8 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In which Chris Claremont defines the X-Universe; Sunfire quits the team (again); Nightcrawler is the best; the narrator is nobody’s friend; Colossus is a good kid; Cyclops has a long series of bad days; everyone is a bondage Viking; Rachel is a space pedant, we meet the Phoenix, and Wolverine is the Batman of Marvel.
X-Plained:
- Polaris’s kinda-powers
- Our first crossover event
- How much we love you
- Chris Claremont, and why he’s the definitive X-writer
- Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men
- Why Nightcrawler is the best point-of-view character
- The long game
- Tom Orzechowski’s dimension-folding lettering skills
- Claremontisms
- The malicious narrator
- Count Nefaria
- Sliding-scale ransom
- The life, death, and occasional reanimation of Thunderbird
- Friendship
- The care and feeding of cairns
- Erik the Red
- Quiet moments
- Sentinels and X-Sentinels
- Steven Lang
- The (first) death and return of Jean Grey
- Accents
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's the deal with Polaris? |
| 0:01.5 | Uh, you know, Miles, magnetic powers gets possessed a lot, on a gun off again with havoc. |
| 0:05.6 | So is she Magneto's kid? |
| 0:07.2 | Oh, for now at least. |
| 0:08.2 | But wasn't he faking that to make her work for him? |
| 0:10.2 | Oh, no, that was a robot double. |
| 0:11.7 | Of course it was. The real Magneto rescued her from the plane crash. |
| 0:15.0 | She inadvertently caused as a baby by freaking out when her mom and dad got in a fight over mom's affair with Magneto. |
| 0:19.0 | And then he had mastermind write him out of her memory because the miracles of magnetism apparently don't extend to good parenting. |
| 0:24.7 | And the green hair? |
| 0:26.0 | Another miracle of magnetism. |
| 0:27.6 | Huh. |
| 0:28.6 | Speaking of magnetism, didn't she get depowered on MDE? |
| 0:31.2 | But she's got her powers in space and now she's leading X-factor. |
| 0:34.1 | Well, when she became Pestilence, Apocalypse fused Celestial Technology to her nervous system, |
| 0:38.2 | which gives her a rough approximation of her old powers. |
| 0:40.6 | How'd she fall for that? |
| 0:41.9 | Oh, she's been having a really rough time. An apocalypse sent a little alien dude only |
| 0:45.5 | she could understand to be her friend. |
| 0:47.2 | What? I'm Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes. We are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:00.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
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