469 – Killed by Death
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In which the Shattering officially concludes; you can’t swoop over the phone; toddlers are engines of pure chaos; the X-Men do some processing; and we are mildly scandalized by the absence of footnotes.
X-PLAINED:
- Rama-Tut
- Evan Sabahnur
- Uncanny X-Men #375
- X-Men #95
- X-Men Unlimited #25
- Skrull problems
- One very upsetting way to identify a traitor
- Skrullverine
- Fiz and Jaq
- The Ally
- A ruse
- Death’s mask
- A dramatic revelation
- Processing
- The unrealized potential of Spirit Halloween
- Wolverine memories
- Rogue’s temporary tattoos
- Yet another time loop
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Apocalypse, harbinger of really complicated continuity. |
| 0:05.4 | I would say that peaks with the 12, but he's also tangled up with Rama Tutt, so... |
| 0:11.4 | Ramatut. That's Reed Richard's alternate timeline, maybe descendant, right? |
| 0:17.2 | Yep. Also King the Conqueror. |
| 0:20.2 | Of course he is. |
| 0:21.9 | It kind of got to love Apocalypse, though. He's so committed to his bit and to achieving it via really convoluted plans. |
| 0:29.5 | I've always wondered. Is Apocalypse a nature or nurture situation? How fundamental is his supervillain shtick to his identity? |
| 0:38.5 | You know, this is one of those rare times when continuity actually offers a definitive answer, |
| 0:43.5 | because Apocalypse has a much younger clone who is a very nice boy, despite... |
| 0:48.0 | Being a clone of Apocalypse. |
| 0:50.0 | Being raised by Phantomax. |
| 0:51.8 | What? |
| 1:03.8 | Yeah. Being raised by Phantom Ax. What? I'm Jay Edited. |
| 1:05.7 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:07.1 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 1:09.8 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:11.9 | Welcome to episode 469 of Jay and Miles, Explain the X-Men, |
| 1:15.6 | where we walk you through the ins, outs, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:20.6 | And welcome indeed to some tangled continuity. |
| 1:23.7 | 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. |
| 1:34.8 | So where are we jumping in here? Because we've been looking at other stuff for a while. |
| 1:39.6 | Oh boy. Okay. If ever there was a time for a... Previously, on X-Men. |
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