2 – Sentinels in the Mist

In which we introduce the villains of the Silver Age: Magneto makes some valid points, Mastermind is a Nice Guy of OkCupid, the Scarlet Witch predicts Cat Breading, the Trasks should really have known better, and the Comics Code Authority is down with pterosaurs.

X-Plained:

• Common characteristics of enduring X-villains
• Mutant identity politics and moral relativism
• Context-agnostic Juggernaut flashbacks
• An unorthodox approach to anthropology
• Cyclops’s greatest diplomatic achievement
• Silver-Age haberdashery
• An innovative modification to vampire mythology
• Cultural assimilation
• The propaganda-and-sweater-vest machine
• Hex bolts
• Supplemental reading

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