473 – The Baker’s Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

In which you know it’s serious business when a logo gets smashed; the prophecy of the Twelve is an elaborate prank; we have a lot of Summers family feelings; Apocalypse is not a very good planner; and the Twelve reaches its conclusion.

X-PLAINED:

• Who Madelyne Pryor’s psychic ghost really is
• The story so far
• Uncanny X-Men #377
• Cable #76
• X-Men #97
• Perks of immortality
• A slightly gratuitous way to destroy an airplane
• Several doppelgangers
• Apocalypse’s big, stupid plan
• A fancy science machine
• The Atomium
• The Twelve
• The three elements
• The best issue of the Twelve
• Orb action
• Cable’s knowledge of history
• Summers feelings
• How to establish stakes
• Potato storms
• The mutant Skrulls (more) (again)
• Cadre K
• Categories of mutants
• How to beta test an Armageddon machine
• Alpha nerd Charles Xavier
• Weaponized continuity
• The color(s) of Cyclops’s eyes
• How to evoke Uncanny X-Men #137
• An unfortunate twist
• Mundane uses of superpowers
• The Altar
• What would have improved the Twelve

NEXT EPISODE: Winter Special!

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