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In which Dark Beast is an unlikely father figure; Wild Child remains low-budget Wolverine; X-Factor foreshadows the XSE; no one else thwarts Richardses on Doom’s watch; the cow goes “hate”; and Juggernaut fails to grow as a person.

X-PLAINED:

• The Red Ghost
• Onslaught thus far
• X-Factor #126
• Fantastic Four #416
• X-Men Unlimited #12
• Random’s origins (kind of)
• Pinochle
• Kristoff Vernard
• Several villains
• Juggernaut’s adventures in the Gem of Cyttorak
• Gomurr the Ancient (again)
• Spite
• Unreliable narrators
• The evolution of Cyttorak
• Wolverine’s hair
• X-arcs we’d like to see as video games

NEXT EPISODE: To nobody’s surprise, Onslaught.

CORRECTION: Kristoff Vernard is not in fact a clone of Doctor Doom.

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