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In which standing in fields looking confused is a way of life; Psylocke gets a new superpower; when you gotta confess you gotta confess; Iceman’s dad stands up for justice; we mourn a Sentinel; and it’s probably a good thing that most companies don’t do mind melds as a team-building exercise.

X-PLAINED:

• Levels of mutant power
• Omicron-level mutations
• Miles’s brief baseball career
• Uncanny X-Men #338
• X-Men #58
• X-Men Annual 1996
• Archangel’s wings
• Joseph vs. Holographic Magneto
• Shadow teleportation
• The errand theory of confession
• Graydon Creed (more) (again)
• “Drake Roberts” and “Samson Guthry”
• Several ways to memorialize the Mutant Massacre
• Onslaught, but an anteater
• A fight
• Several JJJ cameos
• X-baseball games
• A highly atypical Sentinel
• Several oblique warnings
• X-Men ‘97
• Media inspired by the X-Men

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