426 – A Gift from the Lower Regions
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, how many summers brothers are there these days? |
| 0:04.0 | Three. |
| 0:05.0 | Right, Scott, Alex, Gabriel, and Ath. |
| 0:09.0 | What?! |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jay Editing. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:24.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:26.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to episode 426 of Jay and Miles. |
| 0:31.0 | Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, |
| 0:33.0 | the outs, and the retcons of comics, |
| 0:35.0 | greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:37.0 | And welcome to space! |
| 0:42.0 | Yep. |
| 0:44.0 | And specifically, we are in space right now with Bishop and Deathbird, |
| 0:48.0 | who may, at this specific moment in time, |
| 0:52.0 | take the prizes the X-Men's most dysfunctional couple. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, but also maybe most enjoyable. |
| 0:58.0 | I mean, you know, Gambit and Rogue are split at this point. |
| 1:01.0 | Scott and Gina are very stable, which is awesome. |
| 1:03.0 | But, you know, doesn't have any of that juicy, juicy drama. |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, I guess that she's been resting at this Phoenix. |
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