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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In which the Twelve should really be twelve chapters long; Archangel has issues; we continue to bemoan the absence of captions; the X-Men ditch their crossover event for a side quest; Magneto is Genosha’s official chaperone; and we would absolutely elect Emma Frost to a school board.

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0:00.0

Hey, Jay, so the 12 and its immediate aftermath are supposed to be the final climactic

0:05.6

apocalypse story, right?

0:07.2

Right, Miles.

0:08.8

And Cable's whole purpose has always been to fight Apocalypse, right?

0:13.3

Right.

0:14.8

So, I know Apocalypse eventually comes back, but not for a while, and Cable is around

0:19.9

in the meantime.

0:22.6

What do you do when your life's purpose is no longer relevant? Well, you find a new purpose. So in Cable's case, for instance,

0:28.0

you'll lean into being a messianic figure and you create a utopia to inspire humanity to become

0:32.0

their best selves, not utopia with a capital U. This is a different utopia.

0:36.1

Okay, well, that sounds nice, but even with all his Asconi teachings, Cable's mostly experienced with firing comically large guns at a blue robot guy.

0:45.9

How does he know how to create an entire perfect society?

0:49.0

Well, like any good leader, Cable knows how to delegate.

0:52.1

He brings along some advisors, he's got a priest, he's got a rabbi.

0:55.5

What is this?

0:56.4

A walks into a bar joke?

0:58.2

And he's got a warrior from the crusades who got pulled through time by both King

1:01.0

the Conqueror and Thor bonded with both the evil eye and the infinity stone of power,

1:04.1

and there was then merged with the imagination of a child by a sentient cosmic cube to create

1:07.1

an alternate medieval earth.

1:09.0

What?

1:10.5

What?

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