So, Jay, how did magic catch the legacy virus anyway?

Well, her older brother, Mikhail, traveled back in time in an attempt to prevent her death from the virus.

Because that always goes well.

And inevitably ended up infecting her with it.

What?

Yeah. I'm Jay Eddden.

And I'm Miles Stokes.

And we are here to Explain the X-Men.

Because it's about time someone did.

Welcome to episode 509 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.

And welcome to a somewhat odd combination of stories. But before we get into those, a quick

content warning. The stories that we're looking at today contain both attempted and

completed suicide. If that's something that you find triggering, please take this as a caution

to do what you need to be safe, whether that's not listening or listening in a safe space with

people around you. If you're dealing with suicidal impulses right now, if you're in the United States, you can call 988 for help at any point. We'll also link to other hotlines, especially

ones with LGBTQIA-specific resources in the visual companion to this episode, which you can find

at Explainthexmen.com. So, yeah, some dark stuff coming up here. Also, again, a strange combination. So, yeah, some dark stuff coming up here.

Also, again, a strange combination.

So one of the things about doing this podcast is we try to find, as we've mentioned before,

an amount of stuff to cover per episode that will fit about the size of episode we want to make.

And given the way X-Men tends to be structured, usually that's like,

here's a specific Generation X story or whatever. But sometimes the only commonality we have are

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