Episode 056 – Death by Crossover

==Episode Description==
In which nothing comes between Sam Guthrie and his classic sci-fi allusions; Sunspot tries; the Beyonder is really scary; you can have Danielle Moonstar’s agency when you pry it from her cold, dead hands; Empath remains the worst kid; Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander just cannot catch a break; Emma Frost gets nuanced; Magneto does the wrong things for the right reasons; Rachel and Miles like liking things; and we finally wrap up Secret Wars II.
==X-Plained==
*Soulsword custody
*New Mutants #36-40
*The best Secret Wars II tie-in
*Several Beyonder-triggered crises of confidence
*A literal derailment in the midst of a metaphorical derailment
*The Greek tragedy of Illyana Rasputin
*Personal personifications of death
*Counting coup
*The death of the New Mutants
*Crossover-related PTSD
*A pep talk from a frog
*Art style as a component of narrative
*The Hellions (again)
*Sadneto
*Madneto
*A completely avoidable fight
*Rachel’s definitive Emma Frost moment
*Emma Frost, Charles Xavier, and moral culpability
== Listener Questions ==
* You've covered the Firestar miniseries - another in the long line of domineering mutant plutocrat Emma Frost's early crimes. How does she get a pass for her long criminal history, yet Professor X remains eternally in the doghouse?
* What is the biggest discrepancy you two have over something X-related? Whether it's a character you don't agree on or a story one of you likes but the other hates?
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