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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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    512 – You Can Get Anything You Want at Stryfe’s Restaurant Jan 19, 2026
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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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    511 – Night Science Jan 12, 2026
    Show notes

    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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    510 – Giant-Size Special #14 (feat. Alex Paknadel) Jan 05, 2026
    Show notes

    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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    509 – No Fun Will Be Had Dec 15, 2025
    Show notes

    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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    508 – Destiny’s Doodles Dec 08, 2025
    Show notes

    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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    507 – Comic Book Logic Dec 01, 2025
    Show notes

    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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    506 – The House at the End of the World Nov 17, 2025
    Show notes

    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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    505 – The Amulet of Ass Nov 10, 2025
    Show notes

    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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    504 – One Day, Four Ways Nov 03, 2025
    Show notes

    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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    503 – Dream’s Anticlimax Oct 20, 2025
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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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