Up Your Nerd Cred
Did you used to know everything happening in the Marvel and DC universes? Did finding out that some superheroes are from Marvel and some are from DC blow your mind? Has keeping track of everything happening there… and then realizing we’re talking about the comics universe, not the cinematic ones… and the different universes with their own multiversal crisesses has gotten a little bit out of hand, don’t worry. Up Your Nerd Cred is here to talk about gods cosplaying as men, men cosplaying as gods, and how much the cinematic universes are leaving out.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2025
Episode 13: I'm sorry, you're HOW OLD?
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, CiCi dives solo into one of comics’ strangest truths: just how ancient some of your favorite heroes and villains really are.
From Martian Manhunter’s centurie…
Episode 12: Wait, the Sentinels do WHAT?
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're talking about Marvel’s most persistent mutant-hunting menace: the Sentinels. From their first stomping steps in X-Men #14 to their endless upgrades—Nimr…
Episode 11: A Toast to Harley Quinn
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're raising a glass to Dr Harleen F. Quintzel.
Harley Quinn may have started out as Joker’s henchwoman in Batman: The Animated Series, but she’s long since …
Episode 10: Wait... Have I seen you somwhere?
This week on Up Your Nerd Cred, we’re taking a break from multiversal collapse and reality-warping chaos to look at something a little lighter… or is it?
We’re diving into the wild world of MCU double…
Episode 9: Wanda Maximoff is a GD Mess (part 2)
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're wrapping up our two-part special about Wanda Maximoff and the mess that is her life. Sometimes you accidentally manifest children, sometimes it turns ou…
Episode 8: Wanda Maximoff is a GD Mess [Scarlet Witch Double Episode Part 1]
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we’re diving deep into the chaos storm that is Wanda Maximoff’s origin story.
Was she born on Wundagore Mountain (with a cow midwife, no less)? Is Magneto her…
Episode 7: Wait, What Age Are We Talking About?
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're talking about the evolution of comic books and how popular culture helped them expand their bounds. We're talking about the major ages of comics, from t…
Episode 6: Don't heckle the villain! (Even if they're goofy AF)
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're talking about how the villains who were created because of the impact of the Comics Code Authority were... kind of embarrassing. The CCA was created to …
Episode 5: The Star Spangled Man with a Plan! To Team Up With His Friends
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! Happy 4th of July! Today, we're talking about The Star Spangled Man with a Plan, the former skinny kid from Brooklyn, the man who Assembles the Avengers, Steven Rogers, …
Episode 4: Which Multisexual has had the most interesting dating life?
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're talking about multisexual characters in Marvel and DC. Kitty Pryde, Mystique, and Deadpool, repping Marvel, John Constantine, Harley Quinn, with Tim Dra…
Episode 3: Is Tony Stark a Father Figure, or more of a Dad Bod?
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're talking about Tony Stark and Peter Parker.
Specifically, focusing on Tony Stark's paternal role in Peter Parker's life (or honestly, lack thereof.) Turn…
Episode 2: Who's the top: Scott or Logan?
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred! This week, we're talking about the X-Triad, Scott, Jean, and Logan. Oh yeah, the only 3 in the Summers mansion with no specific doors between their rooms? It's definitel…
Episode 1: Wait, how many Robins are there?
Welcome to Get Your Nerd Cred Up! This week, we're talking about Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, and... no, that one's not a Robin.
Batman needs a Robin, and it turns out the original Boy Wonder c…
Episode 0: The Nerds are Coming
Dropping June 6, 2025
Welcome to Up Your Nerd Cred!
We're here to talk about gods cosplaying as men, men cosplaying as gods, and how much the cinematic universes are leaving out. AM and Cici are here …