179 – Sincerely, An Evil Individual

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In which X-Factor gets a revamp; Larry Stroman is the best part of 1991; Havok used to have principles; Multiple Man is his own worst enemy; Jay’s Doonesbury knowledge finally becomes relevant; Strong Guy breaks the Washington Monument; and Val Cooper may or may not have married Mister Sinister.

X-PLAINED:

• The Madrox who got away
• Alan Disambiguation
• The X-Factor that might have been
• X-Factor #71-75
• Banter™
• A small selection of a gratuitously large volume of pop-culture references
• An evil individual
• One of the many deaths of Multiple Man
• Larry Stroman extras
• Professor Vic Chalker
• A Sinister scheme
• The iteration of X-Factor most likely to end up naked on television
• Your real-life Jamie Madrox reference
• GeeCees
• A canonical Doonesbury reference
• One way to get out of writing a term paper
• The proper plural of Madrox
• Ricochet
• The Nasty Boys
• Death by irony
• The evolution of Magik’s Soul Sword
• Why female superheroes rarely date civilian men

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