75 – By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In which Masque is the worst Morlock; makeouts are a good reason to learn to control your powers; Cyclops and Marvel Girl are terrible role models; Iceman is the heart of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge finally shows his hand; the kids are all right (and probably the only ones who are); and we’ve basically given up on X-Factor ever learning to use doors.
X-PLAINED:
- The Right
- The Ani-Mator
- X-Factor #16-20
- Training with X-Factor
- Skids’ backstory
- Motivational makeouts
- Miles’s Thor-ner
- Thor #377-378
- Why you don’t make deals with frost giants
- The mystical realm of Pittsburgh
- Redundant funeral graffiti
- A totally rad villain speech
- The evolution of Iceman
- Dubious flight safety precautions
- Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter)
- Some really epic gaslighting
- A probably-inevitable confrontation
- Supervillain team-building exercises
- Park maintenance
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, I've been thinking about the right. Me too. I mean we're coming up on an election year and I'm really concerned about this extreme partisanship that seems... |
| 0:07.0 | No, no, no, the other right. The direction? The abstract concept. The anti- Mutantant Group. |
| 0:13.0 | You know, in retrospect, that's probably where I should have started. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, we are coming up on an election year. |
| 0:18.0 | Elections are fleeting, man. |
| 0:20.0 | Cameron Hodges creepiness. |
| 0:21.0 | Eternal. |
| 0:22.0 | If that was supposed to be reassuring, you have failed badly. |
| 0:24.8 | Why on earth would I intend anything about Cameron Hodge to be reassuring? |
| 0:28.2 | Come on. Anyway, you're saying... |
| 0:30.7 | The right. Right. So, what ended up happening to them? You see the purifiers |
| 0:34.9 | pop back up every now and then and friends of humanity, but the right seems to have kind of |
| 0:38.5 | fizzled. Well, yeah, that's because they made the mistake of engaging the services of Dr Frederick Animus. |
| 0:43.8 | Wait, isn't that? The animator, yeah. He was supposed to be looking for ways to stifle mutation. |
| 0:49.6 | Did he? Hell no, he's the animator. |
| 0:52.2 | He took their money and used to create weird |
| 0:53.9 | animal hybrids before killing dog Ramsey and then long term evolving into |
| 0:57.0 | some kind of sentient virus. What? I'm Rachel Eddittin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did |
| 1:15.8 | Welcome to episode 75 of Rachel and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through |
| 1:20.2 | the ins outs and retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 1:23.5 | So this time we are coming back to X Factor, speaking of the soapiest of that soap opera. |
| 1:28.1 | God it really is. |
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