79 – Bear on a Boat
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In no one trusts Magneto; Dr. Druid is the comfiest superhero; She-Hulk wants to punch a meteor; Rachel and Miles are really bad at both nature and maritime law; boat fights are the best fights; everyone makes terrible choices; and James Jaspers should really have been disbarred by now.
X-PLAINED:
- Darkstar vs. Dark Star
- X-Men vs. Avengers #1-4
- Magneto’s narrative milestones
- Dr. Anthony Druid
- A most peculiar meteor
- The Soviet Super Soldiers
- Vanguard
- Darkstar
- The Titanium Man / Gremlin
- Ursa Major
- Floridian vs. Australian fauna
- Crimson Dynamo
- Dock parties with the X-Men
- Secrets of Asteroid M
- Cartoonish pursuit
- The drinking rules of costume semi-destruction
- The Laws of the Sea
- Why you should put your multi-team brawls on a boat
- An abrupt creative shift
- The Light
- Several miracles of magnetism
- An ethical dilemma
- The (other) trial of Magneto
- Magneto heel turns
- Picking which tie-ins to read
- The Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Whoa! Hey Rachel, check this out! |
| 0:03.0 | What's up, Miles? |
| 0:04.0 | Did you know there was a Dark Star movie? |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, sure. I think I thought we saw it in college. |
| 0:08.0 | I always thought she was a pretty minor character. |
| 0:10.0 | Wait, what? You know, Dark Star. |
| 0:12.0 | Russian superhero controls Dark Force. |
| 0:14.0 | There's a John Carpenter movie about her. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, Miles. |
| 0:18.0 | What? |
| 0:19.0 | You're um... |
| 0:20.0 | Oh God, okay, I don't really quite know how to break this to you man, but the John Carpenter movie is not actually about Lania Petrovna. |
| 0:28.0 | It's not? |
| 0:29.0 | No, it's about Stoneron-We and Space Beards. |
| 0:32.0 | I mean, I can get behind that, especially because I don't know that much about Marvel's Dark Star. |
| 0:36.8 | I mostly remember her dying back in Morrison's X-Men Run. |
| 0:39.6 | Right, she was killed by Weapon 12, or rather she was possessed and overwritten by Weapon 12 and then killed by Phantom X. |
| 0:45.2 | Oh, poor Lania. |
| 0:46.7 | It's cool. |
| 0:47.7 | She got better. Of course she did. |
| 0:49.7 | How did it work this time? |
| 0:50.7 | Well, see, Dark Star's mutant powers are tied to something called the dark force. The dark force? |
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