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In which Miles invokes Freddie Mercury; Polaris is more competent than the rest of X-Factor put together; Armageddon theology does not intersect well with superpowers (or politics, or anything else); Val joins a cult (kind of); Random joins the team (kind of); Haven is a surprisingly nonviolent mass-murderer; Havok is confused by women; and good guys don’t have orbital lasers.

X-PLAINED:

• Hope across the multiverse
• X-Factor #97-100
• Haven (Radha Dastoor)
• Man, Mutant, and the New Humanity
• A very fashionable outfit
• One of the greatest Marvel art submissions of all time
• Trinket the cat
• Catalogs
• A dramatic entrance
• Mahapralaya (kind of)
• Jamie Madrox vs. Jamie Madrox vs. the Legacy Virus
• The Trolley Problem
• Possession
• Orbital lasers as a metric of morality
• Monsoon (Aloba Dastoor)
• The apparent death of Jamie Madrox
• Our favorite takes on the Phoenix
• Who our X-Universe counterparts should be

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