Episode 008 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont

==Episode Description==
In which Chris Claremont defines the X-Universe; Sunfire quits the team (again); Nightcrawler is the best; the narrator is nobody’s friend; Colossus is a good kid; Cyclops has a long series of bad days; everyone is a bondage Viking; Rachel is a space pedant, we meet the Phoenix, and Wolverine is the Batman of Marvel.
== Cold Open ==
Polaris
==X-Plained==
*Polaris’s kinda-powers
*Our first crossover event
*How much we love you
*Chris Claremont, and why he’s the definitive X-writer
*Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men
*Why Nightcrawler is the best point-of-view character
*The long game
*Tom Orzechowski’s dimension-folding lettering skills
*Claremontisms
*The malicious narrator
*Count Nefaria
*Sliding-scale ransom
*The life, death, and occasional reanimation of Thunderbird
*Friendship
*The care and feeding of cairns
*Erik the Red
*Quiet moments
*Sentinels and X-Sentinels
*Steven Lang
*The (first) death and return of Jean Grey
*Accents
==Listener Questions==
* Why is Wolverine put on every X-team and Avengers team, even though his main character trait is "grizzled loner"?
Category:Podcast episodes
Category:Uncanny X-Men