65 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 1
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In which we hit the first big X-centric crossover; a lot of Morlocks die; X-Factor is a dark farce; Kitty Pryde talks down a mob without using racial slurs; when Doug Ramsey tells you there’s a problem, you listen; and Callisto should be one of the iconic leaders of the Marvel Universe.
X-PLAINED:
- Death by intellectual-property dispute
- The Mutant Massacre
- Mutant Massacres that might have been
- Uncanny X-Men #210-213
- New Mutants #46
- The Marauders
- The best way to guarantee the New Mutants’ involvement in a storyline
- Limbo fashion
- The responsibility of leadership
- Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
- Psylocke vs. Sabretooth
- The evolution of crossovers
- Characters we’d like to see more of post-Secret Wars
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what are you so happy about? |
| 0:02.0 | Miles, dude, we just hit the continuity milestone that I have been waiting 64 episodes to reach. |
| 0:08.0 | The first major eccentric crossover? |
| 0:10.0 | What? No, I'm talking about the official introduction of the greatest ex-antagivist of all time. |
| 0:15.0 | The Marauders, I hardly think... |
| 0:17.0 | No, no, not the Marauders, Mr Sinister, man. |
| 0:19.5 | Nathaniel Essex, the most glam of all-glam super villains. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh yeah, he put the marauders together, right? |
| 0:26.0 | Well, indirectly, yeah. |
| 0:27.0 | And he created the technology that created the Morlocks. |
| 0:29.0 | Actually, come to think of it, if you throw in the Grand Summer's families, |
| 0:32.0 | he's responsible for like 90% of the pieces in this story. |
| 0:34.4 | Wait Sinister created the Morlocks? |
| 0:36.8 | I thought they were just mutant refugees from all over the place. |
| 0:39.4 | No, no, Sinister created the technology that created the Morlocks. |
| 0:42.4 | Dark Beast created the Morlocks. Hank McCoy? Mr. Pink, but into the past. |
| 0:52.6 | Now in age of apocalypse, he'd been working for Mr Sinister |
| 0:54.8 | and he still had a lot of Sinister's tech, |
| 0:56.5 | which he then used to continue his experiments, |
| 0:58.3 | which, in turn, led to the creation of the Morlocks. |
| 1:00.2 | So he's still working with Sinister? |
| 1:02.2 | Oh, God, no. Sinister's incredibly possessive about his research. |
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