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In which we wrap things up.

X-PLAINED:

• Krakoa (mostly)
• The True Secret History of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
• The True Secret History of Matt Hunter
• Live shows
• The “WHAT”s
• Audio production through transition
• Adapting to long-distance recording
• Proximity
• Our retirement plans
• The means of production
• Our favorite voice effects
• Sound design considerations for Dazzler’s shows
• What we’ve learned from making Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
• Regrets
• Where to find Matt online
• Our evolving feelings about the X-Men
• Stories we would’ve liked to have covered
• The evolving podcasting landscape
• X-Men analogues
• Our theoretical Magic: The Gathering mechanics
• What X-Men is really about
• How to read like Jay and Miles

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In which we wrap up the continuity portion of the podcast along with our coverage of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men; Wolverine poses dramatically; Cyclops breaks the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; we are deeply intrigued by Brian and his magic car; Wolverine poses dramatically; Sublime extends his reach; Phoenix heals the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; change is important; and somewhere Wolverine is probably still posing dramatically.

X-PLAINED:

• X of Swords (somewhat)
• Endings
• Varying opinions on the same art
• Earth-15104
• ‘Crawlers
• Tom Skylark
• Rover (in several media)
• The Beast (Hank McCoy) (sort of)
• The evolution of EVA
• An evocative quotation
• Several recognizable oracles
• Where the timeline broke
• The Proud People
• Apollyon the Destroyer
• Mer-Max
• A somewhat robotic love triangle
• Tito Bohusk
• How to hatch a Phoenix egg
• The White Hot Room
• The Termids
• Several atrocities
• An unfortunate costume choice
• John Sublime (for real this time)
• Yet another origin of life on Earth
• Evil science
• Kick (more) (again)
• Weapon XIV
• The X-Men’s last stand
• An unlikely Phoenix host
• Breaking cycles
• Aspects of Earth-15104 we’d like to see explored further
• Where we’d conclude the X-Men

NEXT EPISODE: The end.

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In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.

X-PLAINED:

• Dubious X-relationships
• Some excellent songs from an excellent show
• New X-Men #149-150
• Various atrocities and catastrophes
• The resistance, such as it is
• Magneto’s limits
• A rebirth
• Neutron warheads
• The cavalry
• Yet another death of Magneto
• Yet another death of Jean Grey
• A peculiar epilogue
• A legacy of retcons
• A miasma of bleakness and futility
• The Xorn retcon
• Disability in “Planet X”
• Miracles of Magnetism

NEXT EPISODE: The future!

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In which many plot threads come together; Charles Xavier is a catastrophically bad listener; you should probably not live in the Marvel Universe; bridges are really important; there’s nothing sexy about dying of heat exhaustion; and we judge Morrison’s Magneto and find him wanting.

X-PLAINED:

• What Xorn did after dying
• The story so far
• New X-Men #146-148
• Beast’s typing gloves
• Several innovative ways to type loudly
• Doomed plans
• A manufactured confrontation
• A trap
• Magneto reimagined
• Visual depictions of sweat
• “New Genosha”
• Death and rebirth
• Whether Magneto has a place in New X-Men; and if so, what
• A name for an era

NEXT EPISODE: Yet another death of Magneto

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In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

X-PLAINED:

• What happened to the World
• Weapon XVI
• New X-Men #142-145
• Fantomex (more) (again)
• The Weapon Plus program
• A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
• How to murder a nice, romantic mood
• The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
• Jake Danials Whisky
• A drinking contest
• The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
• The World
• Weapon XV
• A series of B&Es
• Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
• Car cops
• Weapon XV’s feelings
• Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
• Education at the Xavier School
• Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, unmasked!

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In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.

X-PLAINED:

• The brothers Xorn
• A question of reading order
• New X-Men #139-141
• Cosmic force problems
• A showdown
• A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost
• A murder most foul
• Bishop (briefly) (again)
• Sage (briefly) (again)
• Many suspects
• One way to get drugs, I guess?
• A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents
• Perils and advantages of being a living computer
• A murder weapon
• Angel and Beak’s excellent babies
• A resurrection
• A subtly remarkable taxicab
• The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics
• How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction

NEXT EPISODE: Assault on Weapon Plus

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In which you should use drugs only with caution; a famous shirt makes its debut; Wolverine is the new Mary Worth; and you were never Quentin Quire’s age (unless you were).

X-PLAINED:

• What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating
• New X-Men #135-138
• The Special Class
• Basilisk
• Ernst
• Dummy
• No Girl
• Whether the Xavier School should admit human students
• Quentin’s new look
• Kick (more) (again)
• The Omega Gang
• That one t-shirt
• How to punch up your Power Point presentation
• A somewhat fraught camping trip
• The Special Class vs. U-Men
• A secret
• Some kind of weird affair
• A riot, of sorts
• Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch
• What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation
• Telepathic deconstruction
• The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost
• A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation
• Denouement
• The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire
• What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends
• The telepathy-telekinesis overlap

NEXT EPISODE: Murder!

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In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.

X-PLAINED:

• The destiny of Quentin Quire
• New X-Men #131-134
• An underattended funeral
• How to fly? Kinda? I guess?
• A kiss
• A friendship
• Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again
• A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor
• Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume
• Some kind of weird affair
• Echoes of 9/11/2001
• Genosha, a year later
• Ghosts
• Polaris’s paternity
• Shocker (the mutant one)
• The last words of Genosha
• Islamophobia post 9/11
• Sooraya Qadir (Dust)
• An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof
• Some Shi’ar nonsense
• X-Corporation Mumbai
• Jumbo Carnation
• Telepathy class
• An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask
• Accountability
• Professor X’s weird little paintings
• X-adjectives
• Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport

NEXT EPISODE: Quentin Quire’s teen angst bullshit gets a body count!

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In which Xorn goes out on the town; silverware is morally neutral; Cyclops pursues dubious counsel; the X means ten; and Fantomex is eminently enjoyable.

X-PLAINED:

• The parentage of Hope Summers
• New X-Men #127-130
• Mutant Town
• A monster who is not a monster but is, perhaps, a metaphor
• X-Corporation Paris
• The whole Phoenix situation
• Fantomex
• Weapon XII
• A gene-hazard
• Corporal Animal
• E.V.A.
• The Weapon Plus program (somewhat)
• The World (somewhat)
• The Shi’ar Empire vs. Earth
• Xorn variations

NEXT EPISODE: A Memorial of Magnetism

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In which Wolverine learns to fly; pants are a basic human right; we decide to cherry-pick our Xorn retcons; Xavier’s eyebrows follow his mind; and the first year of New X-Men ends with a bang.

X-PLAINED:

• The origin of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard
• New X-Men #124-126
• The current state of Charles Xavier’s body
• G-Type
• Neosaurus
• Plutonia
• Schism
• Oracle
• Stuf
• Gladiator (more) (again)
• Angel disambiguation
• Several plans
• Mutant justice
• Several miracles of magnetism
• Mummudrai
• Horror movie shit
• Subtle visual foreshadowing
• A ruse
• Education
• Long-lost family members
• What may or may not come after this

NEXT EPISODE: Fantomex!

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In which Marvel goes wordless; Cassandra Nova breaks space; none of the X-Men have media training; and Gus was the best dog ever.

X-PLAINED:

• Erik the Red (more) (again)
• Kin Crimson
• A big messy bag of mutant glory
• New X-Men #121-123
• ‘Nuff Said
• A journey into Charles Xavier’s mind
• What Emma is drinking
• A fetus fight
• The criminal culpability of a fetus
• Space problems
• A cosplay challenge
• Space
• Charles Xavier’s weird last wish
• A press conference
• Teen romance
• The Stepford Cuckoos
• Gus
• Charles Xavier’s age
• Nanosentinels
• Stuf
• Pre-ride safety announcements from the X-Men
• Whether Cassandra Nova should’ve been a component of Onslaught

NEXT EPISODE: Cassandra Nova vs. the X-Men (Round 2)!

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In which John Sublime sucks; Angel Salvatore rules; trauma does not justify evil; and you should never, ever, ever mess with Jean Grey.

X-PLAINED:

• A horrifying revelation
• The universe where Jay and Miles work for Cassandra Nova
• New X-Men #118-120
• John Sublime (more) (again)
• The U-Men
• Psychic energy, gender-reveal party-style
• The Stepford Cuckoos
• One way to disperse a mob
• An uncivil conversation
• The death and/or discomfort of many U-Men
• An awakening of sorts
• Squaring the phoenix
• Hank McCoy’s “coming out”

NEXT EPISODE: The Shi’ar invade!

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In which several individuals are not what they seem; John Sublime sucks; Cyclops talks Xorn down from a cosmic ledge; we meet the inimitable Beak; and Cassandra Nova makes herself (limitedly) known.

X-PLAINED:

• John Sublime
• Marvelscope™
• New X-Men 2001 Annual
• New X-Men #117
• Xorn
• X-Corporation
• The U-Men
• Ao Jun (and his super gross mutant power)
• Synchronized heists
• Psychometry vs. telepathy
• A big eventual twist
• Beak (Barnell Bohusk)
• A kiss
• Some really fucked up use of telepathy
• Some Moira MacTaggert continuity nonsense

NEXT EPISODE: U-Men vs. X-Men

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In which we start the Morrison Run; Professor X gets his hands on Chekhov’s gun; Cassandra Nova raises X-villains to a new level of weird; and humanity is running on borrowed time.

X-PLAINED:

• No-Girl
• New X-Men #114-116
• Grant Morrison and their approach to the X-Men
• Superhero fashion
• Cerebra
• Beast’s new look
• Ugly John
• Interpersonal dynamics
• Cassandra Nova (somewhat)
• Donald Trask
• Master Molds
• Wild Sentinels
• Emma Frost (more) (again)
• Negasonic Teenage Warhead (the original)
• The fall of Genosha
• Secondary mutations
• The most strapless bra of all time
• The Black Bug Room
• Summers problems
• Official X-Men and the designation thereof
• Wonder Man and mutants

NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a bad day

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In which Dr. Jey McCreight joins us to discuss all things X-Genetics!

X-PLAINED:

• The genetics and taxonomy of Marvel’s merry mutants

NEXT EPISODE: The Morrison run begins!

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In which we totally forgot to record a cold open (sorry); a lot of characters die (but not in Earth-616); Vampires may already be in command of America’s atomic arsenal; and we revisit a favorite.

X-PLAINED:

• What If vol. 2 #9
• What If vol. 2 #24
• What If: Magik #1
• Rahne Sinclair (moppet stage)
• The deaths of the Silver Age and All-New-All-Different X-Men
• Fancy television
• Sliding-scale ransom
• Then Ani-Men, somewhat
• The Living LASER, somewhat
• An orgy of satiation
• Wolverine, Lord of the Vampires
• Several highlights of Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose
• Vampire nonsense
• The Darkhold
• The Montessi Formula
• Some alligators
• August 5
• Frank Punisher, Vampire Hunter
• What If vol. 2 #37 (briefly)
• A kinder alternate history
• A singularly beautiful montage
• The Soul Staff
• Summers family connections
• How Wolverine climbs

NEXT EPISODE: Unspooling the X-Gene, with Dr. Jey McCreight!

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In which Asher Elbein joins us to discuss the complicated intersections between Magneto, big feelings, and international politics.

X-PLAINED:

• Some complicated intersections between Magneto, big feelings, and international politics.

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In which we do a thing and are not even sorry.

X-PLAINED:

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Next Episode: Magneto, with Asher Elbein!

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In which we provide some inroads to resisting fascism in your community; pacifism has amazing abs; Cyclops and Wolverine play revolutionary chicken; Amelia Voght fails to live up to her narrative potential; Jean Grey continues to make spectacularly bad choices; Polaris deserves better; and Wolverine finally gets to stab Magneto.

X-PLAINED:

• Community action and aid
• X-Men #112-113
• Uncanny X-Men #393
• Genosha (more) (again)
• Northstar (more) (again)
• Dazzler (more) (again)
• Sunpyre (more) (again)
• Hector Rendoza (more) (again)
• Paulie Provenzano (more) (again)
• Frenzy (more) (again)
• Amelia Voght (more) (again)
• St. Sebastian thirst traps
• Sewer adventures
• Post-Apocalypse Cyclops (more) (again)
• Awkward conversations about feelings
• Implausible knitting
• The Age of Apocalypse X-Babies
• A protracted confrontation
• Bad strategy
• A confusing ruse
• Some stabbing
• What happens to the unlikeliest X-Men
• Jean Grey as Charles Xavier’s heir
• Best potential uses of Hector Rendoza

NEXT EPISODE: The secret (retconned) origin of Wolverine!

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In which Jay and Miles make an announcement; the X-Men are down to bare bones; Cyclops and Corsair are stunningly bad at feelings; Trish Tilby is stunningly bad at journalism; Magneto says goodbye to nuance; and Jean Grey assembles a team.

X-PLAINED:

• X-Corps vs. X-Corp
• A thing that will be happening in a few months
• The story so far
• Uncanny X-Men #391-392
• X-Men #111
• The state of the X-Men
• A short-lived Cyclops costume
• A reunion
• A sorry excuse
• Resolution, somewhat
• Genosha (more) (again)
• Conflict of interest
• Several excellent villain speeches
• Joanna Cargill (Frenzy) (again)
• Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar) (again)
• Hector Rendoza
• Yet another angry mob
• Paulie Provenzano (Omerta)
• Leyu Yoshida (Sunpyre)
• Ice skating in Rockefeller Center
• Our picks for a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

NEXT EPISODE: Eve of Destruction concludes!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In which t’ieves and assassins dress to impress; Bishop returns; Rogue and Carol Danvers have a moment; and the revolution will be stored on compact disc.

X-PLAINED:

• The New Son
• The First Half of Maximum Security
• Gambit #23
• X-Men #107
• X-Men Unlimited #29
• Maximum Security #3 (briefly)
• Several of Gambit’s buddies
• How to dress for… stealth? I guess?
• Heth’sa of the planet Culth
• Where Carl the X-Cutioner got his silly outfit
• A heist
• How to restore your lost honor without messing up the timeline
• 12-18 milkshakes
• What Colossus is into these days
• Vampire clowns (maybe)
• Z’Cann
• The Blood Brothers
• Vibes memories
• A big fight
• A touching moment of touching
• Mechamage, briefly
• Quasar, superficially
• Cadre K
• The Skrull cows
• Writing for the trade vs. podcast pacing
• Limits of power-cancelling accessories

NEXT EPISODE: Dream’s Rather Anticlimactic End!

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In which an event begins; Earth is problematic; the Phoenix Force is an unreliable narrator; Max Power just wants to make safer party drugs; and we miss Opal Tanaka.

X-PLAINED:

• The fate of the D’Bari
• Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet
• Maximum Security #1
• Uncanny X-Men #387
• Iron Man #35
• Bishop the Last X-Man #15
• Voting in space
• A bad plan
• U.S. Agent (John Walker)
• A peculiar marketplace
• A dangerous hat
• Starhammer
• Space romance problems
• Breaking into Earth
• Max Power
• Magic dirt
• Littletown, Nebraska
• An extremely upsetting baby
• A very impressive crash landing
• What Bishop’s been up to
• Human X-characters we’d like to see more of
• Some kid named Michael
• Trading cards we’d like

NEXT EPISODE: Maximum Security concludes!

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In which we sure did that.

X-PLAINED:

• Miracles of magnetism
• Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

NEXT EPISODE: Maximum Security!

Special thanks to:

• Producer, fellow musketeer, and all-around mensch Matt Hunter
• Episode 500 guests David Maybury and Josephine Riesman
  • David’s blog and upcoming Vegas trivia tournament
  • Josie’s website and Morrison run-focused podcast
• Illustrator David Wynne
• Producers Emeritus Bobby Roberts, Kyle Yount, and Kurt Lloyd
• Parental-leave pinch hitters Al Kennedy and Dylan Higgins
• Everyone who’s made the X-comics what they are
• Our families, friends, and enablers
• Our kickass patrons, who make this podcast possible
• All of our listeners, who make this podcast worthwhile
  

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In which we meet some delightful monsters; Cannonball is a man who knows how to wear overalls; Domino is the Leslie Knope of X-Force; red liquid babies deserve love, too; and not all British authors know each other.

X-PLAINED:

• A murder
• X-Force #110-113
• Peak butts
• Domestic bliss
• Misplaced guilt
• Several monsters
• Comics Codium
• Warborgs and/or Rawborgs
• Poison problems
• Additional monsters
• SHIELD business
• Large guns
• Still more monsters
• How monsters interact with the Bechdel Test
• Cuckoo
• Prescribed narcotics
• Life Model Decoys (more) (again)
• X-major arcana

NEXT EPISODE: Apparently we’ve made 500 of these?

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In which the Twisted Sisters are vanquished by water; there is no way to make Stryfe cool; and the X-Men fight a hurricane.

X-PLAINED:

• Ego the Living Planet and his dysfunctional family
• X-Men #105-106
• Uncanny X-Men #386
• The Neo (more) (again)
• The state of Psylocke and Archangel’s relationship
• The Twisted Sisters
  • Helix
  • Coil
  • Gyre
  • Ringlet
  • Torque
• Pelicans
• Bad decisions of past Jay and Miles
• A mysterious stranger
• Unrealized plans
• Mystique and Wolverine’s forgotten friendship
• Neo infrastructure
• Big Casino’s name
• An unlikely hybrid
• A surprisingly large femur
• The new Brotherhood
• Lee Forrester (again)
• Weather
• Fan history

NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs. Warborgs

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In which Prosh’s plans sort of come to fruition; we do not know very much about movies; Iceman dies (but is fine); The Stranger gets around; and Toad learns nothing.

X-PLAINED:

• The Stranger
• X-Men Forever #4-6
• Prosh (more) (again)
• The story so far
• Astra (again)
• The Black Womb Project
• Toad’s secret origins, possibly
• Fashion
• Hazard
• Amanda Mueller (a bit)
• Anguirus
• The end of human civilization
• Foreshadowing
• A dramatic reveal
• Several makeovers
• Darth Toad
• Fighting arenas / community theaters

NEXT EPISODE: Mystique reassembles the Brotherhood!

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In which Prosh assembles a peculiar team; the cosmic forces are somewhat paranoid; Mystique gets shit done; and we are very into the concept of Toadland.

X-PLAINED:

• The Black Womb Project
• X-Men Forever #1-3
• Prosh
• Several custom-grown people
• A motley crew of mutants (and one human)
• Cataclysm keys
• The assassination of Graydon Creed
• Several poignant reunions
• The cosmic construction worker (Death)
• Why the Phoenix Force chose Jean Grey
• How much continuity is too much continuity
• Pyro’s romance novels

NEXT EPISODE: The rest of the series!

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In which Rogue is beset with leadership; Psylocke’s telekinetic sword is narratively inconsistent; the Crimson Pirates are bad at their job; and you should not look to Frank Punisher as a role model.

X-PLAINED:

• Whether Dani Moonstar is still a Valkyrie
• X-Men #103-104
• Uncanny X-Men #384-385
• A crossover
• Tessa (somewhat)
• A test
• The Goth (group)
• Skulls
• The Crimson Pirates
• The mind of Tullamore Voge
• Something “rough trade” does not mean
• Visual representation of telepathy
• Kymri (again)
• The Goth (individual)
• Skycycles
• A ruse
• How to get the X-Perts at a convention near you
• What happened to the Massachusetts Academy

NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Forever

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In which the X-Men zealously protect their trademarks; Cable can have as many moms as he wants to; not everyone should have to be a superhero; Lady Deathstrike knows how to handle unauthorized emails; and somehow there are still more gun arms.

X-PLAINED:

• Lady Deathstrike
• X-Men Unlimited #27-28
• X-Men Annual 2000
• One reason to recycle code names
• Thunderbird III (Neal Shaara)
• Sanjit Shaara and his electronic diary
• Karima Shapandar
• Bastion and the Prime Sentinels (again) (briefly)
• Omega Prime Sentinels
• Rebirth Island and what lurks there
• Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna)
• Unusual disturbances
• Whether Gambit sleeps
• The Black Death
• Internet security training with Bastion
• The genealogy of Nora Ephron romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail
• Fashion
• Stryfe (again) (briefly)
• Psylocke’s telekinetic katana
• Interactions between Madelyne Pryor and her large adult son
• Spiral’s Body Shop

NEXT EPISODE: The Brotherhood targets Senator Kelly… again.

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In which the first X-Men film turns 25 (and holds up remarkably well).

X-PLAINED:

• A startling absence
• The X-Men’s big-screen debut
• An X-film that might have been
• X-Men (2000), in general; and related publications
• Some very casting
• What makes a good adaptation
• Wolverine’s hair
• Those costumes
• The cinematic X-Men
• The cinematic Brotherhood
• Sabretooth’s eyebrows
• Condensed backstories
• The movie magic of magnetism
• The worst toy of all time
• Going to school with superheroes
• Things we’d like to have seen in the movie

NEXT EPISODE: The origin of Thunderbird! (Not that one.) (Or that one.)

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In which the Shockwave Riders are exceptionally silly; we are deeply impressed by brain sharks; and chrome plating and gun arms are among the lesser explored recurring Claremont motifs.

X-PLAINED:

• The fate of Sara Grey
• Revolution Claremont X-book disambiguation
• Uncanny X-Men #381-383
• The Neo (again)
• An unmarked anniversary
• A secret treasure trove
• Vagaries of telekinesis and telepathy
• The Shockwave Riders
• Brain sharks that eat memories
• The stuff of legend
• The Lost Souls
• Dirges and non-dirges
• One way to start a conversation
• Simyon Kurasov
• Colonel Alexi Vazhin (again)
• The Slash
• How to dress to go clubbing
• Blinkers, somewhat
• Ransom Sole
• Big Casino
• Sketch
• Revenant
• Major Debra Levin
• Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Manacle
• Houndification
• The best 21st century X-characters

NEXT EPISODE: The first X-Men movie turns 25!

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In which we record live from the Library of Congress; time travel complicates everything; X-Men is a fundamentally queer narrative; we attempt to summarize a lot of history very fast; and when identities are politicized, claiming them becomes a political act.

X-PLAINED:

• LC-GLOBE
• The first openly queer X-Man
• Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
• Why we do what we do
• Why the X-Men are worth studying
• Returning nuance to critical discussion of media
• A brief(ish) history of X-Men and queerness in X-Men
• Iceman Watch
• Retroactive foreshadowing
• The mutant metaphor
• Found family
• Subtext
• Text
• Facets of mutant activism
• Coming-out stories
• Various vectors of diversity
• Some comics Jay wrote
• Comics in libraries
• Where to start with Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
• X-Men for horror fans
• Our favorite X-Men lineups
• Identity politics
• The T-O virus vs. the Legacy Virus

NEXT EPISODE: Brain Sharks!

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In which Chris Claremont tries to make the Neo happen; Cecilia Reyes continues to have no time for this bullshit; Rogue gets some action; Shadowcat flees the comic; and Tessa returns.

X-PLAINED:

• The Evolutionaries
• X-Men #100-102
• The current X-Men rosters
• Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)
• Claremont vs. continuity
• Dove crimes
• The Neo
  • Domina
  • Jaeger
  • Rax
• Fancy space suits
• What to do with someone else’s bone claws
• Some guy named Seth
• The High Evolutionary’s love nest
• A Phoenix-saga callback
• Rave
• Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s weird fantasies
• Whether unstable molecules are self-cleaning
• Seventeen deaths of Mister Sinister
• Salvo the Living Gun
• How to keep track of X-Men
• Time travel problems
• X-Men LEGO sets we’d like to see

NEXT EPISODE: Live from Washington, D.C.!

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In which Pete Wisdom does his best Charles Xavier; Alastair Stuart has not aged well; San Francisco has monster problems; and there’s probably an alternate universe where Dr. Niles Roman fronts a metal band for toddlers.

X-PLAINED:

• The value of Pete Wisdom
• X-Force #102-105
• Revolution (more) (again)
• Counter X (more) (again)
• Flight
• Elf stuff
• Alastair Stuart (again)
• The eyepatch of love
• Science City 53
• Meatspore stormtroopers
• Project Cuckoo
• Dr. Niles Roman
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Monster problems
• The Violence Machine
• The apparent death of Pete Wisdom
• What a good X-Force HQ needs
• The most X-treme possible lineup

NEXT EPISODE: X-Men!

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In which we reap the consequences of our choices; possession is 18/10 of the law; Sinister dresses for the occasion; Hank gets his groove back; Havok of Earth-1298 is a jerk; Hank loses his groove; Captain America blows up the moon; the Beyonder experiences a stirring; Dracula makes a deal; and Mutant X May comes to an end.

X-PLAINED:

• The aftermath of Mutant X
• Mutant X #19-32
• Mutant X Annual 2001
• The story so far
• Character color coding
• Some telepathic misdirection
• Apocalypse of Earth-1298
• Charles Xavier of Earth-1298
• Professor X’s Juggernaut-fightin’ mullet
• A whole lot of possession
• Fake Galactus
• Several fears
• X-Man of Earth-1298
• Child batteries
• The worst place for a portal to the Negative Zone
• How Hank McCoy became the Brute
• Vampire problems
• The Marauders of Earth-1298
• The Outcasts of Earth-1298
• Cloak & Dagger of Earth-1298
• James Hudson of Earth-1298
• The Avengers of Earth-1298
• The Beyonder of Earth-1298 who is also kind of the Goblin Force
• Several additional superheroes
• A last stand
• The appeal of alternate timelines
• Earth-1298’s best glow-ups

NEXT EPISODE: Attack of the Meatspore Stormtroopers!

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In which Mutant X May continues; the X-Men return from space; it’s okay not to fill in every detail of a world; Havok leans into parenthood; we meet the only well-adjusted Cyclops in the multiverse; in any universe, Forge has terrible judgment; and the Six get some new members.

X-PLAINED:

• Several notable upcoming events in Mutant X
• What’s happened so far
• Mutant X #9-18
• Mutant X Annual 2000
• The Morlocks of Earth-1298
• The Mole Man of Earth-1298
• The Yancy Street Underground
• Magneto of Earth-1298
• Superhero costume color theory
• Polaris of Earth-1298
• The X-Men of Earth-1298
  • Magneto
  • Polaris
  • Nightcrawler
  • Rogue
  • Mystique
  • Quicksilver
• The Goblin Entity
• Doctor Doom of Earth-1298
• Namor of Earth-1298
• The origin of Bloodstorm
• Dracula’s fellas
• The Starjammers of Earth-1298
  • Cyclops
  • Binary
  • Nova
  • Lockheed
  • Silver Surfer
• Space alien problems
• A fairly literal deus ex machina
• Captain America of Earth-1298
• A terrible idea
• The United Guild of Thieves and Assassins
• Gambit of Earth-1298
• Raven LeBeau
• The origin of Vampire Gambit
• Mister Sinister of Earth-1298
• Jean Grey of Earth-1298
• Where Scott Summers of Earth-1298 ranks on the Cyclops Has a Good Day scale
• Where to put X-logos on a costume

NEXT EPISODE: Mutant X May concludes!

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In which we embark on a Great Work; it remains hard to be Alex Summers; and it’s also always Inferno on Earth-1298.

X-PLAINED:

• Mutant X May
• Mutant X #1-8
• Mutant X Annual 1999
• Havok (Alex Summers) (more) (again)
• Earth-1298
• The Six
  • The Brute (Hank McCoy)
  • Ice-man (Bob Drake)
  • Bloodstorm (Ororo Munroe)
  • The Fallen (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
  • Marvel Woman (Madelyne Pryor)
• Bannerman Castle
• The original five X-Men of Earth-1298
• S.H.I.E.L.D. of Earth-1298
• Scotty Summers
• Elektra of Earth-1298
• The Swarms of Moot
• The Fantastic Four of Earth-1298
• Canada of Earth-1298
• The Pack
  • Logan
  • Sabretooth
  • Wild Child
• Demon problems
• The Goblin Queen of Earth-1298
• Kitty Pryde of Earth-1298
• Forge of Earth-1298
• Man-Spider
• Some murders
• Alligators of the Night
• National politics
• Cerebro of Earth-1298
• Dr. Strange of Earth-1298
• The Nexus of All Realities
• Stingray of Earth-1298
• Yellowjacket of Earth-1298
• Doc Sampson of Earth-1298
• Vendetta
• Firestar of Earth-1298
• A coincidence
• Adam X and Vulcan of Earth-1298

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In which we go back to the future of Generation X; Jay once again gets pedantic about lettering; Generation X takes on the carceral state; we take a deep dive into the late ‘90s; Jubilee does her best Nick Fury; and superpowers should be noisier.

X-PLAINED:

• Earth-14042
• Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers
• Generation X #63-66
• Revolution and Counter X (more) (again)
• An evil Oyster
• Warden Coffin
• The Decency Defecit
• Some shit we wish was fictional
• Underpants
• Souped up powers
• Newsgroups
• The Columbine school shooting
• The Grid
• Cable vs. ISDN Internet
• Jonathan Somers
• Generation X’s new costumes
• The House of Correction
• Hacking
• Trophies
• Baxter
• ‘90s X-Men outside of comics
• How superpowers sound

NEXT EPISODE: Mutant X May begins!

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In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.

X-PLAINED:

• Belasco: the early years
• Magik (2000 series) #1-4
• Magik (Amanda Sefton) (Jimaine Szardos) (more) (again)
• Some art stuff
• The realm of Nightmare
• The Splinter Realms
• The Soul Sword (Amanda Sefton version)
• An Archfiend of the Pit
• Nugent
• Chekhov’s Hell computer (and its secretions)
• Kurt Wagner’s short and bizarre career in the church
• Vitchen
• Several cool demon battles
• The Dread Dormammu
• Gleeg
• A problem
• Muspelheim
• Twilight (sword)
• Some Mephisto nonsense
• Hades, maybe
• Epithets
• A convocation
• Weird Hell guys
• Duke Bleys
• The Archenemy
• The Hell Tuba
• The most demonic brass instrument
• Some time travel bullshit
• Stories where Emma Frost is at her best
• Villain reuse

NEXT EPISODE: Generation X gets new threads!

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In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.

X-PLAINED:

• Some big news
• X-Men: Black Sun #1-5
• Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap
• Implied continuity
• The N’Garai
• Belasco
• Limbo
• Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
• New costumes
• Priests vs blood magic
• An impressively overcomplicated evil plot
• Chekhov’s skeleton
• Body swaps and/or possession
• Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)
• Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)
• Astral meetups
• Confusing bloodstone math
• A Triple-Tech
• Magik (Amanda Sefton)
• Counting X-generations
• Our favorite X-decades

NEXT EPISODE: More Magik!

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