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In which Elisabeth hacks the Matrix; Magneto is the worst at small talk; Hela overreaches; parents just don’t understand human speech; everything is better with super-rings; Selene has a Xena moment; almost anything can be solved with a kiss; and even if you transform Doug Ramsey into a giant red murder monster, he’ll still be a huge nerd.

X-PLAINED:

• The S-Men
• New Mutants Forever #1-5
• Magma’s revised family tree
• Updating the New Mutants
• The delicate balance of the Forever line
• The web
• Idiom confusion
• A flawed cultural analogy
• Tiberius the Generic
• Several profoundly dubious costumes
• Family resemblance
• Skull v. Skull
• The dearth of canonically asexual X-characters

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Miles here – in one of the questions for this episode, I conflated asexuality and aromanticness. Those are totally two different things. Apologies – I’m still learning!

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