Episode 245 - Natural Causes

== Episode Description ==
In which Rogue flouts air traffic regulations; Jay is very sorry for how badly he butchers Gambit’s accent; stealth is directly proportionate to how loudly you dress; Rogue and Gambit win the gold in Pairs Punchin’; Candra is a big jerk; you should ABSOLUTELY NOT remove an impaled object; Rogue busts through some tropes; and we have complicated feelings about the Ultimate universe.
== X-Plained ==
* Rogue’s biological parents
* Marvel New Orleans
* Brood Trouble in the Big Easy
* Rogue/rogue disambiguation
* -4
* Bella Donna Boudreaux
* What may or may not happen if Rogue kisses a Transformer
* Cody Robbins (again)
* Natural causes
* Supervillain funeral crashers (again)
* Inverse Ninja Law (Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu)
* The Bill the Pony incident
* Relative culpability
* Nature vs. nurture
* Tante Mattie (Mattie Baptiste)
* Candra’s new threads
* How long it takes to drive from Westchester, NY, to Caledcott, MI
* How Jay learned to love Gambit (but not to stop worrying)
* Gris-Gris
* Lapin
* Fifolet
* Punching hallucinations
* Questa
* Knives as superpowers
* Inversions of several gendered superhero tropes
* Closure
* The limits of intent
* Magnetos’ (sometimes) kids’ hair
* Whether we’ll cover Ultimate X-Men
== Listener Questions ==
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