If I'm Sage, I'm sitting here looking at Gene, who is his golden child, and I'm walking around,

and all I have is a piece of lingerie, and on the back it's written, I was sex trafficked as a teenager by Charles Xavier,

and all I got was this stupid corset.

In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.

The only hope is X-Men.

Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of homo superior.

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.

And with me today is artist Valentine Smith.

Valentine is here with me to talk about Sage, the X-Men's living computer, initially known as Sebastian Shaw's personal aide Tessa, before a whole lot of very confusing recons.

So this one is going to be a fun character file.

Valentine, how are you doing today?

I'm doing great.

We're going to talk about my favorite X-Men.

I love that Sage is your favorite X-Man because the beauty of this podcast is finding

people whose favorite is a character. People go

like her, like sort of a rest of development style. I like Sage a lot, but it's, you know,

she's certainly not a list. See, that's the thing. I love, I love Sage so much that I don't let

people know that Sage is my favorite X-Man a lot of times. Because you're not willing to listen

to criticism of Sage that will no doubt arise.

Well, I always get the like her, really?

And like people, I will talk shit about Emma Frost till the cows come home.

But like, so a lot of people think that Emma is my favorite but it's actually sage.

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