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

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• The genetics and taxonomy of Marvel’s merry mutants

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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.

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• 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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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