478 – The Monologue Tube
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.
X-PLAINED:
- Side effects of Decimation
- Uncanny X-Men #379-380
- X-Force #101
- X-Men #99
- Cadre K
- Summers family drama
- The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
- The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
- Kevin
- A very beautiful book
- The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
- The Neo (slightly)
- To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
- Sinister monologues
- Herbert Evolutionary
- The New New Men
- The ‘90s, in general
- What makes a Morlock
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, decimation was a mess. |
| 0:03.3 | You mean the event that got rid of 90% of the world's mutants? |
| 0:07.3 | You'd think it would make things simpler. |
| 0:09.8 | Well, simpler to track mutants, maybe. |
| 0:12.4 | But you'd be ignoring the side effects. |
| 0:15.2 | Like what? |
| 0:16.6 | Oh, let's see. |
| 0:17.6 | Well, it created a giant massive energy in Earth orbit, which in turn woke up Vulcan. |
| 0:22.8 | Gabriel Summers? The retcon's third Summers' brother was a decimation problem. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, yeah, and he's not the only one it brought back. |
| 0:31.3 | Who else? |
| 0:32.5 | Well, possibly Salem's 7, although the timing there may have just been coincidence. |
| 0:38.4 | Aren't those Agatha Harkness's grandkids or something? |
| 0:41.7 | That is exactly what they are. |
| 0:43.8 | So the decimation energy revived Vulcan, and maybe resurrected Salem 7, |
| 0:50.6 | anyone else joining this post-decimation comeback tour? |
| 0:54.3 | Onslaught. |
| 0:55.3 | What? |
| 1:09.6 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 1:13.5 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:15.5 | Welcome to episode 478 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 1:19.0 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
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