See You Next Mirror: Exiles #1-61, Part 1 - Atop the Fourth Wall 

"MY WIFE IS EITHER ALL POWERFUL, EVIL, OR DEAD! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!" -Cyclops

Wait so there's a character who's the child of Nightcrawler AND Scarlet Witch in this? Congratulations all 15 people who shipped them in the Wolverine and the X-MEN cartoon, you now have a reason to celebrate!

THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MORPH

"Time isn't a living being." Yeah see Linkara I'm gonna have to stop you RIIIIIIGHT there see there's a big guy called Eternity and he LITERALLY is Time so........ yeah in Marvel it kinda is a living being.

6:10 - "Oh I'll teleport you alright... Into the Next Dimension!" 11:55 - So the Noosphere does exist... in the Marvel Dimension. 14:55 - Xavier possesses Mind Crush. 17:49 - Sooooo... Jean Grey = Kenny McCormick? 18:30 - That's not a woman in lingerie. That's Captain Underpants - The Greatest Superhero(ine). 21:58 - Wait, wait-wait-wait-wait-wait-waaaaaaait....Deadpool is a cyborg in this universe? How did he become a cyborg in this universe? 23:45 - "Thunderbird, I'm pregnant... and Linkara's the father."

So there's a universe where everything is exactly the same in every single way except there is one less fly

"When you get down to it, Exiles is really just an excuse to write fanfic characters." Lewis, superhero comics as a medium are an excuse to write fanfic. It is a medium made if fanfiction.

There actually is an an alternative universe where Jean Grey survived instead of being killed (though she was lobotomized instead), but Jean eventually got her powers back, started destroying planets, and eventually killing all of the X-men when they find out, which causes her to destroy the entire universe.

In the words of a wise man "it's like quantum leap for bastards"

Trauma does not mean PTSD. The trauma that the time broker is referring to is the trauma of being undone in time, and that their mind/body/soul/spirit/essence is trying to make sense of what it's experiencing.

More accurately, they were going to kill off Thunderbird OR Wolverine. Thunderbird got the nod because John Byrne is Canadian. Originally Jean WAS the Phoenix. There wasn't a "Phoenix force" until sometime later. It was her achieving the full potential of her powers.

I imagined the Time broker's voice to something a mixture of John Hurt and maybe the First doctor.

Do you ever walk into that closet and think "y'know today I will wear the green ranger mask." ...cause that would be me every day.

I think there's another advantage to killing off Magnus like that, which is that it explains why they don't have as much of a solid, controlled leader. If I was time (and I'm not, I promise) I wouldn't want to send out a team without someone with leadership experience on it. Typically, I dislike shock 'anyone can die' deaths because, well, it tends to not be true. Characters will probably die if their character arcs are at or near completion, or their deaths otherwise serve the story. But in the case of Magnus, it serves the story by explaining why the exiles didn't have someone like him on the team. They did. And then he died.

What the time broker was trying to convey (at least how I figure it) was that he, and the area they were in, were non-corporeal; and that his form, and the area they were in, was taken from their minds collectively (not as in they are a collective mind, but they form the collective pool of information) so that they could comprehend it.

That "I'm the government, I'm the reason nothing works" clip kills me XD

22:53 NO LINKARA IN THAT REALITY HE MAKE A DEAL WITH A HUMAN TO ERASE HIS DIVORSE

Honestly, this sounds like a fun title. It's a rare opportunity in comics for artists to just come up with crazy ideas for stories without any strings attached. They can resurrect obscure characters and explore them further, or just invent all new characters for the hell of it. And it sounds like the execution of this story was done rather well too.

Marvel has actually flip-flopped several times on whether or not Mimic really is a mutant. The characters in-universe are unsure of whether or not he is anymore.

I remember Morph getting killed in the original series and really hitting home that the series was going to go there...and go there surprisingly a LOT O_o

That collective consciousness thing actually makes sense to me. First the trauma might be referring to being pulled out of their timelines and the collective consciousness thing in my opinion is referring more to a scan of their minds and him being a projection that none of them would find overly threatening but would also be able to take seriously.

Fun fact: Judd Winick, the guy who wrote the first run of Exiles, is the co-creator of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee. Really.

I am super hungry, and when I read "What if Spider-Man's Clone Lived?", I saw it as "What if Spider-Man Drank Pepsi?" I am not even kidding.

Even after Secret Wars(2015) the multiverse was rebuilt thanks to Franklin Richards and Molecule man. In fact it's explained that one of the reasons the laws of physics in the Marvel Universe are wonky and not identical to our own is specifically because a little boy with a very active imagination is responsible for recreating everything.

SQUEEEEEE....Exiles has always been a favorite of mine.....so happy to see this although amazed Lewis is able to fit it into such a short two ep structure.

18:04 "...sounds dumb when a character dies for any amount more than once." Resurrection Man was an awesome character concept that utterly disproves this statement, Linkara. That's especially true in his Hitman crossover appearance, but Mitch is pretty amazing throughout his career.

Exiles is a bit like Legends of Tomorrow.

Holy crap he knows about Combo Man. Which just begs the question as to why he hasn't done a review of it sooner. (I think. I might check after watching this.)

thank you so much for covering this series. I absolutely loved this comic!

Hey linky, I liked this review so much, I actually went out and bought the exiles ultimate collection to experience it for myself. Good job!

I really love these Retrospectives, along with History of Power Rangers, they're my favorite form of Linkara.

Damnit Janet... I mean Linkara, whenever someone uses excessive techno babble and jargon to explaine something that is clearly bullshit you need to cut to futurama. Specifically, when the professor says, " yes that sequence of words I just said made perfect sense". Just once

I LOVE Exiles! Thank you so much for reviewing these! Linkara you rock!!! 😊

A world apart was one of my fave x storys

"Jean Grey in particular has a recurring joke about how many times she's supposedly died." So she's Krillin/Yamcha.

I think time guy's explanation is more that he's creating the images of what he and the world look like from their minds, as opposed to being a literal construction OF those minds. Like, he's so beyond them that he has to look like SOMETHING, or we'd be dealing with Lovecraftian madness.

Love your videos Linkara, been watching since all the way back in the Countdown days, can honestly say this is my favorite comic based show on the internet! You make this crazy world we live in tolerable! Thanks for all your great work and for putting smiles on thousands of comic fans young and old around the world!

Oh that's why it took a minute to come up. I love these retrospectives better than some regular reviews. Thanks for all the hard work.

"THUNDERBIRD IS GO--er, GONE." BOOOOO.

March is the best part of the year for AT4W. For some reason, I find your retrospectives your best episodes.

Rewatching these after buying the first two issues of the new Exiles book. No spoilers, I promise.

0:55To bad sliders canceled during a cliff hanger episode.

I kind of wanted a March of the Runaways this year for the Retrospective, mainly for the sake of having something to tie into the new hulu show for those who never heard of it.

I'm very sick today, and been sleeping on and off all day. I _needed_ this.

I loved the Exiles! It was nice to see them do something with Morph (my favorite character from the Animated Series) even if he was from another universe. And if they ever brought him into the movies I would think the ideal version would be a combination of Animated Series and Exiles.

once more I am enjoying this retrospective. I've learned quite a bt through your show, and with the retrospectives more so. hell thanks to last year, I learned of the awesome character of the Blue Beetle

Went to a bullmoose tonight, and while I was checking out the the comics section of the, I took a quick read of the first volume of the 2018 Exiles. When I was putting it back, I noticed a volume containing the cover of the first run of the Exiles. At first I thought it was a used copy, but when I opened it to read it, having heard of the first thanks to this retrospective, I saw an ad for the first volume of the current run of Exiles. So yeah, the original run of exiles is being collected and reprinted right now. The first volume probably contains the first 19 issues of the original run. I might not have bought the copy, but I just want to let people know that the original run is being collected. So If you're interested in this series thanks to this retrospective, keep an eye out for volumes of the original run.

Loved the Thunderbirds gag at the end.

Oh man I read this series a long time ago when my brother downloaded it. I forgot where I stopped but I did read a lot of it.

I love these retrospectives.

Exiles is my favourite X series by far. it managed to deal with both the tragedy of these characters as well as never forgetting their sense of humour.

Even though I'm as mainstream of a comic fan (at least for D.C.) I do like how you do retrospective for superheroes the general public might not know about

I never get lucky enough to be up when so few comments. I love it! Keep up the great work!

Watching this in the aftermath of Loki, I kind of want these characters to be rmcu introduction to the X-Men. Also, I kind of wish the talus was sentient and it was just trying to figure out how competent or incompetent the Exiles were as it guided them. It would start off not giving them too much information and then realize they were kind of idiots in its opinion so it overcorrected on the next mission.

I hate how this is the only video I've found that reviews the Exiles comics, like literally I have yet to find any others that review the series.

Ooh, parallel universes eh? That concept has always intrigued me to no end. I always liked to see the evil counterparts of superheroes and supervillains, and I'm also curious about parts of history that are completely different depending on what happened in history.

5;59 - there also the fact that Blink had appeared BEFORE AoA in issue 317 of uncanny X men [aka the intorduction of what would become Generation X]

Love this series

Man, I want to read this now! I guess that's kinda the point though...

Seems interesting. Might have to go back and read some Exiles.

Oh boy, I'll need to really pay attention in order to not get lost with these few videos.

11:55 Thunderbird Probability: This is a Load Of Barnacles

Linkara... DON'T reset and commit genocide. It's not a first comment but at least I'm early.

Even in this Linkara can make a one more day joke.

"Son of magneto and rogue" I'm ..... comics man... comics

Wooh! Retrospective time! I've been interested in Exiles ever since you first compared it to Sliders, because I'm one of those weirdos who really, really likes Sliders (Even when it got really dumb) Linkara, since you go back and forth between DC and Marvel on these retrospectives, and I know you're a fan of all the characters, have you considered doing a Batgirl Retrospective next year? The break down could actually be very simple. Week 1: Backstory on the character's creation, Bette Kane, and Barbara Gordon. Week 2: Helena Bertinelli in No Man's Land, and then Cassandra Cain (THE GREATEST HERO OF ALL TIME) Week 3: Stephanie Brown Week 4: New 52/Rebirth I think it'd be a lot of fun, but of course, it all comes down to what you want to do. However, whether or not you do this, you can expect that once I have the money, I WILL be paying you to review Robin 150-151, my most hated comics of all time, and I will enjoy watching them burn. In any case, THIS video was awesome, and I'm about to watch part 2.

ah DC multiverse, prime example of parallel worlds.

Wow! As long as today's installment turned out, I'm surprised you didn't just extend it over an extra week/the whole month.

Neat! I never knew Marvel had something like this. I've always been a huge fan of parallel universes and the like, so it's great to see another prime example of it.

Oh, Parallel Universes. To quote TFS Cell "Multiverse Theory is a bitch." While on this note, I swear that the Transfotmers have one of the most complexes Multiverses.

Bioshock infinite actually dealt with Parallel universes too

I think they explain in Marvel how the universe does have it's own collective consciousness from every living thing in the universe. The time broker and the desert was just created out of the most common thought traits or something.

July 2001 - October 2002 Marvel has a special place in my upbringing

24:39 oddly Twinkies had an ad that dif just this back in the mid 80s.

So they were told to try and recreate the "Silent Interlude", I wonder if Hama was considered for writing an issue or two this looks like something up his alley

6:41 THIS ONES FOR YOU MORPH!

Meanwhile in an alternate dimension: スーパー戦隊の次の歴史はいつですか

I'm definitely buying this

Worst vague demand the Talus ever issued? Find Ray Palmer

Wooo, This Is Gonna Be Fun

yay it's here

Isn't Time one of the Celestials? Like Death, Eternity, Galactus, etc. 18:30 Yeah, lingerie. Pretty sure Wonder Woman, Phantom Lady, and quite a few others were lingerie also.

Lewis, could you please do a retrospective on the starman run? That run deserves more attention.

Rocking some nice sideburns I see :D

Linkara The mirror universe in Star Trek is called The Terran Empire.

oh cool i just started reading this around the time this was uploaded never thought of comparing exiles to sliders

Blink was actualr from the Phalanx event predating the AoA

Perfect intro by the way

Am i the only one who wants Linkara do a dimension hopping storyline?

1:59 Except Marvel didn't erase continuity like DC's reboots did, it just shook up the multiverse and got a lot of interdimensional characters to move to the main Marvel earth. Which again proves why I like Marvel more than DC. They understand how much their fans value their history. Sure, DC proved with Convergence that they do, but stuff that happened in New 52 is still canon.

WOO! Episode is up! :D

This Big Dude is going to be my superhero name.

Hey, I like that idea. I'd read the story of Demon Spidey falling in love XD

The first I ever heard of alternate detentions was on he-man/shera, except they didn't explain it very well. For a while, i thought "detemention" meant "place". I was like 5 at the time.

Actually, the idea of a demon-possessed guy making a deal with an angel to get married is kinda interesting.

14:05 That one belongs in the top ten jokes list.

Too bad he didn't mention the Darkwing Duck episode "Life, The Negaverse and Everything"!

Will there be a review for the Justice League/Power Rangers crossover comic?

Half the plot in Atop the Fourth Wall involves parallel universes, so fitting you review this. Why hasn't Linkara tried to travel to parallel universes using Comicron One before it crashed, like try to investigate Mechakara's world just to be careful/be a hero, or go to the universe of Pokemon Red and Blue and show Vyce the Entity's dead(since Vyce said Entity/Missingno was from his universe, and when the Entity died it undid its assimilation).

This one for you morph