84 – The Fourth Horseman
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which Franklin Richards is the center of a disproportionate number of X-Men specials; Quicksilver without powers is comedy gold; Luna is the best little girl on the moon (but it’s kind of a low bar); Jay accidentally cares about the Inhumans; Jean Grey may or may not be the Wesley Willis of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge’s exit interview is weirdly professional; Boom Boom is the best reluctant hero; and Archangel makes his debut.
X-PLAINED:
- Quicksilver’s team associations
- Knights of Wundagore
- Chthon
- X-Factor Annual #2
- X-Factor #21-23
- The Inhumans
- Black Bolt
- Medusa
- Crystal
- Lockjaw
- QWOP Quicksilver
- Leech’s wildly inconsistent powers
- Gorgon
- Luna
- Headbutting ghosts, or, why sentence structure matters
- Maximus
- Several methods of mind control
- A really terrible place for a date
- Cameron Hodge: Bureaucrat Supervillain
- The last will & testament of Warren Worthington III
- Another superpower pet peeve
- A theoretical team-up we would love to see
- The Arlington Interactive Museum of (evil) Science
- Some really dumb armor
- Archangel
- Our preferred third Summers brothers
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Avengers, Brotherhood, X Factor, I know I'm missing something. |
| 0:05.6 | Hey Miles, what's up to? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm trying to put together a list of every team Quicksilver's been on. |
| 0:09.6 | Um, all of them? |
| 0:11.6 | That's ridiculous, man. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, so help me out here. |
| 0:15.0 | Fine. Brotherhood of Evil mutants. |
| 0:17.0 | A couple iterations of the Avengers, couple iterations of X-factor, Knights of Vondagor. |
| 0:21.0 | Knights of Vondagor? |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, you know they're a bunch of the new men. |
| 0:24.0 | The new men. |
| 0:26.0 | Animals that the High Evolutionary evolved up? |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, right, yeah, like the Cow Lady who delivered the Maximoff kids. |
| 0:31.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:32.0 | Anyway, at one point, the High Evolutionary was worried about the coming of Th-Kthan. |
| 0:35.6 | Kthan? |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, first practitioner of black magic, one of the demonic elder gods spawned by the |
| 0:39.6 | sentient life force of Earth. |
| 0:41.3 | Was that even words? Anyway, the high evolutionary decided that the best |
| 0:45.2 | solution to this dilemma was clearly to train up a bunch of the new men as knights. |
| 0:49.2 | Sure, why not? They mostly ended up dying, but they were pretty cool while they lasted |
| 0:53.6 | new chivalry fancy robot horses. |
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