492 – Brain Sharks
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which the Shockwave Riders are exceptionally silly; we are deeply impressed by brain sharks; and chrome plating and gun arms are among the lesser explored recurring Claremont motifs.
X-PLAINED:
- The fate of Sara Grey
- Revolution Claremont X-book disambiguation
- Uncanny X-Men #381-383
- The Neo (again)
- An unmarked anniversary
- A secret treasure trove
- Vagaries of telekinesis and telepathy
- The Shockwave Riders
- Brain sharks that eat memories
- The stuff of legend
- The Lost Souls
- Dirges and non-dirges
- One way to start a conversation
- Simyon Kurasov
- Colonel Alexi Vazhin (again)
- The Slash
- How to dress to go clubbing
- Blinkers, somewhat
- Ransom Sole
- Big Casino
- Sketch
- Revenant
- Major Debra Levin
- Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Manacle
- Houndification
- The best 21st century X-characters
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, what happened to Jean Grey's sister anyway? |
| 0:03.9 | Wasn't she supposed to be a mutant? |
| 0:06.3 | Sarah? |
| 0:07.1 | She was killed by Cameron Hodge. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh, that's a shame. |
| 0:10.7 | She seemed like a cool character. |
| 0:12.9 | No, it's okay. |
| 0:13.6 | After her apparent deaths, she woke up in space, catalyzed a bunch of aliens' powers. |
| 0:17.8 | She can do that? |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, as you said, she's a mutant. Anyway, they started |
| 0:21.6 | kind of worshipping her, and now she wears a cape and communicate with Jean through the |
| 0:25.1 | white hot room. What? I'm Jay Eddden. |
| 0:39.2 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:40.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:43.5 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to episode 492 of Jay and Miles, Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:54.4 | And welcome home to us. |
| 0:56.5 | We are back from Washington, D.C., |
| 0:57.9 | and we're doing a normal episode across the country from one another, |
| 1:01.1 | which is fun, but Jay, I'm so glad we did that thing. |
| 1:03.2 | It was so much fun doing an event with you, like, in person. |
| 1:05.8 | It was a lot of fun, and one of the great things about doing that right after a mutant |
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