514 – Plan 9 From Westchester

About this episode

The episode discusses themes of resistance against fascism through the lens of X-Men characters and their choices.

In which we provide some inroads to resisting fascism in your community; pacifism has amazing abs; Cyclops and Wolverine play revolutionary chicken; Amelia Voght fails to live up to her narrative potential; Jean Grey continues to make spectacularly bad choices; Polaris deserves better; and Wolverine finally gets to stab Magneto.

People in this episode

Hosts: Jay Edidin, Miles Stokes

Topics covered

• fascism resistance
• pacifism
• X-Men dynamics
• character analysis
• revolutionary themes

Keywords

• X-Men
• fascism
• Cyclops
• Wolverine
• Jean Grey
• Amelia Voght
• Polaris
• Magneto

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