516 – The Evolution of Magneto (feat. Asher Elbein)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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In which Asher Elbein joins us to discuss the complicated intersections between Magneto, big feelings, and international politics.
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- Some complicated intersections between Magneto, big feelings, and international politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Jay, so Magneto's costume is so iconic. |
| 0:04.1 | Did he design it himself? |
| 0:05.3 | I can't imagine him trusting anybody else to. |
| 0:08.1 | In fact, Miles, he did not. |
| 0:10.3 | His costume was designed by one Cassandra Michaels shortly after Magneto arrived in the United States. |
| 0:15.8 | Did she do costumes for other supers? |
| 0:18.8 | Not that I know of. |
| 0:20.4 | I assume Magneto picked her mostly because she was a |
| 0:22.7 | mutant. Huh? What's her power? Making clothes. What? I'm Jay Eddden. |
| 0:41.6 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:43.0 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:45.7 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to episode 516 of Jay and Miles, |
| 0:50.2 | Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:51.2 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:52.6 | and the retcons of comics, greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:55.9 | And welcome to another of our bucket list episodes. |
| 1:00.0 | We realize that as much as we've talked about one of our favorite X-Men characters, Magneto, |
| 1:04.7 | we've never given him a full episode. |
| 1:07.3 | So we're gonna. |
| 1:08.6 | I mean, we've given full episodes to his mini-series, for instance, but, or to stories that |
| 1:13.3 | centered him, but not really to him as a character and his evolution as a character. |
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