68 – The Most Dangerous Game
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In which we catch our breath after the Mutant Massacre; Miles’s taste is both epic and adorable; Dazzler’s Achilles heel is fame; Madelyne Pryor; it’s hard to be a teenage ghost; Crimson Commando is not actually Frank Borman (but we wish he were); Wolverine may or may not make truck noises; Heroes for Hope is profoundly baffling; and Sunspot would definitely be way into Leslie Knope.
X-PLAINED:
- Several untimely deaths
- Uncanny X-Men #214-216
- Heroes for Hope
- The post-Mutant Massacre X-Men
- Malice
- Another set of Phoenix callbacks
- The Murder Grandpas
- Crimson Commando
- Super Sabre
- Stonewall
- Actual superhero Marsha P. Johnson
- Priscilla the jerk
- Wolverine SFX
- Some fairly spectacular misunderstandings
- One hell of a jam comic
- X-costumes
- A Thomas Magnum for 21st-century X-kids
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, you know those three dudes who like to hunt humans for sport? |
| 0:03.0 | Miles, we're talking about comic books, you're going to have to be more specific than that. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, those old guys, Crimson Commando, Stonewall, and Super Saber, whatever happened to them? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, Crimson Commando got killed a couple years ago and uncanny X-Men after losing his powers on M-Day and coming after Hope. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll reinfulate him. |
| 0:18.0 | Huh, tough break. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, of course he wasn't Crimson Commando anymore at that point. He was going by Cyborg X. |
| 0:23.4 | Cyborg X? |
| 0:26.0 | Cyborg X? |
| 0:27.0 | That sounds like something you draw in your notebook during sixth grade social studies. |
| 0:31.0 | It really does, doesn't it? Anyway, he was the last of the team. |
| 0:34.3 | Stonewall and Super Saber had both been killed during their Freedom Force days, Stonewall |
| 0:37.8 | on Your Island, and Super Saber in Kuwait. |
| 0:39.6 | Ah, I mean, I know they were jerksks but I kind of liked him. |
| 0:43.0 | It's okay. They did have a good run. Super Saber literally. I mean he got chosen to participate in a qualifying |
| 0:47.5 | heat for the Galactic Marathon along with a bunch of other Earth speedsters. |
| 0:51.0 | Huh. Did he win? Nah, he got creamed by a Barry Allen reference. |
| 0:55.0 | What? What? I'm Rachel Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:11.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:13.0 | Welcome to the 68th episode of Rachel and Miles. |
| 1:15.0 | Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, outs, and retcons of our favorite |
| 1:18.4 | superhero soap opera. |
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