In which Banshee is chronically hapless; the team gets new costumes (again); Chamber is a self-fulfilling prophecy; toddlers will sell you out in a hot minute; Moira MacTaggert is definitively not in; we are frustrated by excessive ambiguity; and it’s not Rashômon, but it’ll do.

X-PLAINED:

• Banshee post-Generation X
• Generation X #71-74
• Interior decorating
• New costumes (again)
• Chamber, but a housecat
• A meet-cute
• Teen angst
• Fashion
• An extremely awkward conversation
• A brief history of boba in the United States
• A fracas
• Fun things to do with extra skin
• Evolving teacher-student relationships
• Poor interrogation technique
• Husk vs. international terrorism, in general
• Ghosts of the Massachusetts Academy
• Villains and heroes we think would be neat as the reverse
• A world in which Peridot of Steven Universe imprinted on X-Men

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