501 – A Bag of Cloacae (Maximum Security, Part 1 of 2)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
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.
X-PLAINED:
- The fate of the D’Bari
- Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet
- Maximum Security #1
- Uncanny X-Men #387
- Iron Man #35
- Bishop the Last X-Man #15
- Voting in space
- A bad plan
- U.S. Agent (John Walker)
- A peculiar marketplace
- A dangerous hat
- Starhammer
- Space romance problems
- Breaking into Earth
- Max Power
- Magic dirt
- Littletown, Nebraska
- An extremely upsetting baby
- A very impressive crash landing
- What Bishop’s been up to
- Human X-characters we’d like to see more of
- Some kid named Michael
- Trading cards we’d like
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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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