Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes

January 19512 – You Can Get Anything You Want at Stryfe’s Restaurant
In which it’s rude to eat in a helmet; Cable does his best villain bit; Bishop is clearly unfamiliar with early X-Force; we’re pretty sure clones still count as people; and Stryfe is the surprise MVP of Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom.
X-PLAINED:
Another time Stryfe and Bishop teamed up
Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom #3-6
Some of the Witness’s fancy swag
An extremely awkward meal
Stryfe in four pages
Unsubtle foreshadowing
The relative ethics of killing Stryfe
A visual representation of time
Somewhat logical consequences
Bad clone ethics
Future uncertainty
Le Bête Noir
Hell-lord / anti-Phoenix disambiguation
A fancy t-shirt
The appropriate amount of mean to be to Stryfe
When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops (more) (again) (inconclusive)
Reasons not to live under a crypt in New Orleans
Betty Noir’s
Relative (fictional) body counts
Business-casual Stryfe
Lucas Bishop, kitten guy
Relitigating the X-traitor
NEXT EPISODE: Eve of Destruction (and some bonus Summers family bullshit)
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47 min
January 12511 – Night Science
In which we unapologetically ship Gambit and Bishop; pelicans are deeply alarming birds; Charles Xavier watches your sex dreams; the Witness is a Whole Continuity Thing; and the T’ieves Guild is really just here to steal your stuff.
X-PLAINED:
Destiny’s frequently retconned diaries
Midi series
Gambit (more) (again)
Bishop (more) (again)
Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom Alpha
Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom #1-2
When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops
Some things pelicans get up to
An upsetting dream
Ethics of telepathy (more) (again)
Night science
Some of what Stryfe has been up to
French nouns
A theoretical Orphan Black video game
The Witness (LeBeau) (more) (again)
The Witness Cave
How to make Bishop a more central X-character
The relative importance of T’ieves Guild continuity
NEXT EPISODE: Stryfe in a diner!
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46 min
January 05510 – Giant-Size Special #14 (feat. Alex Paknadel)
In which we attempt an all-Cyclops Winter special; X-Men are bad at processing grief; writer Alex Paknadel X-Plains his upcoming Cyclops miniseries; every character (except Cameron Hodge) is someone’s favorite; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
Clones of Cyclops
Gwen Warren
Our year in review
X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4
Ahmed and his mustache
Emotional support boats
A monkey
Apoca-lips
Anias
Boxes of fire
One way of coping with trauma
Ozymandias (more) (again)
The relative criminality of a trail of questions
Cat lady problems
Twice as many cat ladies named Anias as you’d expect
Terrible logic
Caliban (more) (again)
Several unpleasant reunions
Alex Paknadel’s definitive Cyclopses
Fun with minor characters
Proxy characters and “highly polished surfaces”
Characters to revisit
Sentinels
Cyclops vs. his own powers
Cyclops’s powers vs. continuity
Who Scott Summers is when he’s alone
The punch dimension
The 11th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful
NEXT EPISODE: Gambit & Bishop: Now Kiss Sons of the Atom
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2 hr
December 15, 2025509 – No Fun Will Be Had
In which Marrow just want to be left alone; Spider-Man remains hapless; S.H.I.E.L.D. is unhelpful; Colossus dies; Shadowcat leaves the X-Men; and we are all on board for Mutants to Watch Out For.
X-PLAINED:
How Magik caught the Legacy Virus
Marrow (again)
Spider-Man and Marrow #1
Uncanny X-Men #390
X-Men #110
A fancy club
A terrible plan
The Legacy Virus (more) (again)
Some deeply contrived “science”
A life-affirming display of social interaction
The death of Colossus
A very silly sound effect
Acceptable handwriting
Nostalgia
A double send-off
Closure
Mortality in Otherworld
Imaginary crossovers
NEXT EPISODE: Winter Special!
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56 min
December 08, 2025508 – Destiny’s Doodles
In which Professor Xavier is a jock; all of Shadowcat’s friends are dead; Storm recruits a team; Bishop makes new pals; and everyone gets festive.
X-PLAINED:
Some of Mystique’s secret kids
Uncanny X-Men #389
X-Men #109
Charles Xavier’s workout routine
Two funerals
Rave (the drug)
The wrong necklace
Destiny’s doodles
A large knife
Charles Xavier/Moira MacTaggert backstory
A snowball fight
A very sketchy circus
A break-up
“Christmas cheer”
A mysterious package
An X-Men nativity
Sage (Tessa)
Origins of X-Treme X-Men
Several gifts, some more mysterious than others
Charles Xavier’s legacy
Warwolves (more) (again)
Archangel’s color vision
NEXT EPISODE: Colossus dies!
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55 min
December 01, 2025507 – Comic Book Logic
In which there are a lot of explosions in X-Force; Great Britain-616 is to intelligence as Canada-616 is to military; Alastair Stuart used to be fun; Emma Frost is here to stomp on your dreams; Chamber joins the X-Men; and the Generation X kids graduate themselves.
X-PLAINED:
Revolution (again)
Counter-X (again)
X-Force #114-115
Generation X #75
Yet another origin of humanity and/or life on Earth (again)
The World Engine
Accurate representation of CD-Rs
Genetech
A swimsuit interlude
Agent Corben
Alastair Stuart (more) (again)
A kidnapping
A really amazingly terrible plan
A particularly large explosion
The remaining 14 issues of X-Force vol. 1
An interlude at Applebee’s
Bad times at the New Xavier School
A murder (more) (again)
Intersectional superheroism
An additional bonus murder
An invitation
Many goodbyes
What happens next to the Generation X kids
NEXT EPISODE: The end of Revolution
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1 hr 2 min
November 17, 2025506 – The House at the End of the World
In which Jay remains angry at a font; a person who is obviously Kang the Conqueror is not in fact Kang the Conqueror; the pig men deserve better; and Nightcrawler should never, ever, ever be allowed to attempt grief counseling.
X-PLAINED:
Storm/Cable
Cable #85-86, 88
Cable (more)(again)
Earth-4935
Mother Askani
Irene Merryweather
Several cryptic witches
Are you as dangerous as you think martial arts training for advanced students
Shin
An unlikely sound effect
The Black Dawn
A time catapult
An End of Time
Earth-805110
The House on the Borderline
Gaunt
One of Esad Ribic’s more entertaining accomplishments
A fight
One way to weaponize the T-O virus
The future past of Rachel Summers
Cable’s friendship with Moira MacTaggert
Streets of Fire
Grief counseling? Sort of? I guess?
A very impressive spear
Our muppet counterparts
NEXT EPISODE: Two endings!
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46 min
November 10, 2025505 – The Amulet of Ass
In which Widget takes a heel turn; there is some confusion over sword identification; we appreciate Sir Benedict of the Falls; the Braddock family has a lot going on; and Otherworld changes hands.
X-PLAINED:
Names for flying horses
Excalibur (2001 miniseries) #1-4
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (briefly) (again)
The Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
Darkmoor Research Facility
Sword and amulet distribution
Strider the Horse
Why all the horses of Asgard have Tolkien names
Sir Benedict of the Falls and his many axes
One way to win a bridge fight
Sword pops
Several continuity errors
Holographic James Braddock
The Dad Cave
Otherworld eugenecists
A coronation
A twist
Some potential X-Factor lineups
Life expectancies of mutants with healing factors
NEXT EPISODE: Cable fights some guys.
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52 min
November 03, 2025504 – One Day, Four Ways
In which Banshee is chronically hapless; the team gets new costumes (again); Chamber is a self-fulfilling prophecy; toddlers will sell you out in a hot minute; Moira MacTaggert is definitively not in; we are frustrated by excessive ambiguity; and it’s not Rashômon, but it’ll do.
X-PLAINED:
Banshee post-Generation X
Generation X #71-74
Interior decorating
New costumes (again)
Chamber, but a housecat
A meet-cute
Teen angst
Fashion
An extremely awkward conversation
A brief history of boba in the United States
A fracas
Fun things to do with extra skin
Evolving teacher-student relationships
Poor interrogation technique
Husk vs. international terrorism, in general
Ghosts of the Massachusetts Academy
Villains and heroes we think would be neat as the reverse
A world in which Peridot of Steven Universe imprinted on X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Fast times in Otherworld!
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56 min
October 20, 2025503 – Dream’s Anticlimax
In which history repeats itself; Senator Kelly prevaricates (and then dies); Magneto keeps the cape on; Mystique does evil science; Post remains irrelevant (and then dies); Pyro saves the day (and then dies); Cable is a large man; Moira MacTaggert does the astral nasty (and then dies); and we really, really, really want to go to Froggy World.
X-PLAINED:
Moira MacTaggert’s mutation
A dubious plan
Evidence that we are in the wrong universe
Other crossovers named “Dream’s End”
A significant disclaimer
Uncanny X-Men #388
Cable #87
Bishop: The Last X-Men #16
X-Men #108
A surprise presidential platform
Sir Gordon Phillips and his guests
The new Brotherhood of Mutants
Cable’s hair
A lot of movie allusions
An ambiguous explosion
A deeply pointless retcon
An illusion
Cable’s psimitar
Pyro’s last stand
Dickalogue
Astral sex
The (apparent) death of Moira MacTaggert
A weird bonding moment in a cemetery
How to identify a time traveler
The (actual) death of Senator Robert Kelly
Mutant-free parts of the Marvel Universe
Froggy World
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X!
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