Episode 212 - Drumbeats of Despair: X-Cutioner’s Song (Part 3 or 3)

== Episode Description ==
In which nobody but Stryfe’s diary understands him; Apocalypse is the best at what he does (and what he does is remarkably versatile); Scott and Jean weaponize their clichés; Jae Lee does his best Patrick Nagel; Apocalypse is poisonous; Cable goes full T-800; nothing good ever happens to Cyclops on the moon; Stryfe dies as passive-aggressively as he lived; and X-Cutioner’s Song finally concludes.
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Special thanks to Matt for the subject of this episode’s cold open; and to the Protomen for use of their cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
== X-Plained ==
* How Cable dies
* The Story So Far
* Still more trading-card taxonomy
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* An AU we’d like to read
* The not-Stüssy S
* How to effectively reference 
* A decoy baby
* An abortive escape
* Moon gravity
* Revelatory vandalism
* A trip to the moon
* A probably excessive number of hawk facts
* Various daring rescues
* How to kill time in space
* Cathexes
* A very fancy moon base
* The cavalry, kind of
* Stryfe vs. Cable
* An X-Cellent epilogue
* Several Silent Hill 2 references
* Stryfe’s Legacy
* Pawnee, Indiana vs. Marvel
* Sexy high-security prisons of the future
== Listener Questions ==
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