Episode 106: Laurie Collins (feat. Alex Abad-Santos)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 238 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 106 of CEREBRO, Connor and returning guest Alex Abad-Santos just want to be popular with Laurie Collins, the wilting Wallflower! Created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Keron Grant as one of the new students in the 2003 relaunch of New Mutants, which evolved into New X-Men: Academy X, Laurie is a shy and reserved teenage girl terrified of social contact because her mutant pheromones make her feel like a predator. An interesting arc takes shape as she develops more control over her powers, but sadly she's swiftly killed off when the writing team changes in 2005.

But now, thanks to Krakoa, she's back!

The CEREBRO character file on Wallflower begins at 49:15.

(Content Advisory: Laurie's story hinges on the premise of sexual violence through mind control. This episode also discusses at length the student-teacher romance plot at the core of New Mutants vol. 2.)

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0:00.0	I mean, the only thing I remember from this is like, Emma knowing all her kids being that's Lori Collins and Cyclops being completely rude and being like, I have no idea who that is.
0:09.0	You have to say that to me.
0:13.0	Who?
0:14.0	What?
0:15.0	X-Men.
0:16.0	X-Men.
0:17.0	In the 21st century, people mutants led by magneto aimed to destroy the world
0:23.3	the only hope is X-Men welcome to Cerebro the X-Men podcast where a homo and his friends
0:36.9	dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:39.6	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:41.5	And with me today is returning fan favorite guest Alex Abad Santos, culture journalist at Vox, general man about town, poster of Barry's boot camp selfies.
0:58.5	Alex, how are you today? I just got back from a berries. I got back from a berries. I ate a little, I ate something and now I'm ready to talk about
1:04.5	Academy Axe and Wallflower with you. You know, I'm thrilled to talk about Academy X. Yeah. So,
1:09.8	preemptive note for this episode, I had dental surgery on Monday.
1:16.4	Today it's Wednesday as we're recording.
1:18.4	So I am on Percocet right now.
1:21.3	So this episode's going to be a little silly maybe, but I thought it was a form and content thing, right? Because if you were around
1:29.7	Lori Collins, the subject of today's episode, your mind would be slightly addled the whole
1:35.2	time. So I feel like it'll work out. And you won't feel pain when we talk about Academy
1:40.1	Acts, which is even better. Right. Exactly. The opioids are going to dull the only use an opioid you've been prescribed and be very careful
1:49.8	and don't drink alcohol when you're on them and everybody be good.
1:53.2	But yeah, so there's that.
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