513 – Eve of Destruction
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In which Jay and Miles make an announcement; the X-Men are down to bare bones; Cyclops and Corsair are stunningly bad at feelings; Trish Tilby is stunningly bad at journalism; Magneto says goodbye to nuance; and Jean Grey assembles a team.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Corps vs. X-Corp
- A thing that will be happening in a few months
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #391-392
- X-Men #111
- The state of the X-Men
- A short-lived Cyclops costume
- A reunion
- A sorry excuse
- Resolution, somewhat
- Genosha (more) (again)
- Conflict of interest
- Several excellent villain speeches
- Joanna Cargill (Frenzy) (again)
- Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar) (again)
- Hector Rendoza
- Yet another angry mob
- Paulie Provenzano (Omerta)
- Leyu Yoshida (Sunpyre)
- Ice skating in Rockefeller Center
- Our picks for a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, about X-Corps? |
| 0:02.6 | Uh, which one, Miles? |
| 0:04.4 | There's more than one? Well, sure, there's the X-Corps Bansche ran in Europe, which was kind of a paramilitary thing. And then there's X-Corp short for X-Corporation, which was a non-governmental organization devoted to mutant rights. Ex-corporation, huh? When did that become a thing? There have been a couple iterations, but the first one, if I recall correctly, started shortly after Xavier outed himself as a mutant. You say there were a couple. Does that mean the first ex-corporation ended at some point? Yeah, not long after M-Day. But that wasn't the first trouble they'd seen. A bunch of their headquarters were bombed by... |
| 0:38.8 | Anti-mutant bigots? |
| 0:40.5 | Trolls. |
| 0:41.3 | What? |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Jay Edditton. |
| 0:54.9 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:56.8 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:59.7 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:01.6 | Welcome to episode 513 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 1:06.1 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:11.7 | And welcome to a whole lot of nonsense, but before we get into this episode's coverage, we have an |
| 1:16.9 | announcement. So we've talked a lot on the show about endings, and specifically how much we |
| 1:22.1 | like stories and series with really deliberate endings. Yeah, endings are important. They provide |
| 1:27.1 | closure, they provide meaning, they give shape to narratives. |
| 1:31.0 | And it is with all of that in mind that we want to let you know that Jay and Miles |
| 1:35.5 | Explain the X-Men is going to be ending later this year. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, we never meant for this to be a forever podcast, but that it's lasted for almost 12 years so far is |
| 1:45.6 | amazing. It's a gift we never could have imagined when we started doing this. |
| 1:50.8 | And it's really important to us now to finish it right and to go out deliberately instead of |
| 1:56.0 | fading off or hitting an abrupt wall. But don't worry. We're not going away next week or even next month. |
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