Oh, Apocalypse, harbinger of really complicated continuity.

I would say that peaks with the 12, but he's also tangled up with Rama Tutt, so...

Ramatut. That's Reed Richard's alternate timeline, maybe descendant, right?

Yep. Also King the Conqueror.

Of course he is.

It kind of got to love Apocalypse, though. He's so committed to his bit and to achieving it via really convoluted plans.

I've always wondered. Is Apocalypse a nature or nurture situation? How fundamental is his supervillain shtick to his identity?

You know, this is one of those rare times when continuity actually offers a definitive answer,

because Apocalypse has a much younger clone who is a very nice boy, despite...

Being a clone of Apocalypse.

Being raised by Phantomax.

What?

Yeah. Being raised by Phantom Ax. What? I'm Jay Edited.

And I'm Miles Stokes.

And we are here to Explain the X-Men.

Because it's about time someone did.

Welcome to episode 469 of Jay and Miles, Explain the X-Men,

where we walk you through the ins, outs, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.

And welcome indeed to some tangled continuity.

So we are at the tail end of the shattering, the non-event event, where the X-Men split up because Professor X is a jerk, and it turns out some other stuff is behind all that.

So where are we jumping in here? Because we've been looking at other stuff for a while.

Oh boy. Okay. If ever there was a time for a... Previously, on X-Men.

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