480 – Cross-Time Tattoo Parlor
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which we check in on Nate Grey; yet another Madelyne Pryor is not what she seems; dead men tell tales; there are a lot of Canadians out there; and Nate gets a makeover.
X-PLAINED:
- What happened to Nate Grey (short-term)
- Counter X
- Shockwave
- Nate Grey (more) (again)
- X-Man #67-70
- Non-dildo futures
- Madelyne Pryor (kind of)
- A dubiously ethical relationship
- The destruction of Quito, Ecuador
- Earth-998
- Mr. Scratch
- Her Majesty Madelyne I, Resurrected Queen of Briton, High Protector of the Unified Commonwealths, Sacred Mistress of the Order of the Black Knights, and Absolute Empress of the North and the Breachlands (Jean Grey of Earth-9575)
- Several other Nates Grey (particularly the Nate Grey of Earth-2098)
- A distinctive tattoo
- Inverted X-Men logos
- Shamanism, kind of
- A very nice dress
- The Spiral / The Tree of Worlds
- Forge of Earth-998
- The Interscope
- The Engine of the Gods
- A plot twist that might have been
- Magical brain damage
- Dangerous Canadians
- A complex ruse
- A makeover
- How best to support the comics you love
- Some very X-Man-specific information
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, what happens to Nate Gray at the end of his series anyway? |
| 0:05.1 | Discorporates to save all life on Earth. |
| 0:07.2 | From himself? |
| 0:08.6 | No, no, from some alien called the Harvester who'd been waiting for Life on Earth to ripen so it could be. |
| 0:13.9 | Harvested, as his name implies. |
| 0:16.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:17.0 | The details aren't really critical. |
| 0:18.8 | What you need to know is that Nate basically ceded a bit of himself into every living thing on Earth, |
| 0:22.7 | which somehow made it all unsuitable for harvesting. |
| 0:25.9 | Huh. |
| 0:27.1 | How'd he, uh, come back from all that? |
| 0:30.3 | As an energy being who caused every human in a small town to continuously chant, I'm an X-Man. |
| 0:35.0 | What! |
| 0:35.4 | What! Music chant, I'm an X-Man. What? |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Jay Edited. |
| 0:50.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:52.8 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:54.9 | Because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 480 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:59.7 | Welcome to episode 480 of Jan Miles, Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, |
| 1:02.8 | the outs, and the red cons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:06.7 | And welcome, OJ, I'm so excited. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to X-Man. Yep. We're doing that. |
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