<p><a href="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X510.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-23623" src="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X510-1024x764.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="671" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X510.jpg?resize=1024%2C764&#38;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X510.jpg?resize=300%2C224&#38;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X510.jpg?resize=768%2C573&#38;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/X510.jpg?w=1043&#38;ssl=1 1043w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /></a></p> <p>In which we attempt an all-Cyclops Winter special; X-Men are bad at processing grief; writer Alex Paknadel X-Plains his upcoming <em>Cyclops</em> miniseries; every character (except Cameron Hodge) is someone’s favorite; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.</p> <p>X-PLAINED:</p> <ul> <li>Clones of Cyclops</li> <li>Gwen Warren</li> <li>Our year in review</li> <li><em>X-Men: The Search for Cyclops</em> #1-4</li> <li>Ahmed and his mustache</li> <li>Emotional support boats</li> <li>A monkey</li> <li>Apoca-lips</li> <li>Anias</li> <li>Boxes of fire</li> <li>One way of coping with trauma</li> <li>Ozymandias (more) (again)</li> <li>The relative criminality of a trail of questions</li> <li>Cat lady problems</li> <li>Twice as many cat ladies named Anias as you’d expect</li> <li>Terrible logic</li> <li>Caliban (more) (again)</li> <li>Several unpleasant reunions</li> <li>Alex Paknadel’s definitive Cyclopses</li> <li>Fun with minor characters</li> <li>Proxy characters and “highly polished surfaces”</li> <li>Characters to revisit</li> <li><em>Sentinels</em></li> <li>Cyclops vs. his own powers</li> <li>Cyclops’s powers vs. continuity</li> <li>Who Scott Summers is when he’s alone</li> <li>The punch dimension</li> <li>The 11^th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence</li> <li>Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful</li> </ul> <p>NEXT EPISODE: <em>Gambit &#38; Bishop:<span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> Now Kiss </span>Sons of the Atom</em></p> <hr /> <p>Check out the visual companion to this episode <a href="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2026/01/as-mentioned-in-episode-510/">on our blog</a>.</p> <p>Find us on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jay-miles-x-plain-the-x-men/id862258051">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3dB4KyeOeylfiIVImshFY2?si=ee5e912a53114820">Spotify</a>!</p> <p>Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that <a href="https://www.patreon.com/xplainthexmen">right here</a>!</p> <p>Buy rad swag at <a href="https://xplainthexmen.dashery.com/">our Dashery shop</a>!</p>