86 – Legends (Fall of the Mutants, Part 1 of 3)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In which we begin our 3-part coverage of Fall of the Mutants; Roma is very good at her job; strange things are afoot in Dallas; Mystique’s parenting skills are somewhat lopsided; Neal Conan is awesome; Havok gets a soapbox; Storm and Forge flirt with godhood; Rogue’s costume exists in a state of quantum uncertainty; Colossus is the organic steel wrench in the gears of chaos; and the X-Men die for real (but get better).
X-PLAINED:
- Crossovers vs. events
- The Fall of the Mutants
- Uncanny X-Men #225-227
- A really great marketing campaign
- The Adversary (again)
- Roma
- The Starlight Citadel
- Retcons as applied pareidolia
- A metaphor that is also a real chess piece
- A sort-of stabbing
- Neal Conan & Manoli Wetherell
- Literally hard-hitting journalism
- A whole new world
- Another variation on the Rogue’s-costume drinking game
- A really improbable plan
- The death and resurrection of the X-Men
- Mutant metabolisms
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles you ready to dive into fall of the mutants? |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, but there's something bugging me. |
| 0:05.0 | Neil Conan's a pretty big deal in this story. |
| 0:08.0 | True. |
| 0:09.0 | Only he's actually a real guy, right? |
| 0:10.0 | He totally is. |
| 0:12.0 | He's a radio journalist. He's also a macadamia nut farmer which is less directly relevant but still a cool bit of trivia. |
| 0:18.0 | Huh, how do you end up in uncanny X-Men? Well how does anyone end up in X-Men, Miles, how did we end up in X-Men? |
| 0:23.8 | He was friends with the writer, in this case Chris Clermont. |
| 0:26.0 | Conan has shown up in some of Clermont's other stuff too. |
| 0:28.4 | Fantastic Four, Sovereign Seven? |
| 0:30.4 | Sovereign Seven? |
| 0:31.3 | It's a creator-owned D.C. |
| 0:33.0 | Conon almost didn't make it into that one, though. |
| 0:35.0 | Apparently there was a Holker-Fluffle with D.C. |
| 0:37.0 | legal department about whether he could appear in the book at all. |
| 0:39.7 | Because of likeness rights? |
| 0:40.7 | Well, because they couldn't decide whether he counted as a Marvel character or a real person. |
| 0:44.0 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:00.0 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome to episode 86 of Rachel and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, |
| 1:05.8 | the outs, and the retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
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