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In which Rogue flouts air traffic regulations; Jay is very sorry for how badly he butchers Gambit’s accent; stealth is directly proportionate to how loudly you dress; Rogue and Gambit win the gold in Pairs Punchin’; Candra is a big jerk; you should ABSOLUTELY NOT remove an impaled object; Rogue busts through some tropes; and we have complicated feelings about the Ultimate universe.

X-PLAINED:

• Rogue’s biological parents
• Marvel New Orleans
• Brood Trouble in the Big Easy
• Rogue/rogue disambiguation
• Rogue #1-4
• Bella Donna Boudreaux
• What may or may not happen if Rogue kisses a Transformer
• Cody Robbins (again)
• Natural causes
• Supervillain funeral crashers (again)
• Inverse Ninja Law (Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu)
• The Bill the Pony incident
• Relative culpability
• Nature vs. nurture
• Tante Mattie (Mattie Baptiste)
• Candra’s new threads
• How long it takes to drive from Westchester, NY, to Caledcott, MI
• How Jay learned to love Gambit (but not to stop worrying)
• Gris-Gris
• Lapin
• Fifolet
• Punching hallucinations
• Questa
• Knives as superpowers
• Inversions of several gendered superhero tropes
• Closure
• The limits of intent
• Magnetos’ (sometimes) kids’ hair
• Whether we’ll cover Ultimate X-Men

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