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In which this episode may or may not be a temporal aberration; Gambit is bad at marketing; Jubilee’s sixth birthday was probably worse than yours; Earth-295’s chronology doesn’t make that much more sense than 616’s; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau wears this timeline well; Rictor makes a terrible Javert; Jubilee has no time for your makeouts; superheroes are basically preschoolers; there is only one Jahf; babies are bad at stealing; and Apocalypse is not a tactician.

X-PLAINED:

How Magneto got his own country

A numerical convergence

Earth-295

Gambit and the X-Ternals #1-4

X-Ternals

The human resistance

The Temple of Human Redress

A terrible way to celebrate your birthday

Lila Cheney of Earth-295

The Nuclear Naked

Super Doctor Astronaut (mermaid) Peter Corbeau of Earth-295

Julio Richter (Earth-295)

Mudir

Homage

Cross-timeline vocabulary

Cosmic peril

The state of the Shi’ar Empire in Earth-295

The Starjammers of Earth-295

Varyingly versatile energy absorption

Jahf

An exchange

Some fancy sewers

Guido Carosella’s devil’s bargains

Earth-295... IN SPACE

The nominal justification for Apocalypse’s society

Which Apocalypse is currently running around Earth-616

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