Episode 297 - Blood Is Compulsory

== Episode Description ==
In which Nate Grey is a drama kid; Forge-295 is the hero we need; Mister Sinister is a graduate of the Danielle “Moonstar” Moonstar school of secret identities; and we really, really, really wish that the theater troupe had gotten the ongoing series.
==X-Plained==
* Just how powerful Nate Grey is
* X-Man’s somewhat baffling ongoing appeal
* -4
* A theater company
* The Best Forge (Earth-295)
* Toad (Earth-295)
* Sauron (Earth-295)
* Brute (Earth-295)
* An extended Tom Stoppard allusion
* “Essex”
* Domino (Earth-295)
* Theater in and as resistance
* An ineffectual ruse
* A lot of death
* Caliban (Earth-295)
* A family reunion
* The story we really wanted out of this series
* The X-Man ongoing series
* Chronically missing New Mutants
* X-arcs we’d like to see animated
== Listener Questions ==
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