515 – Origins
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In which we do a thing and are not even sorry.
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- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Jay, do you remember that whole scandal around the X-Men Origins Wolverine leak? |
| 0:04.5 | The workprint that got released early? Yeah, that sure was the thing. |
| 0:08.1 | It's not my favorite controversy related to the film, though. |
| 0:11.5 | There were more? |
| 0:12.7 | At least one, but it was pretty locally oriented. |
| 0:16.1 | See, this district council in New Zealand got upset that the film was using an ice skating rink. |
| 0:20.7 | For filming? What, Did they damage it somehow? |
| 0:23.6 | No, they were storing explosives in it. |
| 0:26.0 | What? |
| 0:39.7 | I'm Jay Addedon. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:44.4 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:46.5 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to episode 515 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest |
| 0:54.3 | superhero soap opera. |
| 0:56.3 | In episode 513, we mentioned that before the show was over, we wanted to cover a few items |
| 1:00.8 | from our bucket list, and this episode's contents are something we've wanted to cover for a |
| 1:05.9 | very long time. |
| 1:07.7 | That's right. |
| 1:08.7 | Now, for the first many years of X-Men, Wolverine's origin story was basically |
| 1:13.2 | a matter of rumor. There were hints, there were little bits of his past seated around, but nothing |
| 1:17.4 | was officially comics canon until 2001 with the comic Wolverine the Origins, written by Paul Jenkins, |
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