74 – This Dumb Rumpus
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In which Franklin Richards is definitely a normal human meat child; Thing’s code-name is delightfully ambiguous; your kids are probably robot sailors; it’s always a Doombot; Rachel accidentally identifies with Reed Richards; all dramatic roads lead to Latveria; and superheroes are terrible at conflict resolution.
X-PLAINED:
- Franklin Richards
- Rachel & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
- Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men LIVE
- Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men #1-4
- The best hugs in the biz
- The Fantastic Four
- Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
- Invisible Woman (Susan Richards)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
- Thing (Ben Grimm)
- The Fantasticast
- Special dreams (but not that kind)
- Alicia Masters (sort of)
- Dubiously informative cover art
- The doomed frenemyship of Reed Richards and Victor von Doom
- Varyingly competent parenting
- An awful lot of incidental nudity
- Ethics of super-science
- Robot sailors
- Latveriandroids
- Agency
- Dubious conflict-resolution skills
- Human Torch costume logistics
- Dr. Doom’s history with Magneto
- Relative roles and themes of Marvel teams
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel, what's up, Miles? |
| 0:02.0 | Franklin Richards. |
| 0:03.0 | Nope. |
| 0:04.0 | What do you mean, nope? |
| 0:05.0 | Gotta draw the line somewhere. |
| 0:06.0 | Franklin Richards is a bottomless pit of time paradoxes. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean, he makes the summer's kids look straightforward. |
| 0:12.8 | I know there's the days of future present thing and the heroes were born thing. |
| 0:16.2 | Miles look that kid rewrites reality like every third weekend. |
| 0:19.6 | Oh come on that's not going to happen for ages he He's just a cute kid with dream powers. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, he's got the other powers. Then why doesn't he use them? |
| 0:26.0 | Well, because after artificially aging himself into adulthood, he realized he couldn't control the |
| 0:29.4 | full range of his powers because he was basically a kid in an adult body, so he aged himself back down in the process |
| 0:33.7 | installing artificial dampeners to prevent him |
| 0:35.3 | from accessing the reality warping powers |
| 0:36.9 | until he was mature enough. |
| 0:38.0 | What? I'm Rachel Eddodin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:54.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to episode 74 of Rachel and Miles. Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins |
| 1:00.0 | outs and retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera and welcome |
| 1:02.9 | back miles it is really good to have you back in the studio thanks it is good to be |
| 1:06.2 | back packs prime was a lot of fun but it was also freaking exhausting and for what it's |
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