- Can't Un-Hear It: Many fans have stated that Connor's Selene voice is the only thing they can think of when reading her dialogue.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Connor and guest Spencer Ackerman, both Jewish, note that they are doing the episode on Fenris, Marvel's favorite incest Nazi fail-siblings, right before Yom Kippur because they are going to have to atone. Between being episode 88note , Spencer redefining the fourteen wordsnote to mean "I am going to suck each and every toe on my twin sister's foot," and Connor responding to Andrea's fate after deathnote with "Who's a lampshade now, bitch?", it certainly lives up to all that.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: There are several characters that the podcast will eagerly focus on outside their episodes.
- Minor X-Men villain Zaladane is perhaps the biggest example. Despite only appearing for twelve issues, she had such an impact on Connor in his youth that he became obsessed with her and brings her up whenever he gets the chance.
- There's also SELENE! Connor absolutely adores her and there have been several listener emails asking how an episode's character would react to her, or vice versa (and at least one of them was in character as her).
- Candy Southern is also very popular, and is brought up as an example of minor characters from the comic becoming standouts when they get enough attention. She also received a Colbert Bump thanks to this and became an ensemble darkhorse for X-Men and The Defenders as well.
- Fan Community Nickname: The listeners as a whole are the "Zalagang", a reference to podcast mascot Zaladane. Cishet listeners are also lovingly referred to as "Flatscans", a term from the comic book referring to non-mutants.
- There are also the "Jarbs", Jean Grey fans who sometimes take umbrage with Connor not letting Jean off the hook for when she's mean. The term is a reference to Nicki Minaj fans, "Barbs".
- The Academy X Freaks, fans of that particular era much to his chagrin (since he finds it a waste of potential at best and boring at worst). It doubles as an Appropriated Appellation.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Connor often talks about the potential plot lines he's excited to see play out in X-Factor (2020) and X-Corp in the early episodes of the podcast - both of which were infamously cancelled early in their runs in comparison to other Krakoan Age books.
- A lesser example was the Selene episode discussing her potential storylines on Krakoa, when a few months later X Corp was cancelled and shortly after that Selene was killed in Immortal X-Men #2. Lesser because even though Connor was disappointed, he's repeatedly said that Selene's whole thing was coming back from the dead even before Krakoa, so he doubts she's gone forever. Sure enough, Selene came back by Immortal X-Men #12, and even joins the Quiet Council.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Every time Connor dunks on Firestar prior to Hellfire Gala 2022, calling her a traitor and reminding listeners that she's a New Warriors character and not an X-Men character - including a rant in the X-23 episode where he declares "if you vote for Firestar, you're dead to me". And then she ended up joining the X-Men after all.
- And then, even more fittingly, Firestar is spending the Fall of X era pretending to be a literal traitor to the X-Men so that she can spy on ORCHIS from within.
- Memetic Mutation:
- "Dating Polaris is gay" has become a joke within the fandom about characters who are Ambiguously Gay dating very camp-y characters. Naturally it's specifically about Iceman pursuing Polaris romantically and pointing out the, in Connor's words, "drag fantasia" of her aesthetic that seems to foreshadow Bobby coming out years later.
- "Hey. I'm Ali. Hey." A strange sentence from a strange panel featuring Dazzler meeting Pixie, which spiralled into many listeners signing their letters in a similar manner.
- "The stupid ''what''?"
- Justice for Butterrum.
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