Episode 103: Calvin Rankin (feat. Chad Anderson)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 230 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 103 of CEREBRO, Connor and Graymalkin Lane host Chad Anderson get lost in the woods with Calvin Rankin, the mercurial Mimic! Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as an antagonist, arrogant power copier Cal briefly joined the X-Men in the 60s under writer Roy Thomas, but ultimately couldn't mesh with his classmates. Over the decades he's struggled to find a consistent role in the franchise, but his popularity was boosted a great deal by writer Judd Winick when the alternate Mimic of Earth-12 starred in the popular 2001 ongoing Exiles. In the years since, a few attempts have been made to bring Earth-616's Mimic to similar prominence, but none of them have really stuck.

The CEREBRO character file on Mimic begins at 1:17:42.

(Content Advisory: Cal's story includes suicidal ideation, ableism, and substance abuse.)

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0:00.0	Anyway, when last we left, Mimic, who is definitely an X-Men character, well, he was dead.
0:06.1	So, it was not, he wasn't having the best time because he was deceased.
0:12.6	X-Men, X-Men.
0:15.7	In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:24.6	The only hope is X-Men.
0:30.9	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:37.3	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today for episode 1003.
0:42.3	We'll see, because there's been some scheduling weirdness, so it's something I'm going to
0:48.4	figure out in post, is Chad Anderson, Therapist by Day, host of the Gray Malkin Lane podcast in the evenings,
0:57.5	former Marvel Handbooks writer. He wrote the Marvel Universe Appendix entry for Candy Southern.
1:03.8	And Celine. And Celine. So, hey, did you write Amanda Mueller the Black Womb or was that another
1:10.3	universe appendix person?
1:12.1	No, that was not me, but I wish it was.
1:14.2	I love when the Marvel Universe's Appendix, this is a website for listeners who are not aware,
1:19.7	it's Marvel, unap-com.
1:22.5	I think of it as the Marvel Unapp in my head.
1:24.7	I love when they're similarly focused on like an insane character
1:28.1	who's appeared like six or seven times. They were very helpful with the Maddie episode just because
1:33.8	I needed someone to back up my reading of the X-Man Maddie stuff and the Marvel Universe
1:40.2	Appendix does. So that was very, very helpful. It made me feel less insane.
1:44.6	Jeff Christensen runs a tight ship. And the comment sections on some profiles are very, very dead.
1:49.2	Are there common sections? I didn't even realize. I don't read comments sections. It's not a thing I do.
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