78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which we persevere in the face of adversity; Storm goes on a quest; Mr. Sinister makes his first appearance; Dazzler learns about teamwork (again); it still sucks to be Havok (but not as much as it sucks to be Madelyne Pryor); you should probably put down that cactus; the Murder Grampas join Freedom Force; Storm’s life is a metal-album cover; and the X-Men are doomed as hell.
X-Plained:
- The Mr. Sinister / Summers family time loop
- Uncanny X-Men #220-224
- Actual and potential origins of Mr. Sinister’s name
- How Longshot’s powers work in combat
- Teamwork (again)
- Representing sound and silence in a visual medium
- A protracted fight
- Forge (again)
- Naze (kind of)
- The Adversary
- Eye Killers
- One of many reasons not to masturbate with a cactus
- The X-Men in San Francisco
- Madelyne Pryor vs. fate
- Storm vs. Forge
- Character names vs. code names
- X-Makeovers
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, guess what? |
| 0:01.0 | What? |
| 0:02.0 | What? |
| 0:03.0 | Sinister. Oh, dude, you're right. |
| 0:04.0 | We finally get to Mr Sinister for real this week. |
| 0:06.0 | In all of his glam super scientist, baby stealing summer's obsessed glory. |
| 0:11.0 | So what is up with Sinister in the summer's family anyway? It's all about |
| 0:14.4 | building a better anti-apoculips, right? |
| 0:16.5 | Well ostensibly, but it's actually a self-fulfilling time loop. |
| 0:19.8 | Oh, because Cable's a time traveler? |
| 0:21.6 | Cable? No, actually this one was Cyclops' salt. |
| 0:24.2 | How so? |
| 0:25.0 | Well, so remember how in the further adventures of Cyclops in Phoenix, |
| 0:28.9 | Scott and Jean got punted back to the 19th century |
| 0:32.0 | to stop Sinister from taking over England? |
| 0:34.0 | Oh yeah, back when he was still Nathaniel Essex and he was experimenting on those Proto-Morlocks. |
| 0:38.3 | Right. |
| 0:39.3 | Now at that point Sinister had never actually met Scott or Jean, but Cyclops kept alluding to their history which got sinister curious about the summer's family. |
| 0:47.0 | So it's literally all Cyclops's fault? |
| 0:50.0 | On more levels than one. The second half hinges on a guy named Daniel Edge who'd been one of |
| 0:54.6 | Sinister's prisoners and test subjects. |
| 0:56.6 | That name isn't ringing any bells. |
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