Characters / X Men Evolution Brotherhood

X-Men: Evolution character index
X-Men | The Brotherhood
The Acolytes | Other Villains
Independent Mutants | Other Characters

Warning! Major Spoilers below!

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General

• Age Lift: With the exception of Tabitha, Pietro and Wanda, most of the characters were already adults when we first see them in the comics. Here, only Magneto and Mystique are adults.
• Delinquent: They skip school, get into fights with the X-Men, and commit petty crimes such as vandalism and theft.
• Enemy Mine: They've worked with the X-Men on several occasions, usually out of necessity.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Not so much evil as just criminals, but the Brotherhood show that they're not willing to let Apocalypse turn the world into mutants, knowing that most wouldn't survive the change.
• Heel–Face Turn: A pretty ambiguous case. Xavier has a vision of the Brotherhood and Pyro forming the Freedom Force in the future, but then sadly states that "some people never change".
• Incidental Villain: They’re less a gang of sociopathic terrorists and more a bunch of antisocial teens being led around by an actual sociopath; once Mystique, and later Magneto, were gone, they couldn't care less about the heroes, wouldn't hurt people or really do anything bad, but just keep to themselves unless they were forced to act. They were practically friends with the X-Men, and had a more Friendly Rivalry vibe to their feud than anything; they helped them all the time, and most times they fought them outside of Mystique's influence were because, despite being not-quite-evil, they were generally assholes, or there was a misunderstanding. However, with the exception of Lance, they adamantly refused to join the X-Men on principle, preferring to mind themselves. In the end, however, they stopped going around wavering on the line between good and evil and joined SHIELD.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: At least by Season 2. At first, they were at least even with the X-Men, and were able to overpower them in one episode, except for Toad. But slowly, each one got more and more pathetic. Pietro became more cowardly, Blob became dumber, and Avalanche went through massive character derailment. In Season 3, they were bested by only two X-Men, one being the weakest member. It was why the Acolytes were introduced, who were definitely not this.
• Lighter and Softer: The Brotherhood are portrayed as trouble making teenagers instead of terrorists as in the comics and other versions.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Half of the Brotherhood members are European in the comics: Toad (British), Avalanche (Greek), and Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch (Eastern Europe), but in the show they're reinvented as Americans.
• Team Rocket Wins: The Brotherhood boys pretty much always get their asses kicked by the X-Men. However, in the Season 1 two part finale, they actually manage to defeat them (along with Rogue defeating Toad). And an episode in Season 2 depicts a fight between the two groups in a mall at night; as usual, the X-Men seem to have won again, but then Wanda Maximoff shows up...
  Blob: All right! We finally beat 'em!
• Would Hit a Girl: Any of the Brotherhood boys has no problem fighting female members of the X-Men. Though not actually hitting, Avalanche does one better and used his power to create earthquakes to attempt to kill Kitty twice before Season 2 rolls in.

Mystique

Mystique/Raven Darkholme (White version)

^{Mystique/Risty Wilde (Black version)}

Codename: Mystique

Real Name: Raven Darkholme

Voiced by: Colleen Wheeler ^{Foreign VAs}Rosalia Cuevas (FR)

"Come on boys, let's get out of here before you're invited to a slumber party."

Mystique is the leader of the Brotherhood, but took orders from Magneto, until leaving him after she felt he questioned her loyalty and talent. She is intelligent, cunning, deceptive and very dangerous due to her shapeshifting abilities.

She changed into human form and used the name Raven Darkholme to became the Bayville High school principal, giving her the opportunity to monitor Xavier's students as well as her Brotherhood members. Later, she fought Storm, but was easily punched out. Afterwards, she helped the X-Men fight Magneto, but was knocked into his enhancement machine, and was presumed dead by the X-Men following Asteroid M's destruction.

She returned later to infiltrate and destroy Xavier's school by disguising herself as Professor X. Several students barely escaped with their lives.

She raised Rogue and is Nightcrawler's mother, although neither knew her true identity growing up.

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• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comic books she's a mutant humanshifter, but still unable to alter her body mass and taking on the form of someone who doesn't have a similar build as it causes her great strain. In the show, however, Mystique is a full shapeshifter with Shapeshifter Baggage in play: she can grow up to the size of Juggernaut or the Blob, or shrink down to the form of a common house cat or a bird, such as a raven.
• Adaptational Wimp: Played with... this show's incarnation of Mystique is much less capable in a fight than any other incarnations, but she does have powers that her 616 and film counterparts lack (like the ability to turn into animals). She gets a power boost in the first season finale that renders her more bestial-looking but stronger, and while that boost eventually goes away she does retain her more varied shapeshifting abilities and a bit of the strength as well.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her blue skin is a cornerstone of her character design.
• Animal Eyes: After going through Magneto’s mutant enhancer, Mystique eyes changed from grey human-like eyes with round pupils to yellow cat-like eyes with slitted pupils.
• Animorphism: Due to her being a shapeshifter, Mystique also has the ability to transform into animals as well as humans.
• Arch-Enemy: Was this to Storm during the first season, due to both being the most prominent female members of their respective organizations. This comes to a head in "The Cauldron", where the two are pitted against each other as part of Magneto's plan.
• Big Bad Wannabe:
  • During the first season, she appears to be the leader of the Brotherhood, but is actually subordinate to Magneto, who is implied to abuse and torment her whenever she disobeys or angers him. When the time comes for her to prove her worth to him, she is one of the two Brotherhood members to fail to defeat the X-Man they had been paired to (the other being Toad).
  • Though she does reclaim some credibility in the second season, as she succeeds in recruiting Wanda and destroying the X-mansion, the following season has her being effortlessly manipulated by Mesmero, who tricks her into unleashing Apocalypse at the cost of her own life.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the final season, she is turned into one of Apocalypse's Horsemen.
• Characterization Marches On: In season one, she was a Faux Action Girl that was chronically knocked out or incapacitated whenever she got into a real fight, and had to rely on either having other mutants fight for her or using her shapeshifting ability and trickery to manipulate others. Even then, she was more mischievous than dangerous, only being a legitimate threat on her own when she tried to kill Scott in "Turn of the Rogue". However, after her enhancements in the season one finale, she became much more lethal and threatening as a villain.
• Co-Dragons: As the leader of the Brotherhood, she acts as Magneto's direct subordinate during the first season, a position she shares with Sabretooth. Following Magnus' betrayal in "The Cauldron", she becomes his enemy for the rest of the show.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Turns out she didn't intentionally abandon Kurt in this version. She'd accidentally dropped him into a river when he was a baby. When she found out he was alive she left him with the couple that found him, wanting to Give Him a Normal Life.
• Dark Action Girl: She can hold her own against Cyclops using just her physical prowess, and can also morph into various animals to give her an edge against most opponents.
• Deer in the Headlights: In "The Cauldron Part 1", Mystique looks on in complete horror as Storm comes running towards her out of the fog with a raised fist, and does nothing to stop her from knocking her out.
• Dragon with an Agenda: In the first season, she's working for Magneto, but they have a slight falling out and she works independently for the rest of the series. This causes some tension when both tried to take command of the Brotherhood, with varied results depending on the episode and the Brother.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her involvement with Magneto, she cares a lot about Kurt and Rogue. In "Shadowed Past", she clearly regrets losing Kurt and chose to tell him that she's his mother, knowing well enough that the truth would be a shock for him.
• Evil Plan: In the second season, she pulls off a clever one on the X-Men by impersonating the then-missing Professor X and getting Wolverine to go missing so he won't identify her. Only Scott's surprise arrival and deduction skills foiled her, and by then it was already too late to prevent the X-Mansion from getting blown up.
• Evil Redhead: Mystique is the leading female antagonist of the show, and her natural form is a combination of blue skin and red hair.
• Evil Teacher: In the first season, she impersonates Principal Darkholme to recruit mutant delinquents into the Brotherhood, and also takes the opportunity to bully the X-Men and hinder their academic lives.
• Failure Is the Only Option: In the first season, Mystique always lost any battle she had against Storm.
• Fangs Are Evil: Mystique gains these after going through Magneto’s enhancer. She really enjoys showing them off.
• Fanservice Pack: After the incident with Asteroid M, Mystique ended up changing from her comic outfit into a leather crop top, miniskirt, and matching high-heeled boots.
• Friendly Enemy: Implied. Charles is explicitly aware of her identity as the high school principal, but still allows his X-Men to attend her school and has a civil chat with her in her office in one episode.
• Gender Bender: While she's normally a woman, she can shapeshift into a man at will.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Implied in season 2, since she is frequently seen hanging around Arcade in "Fun & Games", and apparently falls in love with Forge towards the end of "Shadow Games". Both times, she's disguised as Risty Wilde.
• Glamour Failure: In the first season, Mystique can't quite mimic the scent of others, making her particularly vulnerable to Wolverine's sense of smell. However in Season 2, he wasn’t able to detect her at all when she was under the disguise of Risty and while she was impersonating Xavier. The reasoning behind this is because her shapeshifting mutation was further advanced by Magneto’s mutant enhancer.
• Harmless Villain: Storm seems to view her as one in "The Cauldron, Part 1", treating her more like a nuisance than a real enemy when they fight each other.
• Healing Factor: Mystique has noticeably some sort of accelerated healing as she has been struck by Storm’s lightning full force but still continued to fight with her. She has a much quicker recovery than other mutants when exposed to Rogue’s powers as most become and stay unconscious for an extended period time unlike Mystique who’s up and moving about within minutes afterwards. Then much later after Apocalypse enhances her powers even further, Mystique takes a direct blast from Cyclops that leaves a giant gaping hole in her stomach which instantly heals back together.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: Following the battle with Apocalypse, Mystique makes overtures of reconciliation with Kurt and Rogue. Though whether she meant it or not depends on the view of the individual, her children make it clear they've had enough of her Chronic Back Stabbing Disorder and want nothing to do with her.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: After the first season, her base form's outfit becomes a stripperific black two piece, and she also becomes much more lethal.
• Hime Cut: Has a variation of one in the first season, which gets replace by a more pronounced fringe in the later ones.
• In the Hood: In "Shadowed Past", she hides her true identity from Kurt by covering her face with a hood.
• Ink-Suit Actor: As seen on the DVD special features cast interview, her first season appearance looks a lot like her voice actress with blue skin.
• It's All About Me: Much of her actions, whether it'd be grabbing power or destroying her enemies, are purely motivated by self-interest. Telling enough when Mystique worked with Mesmero to mind-control Rogue to be the key to free Apocalypse, but after Mesmero revealed Mystique is also part of the key, she's completely livid.
• Kick Chick: Mystique has an abundance of martial arts skill, but great emphasis is put on the many ways she can contort herself just to plant a foot in an enemy's face. It helps that her costume (or lack thereof) is custom-made to show a lot of leg.
• Little Bit Beastly: After the first season, Mystique is shown to have a more feral-like appearance with yellow cat-like eyes and sharpened canines.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Mystique being Nightcrawler's biological mother is revealed quite early in Season 1. When Kurt finds out, he's less than pleased.
• Magic Pants: Inversion. She shapeshifts fully clothed, and it's eventually revealed that she doesn't wear actual clothes, but shapeshifts them.
• Mark of the Beast: She receives blue markings similar to those of Apocalypse when he "recruits" her as one of his horsemen.
• Master of Disguise: Naturally, given her mutation is to change her body and clothes into any appearance she wishes.
• Ms. Fanservice: Wears a leather outfit that shows more of her skin and midriff after the first season.
• Pet the Dog: Impersonates a police officer to keep the Bayville Sirens from getting arrested, seemingly just because she supported them sticking it to the guys.
• Power-Upgrading Deformation: The enhancements applied to her in "The Cauldron, Part 2" turn her into a significantly less attractive, muscular version of her movie incarnation's reptilian form (albeit clothed). Even after most of the enhancements wear off by season 2, her true form, while not necessarily hideous, becomes more feral in appearance, with yellow cat-like eyes, fangs, and a generally darker color scheme. A very clear contrast from the clean-cut, sophisticated appearance she had in the previous season.
• Psychic Block Defense: After her mutation became fully advanced via Magneto’s machine at the end of Season 1, she becomes immune to telepathy.
• Reformed, but Rejected: In her final scene, Mystique begs Kurt and Rogue to listen to her as she tries to explain why she performed the actions that culminated in Apocalypse's release. The two siblings tell her to save it, and walk away saying they are done with her lies.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: Mystique was shown doing this in the Grand Finale where Apocalypse enhanced her mutant powers so that she can transform her limbs in weapons like blades.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: In her natural form as part of her season one outfit, she wears a belt of skulls.
• The Starscream: She was always looking to break out from under Magneto.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her base form in every season but the first has yellow sclera, further distinguishing her status as a mutant.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Unlike the comics, where she was no ties to the Horsemen, Apocalypse forcibly conscripts her to be one.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • In the first season, Mystique was just Magneto's pawn and didn't pose much of a threat on her own, getting defeated every time she engaged the X-Men in combat. The following season and the beginning of season three firmly establish her as an extremely dangerous foe, as she becomes much more cunning, and her fighting skills are more pronounced, to the point she rivals (but not surpasses) Magneto as a threat.
  • At the very end of the final season, Mystique is granted a ridiculous power boost to her shapeshifting skills, courtesy of becoming one of Apocalypse's horsemen. Her new abilities include Self-Duplication, liquefying her body, and shapeshifting her limbs into a variety of weapons; and that's on top of a Healing Factor that's strong enough to regenerate her entire torso after Cyclops blasts a hole through it.
• Villain Decay: In the later episodes of the show's third season, she loses all presence as a villain and becomes a pawn for Mesmero. In a couple episodes, she was only present just so that Rogue could absorb her powers.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Nothing is revealed about her in Xavier's vision of the future. All we are given is the scene where Kurt and Rogue disown her.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Mystique’s eyes are yellow and she's a cunning and manipulative shapeshifter.
• You Don't Look Like You: Mystique in the first season has a light blue skin, dresses in white and has opaque pupils. In every season after, she has a much darker skin color, Hellish Pupils and is always dressed in a black tank top and skirt. Nobody in the entire series seems to notice or comment on how much her base form has radically changed.

Avalanche

"You're making it yours, Kitty. Once you own it, nothing can own you."

Codename: Avalanche

Real Name: Lance Alvers

Voiced by: Christopher Grey ^{Foreign VAs}Erico Salamone (FR)

A mutant with the ability to manipulate the earth by generating seismic waves from his body. Avalanche came from the same town as Shadowcat, but had a very different upbringing. He grew up as a streetwise orphan who seemed angry at the world. Confused and alienated, he was a perfect target for Mystique and the Brotherhood. Lance was one of the most complex characters. He started off as a punk, before becoming more of a troubled youth, and then ultimately showing responsibility and maturity. His romantic interest in Kitty Pryde and their relationship played a major role in his attempts to change. It even leads him to attempt a major Heel–Face Turn by joining the X-Men. As the oldest Brotherhood member, Lance is often the defacto leader and feels responsible for the others.

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• '80s Hair: Has a mullet hairstyle that goes with his grungy, rebellious loner image.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He went from a unsympathetic Psycho for Hire or Punch-Clock Villain in the comics to an angry, yet notably sympathetic character in the show.
• Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, his real name was Dominikos Ioannis Petrakis. It was changed to a more Americanized name, Lance Alvers.
• Adaptational Nationality: The comics' Avalanche is Greek, while the show's one is American.
• Arch-Enemy: As the defacto leaders of their respective groups, Avalanche and Cyclops quickly become rivals.
• Berserk Button: Since Season Two on, for your own good don't hurt or threaten Kitty.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The "Thin" to Blob's "Big" and Toad's "Short".
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kitty accuses Lance of being this at the beginning of Season 3.
• Blood Knight: Lance is always ready for a good brawl, if not actively looking for one.
• Characterization Marches On: In his first episode, he's destroying his school without remorse, as well as trying to manipulate Kitty's feelings and eventually trying to kill her and her parents. In following episodes, his powers generate an Oh, Crap! response to being love-struck with Kitty for the second season to then not even bothering any more either way to the third. In the fourth he becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and is shown to be the most powerful member of the Brotherhood, possibly even more so than the other villains not over 50.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He was designed to look like a young Judd Nelson.
• Composite Character: Lance seems to be a combination of the comic book Avalanche (codename, powers, and role with the Brotherhood) and Rictor of the New Mutants (appearance, the way he channels his seismic powers, and occasional consideration of a Heel–Face Turn). The hotheadedness comes from both of them.
• Cool Car: Speeds around in a green Jeep Wrangler. Tabitha is always stealing it.
• Dating Catwoman: He dates Shadowcat during the second season. The Brotherhood tease him for this.
• Depending on the Writer: How much of a Jerkass Lance is varies depending on the season. In the first one, he is a manipulative bully with little to no redeeming qualities. Season 2 shows he has a sweeter side and depicts Kitty as his Morality Pet, only for the following season to revert his personality back to his unsympathetic and villainous self from before. The final season depicts him as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, with episodes like "No Good Deed" highlighting him as the most noble member of the Brotherhood.
• Dishing Out Dirt: His mutant power is geological manipulation which allows him to generate seismic waves, mainly creating earthquakes.
• Earthquakes Cause Fissures: Avalanche is always doing this with his earthquake-causing abilities, and even seemed to be able to control their direction to more effectively use them as a weapon.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may be violent and prone to aggression, but he's unwilling to allow a town to be blown up or ignore an old lady's cry for help.
  • Before that, during his brief stay with the X-Men, he gets accused of being behind taking their vehicles for joyrides that the New Mutants are actually responsible and takes the blame just to spite Scott, despite not liking it at the same time. However, once he realizes they plan on taking the X-Jet as their next joyride, he decides they're taking their fun too far and brings Kitty with him to stop them and put an end to their antics.
• Evil Counterpart: To Cyclops - both are a Big Brother Mentor and usually the most responsible member of their team, both are orphans, and both tend to take the initiative. The differences end there though as while Scott is calm and collected, Lance is impatient and impulsive, and Scott has turned his own misfortunes in life towards more productive endeavours as opposed to Lance's self-destructive behaviour. Small wonder they're each other's Arch-Enemy.
• Foster Kid: The show confirms that Lance was in a foster home before joining the Brotherhood but it doesn’t really go into much detail as to why he was there to begin with or how long he’s been in the system or what happened to his parents, etc.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Lance's fiery temper is one of his signature traits. He gets extremely angry easily and with minimal provocation, and usually vents by destroying everything in his immediate area via his earthquake-shaking powers.
• Heel–Face Turn: Attempted one and almost succeeded, but settled in as a Wild Card.
• Hot-Blooded: Lance gets very annoyed easily, as he’s often irrational and driven by his temper.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Kitty.
• Hunk: He's re-designed as a handsome bad boy with the looks of Judd Nelson from The Breakfast Club.
• In Name Only: Due to being mostly based on an X-Men character named Julio Esteban Richter aka Rictor, Lance has nothing in common with the Avalanche of the comics outside of his codename, powers and team affiliation.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Starts out as a straight-up jerkass in the first season, before becoming a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at the start of the fourth season.
• Leitmotif: A grunge chord is heard whenever he uses his power.
• Love Redeems: Somewhat. He definitely tries to change for Kitty, but can go only so far, and decides to not stay in the New Mutants group after his disastrous and brief stint there. His heroic acts in No Good Deed had nothing to do with Kitty, which showed he had it in him all along. He also showed up with the rest of the Brotherhood in Ascension Part 2 to help the X-Men fight Apocalypse after first refusing. He immediately goes to save Kitty, which can be either seen as their romance being reignited or a simple Pet the Dog moment from him.
• Mundane Utility: Lance used his seismic powers on a soda machine to get a free can.
• Opposites Attract: He's a grungy, hot-headed and rebellious loner who hooks up with a sweet, naive uptown Valley girl Kitty. Also, they are on opposing teams; Lance is the field leader of the villainous Brotherhood whereas Kitty's part of the heroic X-Men.
• Promoted to Love Interest: In the comics, Avalanche has little interaction with Shadowcat, but he becomes her love interest in the show.
• Race Lift: The comics' Avalanche was Greek. Presumably he was made American to ease him fitting into the setting (although the does have the darker features such as olive skin tone, dark hair and eyes).
• Single-Target Sexuality: He has eyes only for Kitty. He even go as far as to briefly join the X-Men just to be closer to her. Not even Tabitha briefly living with the Brotherhood removed his feelings.
• Spanner in the Works: Twice he did something completely unexpected that could really have upset Xavier's plans.
  • In his debut episode, Xavier and Jean knew he was around but they never expected him to meet and connect with Kitty the way he did. They nearly lose Kitty as a result.
  • In the season 2 opener, Lance tries to out all mutants. Not even Magneto wanted that to happen... yet.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: If you switch his first and last names you get pretty close to his codename.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's one of the taller characters on the show, has dark hair and features, and he definitely has some snark.
• Troubled, but Cute: Bad boy, check. Rebel attitude, check. Antisocial behavior, check. Difficult home life, check. Fingerless gloves, check. Heart of gold, check.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Has the potential to be the most destructive recurring mutant in the series short of a Big Bad like Magneto or Apocalypse (and even then, it's close) and for the most part is, but he lacks the control and the patience to make him a real powerhouse.
• Villain Ball Magnet: Tired of failing, being pushed around by Mystique, and generally being unliked by people he respected and liked, Avalanche defects to the X-Men. However, Scott and several of the others don't trust him, and when something goes wrong, they immediately blame him. The younger X-Men even start taking advantage of this, doing extremely risky things that Avalanche gets blamed for. At the end, Scott admits he was wrong, and Kitty kisses him, but because Status Quo Is God, he still decides the whole thing is too much effort, and heads back to the Brotherhood.
• Villain Respect: In "Survival of the Fittest", he compliments Scott's abilities as the team leader.
  Avalanche: "Hey, Summers! As a group leader, you're not half bad!"

Quicksilver

"Look, when you live as fast as I do, there ain't enough things to occupy my time. I gotta entertain myself."

Codename: Quicksilver

Real Name: Pietro Maximoff

Voiced by: Richard Ian Cox ^{Foreign VAs}Valéry Benjilali (FR)

A mutant that can move at the speed of sound. Pietro is arrogant, deceptive and his loyalty is always in question. He would betray the Brotherhood and his sister Wanda at the command of his father Magneto, yet showed no compassion at his father's disappearance at the hands of Apocalypse. Pietro has a stormy relationship with his twin sister, although their relationship, as well the one with his Brotherhood teammates, improves during season four.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Comic book Pietro, while arrogant, was in the end an Anti-Villain who worked for Magneto only because he felt like he owed him, and eventually pulled a Heel–Face Turn, becoming an Avenger. By contrast, this incarnation of him almost lacks any redeeming qualities, and might actually be one of the least sympathetic members of the Brotherhood.
• Arch-Enemy: In his introductory episode with Spyke, which sets him up as The Rival. This doesn't show up in many later episodes though, mostly because Spyke joins the Morlocks.
• Beauty Is Bad: Sociopathic disregard for human life? Check. Starscream level cowardice? Check. Draco level smugness? Check. Pretty white hair and bishonen level attractiveness according to female fans? Check.
• Beneath the Mask: Pietro seems to be hiding a heck of a lot under his usual cockiness.
• Big Brother Instinct: Does genuinely have one towards Wanda, when she isn't trying to murder him. This is best demonstrated in the final episode when he saves Wanda from being killed by Magneto.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, he pretends to be nothing more than a Rival, and even helps Evan in luring a trap against whoever's ripping him off. Then he reveals, in an awesome manner, that he is the one who's been messing with him, and leaves him framed for vandalism and theft.
• Blow You Away: He can use his speed to create cyclonic wind gusts strong enough to lift cars or knock people off their feet.
• The Casanova: Or at least, the potential to become one. The episode with the dance has Boom-Boom implying that the members of the Brotherhood (besides Lance) don't want to go because they can't get dates. Blob and Toad go with Boom-Boom. Pietro shows up with four random girls.
• Chick Magnet: He showed up to the school dance with four girls on his arms. And he still manages to land himself dates even after he's outed as a mutant.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He supposedly works with the Brotherhood, but often goes behind their back at Magneto's request. His lack of loyalty aggravates Lance, to say the least.
• Dirty Coward: He talks a big game, but only if his father, Magneto is around to back him up.
• Disappeared Dad: His dad came back, and that's where all the trouble for Pietro started.
• Flash Step: He often does this in scenes where he's using his powers for some Mundane Utility or another.
• Four-Man Band: The Smart Guy
• Fragile Speedster: He may be able to break the sound barrier and deliver punches at the speed of light, but if Pietro gets hit once by any attack (regardless of its strength) it usually sends him down for the count.
• Glamour Failure: It's implied that being super-fast is his natural state and that it takes an effort to slow down to human pace, and, as such, he speaks slightly faster than any other character and often can't restrain his powers over small distances; for example, in his first appearance, when he zooms around Evan in the locker room before revealing himself more dramatically later on.
• Jerkass: He never stops being an arrogant, self-centered dick.
• A Lady on Each Arm: He shows up to a dance with a girl on each arm... And two girls besides them.
• Missing Mom: His and Wanda's mother is never mentioned. It is possible she died shortly before Magneto sent Wanda away.
• The Mole: He's essentially this for Magneto, and his primary task is to keep an eye on Mystique and the Brotherhood.
• Motor Mouth: Quicksilver talks faster than the other characters by just enough. It's a nice touch of Glamour Failure when he's in civilian dress. Understandable when you consider that everything about him is sped up, to the point that even when forcing himself to act at normal speed, the world is still moving at "long line at the DMV" speed to him (this is used to explain his often generally disagreeable attitude in the comicverse.)
• Mystical White Hair: Subverted. Although he is superpowered, his white hair is simply inherited from his father Magneto.
• Nom de Mom: Has the surname of his mother, Magda Maximoff.
• Not Quite Dead: During the finale of the first season, when the asteroid blew up, many fans speculated that Pietro had been killed because he was not shown with the rest of the Brotherhood. Actually, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene, the unconscious Pietro was carried to safety by Spyke.
• Pretty Boy: He has a slim facial structure with pretty white hair and narrow blue eyes, a slender build fitting for a Fragile Speedster, and girls find him very handsome.
• The Smart Guy: Of the Brotherhood, at least, which might not really say that much.
• Smug Snake: Pietro acts arrogant and smug when in control of a situation or fight but as soon as the tables are turned, he becomes a Dirty Coward who runs away.
• Smug Super: He can move too fast to be seen, calling everyone slowpokes and he doesn't hesitate to rub it in peoples' faces.
• Spectacular Spinning: Quicksilver can create whirlwinds by running around his enemies at top speed.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks almost exactly like his father, down to the white hair.
• Super-Speed: His mutant ability.
• Speed Demon: Quicksilver is very arrogant about his speed.
• Thicker Than Water: Willing to betray his entire team, including his sister, in order to help Magneto during the Sentinel. Doesn't seem to fully recover from this until Season 4.
• Troll: Likes to use his powers to mess with his enemies, such as in his fight against Nightcrawler in "The Hex Factor", where he keeps racing past Nightcrawler making him try different clothes until the X-Man is buried in a pile of them.
• Weak, but Skilled: Pietro is a full-blown Fragile Speedster and in most direct confrontations he goes down in one hit. However, Pietro is the first member of the brotherhood seen with considerable control of his power and the other aspects his power might give him, no doubt having trained in its uses alongside his father. It’s to be noted that Pietro is often the Brotherhood member who wins the most battles (or at least before the inclusion of his sister on the team), combined with Motor Mouth Casual Danger Dialogue.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Pietro constantly looks for approval from his father. It explains (but does not justify) a LOT.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Well, more Jerkass than evil, though.

Toad

"Hey, if you can't be cool, be feared. My momma always told me that."

Codename: Toad

Real Name: Todd Tolansky

Voiced by: Noel Fisher ^{Foreign VAs}Benjamin Jungers (FR)

A repugnant mutant who physically resembles a humanoid toad. Like a toad, he can leap great distances, and possesses an extremely long and agile tongue. A social outcast, he has found some acceptance with the Brotherhood, where his talents for thievery and petty crime can be put to good use. Toad is often portrayed as the whipping boy of the Brotherhood, but he also is treated like a little brother, and is even protected by Blob. Toad is known for his extremely poor hygiene which doesn't help him in his attempts to get Wanda Maximoff to like him.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Is certainly cuter and less revolting in comparison to his gonkish appearance in the comics.
• Adaptational Nationality: Toad is British in the comics. In this show, he's an American.
• Adaptation Name Change: His name is Mortimer Toynbee in the comics.
• Alliterative Name: Todd Tolansky.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: As his name implies, Toad possesses almost all of the traits and abilities of a common toad, most notably his superhuman jumping and a 25-feet long tongue.
• Arch-Enemy: Establishes himself as Nightcrawler's rival in the first episode. Later episodes imply that Toad is jealous of him, as he is also an outcast due to his physical appearance, but lacks an image inducer to hide it.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The "Short" to Avalanche's "Thin" and Blob's "Big".
• Butt-Monkey: If someone in the show is going to get hurt or humiliated, it will almost always be Toad. This is highlighted in the season 1 finale, where he is the only member of his team who fails to defeat an X-Man: Rogue effortlessly knocks him out without even needing to use her own power.
• The Chew Toy: And almost always Played for Laughs:
  [After crashing a jet into a possessed Magneto] Did we win? [metal starts flying around] Oh yeah... we never win.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While Toad is usually portrayed as a coward who is too incompetent to be a credible threat, a few episodes show he can put his powers to surprisingly good use if given the opportunity. In "Survival of the Fittest", he manages to snatch Juggernaut's helmet so Xavier can subdue the villain; and in "The Cauldron", he saves Mystique by using his own hands and tongue to catch the metal bars flung at her by Magneto.
• Fun Personified: Toad is this for The Brotherhood, to the point that a large majority of the show's comedy is derived solely from him.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Has very pale yellow eyes when in civilian mode and red eyes when in villain mode. Either he wears yellow contacts as a disguise that looks as unnatural as his real colour, or wears red contacts to look even weirder, or has the pointless and un-toadlike ability to change his eye colour.
• Hopeless Suitor: Even though he has zero chance, he pursues Wanda, much like his comic book counterpart.
• In a Single Bound: Due to his mutation, he can jump very high.
• Leitmotif: T-O-A-D, T-O-A-D! Iss'sall good, yo! See I know, some things ya gotta undastand about Toad.
• Little Bit Beastly: Has an green elongated tongue as well as certain frog abilities like leaping great distances and secreting slime. He also has webbed hands, red/yellow eyes, bowlegged with a hunched stance and has a very frog-like facial shape.
• Multipurpose Tongue: He uses his Overly-Long Tongue in combat as one of his primary abilities.
• The Pig-Pen: Some of his oft-commented upon body odor is implied to be a part of his mutation, but the fact he showers on a monthly basis ain't helping.
• Plucky Comic Relief: One of the funniest characters in the series.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: He has a very high-pitched girly scream as shown whenever somebody or something scary is out for his blood.
• Sticky Fingers: He has a habit of this and is known to be a pickpocket.
• Super Spit: Toad has been shown to spit out some mucus slime gunk.
• Troll: Toad often enjoys the suffering of others as he’s also trolling them by poking fun at them and pushing their buttons. Like when he zapped away all of Principal Darkholme’s office furniture and her new car into the Middleverse just to rile up Mystique.
• Verbal Tic: Toad has a tendency to randomly add "yo” into most of his sentences.
• Wall Crawl: He’s able to stick to surfaces and climb along them.

The Blob

"Unstoppable? Meet the unmovable!"

Codename: Blob

Real Name: Fred Dukes

Voiced by: Michael Dobson ^{Foreign VAs}David Pion (FR)

A humongous boy from Texas, Fred Dukes is among the strongest mutants in the world. Blob is the least intelligent of the Brotherhood, but his brawn helps counterbalance his lack of brains. His hefty build and less than charming personality often make him a target of public ridicule. The social isolation and bad temper made him a prime candidate for recruitment into the Brotherhood by Mystique. He was initially treated well by the X-Men until he attempted to kidnap Jean.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Blob was close, though his friendship with Toad made him slightly more morally light than his comic self.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He has blond hair here instead of the red/brown hair that his comic book counterpart has.
• Berserk Button: DO NOT LAUGH AT THE BLOB!
• Big Eater: One of his establishing character traits. His enormous appetite is matched only by his enormous size.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: The big guy to Toad’s little guy.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The "Big" to Avalanche's "Thin" and Toad's "Short".
• Civilian Spandex: Unlike his fellows who wear stylized costumes, Blob's combat gear looks like something from an army surplus store.
• Delinquent Hair: Sports a mohawk.
• Dumb Muscle: Definitely not the brightest, but he's strong enough to serve as The Brute for the Brotherhood.
• Four-Man Band: The Butt-Monkey; he alternates with Toad.
• Gravity Master: Can alter his own personal gravitational field to root himself to a spot and become immovable while taking advantage of his incredible durability and resistance to harm.
• The Kindnapper: Blob kidnaps Jean to force her to have a date with him. He sets up a nice dinner and some music... in an abandoned warehouse where she's tied to the chair with metal bars.
• Mighty Glacier: He's incredibly strong and virtually indestructible, but he's not nearly as acrobatic or quick on his feet as his fellow teammates.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: A very large guy with the codename Blob — who has stood up to everything from Wolverine's claws to Cyclops’ eye blasts.
• Pet the Dog: He treats Toad like a little brother and is more of a Gentle Giant when Mystique isn't around.
• Shoulder Teammate: Blob himself is known to give shoulder rides to his friend and teammate Toad.
• Stalker with a Crush: He took Jean being nice to him to mean she liked him. Unreasonable expectations indeed.
• Villainous Glutton: In the comics, his bulk is due to his mutation, but in the show, he is already very fat before he developed his powers. So it is possibly a combination of the two.

The Scarlet Witch

"You haven't seen me angry... until now!"

Codename: Scarlet Witch

Real Name: Wanda Maximoff

Voiced by: Kelly Sheridan ^{Foreign VAs}Sophie Servais (FR)

Wanda was sent to an asylum by her father Magneto shortly after her mutant powers emerged. Magneto claimed it was necessary because he was unable to help control her dangerous powers, but Wanda always resented him for it. Mystique helped Wanda escape from the asylum in order to bolster the Brotherhood ranks. However, Wanda was more interested in revenge against her father than fighting for the Brotherhood. Wanda suffers from emotional damage from her years locked up in an asylum, but she appears to regain much of her sanity as the series progresses. Wanda has the ability to "hex" other mutants' powers to make them go haywire.

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• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: She's normally drawn with long hair in the comics. X-Men: Evolution introduces her with shoulder-length black hair that she then chops drastically short into a pixie.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the mainline comics for all her flaws she’s usually a sweet and compassionate person who hates being seen as a villain and only really flies off the handle when it comes to her loved ones. Here she is a darkly embittered woman with a rebellious and aggressive personality.
• Adaptational Modesty: She wears less revealing outfits than her comic counterpart.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, she and Pietro 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 (although Wanda was always the more heroic of the two). In the show, Wanda is a perpetually angry and dangerously unstable girl with sympathetic, but not heroic qualities.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her natural hair color is brunette in the comics but here, she's raven-haired.
• Affectionate Nickname: Toad has given Wanda many pet names much to her utter disgust. Sweetums, Cuddlebumps, Babycakes, Poopsie, Snooknums, Crimson Cutie... the list goes on.
• Antagonistic Offspring: An Eviler than Thou variation. When Mystique breaks her out of the asylum, the Scarlet Witch spends the rest of the show trying to hunt down her father and exact her revenge upon him for institutionising her when she was child because she couldn't control her Reality Warper powers.
• Ax-Crazy: Being institutionalized at a young age due to her uncontrollable powers made Wanda develop into an emotionally unstable and murderously aggressive young woman. Even after Mastermind rewrites her bad memories, she still has a lot of internalized hostility and retains her cold and anti-social personality.
• Berserk Button: As she blames Magneto for abandoning her during her childhood, any mention of his name is enough to send Wanda into a vicious rage. This trait is lost once Mastermind overrides her original memories, making her think that Magnus was a supportive father instead.
• Boyish Short Hair: She used to have long hair, but she cut it after her training with Agatha. This reflects her less feminine and assertive personality.
• Broken Bird: She was raised in an abusive asylum after her father left her there as a child for undisclosed reasons. Her brother is utterly terrified of her as her entire life's goal seems to be to murder her father. Sadly, she only improves after her father has a telepath rewrite her memories to make her love him. The sad part is that while fellow Broken Bird Rogue at least got to be redeemed by the X-Men and made some friends, Wanda never really had anyone help her without selfish motives.
• Calling the Old Man Out: During the Sentinel attack, she calls Magneto out immediately upon seeing him for the first time in at least ten years since locking her away, and then proceeds to hex-attack him. Later in the episode “The Toad, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, Wanda still has less than kind words to say as she calls out Magneto again when he captures her and attempts to reconcile their relationship.
• Color Character: Red. In both her civvies and battle uniform, Wanda wears red and black clothing and the bottom layer of her hair is dyed red. She wears dark-red eyeshadow makeup, lipstick, and nail-polish, and her codename is Scarlet Witch.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Her appearance is heavily based on that of Fairuza Balk in The Craft.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In her first appearance, she absolutely devastated the X-Men.
• Cute and Psycho: Voracious, hair-trigger temper? Check. Adorable? Also check.
• Cute Witch: Her mutant powers? Hex powers or magic? Or mutant powers that let her tap into magic? Also she's a pretty raven-haired girl. No matter which, she qualifies.
• Daddy Issues: She is a pretty angry girl, with some major daddy issues.
• The Dreaded: Due to her highly destructive powers and her unstable mental state, there is not a single character in the show who does not fear Wanda.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has black hair and pale skin, in keeping with her witchy gothic aesthetic. She also has an offputting & unstable demeanor, with even her own family being wary of her, and has very powerful and frightening mutant abilities.
• Even Evil Has Standards: When she finds Nightcrawler in the Brotherhood's house, Wanda prepares to attack him, but stops and lets him leave once he explains he just wants his mother's petrified body.
• Fake Memories: Had these implanted by Mastermind - he basically replaced every bad memory she had of Magneto with good ones.
• For Your Own Good: Magneto’s reasoning for leaving her. He didn't have the skills or means to help her control her powers, so he abandoned her in an institution, where she would eventually start having therapy sessions with Xavier.
• Friendly Enemy: While friendly may be too generous a word, and she still treats them with either aggression or apathy, she tends to be more open to accepting help from and returning help to the X-Men than the rest of the Brotherhood,
• Goth: Her fashion style gives off a very strong Hot Topic vibe, even more so than Rogue.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: She's the most gothy girl in the cast, and her hex bolts are highly reminiscent of magic.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Wanda’s temper has caused almost every character she’s confronted to fear her.
• Important Haircut: After her training with Agatha Harkness, Wanda cuts her wild, unkempt shoulder-length hair to a closely cropped hairstyle. The haircut seems to symbolize as her being more focused and determined to start her revenge against her father.
• Magical Gesture: Wanda must have free usage of her hands in order to use her probability-altering powers, as she uses a lot of hand gestures and finger motions to channel them.
• Mind over Matter: She can generate psychokinetic force through her hexes, allowing her to move and control objects.
• Mind Rape: Magneto has Mastermind do this to her, replacing her bad memories with good ones so she believes Magneto was a loving father.
• Missing Mom: Her and Pietro's mother is never mentioned. It is possible she died shortly before Magneto sent Wanda away.
• Nom de Mom: Has the surname of her mother, Magda Maximoff.
• One-Man Army: In her debut episode, she's able to single-handedly defeat all of the X-Men core members by herself, to where they retreat from the fight and she walks away unscathed.
• Parental Abandonment: The source of her issues.
• Perpetual Frowner: Her default facial expression is either an angry scowl or bitter indifference. She has only ever smiled twice and both times were after Mastermind had fiddled with her head.
• Pet the Dog: Wanda has a couple of these moments though all of them are after she has her memories rewritten. First, when Toad put his life on the line in order to rescue her from Magneto, she gave him a very genuine smile and 'thank you' for his efforts. Later in Season 4, when Nightcrawler reveals that the stoned Mystique is his mother, she immediately backs off from attacking him and leaves him in peace. And then, Wanda helps Kurt when he asks for her help in getting in contact with Agatha Harkness to try and revive Mystique.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Wanda spent much of her introductory series searching for her father with her initial mission to kill him for wronging her. She does eventually find and attempt to kill him twice.
• Sanity Strengthening: Ironically, she became less psycho and more kind and helpful towards others after Mastermind messed with her head.
• Superpower Lottery: On top of being a Reality Warper, Wanda can fire energy hex blasts from her hands; make objects combust and explode; has limited telekinetic abilities; and can interfere with other mutants' powers, enabling her to either take them away or make them go haywire. This makes her more than a match for all of the X-men combined, and she manages to wipe the floor with them both during her first appearance and in the second episode of season 4.
• The Un-Favourite: Magneto always chooses Quicksilver over her. This is part of the reason why she hates her brother.
• Wild Card: She is part of the Brotherhood, but only so she can get revenge on Magneto, and only fights the X-Men when she has to (and the first time she does so is at Mystique's manipulation). In Season 4, she's pretty much the Token Good Teammate of the group, being horrified when her powers cause an accident that nearly gets innocent people killed. And in the Grand Finale, she's the only one of the Brotherhood (at first) to join the X-Men in fighting Apocalypse and his horsemen.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: Her mutant ability to harness and manipulate the force of probability.