488 – There Goes the Moon (Mutant X May, Part 3)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In which we reap the consequences of our choices; possession is 18/10 of the law; Sinister dresses for the occasion; Hank gets his groove back; Havok of Earth-1298 is a jerk; Hank loses his groove; Captain America blows up the moon; the Beyonder experiences a stirring; Dracula makes a deal; and Mutant X May comes to an end.
X-PLAINED:
- The aftermath of Mutant X
- Mutant X #19-32
- Mutant X Annual 2001
- The story so far
- Character color coding
- Some telepathic misdirection
- Apocalypse of Earth-1298
- Charles Xavier of Earth-1298
- Professor X’s Juggernaut-fightin’ mullet
- A whole lot of possession
- Fake Galactus
- Several fears
- X-Man of Earth-1298
- Child batteries
- The worst place for a portal to the Negative Zone
- How Hank McCoy became the Brute
- Vampire problems
- The Marauders of Earth-1298
- The Outcasts of Earth-1298
- Cloak & Dagger of Earth-1298
- James Hudson of Earth-1298
- The Avengers of Earth-1298
- The Beyonder of Earth-1298 who is also kind of the Goblin Force
- Several additional superheroes
- A last stand
- The appeal of alternate timelines
- Earth-1298’s best glow-ups
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, what does happen to the Havoc from Earth 1298? |
| 0:04.6 | Oh, he ends up in Havoc 616's brain. |
| 0:07.7 | So Havoc 616 does get home. |
| 0:10.8 | Yeah, but comatose. |
| 0:12.9 | That's rough. |
| 0:14.4 | Although he does spend said coma having a psychic fling with a hot nurse. |
| 0:18.5 | Okay, not too bad. |
| 0:20.6 | Facilitated by the nurse's elementary school age, son. |
| 0:23.5 | What? |
| 0:35.5 | I'm Jay Edited. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:38.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:41.6 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome to episode 488 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:47.9 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:49.3 | and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:53.2 | Jay, I think we maybe made a mistake. |
| 0:55.6 | Oh, we made a mistake. |
| 0:56.7 | So Mutant X-May was, we knew we were biting off a lot. |
| 1:01.3 | And then we planned out the episodes, and we knew, like, this was going to be a little bit |
| 1:05.8 | bottom-heavy. |
| 1:06.9 | Like, we knew there was going to be more in the last episode than in either of the previous |
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