506 – The House at the End of the World
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In which Jay remains angry at a font; a person who is obviously Kang the Conqueror is not in fact Kang the Conqueror; the pig men deserve better; and Nightcrawler should never, ever, ever be allowed to attempt grief counseling.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm/Cable
- Cable #85-86, 88
- Cable (more)(again)
- Earth-4935
- Mother Askani
- Irene Merryweather
- Several cryptic witches
- Are you as dangerous as you think martial arts training for advanced students
- Shin
- An unlikely sound effect
- The Black Dawn
- A time catapult
- An End of Time
- Earth-805110
- The House on the Borderline
- Gaunt
- One of Esad Ribic’s more entertaining accomplishments
- A fight
- One way to weaponize the T-O virus
- The future past of Rachel Summers
- Cable’s friendship with Moira MacTaggert
- Streets of Fire
- Grief counseling? Sort of? I guess?
- A very impressive spear
- Our muppet counterparts
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, why do they keep trying to throw Storm and cable together romantically? |
| 0:05.4 | I don't know. Matching hair, maybe. |
| 0:08.1 | Huh. Yeah, that follows. |
| 0:10.6 | Ooh, or maybe it's their alternate timeline kid. |
| 0:13.2 | What? |
| 0:13.7 | What? I'm Jay Edited. |
| 0:26.5 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:28.3 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:31.4 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to episode 506 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:41.8 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics, greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:45.3 | And welcome to a bit of a detour. |
| 0:51.4 | That's right. Today, we are making a hard left off the interstate to go look at cable. |
| 0:56.5 | So we don't typically cover cable series, and not that there's not a lot of good stuff, |
| 0:57.9 | there is a lot of good stuff. |
| 1:03.2 | But most of that good stuff is counterbalanced by the worst font choice of the early aughts Marvel. |
| 1:04.6 | Are you still mad about that cable font? |
| 1:07.4 | I am so mad about that cable font. |
| 1:09.7 | It's still a really bad font that's really difficult to read. |
| 1:14.1 | I think this came up when we were covering the 12, didn't it? |
| 1:17.2 | And the series is indeed still using that same font. |
| 1:20.7 | Which it shouldn't be. |
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