<p><a href="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/x512.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23650" src="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/x512.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="585" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/x512.jpg?w=1024&#38;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/x512.jpg?resize=300%2C171&#38;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/x512.jpg?resize=768%2C439&#38;ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p> <p>In which it’s rude to eat in a helmet; Cable does his best villain bit; Bishop is clearly unfamiliar with early <em>X-Force</em>; we’re pretty sure clones still count as people; and Stryfe is the surprise MVP of <em>Gambit &#38; Bishop: Sons of the Atom</em>.</p> <p>X-PLAINED:</p> <ul> <li>Another time Stryfe and Bishop teamed up</li> <li><em>Gambit &#38; Bishop: Sons of the Atom</em> #3-6</li> <li>Some of the Witness’s fancy swag</li> <li>An extremely awkward meal</li> <li>Stryfe in four pages</li> <li>Unsubtle foreshadowing</li> <li>The relative ethics of killing Stryfe</li> <li>A visual representation of time</li> <li>Somewhat logical consequences</li> <li>Bad clone ethics</li> <li>Future uncertainty</li> <li>Le Bête Noir</li> <li>Hell-lord / anti-Phoenix disambiguation</li> <li>A fancy t-shirt</li> <li>The appropriate amount of mean to be to Stryfe</li> <li>When <em>Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom</em> takes place relative to <em>The Search for Cyclops</em> (more) (again) (inconclusive)</li> <li>Reasons not to live under a crypt in New Orleans</li> <li>Betty Noir’s</li> <li>Relative (fictional) body counts</li> <li>Business-casual Stryfe</li> <li>Lucas Bishop, kitten guy</li> <li>Relitigating the X-traitor</li> </ul> <p>NEXT EPISODE: <em>Eve of Destruction</em> (and some bonus Summers family bullshit)</p> <hr /> <p>Check out the visual companion to this episode <a href="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2026/01/as-mentioned-in-episode-512/">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>