93 – The Discreet Charm of the Brood
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In which airplanes are really dangerous if you’re a mutant, Magik remembers that time she dreamed about remembering a dream, those who live by mystically bad judgment die by mystically bad judgment, It’s Always Mystique (TM), and everything leads to Inferno.
X-PLAINED:
- Forge’s moral compass
- New Mutants #62-63 and #65-66
- Empath and irredeemable vs. sympathetic villains
- Magical postal eagles
- Nova Roma
- Jag-u-ars
- Art as era signifier
- Time travel nightmare logic
- Sharpiemancy
- The “last” Brood
- Jerk headmasters who won’t even let you commit murder
- A long-awaited roomie reunion
- Bret Blevins’s mad Limbo skillz
- Claremont / Simonson character maturity equilibrium
- Astrally furry pants
- Loyalty to the living versus loyalty to the dead
- The Ultimate Darkchilde
- Wolverine’s surprisingly non-metallic teeth
- Partying with the New Mutants
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, where would you put Forge on an alignment grid? |
| 0:04.0 | Hmm, true neutral, I think? |
| 0:06.0 | You could maybe make a case for lawful since he's got his own code, but it's not consistent, |
| 0:09.8 | and he changes sides a lot. |
| 0:11.6 | Well, he gets possessed a lot. I don't know Miles I mean |
| 0:14.4 | Forge is a pretty mercenary dude. He wasn't possessed when he used his buddy's |
| 0:18.3 | souls to open a portal to the void and he wasn't possessed any of the times |
| 0:21.5 | he collaborated with the government's anti-mutant agenda. |
| 0:24.0 | What about forges on other worlds? |
| 0:26.0 | Well, Age of Apocalypse Forge might be chaotic good, but Ultimate is definitely in the neutral camp. |
| 0:31.0 | I mean, he built Magneto a giant machine to kill every human on earth. |
| 0:34.6 | Whoa! Again, some mercenary guy and the price was right. |
| 0:38.0 | What could Magneto have offered him that was worth that? |
| 0:41.0 | Canada? |
| 0:42.0 | What? I'm J. Rachel Lettin. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm J. Eddittin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:58.0 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to episode 93 of Rachel and Miles Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the |
| 1:03.7 | ins, the outs, and the retcons of our very favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 1:07.2 | This week I am skiping into the studio from sunny Florida, so if I sound a little off, it's probably |
| 1:11.8 | because of that, or the fact that I'm running on four hours of sleep not all of them in a row Yeah, normally you're about three feet away from me when we record now you're like 3,000 miles away how far is Florida from Oregon I have idea. It's about 3,000 miles. Yeah, well, I'm sort of a |
| 1:26.0 | disembodied device floating in the ether as usual. So... That's true to the listeners, I mean, they won't know the difference. You just be a slightly more. I am in the |
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