477 – Ages of Apocalypse
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In which reality shatters; Ghost Rider wants friends; Jay’s toddler weighs in on the X-Men; the Phoenix costume is pretty much perfect; Caliban puts all his resources into an epic mount; and the future is so bright you’re gonna need shades.
X-PLAINED:
- The Triune Understanding
- Ages of Apocalypse
- Uncanny X-Men #378
- Cable #77
- Wolverine #148
- X-Men Unlimited #26
- X-Men #98
- Earth-23378
- Things you can leave to people in a will
- The Silver Age, but different
- Apocaclops
- Aliya Dayspring
- Chronological inconsistencies
- Earth-2841
- The Harpy (Betty Ross)
- A very different Fantastic Four
- Earth-32000
- Siphon
- The moon
- Zackat (Wolverine) (long story)
- Erik the Red (more) (again)
- The Ladies Mastermind
- Cadre K
- Earth-32098
- X-World
- The prettiest X-Man
- The moon’s mutant power
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, what the hell is the triune understanding? |
| 0:04.8 | You mean those guys who've been stalking meltdown? |
| 0:07.8 | Eh, you know, garden variety self-help cult with a secret dash of alien invasion. |
| 0:12.8 | Sounds sinister. |
| 0:14.8 | Yeah, but weirdly, their base motive is actually pretty solid. |
| 0:19.1 | They want to protect the Earth from an evil alien. |
| 0:21.1 | They just go about it in really sketchy ways. |
| 0:24.2 | Well, if they're that sketchy, |
| 0:25.6 | how do you know the aliens actually the evil one? |
| 0:28.6 | Well, for starts, its name is the triple evil. |
| 0:31.3 | What? |
| 0:31.8 | What? I'm Jay Edited. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:46.2 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:48.9 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:50.8 | Welcome to episode 477 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men where we walk you through |
| 0:55.0 | the Inns, the Outs, and the Retcons of Comics' greatest superhero soap opera. And welcome |
| 1:00.4 | to an arc that has Ins, Outs, and Retcons. It's a pretty strange one. So we finished |
| 1:06.7 | the 12 at long last. And actually only took us three episodes, but still, we finished it. |
| 1:15.7 | And this is kind of the next chapter that comes directly out of it. And I don't think it's really what anyone would have expected. That's right. This is an art called Ages of Apocalypse. |
| 1:21.9 | And, you know, maybe we should go back and talk a little bit about the 12th, because we've, |
| 1:26.3 | we've covered some other stuff since then. and this really comes straight out of there. |
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