go give birth to your super kids. |
| 0:40.1 | Magna ended up there when she was pregnant and Bova agreed to hang on to the baby so Magneo wouldn't get a hold of them. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay. |
| 0:46.0 | And then a little while later, the Whizar and Miss America showed up and she was also pregnant. |
| 0:50.0 | Wait, wait, rewind. There was a character named The Whizzer. |
| 0:54.0 | I know, right? He was actually this dude named Robert Frank who developed super speed as a side effect of being injected with |
| 0:59.4 | Mangus Blood. You just made that up. I did not. |
| 1:02.4 | Mungus Blood. I did not. |
| 1:03.0 | Mungou's blood. |
| 1:04.0 | Scout's honor and he was married to Miss America. |
| 1:06.0 | How'd that work? She first showed up in 2011 and she's a teenager and gay. |
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