497 – Stranger Things

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In which Prosh’s plans sort of come to fruition; we do not know very much about movies; Iceman dies (but is fine); The Stranger gets around; and Toad learns nothing.

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0:00.0	Jay, what is the stranger's actual deal anyway?
0:04.3	He's a Gestalt entity forged from the unified consciousnesses of the
0:07.2	Eternals of the planet Gigantus.
0:08.9	What?
0:22.2	I'm Jay Addedon.
0:23.6	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:26.0	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:27.7	Because it's about time someone did.
0:31.8	Welcome to episode 497 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,
0:33.3	where we walk you through the ins, the outs,
0:36.0	and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.
0:40.0	And welcome to the depths of continuity.
0:43.8	Welcome to continuity that is as dense as osmium.
0:47.8	Welcome to continuity that's as dense as I've been.
0:49.7	I'm not very perceptive at various times.
0:51.4	We're in X-Men Forever.
0:54.7	Again, this is the second X-Men Forever episode we've done.
0:56.7	The last one was, of course, episode 496.
1:12.5	And, oh, there's so much happening, Jay. There's so much happening. Yeah, you might want to go back and listen to 496 before you listen to this one if you haven't yet. This is not a good starting point. So people should listen to the last episode, but it's been a week and, you know, the world is perpetually on fire, so details might have escaped.
1:15.2	So what happened last time?
1:16.3	What happened in the first half of X-Men Forever?
1:18.8	Well, this is less what happened in the first half of X-Men Forever than what events
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