72 – Thrown Under the Plot Bus
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In which Dazzler is not a team player; Longshot is the Zonker Harris of the X-Men; Juggernaut is That Guy; Rachel and Miles channel Statler and Waldorf; and Alex Summers is seriously never, ever going to finish grad school.
X-PLAINED:
- Mutant X
- The only well-adjusted Scott Summers in the Multiverse
- The Goblin Entity
- Uncanny X-Men #217-219
- The evolution of the X-Men’s lineup
- Standards for a good twist
- Doonesbury
- Several Dungeons & Dragons analogies
- A dubious literary allusion
- Flying jeeps
- CrimeBros
- The fundamental tragedy of Longshot
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and several homages thereto
- Geordie and Rupert
- Havok (more) (again)
- Car-wreck sex
- An unfortunate end to a camping trip
- The Plot Bus
- Several ways to stat Rogue up as a D&D character
- Narrative-friendly power sets
Special thanks to:
- The wonderful Adam Warrock, for letting us sample his song “Teamwork” in this episode! You can listen to the full track here, and find more of Adam’s work at adamwarrock.com.
- Harrison Barber for his X-Pert D&D advice (not to mention nearly fifteen years of tolerating our nonsense at the gaming table)!
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel I was reading the issues for this episode and man it super sucks to be havoc in this era |
| 0:04.8 | Oh Miles it always sucks to be havoc his life is like multiversely miserable |
| 0:10.4 | Multiversely how's that work? |
| 0:12.6 | Ever heard of Mutant Decks? |
| 0:13.7 | The TV show? |
| 0:14.7 | No, the TV show has nothing to do with the Marvel Universe. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm talking about the 32 issue ongoing slog of misery and death where Havick spent 1998 |
| 0:21.8 | through 2001. |
| 0:23.0 | What was the deal with that again? |
| 0:24.5 | Okay, so remember when Havik was in charge of X-factor? |
| 0:27.2 | I thought that was Cyclops. |
| 0:28.3 | No, the other X-factor. |
| 0:29.4 | The one with Madrox. |
| 0:30.4 | Right. |
| 0:31.4 | So X-factor investigations. |
| 0:32.4 | No, no, the other other X-factor, the government team. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, the Val Cooper X-factor. |
| 0:37.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:38.0 | Anyway, for a while they worked with this dude named Greystone, who was from Bishop's future. |
| 0:41.0 | The one with the Summer's Rebellion. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, that one. Greystone was gradually Bishop's future. The one with the summer's rebellion. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah, that one. |
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