Episode Details

In which Franklin Richards is definitely a normal human meat child; Thing’s code-name is delightfully ambiguous; your kids are probably robot sailors; it’s always a Doombot; Rachel accidentally identifies with Reed Richards; all dramatic roads lead to Latveria; and superheroes are terrible at conflict resolution.

X-PLAINED:

• Franklin Richards
• Rachel & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
• Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men LIVE
• Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men #1-4
• The best hugs in the biz
• The Fantastic Four
• Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
• Invisible Woman (Susan Richards)
• Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
• Thing (Ben Grimm)
• The Fantasticast
• Special dreams (but not that kind)
• Alicia Masters (sort of)
• Dubiously informative cover art
• The doomed frenemyship of Reed Richards and Victor von Doom
• Varyingly competent parenting
• An awful lot of incidental nudity
• Ethics of super-science
• Robot sailors
• Latveriandroids
• Agency
• Dubious conflict-resolution skills
• Human Torch costume logistics
• Dr. Doom’s history with Magneto
• Relative roles and themes of Marvel teams

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