Jean - Noooo! An X-Men: The Animated Series Podcast

Season 4 roars to a close and no one does more roaring than the mutant behind it all: Apocalypse! 1. He threatens to do away with everything: Dinosaurs! Times Square! All of existence! 2. He double-crosses EVERYBODY but still takes a few minutes to do the exposition! 3. He does the biggest, best "Nooooooo!" this side of "Jean - Noooo!" Plus...Bender is really WHO??? Ohhh...okay...

Cable and the X-Men take the fight to Apocalypse's pyramid in Ancient Egypt! Plus: Did the X-Men start the Late Bronze Age collapse? Is Death really a horseman if he doesn't have a horse? Did Cable just tell Professor X he's boring to his face??!! All this and cohost Drew demands to know: Is any given character more or less effective than a broken elevator? All this and more in Season...

Our favorite 90's X-Men couples shows up just in time for Valentine's Day: Archangel and Psylocke! Plus: What are those tubes on Deathbird's costume about? Is a young Tim Curry the best or the VERY best possible Mr. Sinister? And are Cable/Tyler the beefiest father-son duo in 3999?? Not to mention: Shard and Bishop! Sabretooth and Mystique! And ENTER MAGNETO!!! This 4-partner continues...

In the words of Stefon, "This place has everything": Nasty Boys + Vertigo! Scott and Jean getting married (again)! Cable channeling Raiders of the Lost Ark! Apocalypse telling Sinister what to do! And Bishop, getting pissed at a Jim Carrey rip-off at the Axis of Time! It's Season 4, Episode 18, the first part of what was supposed to be the series finale until it wasn't: Beyond Go...

The Christmas special we guess someone, somewhere must have asked for! In which Storm serves up cool winter lewks! The team encounters the Morlocks at Rockefeller Center and Annalee serves up a guilt trip! And Gambit, serving Christmas dinner, informs us, "Dis need a little Gambit magic!" All this and who's the girl who's the webby little girl who hasn't heard of miracles?! I...

Wolverine: His past - revealed! Silver Fox: Bada$$ Boss B@#$*! Maverick: German As Expected! Sabretooth: Deserving of sympathy??! All this and Dr. Henry McCoy, MD, PhD, Designated Driver! It's Season 4, Episode 16, Weapon X, Lies, and Videotape - the episode that made us ask "Who is this title FOR?" With cohosts Drew Kunas, Sarah Mucek, and Sonia Nam.

WOLVERINE GOES TO JAPAN! And we have SO many questions, including: is Professor X the world's worst employer/therapist? How many candles should you put on Wolverine's birthday cake? Are the X-Men paid in X-Bucks? And will Logan FINALLY enjoy some requited love?! Plus: Enter the Silver Samurai! It's Season 4, Episode 15, Lotus and Steel with cohosts Drew Kunas, Sarah Mucek, and Sonia Na...

The return we've all been waiting for: Kurt Wagner AKA NIGHTCRAWLER! Plus: Rogue and Nightcrawler: Sibs? Why doesn't Nightcrawler punch Graydon Creed a little bit more? And is this THE most satisfying ending for a villain in all of XMTAS??! All this and more in the second of the one-two punch of mutant family drama that is Bloodlines with cohosts Sarah Mucek and Michael Short.

The character debut we've all been waiting for: BOVA THE COW NANNY!!! Plus: Magneto seeks his wife! Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch seek their true parents! And the High Evolutionary seeks EVERYBODY'S DNA! Also, a final fight that we can only describe as "bonkers." It's Family Ties (Sha-la-la-la) with cohosts Sarah Mucek and Michael Short.

In which poor, omnipotent Kevin MacTaggert just wants a father's love! Plus: Natalie coins the term "incog-BEAST-o"! We go on a lengthy Star Trek tangent! And WOLVERINE RUNS AWAY??!! All this and, honestly, isn't Banshee just the best? It's Proteus, Part 2 with cohosts Natalie Lopez, Sarah Mucek, and Sonia Nam.

Crashing waves + bagpipes! XMTAS returns to the Muir Island Research Center, where Moira MacTaggert has been keeping a terrible secret! Plus: Rogue fights tiny versions of herself! Wolverine gets liquified! Xavier makes it about himself (again)! All this and who is the angsty, Scottish energy blob at the heart of the matter?!! It's Proteus, Part 1 with cohosts Natalie Lopez, Sarah Mucek, and S...

One Man's Worth comes to a heartbreaking conclusion and we explore such questions as: Why did Master Mold make sentinels with abs? Why did it take the better part of 2 episodes for them to say Bantam's name? And did Fitzroy REALLY need 8 seconds and 2 camera angles to drain Charles Xavier's energy? All this and more with cohosts Drew Kunas, Sarah Mucek, and Michael Short.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: X-Men Style! In which Wolverine, Storm, Bishop, and Shard come together from different realities to save a young Charles Xavier from Fitzroy! Plus: Storm is Mrs. Wolverine! Sarah talks waaay too much about her love of Age of Apocalypse! An unexpected cameo from Marlon Brando! And Bantam is "the LeFou to Fitzroy's Gaston"?? It's One Man's Worth (Part...

Introducing everyone's favorite blue-furred swashbuckling mutant, NIGHTCRAWLER! And we explore: How many ways has Wolverine been Australian over the years? Did Nightcrawler grow up inside a production of Spring Awakening?? Is Paul Bunyan an American Kaiju?!! All this and Kurt Wagner tells the villages, "Do your wurst." It's Season 4, Episode 8, Nightcrawler, the most spiritual 20...

It's a Cyclops 1-shot and we have so many questions! Like: Who the hell is this "Taylor Prescott"? What band was SOLAR a part of before turning to villainy? And the Oscar goes to...CHET?!! All this and references to Parseltongue and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery! It's Season 4, Episode 7, Secrets, Not Long Buried with cohosts Charissa Bertels, Marcus Bishop-Wright, and Sarah...

In which Morph returns to face off with Master Mold's giant head (literally)! Plus: Cyclops is caught off-guard by a party! Storm slays in fierce civilian duds! And our hosts get to the bottom of the greatest mystery in XMTAS: Why ARE Morph and Wolverin BFFs??? All this and so much more in Season 4, Episode 6, Courage. With cohosts Sarah Mucek, Matt Schrader, and Michael Short.

In which we all remember the Marvel Swimsuit Specials of the 1990's! Plus: Professor X and the Shadow King fight as giant astral kaijus! Cyclops begs an unconscious Professor X not to leave him! We learn an important life lesson (Never Trust Space Face)! And...a LIGHTSABER BATTLE??!! All this and so much more in Season 4, Episode 5, Xavier Remembers, with cohosts Sarah Mucek, Matt Schrader, an...

Part 2 of Sanctuary, in which MAGNETO LIVES!! Plus: Somebody's been foolin' with the missiles! Rogue and Wolverine go Black Ops! And Fabian Cortez has 99 problems, but all of them are Fabian Cortez! All this and more with cohosts Sarah Mucek, Sonia Nam, and Michael Short.

In which Magneto busts into the U.N. to announce his Big Mutant Party in the Sky, aka Asteroid M! Plus: the President gives Professor X special dispensation to attend said party, the Prof's, er, EX, Amelia Voght makes her XMTAS debut, and Fabian Cortez is, honestly, just the absolute worst. All this and more in Sanctuary, Part 1! Featuring cohosts Sarah Mucek, Sonia Nam, and Michael Short.

In which: Omega Red gets to phone a friend and his friend is...Wolverine?! Plus: Storm and Wolvie at the mercy of their enemy inside a submarine! Our cohosts do poorly in a game of "which cities are biggest"! And Drew coins the military campaign slogan, "Colonel for General!" All this and so much more in Season 4, Episode 2, A Deal with the Devil! Featuring cohosts Drew Kunas,...

In which Rogue's first love Cody emerges from his coma...completely jacked?! Plus: An unsuspecting Logan plays host to an insectoid alien race, Professor X gives Rogue s#$% for wanting to take PTO, and we meet the Acanti, giant space fish, the first curious sentients in the cosmos! All this and so much more in Season 3, Episode 19, Love in Vain with cohosts Sarah Mucek and Matt Schrader.

In which Cyclops discovers Corsair's true identity - and isn't happy about it (until he is!). Plus: Matt and Sarah discuss what they shouldn't be allowed to do onstage, how eyeliner really makes Shi'ar Colonel Raknar's eyes pop, and Storm "SHALL SEE YOU AT THE MONORAIL!!!" It's Season 3, Episode 18, Orphan's End with cohosts Sarah Mucek and Matt Shrader.

The conclusion of (probably) the greatest X-Men story of all time, THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA! In which: Our heroes face off with the Imperial Guard in the Blue Area of the moon! Jean leaves it all on the dance floor! And the Shi'ar cruiser "blasts 'er good"! All this and learn about the cohosts' collective tummy troubles and why Lilandra is the Boss Babe we all need right now. It...

NEW EPISODE! The Dark Phoenix Saga continues! In which Jean has a stuffed Cyclops in her childhood bedroom, Beast has a monkey bar in the X-Mansion dining room, and the Shi'ar have an Earth-produced fire extinguisher on their cruiser! All this and the Dark Phoenix gets EXTRA DARK in the episode first-time viewer Natalie Lopez calls "SO MUCH." Also featuring cohosts Sarah Mucek and Ma...

THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA CONTINUES as we meet that most extra of exclusive cabals, The Hellfire (er, Circle) Club! Jean Grey, deep under Mastermind's spell, sports big-time Janeway Season 1 hair! Wolverine eats a turkey leg, takes a ride in a dumbwaiter, and does his best Dirty Harry! Sebastian Shaw gratuitously destroys his own shirt in the name of manly pecs! All this and the DARK PHOENIX REVEA...