519 – Beautiful People With Incredible Powers
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<p>In which we start the Morrison Run; Professor X gets his hands on Chekhov’s gun; Cassandra Nova raises X-villains to a new level of weird; and humanity is running on borrowed time.</p>
<p>X-PLAINED:</p>
<ul>
<li>No-Girl</li>
<li><em>New X-Men</em> #114-116</li>
<li>Grant Morrison and their approach to the X-Men</li>
<li>Superhero fashion</li>
<li>Cerebra</li>
<li>Beast’s new look</li>
<li>Ugly John</li>
<li>Interpersonal dynamics</li>
<li>Cassandra Nova (somewhat)</li>
<li>Donald Trask</li>
<li>Master Molds</li>
<li>Wild Sentinels</li>
<li>Emma Frost (more) (again)</li>
<li>Negasonic Teenage Warhead (the original)</li>
<li>The fall of Genosha</li>
<li>Secondary mutations</li>
<li>The most strapless bra of all time</li>
<li>The Black Bug Room</li>
<li>Summers problems</li>
<li>Official X-Men and the designation thereof</li>
<li><em>Wonder Man</em> and mutants</li>
</ul>
<p>NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a bad day</p>
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