485 – The House of Correction
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which we go back to the future of Generation X; Jay once again gets pedantic about lettering; Generation X takes on the carceral state; we take a deep dive into the late ‘90s; Jubilee does her best Nick Fury; and superpowers should be noisier.
X-PLAINED:
- Earth-14042
- Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers
- Generation X #63-66
- Revolution and Counter X (more) (again)
- An evil Oyster
- Warden Coffin
- The Decency Defecit
- Some shit we wish was fictional
- Underpants
- Souped up powers
- Newsgroups
- The Columbine school shooting
- The Grid
- Cable vs. ISDN Internet
- Jonathan Somers
- Generation X’s new costumes
- The House of Correction
- Hacking
- Trophies
- Baxter
- ‘90s X-Men outside of comics
- How superpowers sound
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Miles, you know what I love? |
| 0:03.2 | What's that, Jay? |
| 0:04.4 | I love the incredibly specific gimmicks of branches of the multiverse designed for non-comics media. |
| 0:12.1 | Ooh, like what? |
| 0:13.5 | Okay, so take Earth 14042. |
| 0:17.3 | This is the setting of Marvel Disc Wars. |
| 0:19.9 | Marvel Disc Wars? Is this like a Blu-ray versus HD-DVD thing? |
| 0:25.6 | Would the Torso simple? No. The disks in question are the central gimmick of an animated series |
| 0:30.5 | whose premise is enabled by the existence of technology that digitizes people and traps them in little color-coded disks. |
| 0:37.0 | That sounds ethically dubious, and also possibly racist, depending on how the disks are color-coded. |
| 0:43.8 | No, no, no, it's cool. The colors are based on superpowers, so like red for tech, blue for physical skills, yellow for animal powers, and so on. |
| 0:50.9 | I feel much better about that. |
| 0:52.9 | Anyway, all the Avengers get trapped in them, and then a kid finds them and basically |
| 0:55.7 | uses them like Pokemon. |
| 0:57.1 | What? |
| 1:08.9 | I'm Jay Editedon. |
| 1:10.3 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:11.9 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 1:15.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:17.2 | Welcome to episode 485 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the |
| 1:21.4 | ins, outs, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:25.3 | Welcome also back to Generation X, which is to say Counter X. |
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