In which Nextwave is both canon and not-canon; Inferno officially begins; X-Terminators is basically a cartoon; Bill Gaines cannot catch a break; Artie and Leach are superbabies; Takeshi Matsuya is fantastic; you should probably never take our advice about anything; Boom Boom is pretty good at superhero costume design; Walter Peck was right; Miles still won’t stop saying that one line about stealing a baby; N’astirh is no pigeon; and “No Mutant Is an Island” is a patently inaccurate statement.

X-PLAINED:

• The Beyond Corporation
• The Defilers
• X-Terminators #1-4
• The first 35 issues of X-Factor, briefly
• Two teams with the same name
• Fredric Wertham
• Bill Gaines
• Crotus
• Babies
• A boarding school that may or may not be Phillips Exeter Academy
• Muffy
• Saint Simon’s Academy
• Wiz Kid (Takeshi Matsuya)
• Nuprin
• Medical advice from goblins
• The Goblin Buster
• Metareferential snack food
• RadSport Sport Fashion Outfitters
• An exceptionally specific Ghostbusters reference
• Helen and Tim
• Dubious spell semantics
• How not to incorporate a crossover into a miniseries, and vice versa
• “No Mutant Is an Island”
• A brief history of Magneto’s helmet
• Definitive Magnetos

NEXT WEEK: The fall of Magik.

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Special thanks to multiversal metacontinuity wizard Al Ewing for the last-minute assist on the cold open!

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