508 – Destiny’s Doodles
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which Professor Xavier is a jock; all of Shadowcat’s friends are dead; Storm recruits a team; Bishop makes new pals; and everyone gets festive.
X-PLAINED:
- Some of Mystique’s secret kids
- Uncanny X-Men #389
- X-Men #109
- Charles Xavier’s workout routine
- Two funerals
- Rave (the drug)
- The wrong necklace
- Destiny’s doodles
- A large knife
- Charles Xavier/Moira MacTaggert backstory
- A snowball fight
- A very sketchy circus
- A break-up
- “Christmas cheer”
- A mysterious package
- An X-Men nativity
- Sage (Tessa)
- Origins of X-Treme X-Men
- Several gifts, some more mysterious than others
- Charles Xavier’s legacy
- Warwolves (more) (again)
- Archangel’s color vision
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, what's up with Mystique turning out to have all these secret kids all the time? |
| 0:06.4 | It's only happened twice. |
| 0:08.3 | I mean, at least on Earth 616. |
| 0:10.7 | That's still two more secret kids than the average. |
| 0:14.0 | It's true. |
| 0:14.8 | Secret kids George, who lives in a cave and has several million secret children as an outlier and should not be counted. |
| 0:20.6 | Seriously, though, you're not wrong. |
| 0:21.9 | It gets even weirder in other timelines, like there's one where she's got kids with Wolverine. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, that actually makes a weird kind of sense. |
| 0:29.3 | And Charles Xavier. |
| 0:30.9 | What? |
| 0:31.3 | What? I'm Jay Edited. |
| 0:44.7 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:46.2 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:49.7 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to episode 508 of Jay and Miles |
| 0:54.6 | Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:55.8 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:57.1 | and the retcons of comics, |
| 0:58.3 | greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:00.5 | And welcome to the second ending in a row. |
| 1:05.3 | Last time we covered the endings of Generation X |
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