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In which Goldballs is still a better name than Egg; we continue our progress towards Earth-295; Legion pulls a Stryfe; we’re still pretty shaky on how to pronounce “M’Kraan”; Xavier and Magneto were absolutely and unquestionably doing sex in the 1970s; it’s time time; the Watcher is watching you masturbate; and what happens immediately before the end of the world is often as important as what happens immediately after.

X-PLAINED:

• Balls
• Legion (more) (again)
• Uncanny X-Men 320-321
• X-Men #40
• Establishing stakes
• Slang of the mid-1990s
• Time travel as a dick move
• Issues vs. episodes
• The M’Kraan Crystal (more) (again)
• Hebrew vowels
• Latent time travel abilities
• Charles Xavier’s “first” bar fight
• An exceptional caption
• A very bad narrative choice
• The death of Charles Francis Xavier
• A load-bearing moment in time
• Jahf the Guardian
• Waiting for the end of the world
• The best-drawn kiss in X-Men, ever
• The many Krakoas
• Integrating Legion into Dawn of X

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