482 – The Mutant Gene for Murder
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In which Pete Wisdom canonically smells weird; we are inordinately entertained by a villain; everyone levels up their superpowers; and you probably shouldn’t shave the logo of your secret super team into the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
- Nasty Boys disambiguation
- X-Force #106-109
- Counter X (more) (again)
- Shockwave (more) (again)
- Turn-of-the-millennium cool
- X-Force (more) (again)
- How to dress for funerals, I guess?
- How Pete Wisdom smells
- Romany Wisdom (again)
- Marcus Tsung
- Mind bullets
- Nightman
- Our first audience challenge in a really long time
- A bad nickname
- X-Force’s new looks
- A thing growing out of Domino’s back
- Several enigmas shrouded in mystery
- The worst birthday party
- Abel, Baker, and Charlie
- Fish
- The Factory
- Telepathic “voices”
- The miracle of magnetism
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, I was thinking about the nasty boys. |
| 0:04.0 | Which ones? |
| 0:05.6 | There's more than one set of nasty boys? |
| 0:08.1 | Well, yeah, there's the guys who hung out with Mr. Sinister, |
| 0:10.9 | and then there's the Cincinnati Reds relief pictures. |
| 0:13.6 | What? |
| 0:14.2 | What? I'm Jay Edidon. |
| 0:27.3 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:28.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:31.7 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to episode 482 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:37.3 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:42.9 | And welcome to more, Counter-X. |
| 0:45.1 | That's right. |
| 0:45.5 | This week we are covering the shockwave flashback arc of X-Force, which, along with X-Men Generation X, is the third Counter-X book. |
| 0:53.9 | That's the line that was sort of |
| 0:55.5 | show-ran by Warren Ellis and was the worst selling books, which were reinvented a bit more |
| 1:03.1 | in the Revolution era of 2000. The Revolution era started with a six-month leap ahead in time, |
| 1:10.4 | and the books that we're looking at right now, |
| 1:12.8 | the shockwave arcs, cover that six-month gap. Exactly. That's why we're doing them first. |
| 1:19.9 | So, yeah, this is the year 2000 that we are now covering. And dear God, does it feel like it? Like, all right, so, Jay, you and I were on the cusp of adulthood in 2000, right? Like, we were graduating high school. And the type of cool in these comics, really in X-Man, Generation X, and X-Force was very much of that era and did feel very cool. And also now it's 25 years later, and it hits |
| 1:45.9 | a little different. I don't know. It didn't always feel cool at the time. This arc, to me, |
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