71 – The Once and Fuchsia King
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which the New Mutants return from space; Professor Xavier ruins everything; Magneto is the Craig Pelton of X-Men; Cypher carouses shamefully with Hellfire tramps; Karma quits the team; and we wrap up Chris Claremont’s New Mutants run.
X-PLAINED:
- Leong and Nga Coy Manh
- New Mutants #51-54
- The Starjammers (again)
- The paradox of Professor X
- Several dramatic speeches
- The Hellfire Club for Creative Anachronism
- Plan Omega (but not that one)
- A fairly epic dress-code violation
- Magik vs. Limbo
- A very specific bit of fancasting
- Best Magneto
- What X-fans (may or may not) live for
- A well-wrought nightmare
- Hellion disambiguation
- Doug Ramsey’s Fancy Hair
- New Mutants X Frank Zappa
- Wacky teen hijinks at the Hellfire Club
- Carousing shamefully with Hellfire tramps
- A heroic challenge
- A counterintuitive heart’s desire
- Claremont’s New Mutants run.
- Libraries
- Emma Frost’s accent
- The sounds of blastin’
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what happened to Leong and Naga? |
| 0:03.0 | Karma's kids siblings? |
| 0:04.2 | They got kidnapped during the Mutant Massacre. |
| 0:06.0 | By the Marauders? |
| 0:07.0 | Or was it a Friends of Humanity? |
| 0:08.4 | What? |
| 0:09.4 | No. |
| 0:10.4 | Was it their uncle again? |
| 0:11.4 | Like, you know, as a way to get karma to come back and work for him? |
| 0:14.0 | No, no, it was Shinobe Shaw. The Black King of the Hellfire Club? |
| 0:16.7 | No, that's Sebastian. |
| 0:18.0 | Shinobe's his jerk kid. |
| 0:19.2 | Oh, the one he used to run around playing murder games with the upstarts. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah, that's the one. |
| 0:23.2 | Anyway, he held on to the kids for a while, then gave them to Viper and Spiral to experiment on. |
| 0:26.8 | Oh, man, those kids seriously cannot catch a break. |
| 0:30.0 | I know, and the whole time, Carmel was stuck working for her super evil uncle trying to use his resources to find them |
| 0:35.3 | Did she eventually and Beast was able to undo the damage but karma basically disappeared from the X books for a few years after that |
| 0:41.4 | What did she resurface? |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, X-Force ran into it, Burning Man. |
| 0:44.4 | What? I'm Rachel Eddidin and I'm Miles Dokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:00.0 | because it's about time someone did. |
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