504 – One Day, Four Ways
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which Banshee is chronically hapless; the team gets new costumes (again); Chamber is a self-fulfilling prophecy; toddlers will sell you out in a hot minute; Moira MacTaggert is definitively not in; we are frustrated by excessive ambiguity; and it’s not Rashômon, but it’ll do.
X-PLAINED:
- Banshee post-Generation X
- Generation X #71-74
- Interior decorating
- New costumes (again)
- Chamber, but a housecat
- A meet-cute
- Teen angst
- Fashion
- An extremely awkward conversation
- A brief history of boba in the United States
- A fracas
- Fun things to do with extra skin
- Evolving teacher-student relationships
- Poor interrogation technique
- Husk vs. international terrorism, in general
- Ghosts of the Massachusetts Academy
- Villains and heroes we think would be neat as the reverse
- A world in which Peridot of Steven Universe imprinted on X-Men
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, whatever happened to Banshee after Generation X went their separate ways? |
| 0:05.3 | Did he go back to Cassidy Keep to hang out with his leprechaun pals? |
| 0:09.4 | If only, Banshee ended up founding a paramilitary organization called X-Corp, then lost his powers |
| 0:14.8 | when he got his throat slit by a supervillain. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, like happens that one time with his daughter, Siren. |
| 0:20.2 | Exactly. And then he got hit by an airplane and died. |
| 0:23.3 | Oh, man. Poor guy. What a ridiculous way to go. |
| 0:27.0 | It's okay. I mean, this is comics. He got better. |
| 0:30.0 | Yay. So he rejoined the X-Men and got to be awesome again? |
| 0:34.0 | Well, not for a while. He got temporarily resurrected by Celine, temporarily resurrected by the Chaos King, and then permanently resurrected by Apocalypse's No Good Kids as a new horseman of death. And then he died again and got resurrected on Crocoa. Hooray! Oh, and then his ex-girlfriend killed him and wore his skin like a suit, so Banshee made a deal with a magical clone of Mr. Sinister and transformed it to a flying ghostwriter obsessed with a concept of change. |
| 0:56.8 | What? |
| 1:09.3 | I'm Jay Editedon. |
| 1:10.9 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:12.4 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 1:15.1 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:17.1 | Welcome to episode 504 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 1:20.4 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 1:21.7 | and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:25.5 | And welcome back to Generation X. Um, side note, it was just announced that there's going to be a Generation X 23 series starring Laura and Gabby Kinney, and I'm so glad they get their own book, and that name is not a name I would have expected. No, that's a really silly name. Yes. Well, we'll see what it's like. I like those characters. So, all of that to say, Generation X. |
| 1:46.2 | So we are in, I think, 2001 at this point, or at least very close to it. |
| 1:51.5 | Something like that. |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah, and we're in the counter-X era of X-Men, which is, of course, a subset of the |
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