428 – Naked in a Cake

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Love and chaos. (Excalibur #125) 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! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0	Oh, hey Captain Miles of Earth 12496.
0:03.4	So running into you and the rest of the Captain Miles Corps here in other world
0:07.7	made me think of all the different Captain Britain's in the Captain Britain Corps.
0:11.2	Some of them are pretty weird.
0:13.4	Why hello Captain Miles of Earth 1218? It is good to see you and our other bearded
0:20.3	brethren. Weird you say, I caution you to remember. Weird is relative. I mean fair enough, fair enough, but still,
0:32.0	hippie Captain Britain,
0:33.2	Dragon Captain Britain, robot Captain Britain.
0:38.0	The multiverse is vast good counterparts.
0:41.4	But all of the variations of Brian Braddock pale in variety compared to those of his successor, his sister Elizabeth.
0:49.0	O'Hoyd, there were wacky multiverse versions of Betsy Braddock too once she took over as Captain Britain.
0:55.0	Oh yes, we now have a druid Captain Britain, a werewolf Captain Britain.
1:02.0	Oh, that's not that weird. A were Wolf Captain Britain.
1:05.0	Oh, that's not that weird. A Captain Britain who is a master poet.
1:10.0	That's even less weird.
1:12.0	And is also a swan.
1:15.0	What? Oh, Oh, I'm Jay Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes.
2:00.0	And we are here to explain the X-Men.
2:02.7	Because it's about time someone did.
2:05.1	Welcome to episode 428 of J and Miles, explain the X-Men,
2:09.4	where we walk you through the ins, the outs,
2:10.9	and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
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