Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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