519 – Beautiful People With Incredible Powers

About this episode

The episode discusses the start of the Morrison Run in the X-Men series, featuring various characters and themes.

Illustration by David Wynne In which we start the Morrison Run; Professor X gets his hands on Chekhov’s gun; Cassandra Nova raises X-villains to a new level of weird; and humanity is running on borrowed time. X-PLAINED: No-Girl New X-Men #114-116 Grant Morrison and their approach to the X-Men Superhero fashion Cerebra Beast’s new look Ugly John Interpersonal dynamics Cassandra Nova (somewhat) Donald Trask Master Molds Wild Sentinels Emma Frost (more) (again) Negasonic Teenage Warhead (the original) The fall of Genosha Secondary mutations The most strapless bra of all time The Black Bug Room Summers problems Official X-Men and the designation thereof Wonder Man and mutants NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a bad day Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog . Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here ! Buy rad swag at our Dashery shop !

People in this episode

Hosts: Jay Edidin, Miles Stokes

Topics covered

• Morrison Run
• X-Men
• X-villains
• humanity
• interpersonal dynamics
• superhero fashion

Keywords

• Morrison Run
• X-Men
• Cassandra Nova
• Genosha
• Negasonic Teenage Warhead
• Beast
• Emma Frost
• superhero fashion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New X-Men

Books & works: Chekhov’s gun, Genosha, The Black Bug Room, No-Girl, Cerebra, Ugly John, Secondary mutations, the most strapless bra of all time, Wild Sentinels

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