487 – The Only Well-Adjusted Cyclops in the Multiverse (Mutant X May, Part 2)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which Mutant X May continues; the X-Men return from space; it’s okay not to fill in every detail of a world; Havok leans into parenthood; we meet the only well-adjusted Cyclops in the multiverse; in any universe, Forge has terrible judgment; and the Six get some new members.
X-PLAINED:
- Several notable upcoming events in Mutant X
- What’s happened so far
- Mutant X #9-18
- Mutant X Annual 2000
- The Morlocks of Earth-1298
- The Mole Man of Earth-1298
- The Yancy Street Underground
- Magneto of Earth-1298
- Superhero costume color theory
- Polaris of Earth-1298
- The X-Men of Earth-1298
- Magneto
- Polaris
- Nightcrawler
- Rogue
- Mystique
- Quicksilver
- The Goblin Entity
- Doctor Doom of Earth-1298
- Namor of Earth-1298
- The origin of Bloodstorm
- Dracula’s fellas
- The Starjammers of Earth-1298
- Cyclops
- Binary
- Nova
- Lockheed
- Silver Surfer
- Space alien problems
- A fairly literal deus ex machina
- Captain America of Earth-1298
- A terrible idea
- The United Guild of Thieves and Assassins
- Gambit of Earth-1298
- Raven LeBeau
- The origin of Vampire Gambit
- Mister Sinister of Earth-1298
- Jean Grey of Earth-1298
- Where Scott Summers of Earth-1298 ranks on the Cyclops Has a Good Day scale
- Where to put X-logos on a costume
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| 0:00.0 | So wait a minute, Jay. |
| 0:02.0 | If Mutant X was only supposed to be 12 issues and got stretched to 32, do they just fight the Goblin Queen the whole time? |
| 0:09.7 | Oh, Lord, no. |
| 0:11.0 | They meet up with Gambit. |
| 0:12.2 | He's a vampire in this universe. |
| 0:14.0 | Of course he is. |
| 0:15.4 | Team up with Apocalypse to take out Charles Xavier. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm going to need some time to process this. |
| 0:20.5 | Oh, and Havoc blows up the. Oh, and havoc blows up the moon. |
| 0:22.8 | Havoc blows up the moon. Well, Captain America helps. What? I'm Jay Eddden. And I'm Jay Eddiden. |
| 0:41.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:42.4 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:44.9 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:46.7 | Welcome to episode 487 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:50.8 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:52.2 | and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:55.5 | And welcome to the middle portion, the Empire Strikes Back, if you will, of Mutant X-May, |
| 1:01.8 | aka, certainly an idea that we had and now we are doing. |
| 1:05.8 | So the problem with this podcast, or the problem with me more, I think, I think it's a me |
| 1:09.9 | problem more than a U problem, is that I have these fun ideas for cute little gags, and then it turns out that |
| 1:15.4 | they're just massively fucking work intensive after we've committed to them. |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah, yeah, I was working on the episode after this last night and just sort of questioning |
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