522 – Fetus Fight
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Illustration by David Wynne
In which Marvel goes wordless; Cassandra Nova breaks space; none of the X-Men have media training; and Gus was the best dog ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Erik the Red (more) (again)
- Kin Crimson
- A big messy bag of mutant glory
- New X-Men #121-123
- ‘Nuff Said
- A journey into Charles Xavier’s mind
- What Emma is drinking
- A fetus fight
- The criminal culpability of a fetus
- Space problems
- A cosplay challenge
- Space
- Charles Xavier’s weird last wish
- A press conference
- Teen romance
- The Stepford Cuckoos
- Gus
- Charles Xavier’s age
- Nanosentinels
- Stuf
- Pre-ride safety announcements from the X-Men
- Whether Cassandra Nova should’ve been a component of Onslaught
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| 0:00.0 | You know, Jay, it's a little ridiculous that both Cyclops and Magneto used bondage Viking Eric |
| 0:05.9 | the Red as a cover identity decades apart. |
| 0:09.0 | And although more ridiculous when you know that there was an actual Eric the Red the whole time. |
| 0:14.2 | Right, the Shi'ar guy who mind-controlled Polaris and Havoc. |
| 0:17.8 | I wonder what he's up to these days. |
| 0:20.8 | King Crimson stuff, mostly. |
| 0:23.1 | Really? Huh. I would not have clocked him as a prog-rock guy. |
| 0:27.3 | Oh, no, no. Not King Crimson. Kin Crimson. This is the secret order dedicated to |
| 0:33.1 | guarding the ten shames of the Shi'r Empire. Only ten? |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah, the Shi'ar have pretty high shame thresholds. Anyway, the Kin Crimson have existed since the dawn of the Shiar. They live hidden in plain sight until called upon. The X-Men would never even have known that they exist if they hadn't stumbled across the first of the ten shames. So what's bad enough that even the Shia are are ashamed of it? |
| 0:55.0 | A war with the first mutant civilization. |
| 0:57.6 | Okara? |
| 0:58.5 | No, way earlier. |
| 1:00.7 | Thanks to some time travel tomfoolery, this one was around 2 billion years before regular |
| 1:05.5 | homo sapiens evolved. |
| 1:07.1 | What? |
| 1:07.6 | What? |
| 1:07.6 | I don't know. What? |
| 1:20.3 | I'm Jay Edited. |
| 1:22.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:24.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 1:26.5 | Because it's about time someone did. |
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