80 – For the Mutant Who Has Everything
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In which we go back in time to take a look at two annuals; everyone is really excited about Excalibur; Claremont ups his illusion game; Horde should probably not be allowed to dress himself; Rachel fires the X-Men; Havok needs better role models; Psylocke’s secondary mutation is femme power; Kyle X-Plains giant monsters; we check in with Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau; and you should totally come see us at Vegas Valley Comic-Book Festival on November 7!
X-PLAINED:
- Dazzler’s powers
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #11
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #7
- New Mutants Annual #3
- The Hostage, by Brendan Behan
- Wolverine vs. Historical Fiction
- Horde and his amazing outfit
- The Citadel of light and shadow
- The fantasy lives of X-Men
- Things to do with a shed human skin
- The secret origin of Wolverine’s overactive healing factor
- The Impossible Man (and how to defeat him)
- The Shogun Warriors
- What happened to Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau
- Powers we don’t like
- Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, how long was Dazzler an agent of Shield? |
| 0:03.0 | Like two days before Mystique kidnapped and replaced her. |
| 0:06.0 | Why? |
| 0:07.0 | Well, it always just seemed like a weird fit to me. |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, she's not exactly a team player or an establishment type. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, but she likes being one of the cool kids, |
| 0:14.1 | and I guess her stint dimension hopping left her with a taste for action. |
| 0:16.9 | Dimension hopping? |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, an extreme X-Men. |
| 0:19.2 | She was the leader of an exile-style group tasked |
| 0:21.5 | with tracking down and killing 10 evil versions of Charles Xavier. |
| 0:24.4 | That's very Scott Pilgrim. |
| 0:27.0 | You know, it's been a while since I've read that series, but I'm pretty sure Scott Pilgrim |
| 0:31.4 | never actually had to fight a cyborg wild west sheriff cyclops. |
| 0:35.0 | True. |
| 0:36.0 | Anyway, the point is, there is more to Dazzler than meets the eye. |
| 0:38.8 | Are you implying that she's a robot in disguise? |
| 0:41.5 | Not that I know of, but with LMDs you can really never be too careful. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, robots aside, |
| 0:46.6 | Dassler's always struck me as a pretty straightforward character. |
| 0:49.2 | I mean, she's basically got one major recurring plot line, her tug of war with the music industry, and her powers have pretty much stayed the same from the start. |
| 0:56.0 | What? No, they haven't. What do you mean? She can transmute sound into light. That's her thing. That's always been her thing. |
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