The X-Men TAS Podcast

The Man of Steel has to punch a lot robots in order to stop Brainiac from blowing up Earth on the latest episode of Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... The Penguin finale, falling in love with anime and still dreaming of K-Drama Batman! Wondering what level of warp speed Superman was flying to Alpha Centauri! Being impressed with Clark Kent's Superman colored bedsheets! Trying in vain to f...

Spider-Man goes to Hollywood and along the way hires a shirtless dude on the bus, who happens to be Bruce Banner, to be a janitor on the movie he is starring in! Join us as we discuss... Going backwards in time to the start of the podcast, Agatha and Penguin! Sam or Stan Blockbuster? Also Lance Macho and Honey Dove! Spider-Man starring in a major motion picture for $100.38. Firestar and Iceman jus...

Wolverine attacks an enormous snowball while Professor X learns he has to pay child support on the latest episode of X-Men-Anime! Join us as we discuss... Election madness! The greatness of Penguino! Being surprised at the success of Agatha! Speculating again on Professor X's finances and whether or not he manipulates the stock market to make money! Scott and Emma, two super-models both neggi...

Metallo is immortal, has super strength and a cool glowing emerald in his chest but all at the cost of eating, drinking, smelling and kiss enjoying on the latest episode of Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... Liking Penguin but wondering if he is ever gonna get a top-hat and a machine gun umbrella! Why it is necessary to do the occasional Voight-Kampff tests on your loved ones! Spoiling part of...

The Spider-Friends tackle Magneto at Niagara Falls all while trying to sort out their romantic feelings for each other on the latest episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Join us as we discuss... Again, another episode featuring stuff we'd later see in the movies! Miss Lion risks it all to save her friends with some borderline heartbreaking heroics! Speaking of Miss Lion, are their m...

Our merry mutants get shot of the sky over Japan and fight a character whose name is never mentioned on the latest mysterious episode of X-Men Anime! Join us as we discuss... Being winter holiday grinches and being surprised at Agatha being a hit for Marvel! Why X-Men Anime reminded us of a comic strip which led us to recall how hard it was for Jack Kirby to make money! How all the X-Men have very...

The Man of Steel touches all the glowing purple goo he can find on the latest episode of Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... Diving deeper into the world of anime and ranting about a lack of Penguin in Batman! The rent control on Clark Kent's apartment is more impressive than any power he has! The origin of Superman's space suit, which looks bad! Probably would have been more interest...

The Spider-Friends are saved by Flash Thompson's pong-paddle in video game hell on the latest episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Join us as we discuss... X-Men 97 coming back in 2026, Agatha All Along being pointless and wondering where Batman is on the new Penguin show! Remembering how sad it was as a kid when you had no quarters at the arcade! Trying to figure out what the heck...

On this episode of X-Men Anime we learn that the X-Men have to vote in new members in a secret council but Beast is excluded for reasons unexplained! Join us as we discuss... Greek Gods on Netflix and the passing of legendary X-Men artist John Cassidy... Realizing how hard it would be to make a good X-Mansion High TV Show! Trying, and failing, to use logic to figure out Storm's powers! Emma,...

Lex Luthor discovers that the Man of Steel can be bested by a glowing green rock on the latest episode of Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... Greek Gods on Netflix! The history of politics in world of Superman! Wondering if we would be safer in DC's Metropolis or Marvel's NYC! Trying to make sense of the science of Superman!  The X-Men TAS Podcast just opened a SECRET reddit group, jo...

Spider-Man and his pals meet Captain America, Shana, Dr. Strange and the Submariner for a mysterious weekend vacation on Wolf Island and all die one by one on the latest episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Join us as we discuss... Is Onlyfans the best forum to clear your professional reputation? (Also, some random thoughts on the Wizard of Oz)! Why this episode reminds us where Marvel i...

The X-Men play pool and drink hot chocolate while waiting for Emma Frost's MRI on a very moody episode of X-Men: Anime! Join us as we discuss... Succumbing to the wonders of the world of anime! The Xavier Institute is NOT the world's safest place for mutants! Neither is the Blackbird! Being confused by the English subtitles for the Japanese Script (while watching the English-speaking per...

Superman gets smacked around by a tennis ball that does not obey the laws of thermo-dynamics and Lois Lane tries to figure out how to write a story with mittens for hands on the latest episode of Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... The latest X-Men 97 controversy, our growing love of anime and Sonia's hot takes on Superman III! Wait, this isn't the same villain from the Gray Ghost epi...

The great George Gross returns to help figure out if Richard Pryor is actually funny in Richard Lester's Superman III! Join us as we discuss... Would you blame this movie more on cocaine or alcohol? Superman being forced to ride a in a hot bus for hours with Jimmy Olsen! Is Superman Clark Kent or is Clark Kent Superman? Superman gets laid! The X-Men TAS Podcast just opened a SECRET reddit gro...

Firestar and Iceman use kid gloves to take on a creature made of bees (instead of melting or freezing him an instant) on the latest episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, so join us as we discuss... All our thoughts on the new Bruce Timm Batman Show, Batman: The Caped Crusader! All the horrifying moments our heroes face staring down this hideous monster of an enemy! Getting into Spider-Man...

The latest and greatest X-Men (adjacent) movie smashes the box office and forces us to pick up the pieces as we crawl through nearly every bloody scene! Join us as we discuss... Some quick thoughts on the new Dr. Doom! Why this movie is as much as sequel to Logan as it is to Deadpool 2! Just loving all surprise cameos, one in particular (close to our hearts)! Marveling at the absurdly well-done fi...

Emma Frost tries to convince the X-Men that she is now in fact "cool" while the X-Men continue to slaughter pre-deceased cyborgs on the latest episode X-Men Anime! Join us as we discuss... Why we want all Star Wars and Marvel TV shows to be episodic, not cinematic! Coming up with a good reason as to why the X-Men wear tight-fitting spandex! Cyclops does not need to touch his visor to sho...

The Man of Steel is not as strong as he is supposed to be but the people of Metropolis love him anyway as we dive into another episode of the 90s classic, Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... Watching so much Superman media to the point of confusion! Clark Kent, smooth and suave! Why Superman needs to pick more villains up by the pants! Fixating on Lex Luthor's baldness as being the primary...

Sunfire falls in love Firestar after he sees her doing something extremely obscene with a meteor that is about to crash into NYC on the latest episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Join us as we discuss... Being utterly confused as to where the Spider-Friends base is located! Sunfire falling love with both Angelica and Firestar, and then immediately ditching Angelica! Is Bobby in love wit...

The X-Men battle the U-Man in some sort of war of the extended "man-verse" on the latest episode X-Men Anime! Join us as we discuss... Star Wars TV and other anime about...golf(?)!  Wondering if we'd be suckered into buying a Limited Edition "Cerebro" Phone brought to you by Samsung in the late 2020s! Why Wolverine punching Cyclops worked in X-Men TAS but not in this show!...

Superman is everywhere this week from new movies to new cartoons and we talk about it all so join as we discuss... James Gunn Superman photo leaks, My Adventures With Superman being fantastic and the new Caped Crusader cartoon trailer! Pondering what we would do if we found an alien baby on the side of the road somewhere! Trying and failing to understand the science of the red vs. yellow sun magic...

Spider-Man and the gang tangle with their most fearsome foe yet, an old unemployed  man who wants to paint NYC with rainbow polka-dots...also Dr. Doom...so join us as we discuss! Marvel's long history of being the cheapest company in the world! Some potentially scary body-horror moments for the kids watching at home! More casual racism, this time in the form of Genghis Khan! Despite everythin...

The X-Men travel to Japan in 2011 to rescue a mutant while their lavish hair blows dramatically through the wind in the world of X-Men Anime! Join us as we discuss... If X-Men 97 keeps bumping along throughout the 2000s, will it one day sort of merge with what see going on in this Warren Ellis version of X-Men Anime? Would Storm really take a cruise? Enjoying a long conversation about who cleans t...

This week, the Man of Steel blasts off from his home planet of Krypton and into our animation rotation with Superman TAS! Join us as we discuss... Superman, underrated? We think so! Lara, Lois, Lana...what's going on here? Trying to figure out in real time if the periodic table of elements has Krypton or Kryptonite on it! Next week is X-Men: Anime...what a tone shift! The X-Men TAS Podcast ju...

X-Men 97: Season 2 isn't coming for a million years so we decided to kill the time waiting by watching three different animated classics and we start with the hilarious Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Join us as we discuss... More Marvel cameos than you can fill a multiverse with! How this episode basically has the same plot of both Batman Begins and the Amazing Spider-Man Andrew Garfield...