7 – Cyclops Has a Good Day
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
With guest Greg Rucka!
In which death is a revolving door, we really liked Days of Future Past, space pirates are the best pirates, Vulcan is (still) the worst, Miles has a Corsair costume, Lilandra has lovely plumage, no one knows how to pronounce “M’Kraan,” we studiously avoid discussing the Phoenix force, Saurids speak Hebrew, Raza Longknife’s name is a bit on the nose, Rachel is the worst at hugs, Greg has a ‘ship, and we all kind of identify with Cyclops.
X-Plained:
- The Starjammers (and how to pronounce their names)
- The Shi’ar
- The Neremani Dynasty
- Plumage
- Apostrophe abuse
- Corsair
- The secret origins of the Starjammers
- Why Hepzibah talks like that
- The Rule of Cool
- Visor iterations
- Summerstaches
- Cyclops’s dubious deductive skills
- Hugs
- The All-New, All-the-Same X-Men
- Teenagers, again
- Cyclops #1
- Cyclops vs. Scott
- Space-parenting
- Rachel’s convention sketchbook
- Greg’s Kitty Pryde feelings
- An exceptionally vivid threat
- Intergalactic fashion
- Corsair’s pecs
- Key parties in space
- The greatest romance of the Marvel Universe
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, I was thinking about death. |
| 0:02.0 | Thanos' girlfriend? |
| 0:03.0 | Or wait, are the one in the bikini? |
| 0:04.6 | Or the vertigo one, you know, with the yonk? |
| 0:06.5 | You know, Miles, you've got to be more specific about these things. |
| 0:08.7 | No, like death, like the revolving door kind, and X-Men. |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, with a lower-casey. Yeah, like they're going to be killing off Wolverine. D. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, like they're going to be killing off Wolverine in some big crossover event coming up, |
| 0:17.0 | but at this point it's a foregone conclusion that he'll be back. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh yeah, A-listers always come back. |
| 0:20.0 | Colossus. |
| 0:21.0 | Reanimated by Art of Breakworld. Shadowcat? Retrieved from space by Magneto, then |
| 0:25.3 | killed and then reanimated in the space of an issue by Ord's lady friend. |
| 0:28.3 | Professor X. Usually turns out to be faking it. Magneto. |
| 0:31.1 | Much like Keith Richards, I'm pretty sure Magneto can no longer be killed by conventional weaponry. |
| 0:35.1 | Cyclops? |
| 0:36.1 | It was just mostly dead. |
| 0:37.1 | Corsair. |
| 0:38.1 | Man, you know, I have no idea, but I bet Greg Raka does. |
| 0:41.5 | Hey Greg, how's Corsair back from the dead? |
| 0:43.0 | No, no, no, we talked about this. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm not going to explain anything that's going to be a plot point in the series. |
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