Episode 074 – This Dumb Rumpus

==Episode Description==
In which Franklin Richards is definitely a normal human meat child; Thing’s code-name is delightfully ambiguous; your kids are probably robot sailors; it’s always a Doombot; Rachel accidentally identifies with Reed Richards; all dramatic roads lead to Latveria; and superheroes are terrible at conflict resolution.
==X-Plained==
*Franklin Richards
*Rachel & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
*Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men LIVE
*Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men #1-4
*The best hugs in the biz
*The Fantastic Four
*Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
*Invisible Woman (Susan Richards)
*Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
*Thing (Ben Grimm)
*The Fantasticast
*Special dreams (but not that kind)
*Alicia Masters (sort of)
*Dubiously informative cover art
*The doomed frenemyship of Reed Richards and Victor von Doom
*Varyingly competent parenting
*An awful lot of incidental nudity
*Ethics of super-science
*Robot sailors
*Latveriandroids
*Agency
*Dubious conflict-resolution skills
*Human Torch costume logistics
*Dr. Doom’s history with Magneto
*Relative roles and themes of Marvel teams
== Listener Questions ==
* Have Magneto and Dr. Doom ever interacted in continuity? I ask because Scarlet Witch and Doom seem to have some kind of relationship, and I'm not 100% on what the nature of that relationship is. Do they at least get together and compare capes maybe?
* I forget what writer said it, but the writer made the argument that the X-Men was a school, Fantastic Four was the family, and The Avengers was a team, and that's what the stories should reflect. Do you still think that's true? Was it ever true?
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