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2 – Sentinels in the Mist
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
English - April 20, 2014 19:22 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsVisual Arts Arts comedy culture interview news business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In which we introduce the villains of the Silver Age: Magneto makes some valid points, Mastermind is a Nice Guy of OkCupid, the Scarlet Witch predicts Cat Breading, the Trasks should really have known better, and the Comics Code Authority is down with pterosaurs.
X-Plained:
Common characteristics of enduring X-villains
Mutant identity politics and moral relativism
Context-agnostic Juggernaut flashbacks
An unorthodox approach to anthropology
Cyclops's greatest diplomatic achievement
Silver-Age haberdashery
An innovative modification to vampire mythology
Cultural assimilation
The propaganda-and-sweater-vest machine
Hex bolts
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