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In which X-Force carries on the New Mutants’ tradition of property damage; a lot of people have infiltrated Helicarriers; G.W. Bridge makes it weird; Gamesmaster returns to no particular end; and we go back in time to cover the origins of Chris Bradley.

X-PLAINED:

• The deaths of several Worthingtons
• X-Force #55-56
• X-Men Unlimited #8
• A legacy of explosions
• Uncanny X-Men #333 (briefly) (again)
• A heist
• Several of the many characters who had successfully infiltrated Helicarriers as of 1996
• Dum Dum Dugan
• Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
• The glory days off LASER tag
• Church fights
• Subtext
• The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (more) (again)
• How to pronounce “Risque”
• Chris Bradley
• Hans Jensen
• Nostalgia goggles and their absence
• Civilian awareness of cosmic Marvel
• Asgard, Oklahoma
• Annalee

NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk

NEXT EPISODE: Where No Mutant Has Gone Before

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