525 – Beyond This Death
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.
X-PLAINED:
- The destiny of Quentin Quire
- New X-Men #131-134
- An underattended funeral
- How to fly? Kinda? I guess?
- A kiss
- A friendship
- Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again
- A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor
- Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume
- Some kind of weird affair
- Echoes of 9/11/2001
- Genosha, a year later
- Ghosts
- Polaris’s paternity
- Shocker (the mutant one)
- The last words of Genosha
- Islamophobia post 9/11
- Sooraya Qadir (Dust)
- An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof
- Some Shi’ar nonsense
- X-Corporation Mumbai
- Jumbo Carnation
- Telepathy class
- An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask
- Accountability
- Professor X’s weird little paintings
- X-adjectives
- Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport
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| 0:00.0 | So, I know you love Quentin Choir, Jay, but he's kind of a tool. |
| 0:05.6 | Oh, he absolutely is. |
| 0:07.2 | That's a huge part of why I love him. |
| 0:09.7 | Quentin is an asshole in ways that feel extremely, extremely real for a teen having bigger feelings than he's really equipped to direct productively. |
| 0:18.6 | Fair enough. |
| 0:19.8 | Does he ever grow into it? |
| 0:21.8 | Well, she grows into something anyway. |
| 0:24.7 | What? |
| 0:25.7 | A Phoenix host. |
| 0:27.4 | What? |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Jay Editedon. And I'm Jay Edditton. |
| 0:41.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:42.8 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:45.6 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to episode 525 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:51.8 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:53.2 | and the retcons of comics |
| 0:54.3 | greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:14.2 | And welcome to a sort of grab bag of issues of new X-Men. Every once in a while, we have some issues that are not in a distinct storyline. They're just individual stories. And here we are. Well, one of the issues that we're looking at today, the last one is part of a distinct storyline, but that storyline is long enough that we need to break it up between two episodes. |
| 1:14.2 | Thus, the last one, is part of a distinct storyline, but that storyline is long enough that we need to break it up between two episodes, |
| 1:20.1 | thus its effective prologue coming in this one. True, true, we'll very much get to that. |
| 1:24.9 | There are some definite themes that a couple of these issues share, which we'll also get to. |
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