512 – You Can Get Anything You Want at Stryfe’s Restaurant
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In which it’s rude to eat in a helmet; Cable does his best villain bit; Bishop is clearly unfamiliar with early X-Force; we’re pretty sure clones still count as people; and Stryfe is the surprise MVP of Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom.
X-PLAINED:
- Another time Stryfe and Bishop teamed up
- Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom #3-6
- Some of the Witness’s fancy swag
- An extremely awkward meal
- Stryfe in four pages
- Unsubtle foreshadowing
- The relative ethics of killing Stryfe
- A visual representation of time
- Somewhat logical consequences
- Bad clone ethics
- Future uncertainty
- Le Bête Noir
- Hell-lord / anti-Phoenix disambiguation
- A fancy t-shirt
- The appropriate amount of mean to be to Stryfe
- When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops (more) (again) (inconclusive)
- Reasons not to live under a crypt in New Orleans
- Betty Noir’s
- Relative (fictional) body counts
- Business-casual Stryfe
- Lucas Bishop, kitten guy
- Relitigating the X-traitor
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| 0:00.0 | Jay, I am so entertained that Gampett and Bishop are going to team up with Strife. |
| 0:05.1 | Stryfe! |
| 0:06.3 | Then Miles, you may be happy to know that this isn't going to be the last time, at least for Bishop. |
| 0:10.7 | Does Strife and Bishop become friends? Do they solve crimes together? Or frolic through fields? |
| 0:15.8 | I feel like Bishop and Strife are both men who could benefit for more frolicing. |
| 0:20.0 | They do team up to kill Apocalypse in the future. |
| 0:24.1 | Cool, cool. |
| 0:25.5 | And then start an evil empire together. |
| 0:27.8 | What? |
| 0:40.9 | I'm Jay Editedon. And I'm Jay Editon. |
| 0:42.5 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:45.2 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:47.1 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to episode 512 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:55.5 | where we walk you through the insouts and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:01.4 | And welcome to the second half of our two-part coverage of the Gambit and Bishop Sons of the Adam miniseries. |
| 1:07.8 | So, Miles, you mentioned before that you had started out, that you'd originally disliked this series, and you'd grown to love it. |
| 1:13.6 | And I originally was pretty neutral on it and have grown very attached to it as well. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.1 | And I feel like we got some of that across in our last episode, |
| 1:20.1 | but really, I would say it's the second half where all the super charming and super bananas stuff happens. |
| 1:23.7 | Like, this is the gold mine of this mini-series right here. |
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