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In which this episode may or may not be a temporal aberration; Gambit is bad at marketing; Jubilee’s sixth birthday was probably worse than yours; Earth-295’s chronology doesn’t make that much more sense than 616’s; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau wears this timeline well; Rictor makes a terrible Javert; Jubilee has no time for your makeouts; superheroes are basically preschoolers; there is only one Jahf; babies are bad at stealing; and Apocalypse is not a tactician.

X-PLAINED:

• How Magneto got his own country
• A numerical convergence
• Earth-295
• Gambit and the X-Ternals #1-4
• X-Ternals
• The human resistance
• The Temple of Human Redress
• A terrible way to celebrate your birthday
• Lila Cheney of Earth-295
• The Nuclear Naked
• Super Doctor Astronaut (mermaid) Peter Corbeau of Earth-295
• Julio Richter (Earth-295)
• Mudir
• Homage
• Cross-timeline vocabulary
• Cosmic peril
• The state of the Shi’ar Empire in Earth-295
• The Starjammers of Earth-295
• Varyingly versatile energy absorption
• Jahf
• An exchange
• Some fancy sewers
• Guido Carosella’s devil’s bargains
• Earth-295… IN SPACE
• The nominal justification for Apocalypse’s society
• Which Apocalypse is currently running around Earth-616

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