Episode 120: Pete Wisdom (feat. Dan Grote)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 265 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 120 of CEREBRO, Connor and ComicsXF publisher Dan Grote light one up with the willful Pete Wisdom! Created by Warren Ellis and Ken Lashley, the cantankerous, chain-smoking Wisdom — a British secret agent and mutant assassin — was introduced as the unlikely new love interest for Kitty Pryde, whose time in Excalibur had seen her grow from the X-Men's teen sidekick into an independent young superheroine.

Though the Pryde and Wisdom relationship was popular with many readers, it did not survive to the end of the 90s. Wisdom did, however, becoming a reliable supporting player for Marvel stories set in the UK — and a marketable leading man in stories by writer Paul Cornell. He most recently served as a major recurring character in writer Tini Howard's Betsy Braddock stories during the First Krakoan Age.

The CEREBRO character file on Wisdom begins at 39:54.

(Content Advisory: Pete's story includes torture and various other war crimes. He's a black ops secret agent. The vibes are not always great.)

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0:00.0	They walk into the lake and they go back to medieval times to save King Arthur from dragons that turn out to be fin-fank-fum people.
0:07.8	That part's not important.
0:09.0	At least it's not the Crimson Dawn.
0:10.6	Fair.
0:11.1	Let's thank Havens for small miracles.
0:13.6	X-Men, X-Men.
0:16.8	In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:25.6	Only hope is X-Men.
0:32.0	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast,
0:34.9	where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:38.5	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:40.8	And with me today is Dan Groat, editor and publisher of ComicsXF, taking over that role
0:47.6	from previous guest of this podcast, Zach Jenkins, who has small children and less time
0:52.9	to edit a comic publishing website. Dan,
0:56.5	how are you today? I am honored and thrilled to be here, Connor. I am happy to have you here.
1:03.2	I appreciate you stepping in because my initial guest for this episode, the writer Paul Cornell,
1:08.6	had to pull out, and I needed to find someone. And my first thought
1:12.7	was, well, I don't know anyone on earth who loves Pete Wisdom more than Dan Groat. Pete is the
1:21.4	character we are here to talk about today. And Dan is also the host of the Patreon exclusive Comics X-F podcast, Our Son Pete,
1:31.0	chronicling every appearance of Pete Wisdom. A show I have appeared on. We did a fun episode about
1:38.5	Days of Future Tense, the story that's not in the Days of Future past timeline, but is like kind of.
1:45.0	It's like an adjacent.
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