In which you shouldn’t invite nazis to your wedding, there’s a lot of multiverse, Captain Britain and Meggan are pretty heteronormative but make it work, everybody forgot Feron, and the next husband will be Gatecrasher’s.
X-PLAINED:
- Captain Britain varieties
- The history of Brian Braddock and Meggan Puceanu, abridged
- Excalibur #124-125
- Mutants most likely to jump out of a cake
- The Crazy Gang (again)
- Meggan’s crush on Colossus
- Colossus’s guilt about Meggan’s crush on Colossus
- A surprise bridal shower
- The return of Captain UK
- Brian Braddock’s teetotaling techniques
- Mimic’s ever-changing facial hair
- Glorious, glorious chaos
- Poor, poor Feron
- Multiple awkward conversations
- The return of Widget and also everyone else
- Lightning Force (dammit)
- A lengthy but not exhaustive list of Captains Britain
- So many cameos
- …Seriously, so many cameos
- Dai Thomas’s anti-iron
- Shockingly healthy communication
- Bouquet brawls and garter gar-nage
- A bittersweet ending
- Nightcrawler’s best outfit
- The universe where the X-Men X-Plain Jay & Miles
- Our hypothetical post-finale Excalibur lineup
NEXT EPISODE: The return of X-Factor! Kind of!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 427 - Standard Deviation
In which we have grown to love Adam Pollina; the Vanisher is delightfully awful; Ekaterina Gryaznova gets a new look; Domino rejoins X-Force; superheroes actually have a conversation instead of fighting; Cannonball rejoins X-Force; we don’t even remember recording this one; and something cool is coming (stay tuned).
X-PLAINED:
- Arcadia DeVille
- The Deviants
- X-Force #81-84
- What’s been up with X-Force
- The goddess Pele and the heart thereof
- Beachwear
- An episode of The Brady Bunch
- Krotok the Lava Man
- Lava Men, in general
- Gortokians
- Jinku the Lava Man
- A diabolical plan
- Jesse Aaronson (Bedlam) (but not that one)
- Terry and/or Christopher Aaronson
- The Aguilar Institute
- The Griffin (Ekaterina Gryaznova, again)
- Infinite Guthries
- Ulysses Dragonblood
- Odysseus Indigo
- Lucas Wyndham
- M.U.S.E. (Mutant Underground Support Engine)
- A very Summers situation
- Foreshadowing
- Whether Shard can (and should) be resurrected by the Five
- Accidental foreshadowing
NEXT EPISODE: The end of Excalibur!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 426 - A Gift from the Lower Regions
In which the Shi’ar have zero chill; Bishop and Deathbird do space opera; we travel to the far-future year of 2018; Alanna Nerimani stretches the definition of “bird”; Deathbird is the cool aunt; Bishop needs a break from dark futures; and Bishop and Sauron have an intimate encounter.
X-PLAINED:
- The current number of Summers brothers
- Uncanny X-Men #358
- Team X 2000
- The Shi’ar Empire (more) (again)
- Shi’ar voices
- Parker Posey vs. Posie Parker
- Sexual dimorphism in art
- The Ursaa
- Organs
- The Chnitt
- Karel
- Several cameos
- Nullifier charges
- Tu
- The first appearance of Cyclops’s Captain America teddy bear
- 2018
- Alan Smithee
- Gith
- Deathbird’s terrible childhood
- Shi’ar-occupied Earth
- Alanna Nerimani
- Your cool murder aunt
- Earth-9922
- Deathbird’s war journals
- The Morlocks (but not those ones)
- Team X (but not that one)
- Bribery
- A very sexual encounter
- Explorations of disability and ableism in comics
- Beast’s long, slow heel turn
NEXT EPISODE: Domino rejoins X-Force!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 425 - Shooting the Moose
In which moose are nothing to mess with; Cyclops requests a reality check; Bachalo does Kirby; Rogue absorbs a catchphrase; and the Shadow King needs a villain song.
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #356-357
- X-Men 77-78
- The Cable Principle
- Corvid disambiguation
- An aborted narrative
- Moose
- Sherrif and/or Officer Chris
- Stacy’s sister Melissa
- Cul-de-sacs
- Ptarmigan Creek
- Dubiously credible lies
- Nostalgia
- Bad times in Westchester
- Bad times in space
- Punching birds
- Moon Wolf
- An absolutely inappropriate theatrical reference
- Ainet
- Ananansi vs. Anansi
- The Shadow King (more) (again)
- Psi-War
- Temptation
- Shadow powers
- Hair swaps
- Solo Disney+ series for X-Men
- How to make Gambit work onscreen
NEXT EPISODE: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy… IN SPACE!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 424 - Times Change
In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
- Muppet rules
- X-Factor, vol. 1, in general
- X-Factor #146-149
- Sense of place
- Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair
- Boundaries
- Edible Arrangements
- A different kind of sports bar
- Kevin
- Nostalgia, I guess?
- Several confrontations
- Temporal insanity
- A very specialized course
- What happens next
- The universe where Dazzler replaced Jean Grey in the original X-Factor
- Characters we would like to have seen more of
NEXT EPISODE: Psi-War!
Special thanks to muppets Michal Richardson, Bilal Dardai, and Matt Hunter!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 423 - Moby Dick Ice Cream
In which subtlety is not Sabra’s strong point; Moira takes a vacation; Meggan broods; you should take care in referencing the Dark Phoenix Saga; Excalibur may or may not shave Mimic; and Captain Britain is a silly man.
X-PLAINED:
- Ghosts
- Excalibur #121-123
- The Mutant Underground
- Empathic recon
- An extremely disgruntled kiss
- Kitty’s new costume
- Several of Legion’s personalities
- A mysterious disk
- A very fancy trash can and/or ice cream maker
- Ice cream of Cloud City
- A good dog
- Remains of Operation Zero Tolerance
- The devolution of Douglock
- Mimic (Calvin Rankin)
- Mimic’s facial hair
- Some Prime Sentinels
- Wedding planning
- Liking parts of things
- Villains who want to marry Storm
- Maddy Pryor
NEXT EPISODE: The end of X-Factor!
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Hey, would it be possible to get a discord link? All the one's I've found no longer work :(
Here you go! Link should be good for a week from today:
Hi X-perts, this isn't about X-men is about Thor Metal Gods, it seems it's no longer on Realm and it seems to be nowhere legal (or illegal) and since you were involved in it, you're my best shot. I find very distressing that something like this can just dissappear from the face of Earth and I hope it's not lost. Thank you for your patience
Oh, damn, I had no idea; you’d have to check with the folks at Realm. I’m sorry!
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 422 - Cairn Touch This
In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur rushes toward its conclusion
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