Episode 123: Quentin Quire (feat. Scott Platton) — Part One: The Rats & The Children

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 256 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 123 of CEREBRO, Connor and lawyer Scott Platton (a.k.a. cosplayer and podcaster Scott Free) disrespect their elders with Quentin Quire, the cavalier Kid Omega! Created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, Quentin is one of the most iconic figures from Morrison's then-polarizing and now-legendary run on New X-Men — Charles Xavier's young protégé, an omega-level telepath who becomes a threat to friend and foe alike when he's radicalized by the destruction of Genosha. Quentin's ill-fated scheme, the Riot at Xavier's, is one of Morrison's most memorable story arcs.

Years later, Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo's Wolverine & The X-Men dramatically reimagined Quentin as an antihero on a begrudging quest for redemption, a new kind of sidekick for Logan. This version of the character became enormously popular, ascending to A-list status in the franchise as a member of the X-Men and, on Krakoa, X-Force. It is difficult to square these two very distinct versions of the character.

We're going to do our best.

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This is Part One of Two. The second half is coming soon! When it drops, Patreon subscribers will also get exclusive access to the combined Extended Hostile Strength Mix.

(Content Advisory: Quentin's story is about the radicalization of a teenager into a violent extremist, and thereafter a process of deradicalization. Lots of heavy topics discussed here.)

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0:00.0	If you read Riot as a story about Quentin trying to grapple with his identity and trying to
0:06.5	come to terms with his world being kicked out from underneath him, you can apply a queer
0:12.7	reading to it in that way.
0:14.8	No, I get.
0:15.5	It's not like, you're crazy to get a queer reading here.
0:18.2	I was just like, no, I don't want this one, especially because in
0:21.2	2011, 2012 when this is happening, we got so few of them. We get flat man as a joke. Yeah. Things like, and it's like, man, you guys, like, I do not want to spend a bullet on Quentin choir. We have like two bullets in that chamber for the next 20 years. That's at least how it felt at the time. So, you know, it was just, I was like, this guy, this guy, we want to redeem him by making him the gay character. Iceman wasn't even gay yet. Critically, in Jason Aaron's Wolverine the X-Men, Iceman is super not gay. He's fucking Kitty Pride. Which is sick. That's a sick way to live. Sick! Sick! Sick!
0:55.0	X-Men!
1:02.6	In the 21st century, people mutants, led by Magneto, aimed to destroy the world.
1:10.6	Only hope is X-Men. Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men.
1:15.4	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast.
1:18.9	We're a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of a homo superior.
1:21.2	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith. And with me today is Scott Platin, lawyer, best known, though, to X-Men fans as Scott Free, a noted cosplayer, and the host of the new podcast, Clone Conspiracy, about the Spider-Man character Ben Riley.
1:37.4	Scott, how are you today?
1:39.0	I'm doing great. It's early September. It's not 105 degrees anymore. And I'm here to talk about the greatest X-Men character of them all, Quentin Choir.
1:50.2	So this is an episode that's been a long time coming.
1:56.8	My feelings about this character, I would say, are pretty well-known and established.
2:01.6	Like episodes on characters like Wolfsbane or a Null or other characters who are not my favorites,
2:07.2	what I am trying to do here is give the character a fair shake.
2:10.2	And I am going to do that by talking to someone who does like the character.
2:14.2	And you and I have talked about Quentin a lot, and I think that you appreciate Quentin in a way that I get. Because the thing that's difficult for me is I think
2:23.1	that Riot Xavier's is one of the best X-Men stories ever. Right. I think Morrison's Quentin
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