History YMMV / Cerebro

** "Hey. I'm Ali. Hey." A strange sentence from a strange panel featuring Dazzler meeting Pixie, which spiralled into many listeners signing their letters in a similar manner.
** [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1391066429013770245 "The stupid ''what''?"]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Crops up plenty when Connor and his guest discuss how they might explain or justify a character's actions in light of later developments or their own headcanons. An early example of this is [[Podcast/JayAndMilesXPlainTheXMen Jay Edidin]] suggesting that Cyclops is on the Autism spectrum; he posits the character's powers being a metaphor for disability and that him abandoning Madelyne and baby Cable was because he took her accusation ("If you walk out that door, don't bother coming back!") literally and thought he couldn't return after leaving.

* LGBTFanbase: The podcast acknowledges the highly queer fandom of the X-Men and the many parallels between them and mutantkind, and fully plays into it since Connor is gay and many of his guests are variations of queer.

* NeverLiveItDown: There are some characters who can never escape having certain actions mentioned. Most notably:
** Emma Frost killing Firestar's horse Butterrum.
** Magma making her debut in brownface.
** Jean Grey killing the D'Bari broccoli people.
** Rahne Sinclair having a romantic affair with Josh Foley while he was her student. Notable in that this event is treated with more seriousness than the preceding examples because it was both uncomfortable and, in Connor's opinion, made the character so toxic to write about that she didn't get a chance to be rescued from that characterization until years later.
** Kate Pryde saying the N word three times in her teens.
* TheScrappy: There are various characters and creators that Connor and his guests will criticize heavily the moment they come up.
** Noriko Ashida (Surge) will be put on blast for her unrepentant racism against Sooraya Qadir (Dust).
** Amara Aquila (Magma) isn't really hated, but Connor and others will bemoan her eating up time in ''New Mutants'' because she's just not very interesting.
** Peter David's ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' is rarely left unscathed due to the infamous storylines around the pregnancies of both Siryn and Rahne.
** Joss Whedon's ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' is similarly criticized by Connor, as he feels it aborted several interesting plots and forces characters into spaces he feels were reductive.
** It's fair to say that Connor is ''not'' a fan of Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch), mainly because of her actions triggering the massive DorkAge for the X-Men that was the Decimation.

* Kate Pryde saying the N word three times in her teens.
** TheScrappy: There are various characters and creators that Connor and his guests will criticize heavily the moment they come up.

* TheScrappy: There are various characters and creators that Connor and his guests will criticize heavily the moment they come up.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Crops up plenty when Connor and his guest discuss how they might explain or justify a character's actions in light of later developments or their own headcanons. An early example of this is [[Podcast/JayAndMilesXPlainTheXMen Jay Edidin]] suggesting that Cyclops is on the Autism spectrum; he posits character's powers being a metaphor for disability and that him abandoning Madelyne and baby Cable was because he took her accusation ("If you walk out that door, don't bother coming back!") literally and thought he couldn't return after leaving.

** A lesser example was the Selene episode discussing her potential storylines on Krakoa, when a few months later ''X Corp'' was cancelled and shortly after that Selene [[spoiler: was killed in ''Immortal X-Men''.]] Lesser because even though Connor was disappointed, he's repeatedly said that [[spoiler: Selene's whole thing was coming back from the dead even before Krakoa, so he doubts she's gone forever]].

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Connor and guest Spencer Ackerman, both Jewish, note that they are doing the episode on Fenris, Marvel's favorite incest Nazi fail-siblings, right before Yom Kippur because they are going to have to ''atone''. Between being episode 88[[note: neo-Nazi code for "Heil Hitler"]], Spencer redefining the fourteen words[[note: An infamous phrase in neo-Nazi circles regarding preserving a world for white children]] to mean "I am going to suck each and every toe on my twin sister's foot," and Connor responding to Andrea's fate after death[[note: skinned and turned into a sword hilt so Andreas can use their energy-channeling powers as part of his HeelFaceTurn]] with "Who's a lampshade ''now'', bitch?", it certainly lives up to all that.

** Joss Whedon's ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' is similarly criticized by Connor, as he feels it aborted several interesting plots and forces characters into spaces he feels were reductive.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are several characters that the podcast will eagerly focus on outside their episodes, but the most notable is ''SELENE''! Connor absolutely adores her and there have been several listener emails asking how an episode's character would react to her, or vice versa. Candy Southern is also very popular and has gained fans due to his episode on her.
** Minor X-Men villain Zaladane is perhaps the biggest example.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are several characters that the podcast will eagerly focus on outside their episodes, but the most notable is ''SELENE''! Connor absolutely adores her and there have been several listener emails asking how an episode's character would react to her, or vice versa.

** A lesser example was the Selene episode discussing her potential storylines on Krakoa, when a few months later ''X Corp'' was cancelled and shortly after that Selene [[spoiler: was killed in ''Immortal X-Men''.]] Lesser because even though Connor was disappointed, he's repeatedly said that [[spoiler: Selene's whole thing was coming back from the dead even before Krakoa, so he doubt's she's gone forever]].

** "Dating Polaris is gay" has become a joke within the fandom about characters who are AmbiguouslyGay dating very camp-y characters. Naturally it's specifically about Iceman pursuing Polaris romantically and pointing out the, in Connor's words, "drag fantasia" of her aesthetic that seems to foreshadow Bobby coming out year's later.

* Justice for Butterrum.

** Peter David's ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' is rarely left unscathed due to the infamous stories regarding the pregnancies of both Siryn and Rahne.

* FanCommunityNickname: While the listeners at large don't have a nickname in general, straight listeners are lovingly referred to as "Flatscans", a term from the comic book referring to non-mutants.

* MemeticMutation: "Dating Polaris is gay" has become a joke within the fandom about characters who are AmbiguouslyGay dating very camp-y characters. Naturally it's specifically about Iceman pursuing Polaris romantically and pointing out the, in Connor's words, "drag fantasia" of her aesthetic that seems to foreshadow Bobby coming out year's later.