Episode Details

In which the X-Men turn 35; we pause to celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger; Jay is a space nerd; Marrow hang-dries her delicates; space shuttles are not rockets; the band gets back together; and the Danger Room isn’t the first piece of X-tech to get sentience and a robot body.

X-PLAINED

• How Excalibur got a Blackbird
• Uncanny X-Men #360
• X-Men #80
• Many callbacks
• The Benassi Rocket
• The Cassini Probe
• The All-New, Slightly Off X-Men
• The Grey King (Addison Falk)
• Chaos and/or Xhaos (Dan Dash)
• Mercury
• Rapture (Sister Joy)
• Crux (Cristal Lemiuex)
• Landslide (Lee Broder)
• The Founder
• Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (again)
• The Mutant Defense Net
• Heroic narration
• Lack of spacefaring continuity
• Friendship
• Technology
• Costumes
• All-New All-Different Dungeons & Dragons

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