So, Jay, Moira McTaggart turned out to be a mutant?

Yep, and her mutation is basically that she gets to relive her life over and over and over

with the knowledge of every previous incarnation and has been manipulating the course of mutant history

for what in sum comes out to centuries.

I'm curious as to how those other lifetimes played out.

All sorts of ways. She's thrown in her lot with Xavier, with Magneto, even Apocalypse once.

But every time mutant kind has ended up wiped out.

Ouch. So what's different about this timeline?

Well, Moira decided that the best way to save mutants was to consolidate them in a single location, Crocoa.

Because it would be more defensible?

Because she could then depower them on mass.

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 503 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,

where we walk you through the ins, outs, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. I gotta say, every episode past 500 just makes me feel like we're getting away with something, like we're cheating, like this was never supposed to happen. Like, the timeline has gone wrong. I think the timeline has gone wrong, but differently. But still, it's weird. We're not supposed to have all these episodes that start with five? I mean, this may be a symptom of the timeline going wrong. Oh, okay, it's just illustrative. There are other little odd things going on elsewhere as well? Exactly. Okay. Ducks flying upside down. That's the main example I have. Ducks are flying upside down. They're weird corkscrew penises, just saluting the sky. The existence of the letter W.

Yeah, what the hell?

W isn't real.

It should be Wolverine.

Or Wolverine?

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