98 – Between Alien Visitations and Drunken Sulks
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In which we continue our coverage of pre-Excalibur Captain Britain; S.T.R.I.K.E. is D.U.C.K. is W.H.O.; the R.C.X. is one lapse in judgment away from on-the-job cosplay; Meggan levels up; your name will never be as cool as Doctor Crocodile’s; Technet writes their own cold opens; and we announce the upcoming debut of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men!
X-PLAINED:
- A large number of acronyms
- Irony
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
- Mighty World of Marvel #14-16
- Captain Britain #1-14
- The aftermath of the Jaspers Warp
- Inspector Dai Thomas
- How to work out a superhero’s secret identity
- The Crazy Gang (more) (again)
- Slaymaster
- Captain Britain’s costume
- Sidney Crumb
- Gatecrasher’s Technet (more) (again)
- Earth-794
- Kaptain Briton
- Sat-Yr-Nin
- The R.C.X.
- Agents Gabriel & Michael
- The Warpies
- The Cherubim
- Meggan (more) (again)
- Doctor Crocodile
- Jamie Braddock
- Betsy Braddock’s short and calamitous tenure as Captain Britain
- Women in Refrigerators
- Our thoughts on the X-movies
- Mutant heredity
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, do you know what the deal with Strike is? |
| 0:02.0 | Miles, we covered this at Rose City, remember. |
| 0:04.0 | He's a clone of cable. |
| 0:05.0 | No, no, no, not Strife. |
| 0:07.0 | Strike, the acronym. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, okay, yeah, that's the special tactical reserve for international key emergencies. Initially, it was like the British Shield. Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies. |
| 0:13.2 | Initially it was like the British Shield. |
| 0:15.1 | And they were replaced by what, R.C. |
| 0:17.4 | Dok. |
| 0:18.4 | Where? No, no, Doc. |
| 0:20.2 | Department of Unknown and Covert Knowledge. |
| 0:22.1 | Oh, okay. Who are they? |
| 0:24.0 | They're who? |
| 0:25.0 | Right, that's what I'm asking. |
| 0:26.0 | No, that's what I'm trying to tell you. They turned into who? |
| 0:28.0 | Shouldn't it be whom? |
| 0:30.0 | What would the M stand for? |
| 0:31.0 | What? |
| 0:32.0 | No, who? Weird happenings organization. I kind of hate this. No, no, no, |
| 0:36.8 | hate is highest anti-terrorism effort. Of course it is. So strike is duck is who? |
| 0:41.5 | Exactly. |
| 0:42.8 | Who comes up with this crap? |
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