In which we more or less prepare you for the upcoming feature film; Rachel Summers is a black hole of continuity; Kitty Pryde breaks the Danger Room; Earth 200500 is clearly the best earth; even the X-Men have no idea what’s going on; First Class Emma Frost is so boring that we forget she exists; wolverines are definitely not wolves; and you can have Rachel’s Community references when you pry them from her cold, dead hands.

X-Plained:

• Rachel Summers


• “Days of Future Past”


• Gravestone engraving standards of 2013


• The Mostly-New, Mostly-Different Brotherhood of Evil Mutants


• Another unfortunate hat


• Causality in the Marvel Multiverse


• Earths 811, 1191, 295, 311, and 200500


• Hall monitors with laser rifles


• How to fix a broken timeline


• The X-Men cinematic universe, and points of divergence from the comics


• The one thing X-Men: The Last Stand does right


• The Xavier Index of Cinematic Continuity


• The difference between Canis lupus and Gulo gulo


• A Days of Future Past cinematic cram course


• Fix-it fic


• Blink, Bishop, and dark-future mash-ups


• The enduring appeal of Earth-811


• The significantly less enduring appeal of Earth-242


• The Nazi Excalibur of Earth-597

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