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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points

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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points



* Okay, for those who are unfamiliar with the comics... Arcade was this millionaire (billionaire?) hitman. When he got bored killed regular people, he took offers to kill those with superpowers, among them, Spiderman, and the Franchise/XMen. He built this elaborate theme park called "Murder World" and trapped the people he was supposed to kill in there. He appeared in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' as a teenage kid who mistook Cerebro for a [[TooDumbToLive ''video game'']]. On top of that, how did he not recognize the "characters" as his own friends?! I really like this show, but I felt it was a waste of a pretty good villain.

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* Okay, for those who are unfamiliar with the comics... Arcade was this millionaire (billionaire?) hitman. When he got bored killed regular people, he took offers to kill those with superpowers, among them, Spiderman, and the Franchise/XMen.ComicBook/XMen. He built this elaborate theme park called "Murder World" and trapped the people he was supposed to kill in there. He appeared in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' as a teenage kid who mistook Cerebro for a [[TooDumbToLive ''video game'']]. On top of that, how did he not recognize the "characters" as his own friends?! I really like this show, but I felt it was a waste of a pretty good villain.
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*People seem to be overcomplicating this. Sure, Xavier might not have taken Wanda out without legal permission and that's a good justification as to why he didn't help more, but Mystique has no such moral compunctions or expectations to adhere to legality. She's a villain! She could have just broke Wanda out via completely illegal means.
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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[SuperMan Clark Kent]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points

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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[SuperMan [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points
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* [[WesternAnimation/XMen "I call NO ONE master! Especially not one who would destroy the innocent along with the guilty!"]]

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* [[WesternAnimation/XMen [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries "I call NO ONE master! Especially not one who would destroy the innocent along with the guilty!"]]
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** She can't. The closest she can mimic is physical powers via shifting her body. She can fly by growing wings, or grow claws. For example, she can make metal claws as Wolverine, but they're inferior to the actual thing since they're not real Adamantium. She could probably mimic Angel, or Sabertooth's powers, but nothing like energy blasts or anything advanced like that.
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* Because Apocalypse's plan isn't just to turn everyone into mutants (and mind you, only mutants and humans with dormant x-genes would survive), he also wants to rule mutantkind as its god-king. Magneto wants a world where mutants live together in a universal brotherhood, not as servants to a tyrant.
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** "Stuff like diet, environment and, and exercise" doesn't magically change your eye colour form brown to green or your hair colour from black to brown. Even if you want to claim that X-23 darker skin was just a very deep tan, it doesn't explain the rest.
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** Honestly to me the easiest way to look at this is to see Season 2 of Evolution as a sort of a soft reboot. Lance in his debut episode and Lance in the rest of the series are pretty much two different characters (just look at season 4, where he takes time to pick up and save a handicapped lady while escaping a burning subway)
And the guy Kitty falls in love with is just Lance after his CharacterisationMarchesOn, that incarnation never did anything to hurt her. And the moment he did something that harmed her and her friends (supporting Mystique in her destruction of her home) she rightfully dumped him and didn't forgive him until Season 4 when he and the rest of the brotherhood showed up to help her against a possessed Magneto.

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** Honestly to me the easiest way to look at this is to see Season 2 of Evolution as a sort of a soft reboot. Lance in his debut episode and Lance in the rest of the series are pretty much two different characters (just look at season 4, where he takes time to pick up and save a handicapped lady while escaping a burning subway)
subway) And the guy Kitty falls in love with is just Lance after his CharacterisationMarchesOn, that incarnation never did anything to hurt her. And the moment he did something that harmed her and her friends (supporting Mystique in her destruction of her home) she rightfully dumped him and didn't forgive him until Season 4 when he and the rest of the brotherhood showed up to help her against a possessed Magneto.

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** Honestly to me the easiest way to look at this is to see Season 2 of Evolution as a sort of a soft reboot. Lance in his debut episode and Lance in the rest of the series are pretty much two different characters (just look at season 4, where he takes time to pick up and save a handicapped lady while escaping a burning subway)
And the guy Kitty falls in love with is just Lance after his CharacterisationMarchesOn, that incarnation never did anything to hurt her. And the moment he did something that harmed her and her friends (supporting Mystique in her destruction of her home) she rightfully dumped him and didn't forgive him until Season 4 when he and the rest of the brotherhood showed up to help her against a possessed Magneto.

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** She doesn't use any of their powers. She acts like she's about to a few times but never actually manages it. The most she does is fake a lightning strike by tossing a grenade.

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** She doesn't use any of their powers. She acts like she's about to a few times but never actually manages it. The most she does is fake a lightning strike by tossing a grenade.grenade.
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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[IronMan Tony Stark]], [[SuperMan Clark Kent]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points

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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[IronMan [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[SuperMan Clark Kent]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points
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* I see it as significant CharacterDevelopment for him. If you actually compare how Mystique treated both of them, Kurt had it way easier than Rogue; she only accidentally abandoned him, and left him with a loving family who accepted him and she eventually revealed herself to him relatively early - with the worst thing she did to him maybe being impersonating Xavier but that wasn't targeted to him. Rogue meanwhile? When her powers first surface, Mystique uses {{Gaslighting}} to make her join the Brotherhood, feeds her a pack of lies until Rogue has enough and sides with Xavier and then poses as a friend and companion - all as an excuse to spy on the X-Men and maybe find out vulnerabilities she could use to exploit later. Mystique doesn't even reveal she's Rogue's adoptive mother until the Risty stuff has been exposed, and Rogue already has the memories from the absorption. ''Then'', Mystique works with Mesmero to have Rogue drain the powers of all her friends and enemies - and be the one responsible for Apocalypse's rebirth. The potential end of the world as we know it could only have come about due to Mystique manipulating Rogue. And this involves them witnessing beloved authority figures like Charles and Storm being apparently killed - but then having to fight them. Spyke had to fight his aunt and Wanda and Pietro had to fight their father - all because of Mystique's actions. And she cut a deal with Mesmero to ensure her and Rogue's future, without a thought to her other child. So Kurt realised just what hell Rogue had to go through because of her literal WickedStepmother, and he cuts his losses before Mystique has a chance to use him like that too.




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* This makes some more sense in the comics, where Callisto's personality is much different. She's an angry vigilante who hates humans and is an even harsher version of what Evan becomes in Season 4. But in ''Evolution'' she's a much friendlier presence. So I guess he either didn't know about them or they were offered help but rejected it out of preference for going their own way; Xavier's situation requires them to integrate into society, and they might just prefer their own lives.




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* Apocalypse's plan is to turn the world into Mutants. Magneto however sees Mutants as the superior race, and doesn't want to have everyone equal. In the continuity of the films he does, but not this one.
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* Just looked what happened at the GrandFinale, he watched his father-figure and teacher presumably be atomized into oblivion then later discovered that Apocalypse has turned them into his minions. Then after that, armageddon. So after going through all that, he understands why Rogue has a rough time forgiving Mystique as he himself feels what she did was so wrong that forgiveness isn't possible anymore.
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** She also gets very annoyed about Rogue making her miss class when she drags her out of school to chase the Brotherhood. So yeah, you can assume Kitty is just as smart (or at least works hard in school) like her comic counterpart.




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* Maybe they also felt that Evan was acting out because he didn't like it at the Institute and he might be better off at home - where he was happy before his mutation. And maybe it's just a test to see if that works better - he takes some time to go back home and see if he prefers it. If so, he stays home with at least a handle on how to control his powers. If not, he comes back to the Institute and they see where they go from there.




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** Wasn't she kept top secret? Mystique could only find out about her from Xavier's sessions being logged on Cerebro, suggesting that even SHIELD didn't know about her. And I think if she was checked out of the asylum legally, then the staff wouldn't have any reason to let information slip (doctor patient confidentiality and all).
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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[IronMan Tony Stark]], [[SuperMan Clark Kent]], [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points

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** You're complaining about someone taking the law in their own hands in a superhero show? What gives [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[IronMan Tony Stark]], [[SuperMan Clark Kent]], [[SpiderMan [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] or any other super-powered yahoo the right to do what they do. To answer each of your points
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* [[YouFailLogicForever Like you mean that possessing the X-Gene makes The Brotherhood X-MEN too, despite being everything the X-MEN aren't?]]

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* [[YouFailLogicForever [[LogicalFallacies Like you mean that possessing the X-Gene makes The Brotherhood X-MEN too, despite being everything the X-MEN aren't?]]
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It's reasonable to assume that because every particle in his body changed velocity in the exact same way and at the exact same times ([[AWizardDidIt 'cos of]] [[Literature/{{Discworld}} quantum]]), he wouldn't feel any noticeable g-forces, but that still leaves the original [[{{Headscratchers}} problem]] of the portals "remembering" his original velocity and setting him to that when he leaves instead of incorporating his (seemingly often perpendicular) movement within the other realm in any way at all.\\

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It's reasonable to assume that because every particle in his body changed velocity in the exact same way and at the exact same times ([[AWizardDidIt 'cos of]] [[Literature/{{Discworld}} quantum]]), he wouldn't feel any noticeable g-forces, but that still leaves the original [[{{Headscratchers}} [[{{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} problem]] of the portals "remembering" his original velocity and setting him to that when he leaves instead of incorporating his (seemingly often perpendicular) movement within the other realm in any way at all.\\
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* Also, Rule of Cool and/or Funny; the creators did give Rogue Sabretooth's features - some of them - when she touched him and knocked him out. They even mentioned they only did it because "it looked cool". [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom And sexy.

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* Also, Rule of Cool and/or Funny; the creators did give Rogue Sabretooth's features - some of them - when she touched him and knocked him out. They even mentioned they only did it because "it looked cool". [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom And sexy.
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**On another note about that, his eyebeams destroy everything in their path, why don't they obliterate his own eyelids?
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* In most depictions of Mystique in media, she can only transform into someone, not copy their powers or abilities. So how the everlovin' heaven, when trying to turn Rogue to her side in the latter's first appearance, was she able to use Cyclops' optic blasts (the only power I remember her using for certain), or the other Xavier student's powers?

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* In most depictions of Mystique in media, she can only transform into someone, not copy their powers or abilities. So how the everlovin' heaven, when trying to turn Rogue to her side in the latter's first appearance, was she able to use Cyclops' optic blasts (the only power I remember her using for certain), or the other Xavier student's powers?powers?
** She doesn't use any of their powers. She acts like she's about to a few times but never actually manages it. The most she does is fake a lightning strike by tossing a grenade.
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* In most depictions of Mystique in media, she can only transform into someone, not copy their powers or abilities. So how the everlovin' heaven, when trying to turn Rogue to her side in the latter's first appearance, was she able to use Cyclops' optic blasts (the only power I remember her using for certain), or the other Xavier student's powers?
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****The whole thing honestly sounds comparable to light refraction when it enters a different medium. Light has a speed through air, enters a piece of glass and changes speed (this is why objects can appear bent in certain optical illusions), and returns to original speed when it exits the glass. Likewise Kurt begins teleporting at Velocity X, changes speed and direction to Velocity Y in the funky dimension, and returns to Velocity X upon re-entering the normal world.
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* In the first episode, Duncan was laughing at Blob for falling down, and when Blob throws food at him in revenge Duncan gets pissed (he's not the type of person who would just take being one-upped by a "loser" or a "freak").

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