494 – You’ve Got Evil Mail
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which the X-Men zealously protect their trademarks; Cable can have as many moms as he wants to; not everyone should have to be a superhero; Lady Deathstrike knows how to handle unauthorized emails; and somehow there are still more gun arms.
X-PLAINED:
- Lady Deathstrike
- X-Men Unlimited #27-28
- X-Men Annual 2000
- One reason to recycle code names
- Thunderbird III (Neal Shaara)
- Sanjit Shaara and his electronic diary
- Karima Shapandar
- Bastion and the Prime Sentinels (again) (briefly)
- Omega Prime Sentinels
- Rebirth Island and what lurks there
- Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna)
- Unusual disturbances
- Whether Gambit sleeps
- The Black Death
- Internet security training with Bastion
- The genealogy of Nora Ephron romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail
- Fashion
- Stryfe (again) (briefly)
- Psylocke’s telekinetic katana
- Interactions between Madelyne Pryor and her large adult son
- Spiral’s Body Shop
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Jay, so why is Lady Death Strike so obsessed with fighting Wolverine anyway? |
| 0:04.7 | It's... complicated. |
| 0:07.3 | It's X-Men. |
| 0:09.3 | No, good point. |
| 0:10.7 | Okay. |
| 0:11.5 | Lady Death Strike is the only surviving child of Kenji Oyama, the failed Japanese kamikaze pilot, |
| 0:17.0 | who later built a criminal cult based on a make-believe samurai state. |
| 0:21.4 | Oyama also developed a means for bonding adamantium to human bones, |
| 0:25.0 | which Canada apparently stole for the Weapon X project. |
| 0:28.8 | Ah, and thus the bad blood. |
| 0:31.3 | So is she a mutant? |
| 0:33.3 | She is not, which may be why she was later willing to abet William Stryker. |
| 0:39.0 | William Stryker, the fanatically anti-mutant minister from God Love's Man kills. |
| 0:43.7 | Why was Lady Death Strike working with him to take down Wolverine again? |
| 0:48.2 | Nah, his late wife was her childhood tutor. |
| 0:50.9 | What? |
| 0:51.3 | What? |
| 1:04.2 | I'm Jay Edited. |
| 1:05.6 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:08.8 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 1:10.5 | Because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 494 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 494 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. And welcome back to some more Claremont. There's just so much Claremont in this era. And part of that is that he was writing the two X-books, both of them himself. And part of it is that we finished up a lot of the spin-off books we've been |
| 1:31.4 | covering, and soon we'll be finishing up even more. And part of it is that he's extremely |
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