History WesternAnimation / XMenEvolution

* HotMom: Mystique, according to some.
** Storm, maybe, considering she's pretty much the TeamMom.
** Irene (Destiny) isn't exactly bad-looking... It kinda helps that this version of Irene Adler is still pretty young, whereas the comics version was about a century old when we first met her.

** Pietro's dialogue, mannerisms, and even his dress sense come off as CampGay to a lot of fans, with his Jerkassery possibly being a subconscious way of expressing his confusion. Similarly, Risty Wilde[[spoiler: /Mystique]] was also ''very'' flirty with Rogue. WordOfGay says that yes, she was a Lesbian and was flirting with Rogue. No word on Pietro however. This gets weird though, when you realize that [[spoiler: Mystique is Rogue's ''biological mother'']].

Does have the distinction of producing the CanonImmigrant {{X-23}}, and a more openly sympathetic take on the Brotherhood of (Evil) Mutants as a group of JerkWithAHeartOfGold street kids instead of absolute evil. And while it isn't responsible for creating Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde and Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner, this series did help popularize them with non-comic readers.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Much of Boom Boom's dialog manages this, sometimes subtly, other times not. For example her teasing of Avalanche about taking Shadowcat to the school dance. "What's going to happen ''after'' the dance?"

** Pietro's dialogue, mannerisms, and even his dress sense come off as CampGay to a lot of fans, with his Jerkassery possibly being a subconscious way of expressing his confusion. Similarly, Risty Wilde[[spoiler: /Mystique]] was also ''very'' flirty with Rogue. WordOfGay says that yes, she was a Lesbian and was flirting with Rogue. No word on Pietro however.
*** Which would make sense, though, since [[spoiler: Mystique was bisexual in the comics]].
*** This gets [[{{Squick}} weird]] though, when you realize that [[spoiler: Mystique is Rogue's ''biological mother'']].

*** Similar to the last example, any time Lance threatens someone due to his tendency to make puns relating to his power, that really sound more like weird sexual advances. Its one of his more humorous, thought accidental, characteristics.

** The Season 2 episode "Retreat" has a Bigfoot Watcher showing off his Bigfoot Caller to a buddy. He says what store you can get them in, and tells his friend to ask for [[XFiles Mulder]]. To cement the reference, a clip of the X-Files theme is played before the scene transition.

* {{Jerkass}}: Quicksilver. Probably the only consistent {{Jerkass}} in the series. Boom Boom was one for a while. And Avalanche in half of his appearances (mostly early) which are usually glossed over by his fangirls; thought he returned to this in the third season.

** Same Episode also had him trying to record Jean getting dressed. Yes, you read me, he was trying to record Jean, AKA kinda-hot-for-animated-character-standards Jean, while she's about to get changed.

** The Sentinel is an unusual subversion, as it turns out that [[spoiler: Mystique and the Brotherhood arranged for it so they can destroy the mansion, [[ForTheEvulz for no apparant reason.]] However, it was to originally take out Magneto, but then forced into battle with the Sentinel.]]

* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: It's interesting to note that this series has, by a pretty decent margin, the most fanfics on fanfiction.net (nearly 14,000) of any X-Men property, including the movies and comics. This is likely due to the show being one of the few Marvel products that drew a strong female fanbase. Perhaps due to the youth of the characters and focus on the romantic subplots. Compare it to the recently canceled WolverineAndTheXMen which has very few fics written about it despite having been on the air since 2008.

* WolverinePublicity: Averted! He's around but only really gets a few episodes of focus throughout all four seasons and doesn't hog the spotlight too much. [[WolverineAndTheXMen We wouldn't be so lucky with the next X-Men animated series.]]

'''Toad''': Pietro? Hidding in the closet.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Boom-Boom, sort of. First she's with the X-Men, later with the Brotherhood, and finally isn't affiliated with anyone. However, she never actually works against the X-Men during her time with the Brotherhood. More accurately, she's free-loading off them during their "we don't care" phase. The instant they start to look like trouble again -- specifically, when Mystique comes back -- she ditches them.
** Boom-Boom didn't ditch them. Mystique kicked her out. Tabitha actually looked for support from the boys when challenged by Mystique, but their fear of Mystique kept them silent. Boom-Boom took the hint and bailed. Also to add to the door, she joined some of the X-Men on a cruise and pitched in with the final battle against Apocalypse.

** It's not too hard to believe such drastic measures at Defcon 4 level when one considers that Wolverine installed the security system.
--->'''Wolverine:''' The vents were easily breached; gonna have to fix that. Maybe electrifiers, or poison gas sprayers.\\
'''Storm:''' Wolverine...\\
'''Wolverine:''' Alright, alright... ''knockout'' gas, then.
** Xavier's not being paranoid, he's being pragmatic. The Xavier Institute isn't dealing with human threat, they're dealing with ''Magneto and the Brotherhood.'' Mystique can practically come and go at will already.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Due to sensitivity after September 11th, cuts were made to the episode "Growing Pains". In the episode, Avalanche risks his life to save Shadowcat from debris; but because network censors were worried about children's reactions to a character having something fall down on them, the scene was cut. So at the end of the episode, Lance appears to be holding Kitty for no real reason. Frank Paur, who directed many episodes of the series, believes this censorship made viewers confused about the Lance and Kitty romance initially since it established why Kitty changed her opinion of him from Season One. All DVD releases restore this scene.
** Later in the series, three of the X-Men were PutOnABus, supposedly because the cast was too large. Wolfsbane, a character who hardly spoke, was an obvious choice. Jubilee, however, had a very minor role but ''did'' have a few subplots with Bobby & Sam, and appeared considerably more than Wolfsbane. Then later [[TheScrappy Evan]] decided to live in the sewers because his powers were growing out of control. The irony is that Sunspot, a character who appeared even less than Wolfsbane, stayed even though he did virtually nothing for the rest of the series, resulting in two girls being the only New Recruits dropped. This causes said New Recruits to only have one female in the group, leading to some UnfortunateImplications.
** WordOfGod has also stated there was pressure put on the show at times to include more superheroes from the Marvel universe. The producers though wanted to keep their own universe small and the focus on mutants rather than having to explain how TheIncredibleHulk, Spider-Man or TheMightyThor fit in. They still were forced to include CaptainAmerica in a second season episode. ExecutiveMeddling also led to the creation of X-23. Marvel executives wanted more Wolverine, but the show's producers felt the focus should be on the kids. X-23 was seen as a compromise since she would be a young female clone of Wolverine.
*** Judging by the fan reaction, the X-23 example is perhaps the best proof that all TropesAreTools and even the "worst" can sometimes yield pleasing results.
** ScrewedByTheNetwork: Apparently, the cancellation was because the Executives at Marvel didn't feel like the show was good enough to continue. Supposedly, they were never really behind the series, which annoyed the occasional show director and art designer Steven E. Gordon as a number of ideas in the show were stolen/adopted by writers at Marvel; notably, before her creators brought her in themselves, then-Marvel head JoeQuesada brought X-23 into comic canon with NYX, a series about mutants living on the street, that featured X-23 as a prostitute. Yeah, a lot of fans don't like to talk abut that.

** Added Villainy: Pietro and Wanda both only became villains because Magneto saved their asses and they owed him, both of them eventually became aware of his true nature when they joined the Avengers, while Pyro was a somewhat unstable and violence prone LargeHam, he had an undying loyalty to his friends and eventually died a hero. In the show, Pietro and Pyro are [[TheSociopath literal Sociopaths]], while Wanda is a perpetually angry and dangerously unstable girl with sympathetic, but NOT heroic qualities. Gambit was at least heroic GentlemenThief in the comics, while here he's described as 'amoral' and only caring of personal gain but with a soft spot, turning him from an AntiHero into an AntiVillain.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: The casting of Michael Donovan as Sabertooth opposite ScottMcNeil as Wolverine is rather amusing considering their respective roles as [[WesternAnimation/DoubleDragon Billy and Jimmy Lee]]

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Brotherhood as a whole. Unless they got them off guard or only picked on one of them, the Brotherhood lost most of their fights, mostly because, as shown when they were by themselves, were very lazy and never bothered to train. When Avalanche joined the X-Men temporarily, he was visibly terrible at it from never having had a real day's training. Lampshaded in ''HeX Factor'', where Mystique reminds them they haven't ever won a single battle and decides to whip them into shape by having [[PersonOfMassDestruction Wanda]] join them. Unfortunately, Fangirls see this [[DracoInLeatherPants as them not being bad at all and just mercilessly picked on by the good guys.]]

** Forge plays it straight, but that's because he doesn't even have one in the comics. Almost everyone else has a name in the comics (Rogue's having been revealed as [[AnnaPaquin Anna]] [[Film/{{X-Men}} Marie]]), but Forge doesn't.

* ClarkKenting: Averted ''hard''. The minute the TV broadcast gets a good look at them all, they're all identified by their civilian identities, except Nightcrawler, whose civilian identity involved a whole holographic appearance change.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: DavidKaye's voice as Professor Xavier seems to be based on PatrickStewart, with just a touch of SeanConnery.

Here's a [[Characters/XMenEvolution character sheet]] for more in-depth bios and tropes of the characters. For those interested in watching the series, [[http://www.youtube.com/channel/SWDmJMgpU45BE it's right over here.]]

* ClarkKenting: Averted ''hard''. The minute the TV broadcast gets a good look at them all, they're all identified by their civilian identities. (Except Nightcrawler)

** Avalanche, in a strange twist. Avalanche isn't even a good guy, in fact he on several ocasions caused a large amount of trouble and property damage. However, as [[CharacterDevelopment he developed]], he lost the ability to sit back and let people get killed, even if those who were in danger had been unintentionally (And when they realized, they didn't care) framing him and were putting themselves in danger for fun, and would go out of his way to save them.