Issue 20 – Multiple Man

It’s our second ever Patreon President-selected episode, as listener Matt suggests Multiple Man Jamie Madrox! Anthony & Dr. Issues discuss paralysis by analysis, and Doc deals with an unorthodox group session. Listen now!

SHOW NOTES:

• Introduction
• Background (03:33)
  • Created by Chris Claremont, Len Wein, John Buscema in Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4 (Feb. 1975)
  • Has ability to create numerous duplicates of himself, usually through kinetic force
  • Is not a mutant, but a changeling – a subsection of mutants whose abilities manifest at birth, rather than adolescence
  • Splits into two babies when the doctor slaps him at birth
  • Father creates a suit to control his powers
  • Damien Tryp tries to convince Madroxes to let Jamie come with him, they refuse, and Tryp creates a tornado that destroys his home and kills his parents
  • Finds the Fantastic Four, who send him to Professor Xavier, who sends him to study at Muir Island with Moira McTaggert
  • He gets close with Siryn, daughter of Banshee
  • Duplicate goes off and joins the Fallen Angels, who then aligns with Mister Sinister – ends up shooting another duplicate, and then gets reabsorbed into Madrox Prime, who was suffering from existential crisis that dupe could have separate life and be considered a separate individual – he basically saw another version of himself murdered in front of him
  • Exposed to Legacy Virus – while infected, taken by Goddess as part of Infinity Crusade
  • Dies from Legacy Virus – except it was a dupe, and the real Madrox has amnesia
  • M-Day – opens X-Factor Investigations with game show winnings – keeps powers because he is a changeling, not a mutant
  • Civil War – Madrox is both anti-registration, as well as a member of SHIELD hunting down protestors
  • Goes on mission to reabsorb numerous dupes – discovers Father John Maddox, a dupe with a family and a son, so Jamie leaves him alone
  • Discovered one of his dupes slept with Siryn, and the other with Monet St. Croix – they’re not happy
  • Layla Miller and a Madrox dupe go into the future and end up in Bishop’s future – Madrox Prime ends up with same M-style tattoo but weaker
  • Siryn gave birth to a son named Sean, but when Jamie held him, he absorbed him – this made Jamie suicidal
    • Discovered that John Maddox’s son wasn’t biologically his
  • Summers Rebellion – Alternate future where mutants fight against human oppressors – Cortex is an agent of the government trying to put down the rebellion, and turns out to be a Madrox dupe
  • Killed again by Bloodbath – ends up in alternate reality where he’s sent back to reality by spirit of Dr. Strange
  • Matt Rocks – attorney dupe who helps She-Hulk defend Steve Rogers
  • Retired to a farm to live with Layla Miller, but went back to Muir Island to investigate Terrigen mists – got infected and died – Prime and all dupes buried on Muir Island
• Issues (26:23)
  • Lack of identity
  • Inability to make a decision because he can make all of them (31:55)
  • Inability to father children as a result of absorbing duplicates (38:09)
• Treatment (45:34)
  • In-universe – focus on Prime, get him to acknowledge he can’t control everyone and everything
  • Out-of-universe (49:30)
• Skit
• Ending

References:

• Fagin – Oliver Twist – Anthony – 08:03
• Silence of the Lambs clip (NSFW) – Anthony – 15:37
• Multiplicity – Anthony – 16:50
• Power Perversion Potential – TV Tropes link – Anthony – 18:07
• Ric Flair – Anthony – 23:04
• Arthur – Anthony – 24:44
• Poochie rap – The Simpsons – Anthony – 25:48
• “The Golden Man” – Anthony – 32:15
• Next – Anthony – 32:23
• “I’m not Xena, I’m Lucy Lawless” – The Simpsons – Anthony – 58:55

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