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** Starting from Episode 001, Magneto's ability to explain away anything with vague references to "something, something magnetism" is thoroughly mocked. Of course, this has been MemeticMutation among comic book fans since Magneto was first introduced.
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** Starting from Episode 001, Magneto's ability every writer's inability to explain away anything with vague references to "something, something magnetism" understand how magnetism works is thoroughly mocked. Of course, It's mentioned in this has been MemeticMutation among comic book fans since episode alone that Magneto was first introduced.uses his control over magnetism to create force fields, hypnotize people and even astral project at different points. This same complaint comes up nearly every time Magneto uses his powers.
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* NarmCharm: It's pointed out in Episode 001 that Magneto's overall look is horrible, but it's such a mainstay and Magnus makes it work for himself so well that you can't help but respect him for sticking with it.
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* FlatCharacter: Part of the criticism of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] characterization is that unlike characters like ComicBook/SpiderMan the first class are basically all "Hey, they're teenagers and they have powers!" with no further development early on. ComicBook/{{Iceman}} fairs a little better, but only because he's shown to be younger and more immature, basically making him a reverse-powered version of Johnny Storm.
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* FlatCharacter: Part of the criticism of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] characterization is that unlike characters like ComicBook/SpiderMan the first class are basically all "Hey, they're teenagers and they have powers!" with no further development early on. ComicBook/{{Iceman}} fairs fares a little better, but only because he's shown to be younger and more immature, basically making him a reverse-powered version of Johnny Storm.Storm. Jean fares the worst, much like [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Invisible Girl]] and [[ComicBook/TheAvengers the Wasp]] in other Stan and Jack ensembles simply because her characterization is [[TheChick "the girl"]].
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** Hank McCoy is also initially presented as pretty similar to the other guys in the first class, except his hands and feet are big. Interestingly, it's not until issue #3 that his GeniusBruiser characterization begins to sink in.
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** Hank McCoy is also initially presented as pretty similar to the other guys in the first class, except his hands and feet are big. Interestingly, it's not until issue #3 that his GeniusBruiser characterization begins to sink in.
* FlatCharacter: Part of the criticism of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] characterization is that unlike characters like ComicBook/SpiderMan the first class are basically all "Hey, they're teenagers and they have powers!" with no further development early on. ComicBook/{{Iceman}} fairs a little better, but only because he's shown to be younger and more immature, basically making him a reverse-powered version of Johnny Storm.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Par the course for two reviewers covering the histories of characters that have built up over fifty years of history, but there are a number of character perceptions they hold strong to throughout the series:
** They agree with Kitty Pryde that Professor Xavier is a jerk!
** They agree with Kitty Pryde that Professor Xavier is a jerk!
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* HilariousInHindsight: In-Universe, Jay and Miles are convinced that Scarlet Witch's [[BuffySpeak red tube-head thingy]] is just the mutant version of [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cat-breading cat breading]].
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** Starting from Episode 001, Magneto's ability to explain away anything with vague references to "something, something magnetism" is thoroughly mocked. Of course, this has been MemeticMutation among comic book fans since Magneto was first introduced.
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* CanonImmigrant: As of the SecretWars2015 tie-in ''X-Men '92'', versions of Jay and Miles exist in Battleworld, if not the Marvel Universe proper.
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''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by Jay Rachel Edidin (who you might also know as the guy behind ''Blog/WorstMuse'') and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
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''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by Jay Rachel Edidin (who you might also know as the guy behind ''Blog/WorstMuse'') and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
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* TakeAThirdOption: In their video reviews of the current X-Men titles ("Jay and Miles Review the X-Men" originally "Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men") they'll occasionally, when the books were especially weak, give "Pick of the week..." to things not even remotely X-Men related. From the Siege tie-in of Comicbook/SecretWars2015 to the pizza they had for dinner.
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* TakeAThirdOption: In their video reviews of the current X-Men titles ("Jay and Miles Review the X-Men" originally "Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men") they'll occasionally, when the books were especially weak, give "Pick of the week..." to things not even remotely X-Men related. From the Siege tie-in of Comicbook/SecretWars2015 to the pizza they had for dinner.
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''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by Jay Rachel Edidin and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
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''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by Jay Rachel Edidin (who you might also know as the guy behind ''Blog/WorstMuse'') and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
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''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by [[Blog/WorstMuse Jay Rachel Edidin]] Edidin and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
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** Jay takes every opportunity he can to talk about Black Tom Cassidy because he wields a shillelagh, a word Jay loves saying.
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** Any mention of either Firestar or Emma Frost will eventually bring up [[NeverLiveItDown the time Frost blew up Firestar's pony]]. (As they admit, [[BeamMeUpScotty she actually burned the building down with the horse still inside]], but it's funnier to say that she blew it up.)
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* StylisticSuck: Their physical awards have the distinct quality of "kindergarten craft hour". Like the one for guessing the NoodleIncident (the Comicbook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel one about Cyclops) was a noodle necklace.
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* PurpleProse: Chris Claremont, one of the ''biggest'' TropeCodifier[=s=] of this, is often celebrated. Their opinion on Creator/AlanMoore's Captain Britain is that it passed purple right into ultra violet prose.
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* PurpleProse: Chris Claremont, one of the ''biggest'' TropeCodifier[=s=] of this, is often celebrated. Their opinion on Creator/AlanMoore's Captain Britain is that it passed purple right into ultra violet prose. And early 90s X-Factor made them wonder if Claremont and Louise Simonson had some sort of "purple off" going on those days.
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** After his first several appearances identify Peter Corbeau as not only an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, but capable of swimming across an ocean by himself [[note]]In one panel, Corbeau is seen swimming away from the wreck of the Space Shuttle with no land in sight, and thinking about the 'long swim' ahead of him; in the next panel, he pulls himself up on a beach and goes to see the X-Men, still dripping wet. [[/note]], he is forever after referred to as Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau, and every year they give out awards named after him (the "Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence").
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** After his first several appearances identify Peter Corbeau as not only an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, but capable of swimming across an ocean by himself [[note]]In one panel, Corbeau is seen swimming away from the wreck of the Space Shuttle his ship with no land in sight, and thinking about the 'long swim' ahead of him; in the next panel, he pulls himself up on a beach and goes to see the X-Men, still dripping wet. [[/note]], he is forever after referred to as Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau, and every year they give out awards named after him (the "Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence").
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** After his first several appearances identify Peter Corbeau as not only an astronaut and expert in astrophysics, but a medical doctor who can swim across an ocean by himself[[note]]In one panel, Corbeau is seen swimming away from the wreck of the Space Shuttle, which has crashed in the Pacific; in the next panel, he pulls himself up on a beach, and in the next, he's in San Francisco, which appears to imply he swam the entire Pacific.[[/note]], he is forever after referred to as Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau, and every year they give out awards named after him (the "Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence").
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** Speaking of the award. Some of the categories are what you might expect (best X-Writer, best X-Artist, best ongoing X-Book, best X-Mini, and so forth), some are less so (like "Buried Treasure" for stories nobody remembers but are kinda fun), and some which are downright surreal ("Best Withering Sneers" later renamed as "Kristafer Anka Award for Best Withering Sneer in an X-Book" so someone else has a chance to win, or the "MetaCorbeau for Exemplary Use of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in a Comic Book").
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** Speaking of the award. Some of the categories are what you might expect (best X-Writer, best X-Artist, best ongoing X-Book, best X-Mini, and so forth), some are less so (like "Buried Treasure" for stories nobody remembers but are kinda fun), and some which are downright surreal ("Best Withering Sneers" later renamed as "Kristafer Anka Award for Best Withering Sneer in an X-Book" so someone else has a chance to win, or the "MetaCorbeau "[=MetaCorbeau=] for Exemplary Use of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in a Comic Book").
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** Speaking of theField award. Some of Excellence").the categories are what you might expect (best X-Writer, best X-Artist, best ongoing X-Book, best X-Mini, and so forth), some are less so (like "Buried Treasure" for stories nobody remembers but are kinda fun), and some which are downright surreal ("Best Withering Sneers" later renamed as "Kristafer Anka Award for Best Withering Sneer in an X-Book" so someone else has a chance to win, or the "MetaCorbeau for Exemplary Use of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in a Comic Book").
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* RunningGag: Each episode's cold open involves the hosts talking about some point in the X-Men history in as confusing and convoluted a way as possible, to highlight ''why'' someone needs to X-Plain the X-Men
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**After his first several appearances identify Peter Corbeau as not only an astronaut and expert in astrophysics, but a medical doctor who can swim across an ocean by himself, he is forever after referred to as Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau, and every year they give out awards named after him (the "Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in the Field of Excellence").
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**After his first several appearances identify Peter Corbeau as not only an astronaut and expert in astrophysics, but a medical doctor who can swim across an ocean by himself, he is forever after referred to as Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau, and every year they give out awards named after him (the "Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in the Field of Excellence").
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* IconicItem: Jay is always seen wearing sunglasses in the ''Jay & Miles Review the X-Men'' video series, perhaps reminiscent of one of their favorite characters, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
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Some noted creators with experience writing X-Books who've appeared on the show include Creator/AnnNocenti (''Longshot''), Creator/GregRucka (''[[ComicBook/{{Cyclops2014}} Cyclops]]''), Si Spurrier (''X-Men: Legacy''), Greg Pak (''X-Treme X-Men'', ''ComicBook/{{Storm}}''), Dennis Hopeless (''X-Men: Season One'', ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'') and G. Willow Wilson (''X-Men'').
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(''X-Men'') and Creator/ChrisClaremont.
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-> Because it's about time someone did!
''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by [[Blog/WorstMuse Jay Rachel Edidin]] and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
Each episode sets out to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin explain the X-Men]] for listeners, usually covering a specific story arc in the team's extensive history, starting from their very first issue in 1963 onwards --- though they sometimes break from their usually scheduled programming with creator interviews, live episodes, and even one TabletopRPG special.
Some noted creators with experience writing X-Books who've appeared on the show include Creator/AnnNocenti (''Longshot''), Creator/GregRucka (''[[ComicBook/{{Cyclops2014}} Cyclops]]''), Si Spurrier (''X-Men: Legacy''), Greg Pak (''X-Treme X-Men'', ''ComicBook/{{Storm}}''), Dennis Hopeless (''X-Men: Season One'', ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'') and G. Willow Wilson (''X-Men'').
You can find [[http://www.xplainthexmen.com/ here]].
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!! Jay and Miles have explained (and provided examples of) the following tropes:
* AscendedFanon: Miles and Jay are both prone to adopting personal interpretations as canonical, although they are also very clear about the difference between that and actual canon.
* BigWhat: Miles closes out every ColdOpen (in which Jay describes a particularly convoluted X-Men story element) with one of these.
* BriefAccentImitation: The second Giant-Size Special features Miles and guest host Tina pulling commendable impressions of ComicBook/{{Rogue}} and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} respectively, right down to their signature VerbalTic[=s=].
* ButtMonkey: Jay and Miles often remark on how members of the Summers family tend to lead crappy lives.
* CanonImmigrant: As of the SecretWars2015 tie-in ''X-Men '92'', versions of Jay and Miles exist in Battleworld, if not the Marvel Universe proper.
* CrossOver: Many storylines covered on the show feature these, crossing over with titles such as ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/PowerPack'', among others.
** A meta example: this show is one of the podcasts involved with the ''Secret Convergence On Infinite Podcasts'' crossover show.
* FlatWhat: When rarely Jay is closing the cold open their "What?" tend to this type.
* HappilyMarried: Jay and Miles are a married couple, which they've had to explicitly state to confused listeners on at least one occasion.
* {{Homage}}: The podcast's official cover art --drawn by Ming Doyle-- is an homage to the cover of [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051201150047/marveldatabase/images/2/25/X-Men_Vol_1_137.jpg X-Men #137]].
* IconicItem: Jay is always seen wearing sunglasses in the ''Jay & Miles Review the X-Men'' video series, perhaps reminiscent of one of their favorite characters, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
** The one time that Jay didn't wear the sunglasses was for [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness a very personal announcement]].
* LargeHamAnnouncer: Supporters of the show's Patreon account receive personalized spiels in the style of ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, an angry comic book narrator, et. al.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The cold open of episode 96 presents the secret origins of the High Evolutionary as a game of madlibs and Jay feels the need to clarify in the episode proper that, yes, everything they said about him is canon.
* OnceAnEpisode: The ColdOpen and listener questions, bookending the main discussion of each episode.
* PurpleProse: Chris Claremont, one of the ''biggest'' TropeCodifier[=s=] of this, is often celebrated. Their opinion on Creator/AlanMoore's Captain Britain is that it passed purple right into ultra violet prose.
* RunningGag: Each episode's cold open involves the hosts talking about some point in the X-Men history in as confusing and convoluted a way as possible, to highlight ''why'' someone needs to X-Plain the X-Men
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Various special episodes. Form an informal talk with assorted guests to a tabletop [=RPG=] session.
* TakeAThirdOption: In their video reviews of the current X-Men titles ("Jay and Miles Review the X-Men" originally "Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men") they'll occasionally, when the books were especially weak, give "Pick of the week..." to things not even remotely X-Men related. From the Siege tie-in of Comicbook/SecretWars2015 to the pizza they had for dinner.
* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Jay's personal interpretation of the High Evolutionary is that the High is intended to be descriptive.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: The title of the podcast emulates the title of ''X-Treme X-Men'', which utilizes this trope.
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-> Because it's about time someone did!
''Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'' (originally ''Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men'') is a weekly {{podcast}} hosted by [[Blog/WorstMuse Jay Rachel Edidin]] and Miles Stokes, covering the "ins, outs and {{retcon}}s" of their favorite {{superhero}} SoapOpera, the ComicBook/XMen.
Each episode sets out to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin explain the X-Men]] for listeners, usually covering a specific story arc in the team's extensive history, starting from their very first issue in 1963 onwards --- though they sometimes break from their usually scheduled programming with creator interviews, live episodes, and even one TabletopRPG special.
Some noted creators with experience writing X-Books who've appeared on the show include Creator/AnnNocenti (''Longshot''), Creator/GregRucka (''[[ComicBook/{{Cyclops2014}} Cyclops]]''), Si Spurrier (''X-Men: Legacy''), Greg Pak (''X-Treme X-Men'', ''ComicBook/{{Storm}}''), Dennis Hopeless (''X-Men: Season One'', ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'') and G. Willow Wilson (''X-Men'').
You can find [[http://www.xplainthexmen.com/ here]].
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!! Jay and Miles have explained (and provided examples of) the following tropes:
* AscendedFanon: Miles and Jay are both prone to adopting personal interpretations as canonical, although they are also very clear about the difference between that and actual canon.
* BigWhat: Miles closes out every ColdOpen (in which Jay describes a particularly convoluted X-Men story element) with one of these.
* BriefAccentImitation: The second Giant-Size Special features Miles and guest host Tina pulling commendable impressions of ComicBook/{{Rogue}} and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} respectively, right down to their signature VerbalTic[=s=].
* ButtMonkey: Jay and Miles often remark on how members of the Summers family tend to lead crappy lives.
* CanonImmigrant: As of the SecretWars2015 tie-in ''X-Men '92'', versions of Jay and Miles exist in Battleworld, if not the Marvel Universe proper.
* CrossOver: Many storylines covered on the show feature these, crossing over with titles such as ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/PowerPack'', among others.
** A meta example: this show is one of the podcasts involved with the ''Secret Convergence On Infinite Podcasts'' crossover show.
* FlatWhat: When rarely Jay is closing the cold open their "What?" tend to this type.
* HappilyMarried: Jay and Miles are a married couple, which they've had to explicitly state to confused listeners on at least one occasion.
* {{Homage}}: The podcast's official cover art --drawn by Ming Doyle-- is an homage to the cover of [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051201150047/marveldatabase/images/2/25/X-Men_Vol_1_137.jpg X-Men #137]].
* IconicItem: Jay is always seen wearing sunglasses in the ''Jay & Miles Review the X-Men'' video series, perhaps reminiscent of one of their favorite characters, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
** The one time that Jay didn't wear the sunglasses was for [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness a very personal announcement]].
* LargeHamAnnouncer: Supporters of the show's Patreon account receive personalized spiels in the style of ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, an angry comic book narrator, et. al.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The cold open of episode 96 presents the secret origins of the High Evolutionary as a game of madlibs and Jay feels the need to clarify in the episode proper that, yes, everything they said about him is canon.
* OnceAnEpisode: The ColdOpen and listener questions, bookending the main discussion of each episode.
* PurpleProse: Chris Claremont, one of the ''biggest'' TropeCodifier[=s=] of this, is often celebrated. Their opinion on Creator/AlanMoore's Captain Britain is that it passed purple right into ultra violet prose.
* RunningGag: Each episode's cold open involves the hosts talking about some point in the X-Men history in as confusing and convoluted a way as possible, to highlight ''why'' someone needs to X-Plain the X-Men
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Various special episodes. Form an informal talk with assorted guests to a tabletop [=RPG=] session.
* TakeAThirdOption: In their video reviews of the current X-Men titles ("Jay and Miles Review the X-Men" originally "Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men") they'll occasionally, when the books were especially weak, give "Pick of the week..." to things not even remotely X-Men related. From the Siege tie-in of Comicbook/SecretWars2015 to the pizza they had for dinner.
* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Jay's personal interpretation of the High Evolutionary is that the High is intended to be descriptive.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: The title of the podcast emulates the title of ''X-Treme X-Men'', which utilizes this trope.
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