In which there are a lot of explosions in X-Force; Great Britain-616 is to intelligence as Canada-616 is to military; Alastair Stuart used to be fun; Emma Frost is here to stomp on your dreams; Chamber joins the X-Men; and the Generation X kids graduate themselves.
X-PLAINED:
Revolution (again)
Counter-X (again)
X-Force #114-115
Generation X #75
Yet another origin of humanity and/or life on Earth (again)
The World Engine
Accurate representation of CD-Rs
Genetech
A swimsuit interlude
Agent Corben
Alastair Stuart (more) (again)
A kidnapping
A really amazingly terrible plan
A particularly large explosion
The remaining 14 issues of X-Force vol. 1
An interlude at Applebee’s
Bad times at the New Xavier School
A murder (more) (again)
Intersectional superheroism
An additional bonus murder
An invitation
Many goodbyes
What happens next to the Generation X kids
NEXT EPISODE: The end of Revolution
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506 – The House at the End of the World
In which Jay remains angry at a font; a person who is obviously Kang the Conqueror is not in fact Kang the Conqueror; the pig men deserve better; and Nightcrawler should never, ever, ever be allowed to attempt grief counseling.
X-PLAINED:
Storm/Cable
Cable #85-86, 88
Cable (more)(again)
Earth-4935
Mother Askani
Irene Merryweather
Several cryptic witches
Are you as dangerous as you think martial arts training for advanced students
Shin
An unlikely sound effect
The Black Dawn
A time catapult
An End of Time
Earth-805110
The House on the Borderline
Gaunt
One of Esad Ribic’s more entertaining accomplishments
A fight
One way to weaponize the T-O virus
The future past of Rachel Summers
Cable’s friendship with Moira MacTaggert
Streets of Fire
Grief counseling? Sort of? I guess?
A very impressive spear
Our muppet counterparts
NEXT EPISODE: Two endings!
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505 – The Amulet of Ass
In which Widget takes a heel turn; there is some confusion over sword identification; we appreciate Sir Benedict of the Falls; the Braddock family has a lot going on; and Otherworld changes hands.
X-PLAINED:
Names for flying horses
Excalibur (2001 miniseries) #1-4
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (briefly) (again)
The Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
Darkmoor Research Facility
Sword and amulet distribution
Strider the Horse
Why all the horses of Asgard have Tolkien names
Sir Benedict of the Falls and his many axes
One way to win a bridge fight
Sword pops
Several continuity errors
Holographic James Braddock
The Dad Cave
Otherworld eugenecists
A coronation
A twist
Some potential X-Factor lineups
Life expectancies of mutants with healing factors
NEXT EPISODE: Cable fights some guys.
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504 – One Day, Four Ways
In which Banshee is chronically hapless; the team gets new costumes (again); Chamber is a self-fulfilling prophecy; toddlers will sell you out in a hot minute; Moira MacTaggert is definitively not in; we are frustrated by excessive ambiguity; and it’s not Rashômon, but it’ll do.
X-PLAINED:
Banshee post-Generation X
Generation X #71-74
Interior decorating
New costumes (again)
Chamber, but a housecat
A meet-cute
Teen angst
Fashion
An extremely awkward conversation
A brief history of boba in the United States
A fracas
Fun things to do with extra skin
Evolving teacher-student relationships
Poor interrogation technique
Husk vs. international terrorism, in general
Ghosts of the Massachusetts Academy
Villains and heroes we think would be neat as the reverse
A world in which Peridot of Steven Universe imprinted on X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Fast times in Otherworld!
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503 – Dream’s Anticlimax
In which history repeats itself; Senator Kelly prevaricates (and then dies); Magneto keeps the cape on; Mystique does evil science; Post remains irrelevant (and then dies); Pyro saves the day (and then dies); Cable is a large man; Moira MacTaggert does the astral nasty (and then dies); and we really, really, really want to go to Froggy World.
X-PLAINED:
Moira MacTaggert’s mutation
A dubious plan
Evidence that we are in the wrong universe
Other crossovers named “Dream’s End”
A significant disclaimer
Uncanny X-Men #388
Cable #87
Bishop: The Last X-Men #16
X-Men #108
A surprise presidential platform
Sir Gordon Phillips and his guests
The new Brotherhood of Mutants
Cable’s hair
A lot of movie allusions
An ambiguous explosion
A deeply pointless retcon
An illusion
Cable’s psimitar
Pyro’s last stand
Dickalogue
Astral sex
The (apparent) death of Moira MacTaggert
A weird bonding moment in a cemetery
How to identify a time traveler
The (actual) death of Senator Robert Kelly
Mutant-free parts of the Marvel Universe
Froggy World
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X!
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