Episode 206 - Anatomy of a Phoenix

== Episode Description ==
In which you should all come see us at FlameCon; all lizards are good lizards; we recap a recap; the Phoenix force is really complicated; Earth-99476 may or may not be the secret history of Earth-616; Alan Davis takes on continuity; the X-Men fail to save the day; the Phoenix says its piece; Rachel takes a vacation in space; Captain Britain doesn’t like to be psychoanalyzed; and the Crazy Gang gets a happy ending.
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UPDATE: Not only can birds see color, but they can see a wider spectrum than humans. THE MORE YOU KNOW!
== X-Plained ==
* Evil Shadowcats
* Jay & Miles at FlameCon
* , 52, and 54
* A brief history of Excalibur
* The Phoenix Force
* A recap of a recap
* What this episode isn’t covering
* Lizard Excalibur
* The most meta t-shirt in the multiverse
* Several long-ago Halloween costumes
* Dinosaurs of Earths-616 and -99476
* National Lampoon Vacation apocrypha
* Earth-99476 and its Savage Land
* The Fantastic Five
* A vow of vengeance
* Feron as an antecedent to Kubark
* Alan Davis’s modern authorial counterpart
* A telepathic journey
* The full history of the Phoenix Force (as established circa 1991)
* Inherited vs. inherent mutant powers (and a No-Prize explanation thereof)
* The rehabilitation of Rachel Summers
* Several retcons yet to come
* Jean Grey’s inconsistent relationship to the Phoenix Force
* A mysterious disappearance
* What the Crazy Gang has been up to
* The nicest kind of twist
* A very easy way to make Kitty Pryde textually queer
* Differentiating X-teams
* The X-Plain Discord
* Strong Guy’s new hobby
== Listener Questions ==
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