501 – A Bag of Cloacae (Maximum Security, Part 1 of 2)

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In which an event begins; Earth is problematic; the Phoenix Force is an unreliable narrator; Max Power just wants to make safer party drugs; and we miss Opal Tanaka.

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0:00.0	So, Jay, did any of the Dabari survive Dark Phoenix?
0:04.9	Uh, the Dabari, so those are the broccoli-looking people whose son Dark Phoenix forced to go Nova?
0:09.7	Yeah, a handful of them.
0:11.6	What happened to them?
0:13.2	Well, let's see, at least one was a Nova Corps member who died in the line of duty.
0:17.1	Now, another one got captured by the collector for a while, had a baby, went after Gene,
0:21.1	and then later went after Rachel under the mistaken impression that she was Jean.
0:25.0	How'd that go?
0:26.6	Well, the Dabari was actually talked into breaking off his quest for vengeance and taking the remaining Dabari to a universe where their planet had survived by...
0:33.5	Rachel?
0:34.4	Captain Britain and Megan's new baby.
0:36.6	What!
0:37.1	What! Rachel? Captain Britain and Megan's new baby. What?
0:49.6	I'm Jay Edited.
0:51.4	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:54.0	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:55.8	Because it's about time someone did.
1:03.6	Welcome to episode 501 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.
1:08.8	And welcome to a much larger soap opera than we normally cover.
1:15.9	So in the year, 2000, there was a big Marvel event going on called Maximum Security.
1:23.7	And like a lot of modern events in the Marvel Universe, there was a central mini-series and then a lot of books that tied in.
1:24.4	Right.
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