Episode 076: Nathaniel Essex (feat. Kieron Gillen)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 76 of CEREBRO, the SEASON 3 PREMIERE, Connor and contemporary comics legend Kieron Gillen map the machinations of Nathaniel Essex, Mr. Sinister! Created by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri, but reimagined almost entirely in the 21st century by Gillen, this amoral geneticist became one of the most iconic X-Men villains.

The CEREBRO character file on Mr. Sinister begins at 53:27.

(Content Advisory: Nathaniel's story includes eugenics, racism, child abuse, brainwashing, child loss, stillbirth, the Holocaust, and lots of other really terrible stuff.)

This episode has spoilers for Immortal X-Men #2 and Duggan's X-Men #11! You are forewarned.

Here's a link to the Immortal X-Men playlist Kieron made, which we discuss in the episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1slXJJdxhqg2CxDKQHepog

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0:00.0	Well, particularly with the line that you gave him.
0:02.5	Well, we'll get into that when we get to the Nazi stuff.
0:04.7	I don't know how else to put it.
0:06.8	We'll get to the Nazi stuff.
0:08.3	After the break.
0:09.7	Big sigh.
0:10.9	Yeah.
0:11.5	X-Men.
0:14.7	In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:23.5	Only hope is X-Men.
0:29.7	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of a homo superior.
0:36.6	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and
0:38.5	joining me for the season three premiere is Kieran Gillen, my friend and yours. Well, I don't know,
0:45.2	he's my friend. I'm name dropping a little bit. I've known Kieran in a long time, and I've been
0:50.0	eager to get him on the pod, but he was doing this whole, like, having a baby thing.
0:55.7	And so now there's a baby and there was a whole lot of that that had to be taken care of before.
1:01.1	He could spare two hours to be on my X-Men podcast.
1:05.1	Kieran, how are you today?
1:06.6	I'm delighted.
1:07.6	It's lovely to be here.
1:08.6	Like, as you know, I listen to it quite regularly and stop the second people having ideas.
1:12.3	Yeah, no, I know. I'm always like, just hit the forward 15 seconds button like seven times and you'll get back to us kibbisting about nonsense.
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