So, Jay, is Danielle Moonstar still a Valkyrie? Just for disambicuation, um, by Valkyrie, you're talking about the warrior women who bring the honored dead of Asgard to Valhalla, where they prepare to fight for Oden during Ragdorock, yeah? Right, yeah, because, you know, the dishonored dead automatically go to hell with one L, where they just sort of like mope around forever under the realm's well-hatted queen, Hela. Exactly. so

it hell with one L, where they just sort of like mope around forever under the realm's well-hatted

queen, Hela.

Exactly.

So, is Danny still a valkyrie?

Well, yes and no.

How can you be a valkyrie and not be a valkyrie?

Well, she stopped being a valkyry of Asgard and Valhalla a ways back, but during the battle for Utopia. Utopia. That's the mutant nation formed on the ruins of asteroid M, right? Right, just outside of San Francisco. Anyway, when Utopia was under siege by Norman Osborne's forces, he was president at the time, Danny went back to the gods. And became a Valkyrie again.

Yeah, but this time a Valkyrie of Hela. What?

I'm Jay Editedon.

And I'm Miles Stokes.

And we are here to Explain the X-Men.

Because it's about time someone did.

Welcome to episode 495 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 to a turning point in the lives of the X-Men.

I feel like that's a phrase that gets used a lot.

In this case, though, it's just that adjectiveless X-Men and Uncanny X-Men.

This is the crossover that they have where they kind of turn into one book again.

Also, I should note, while we normally record after my kid is asleep, today they are

wide awake and singing and otherwise making toddler sounds. So we will welcome the third erstwhile

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