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Boom-Boom
"Yeah! Look out below. Boom Boom is bombin' in. Whoohooo!"
- Codename: Boom-BoomReal Name: Tabitha SmithVoiced by: Megan Leitch
Boom-Boom is a mutant with the ability to create explosive balls of energy. Her father took advantage of her mutant abilities to commit crimes when she was younger. She eventually found a home at the Institute, although her stay was short-lived. She found she fit in much better with the rebellious Brotherhood and liked having four boys she could manipulate and pull pranks on. She was kicked out of the Brotherhood when Mystique returned. She is later seem hanging out with the X-Men through her friendship with Magma, but never rejoins them and appears to live on her own. While not malicious, the lack of discipline and mischievousness made her a troublesome guest for anyone willing to take her in.
- Abusive Parents: Her dad is an ex-con who tries forcing Boom-Boom to help him with his robberies.
- Beneath the Mask: Tabitha is apparently cheerful and always tries to make people have fun. However, this is no doubt part of her efforts to disassociate herself from her own difficult childhood and parental issues.
- Blithe Spirit: She was this to the X-Men before she left.
- The Bus Came Back: For the finale.
- Civvie Spandex: When she came back in the final fight against Apocalypse, she wore her Bayville Sirens outfit from "Walk in the Wild Side" compared to everyone else's as she was still unaffiliated with the X-Men and even the Brotherhood.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Tabitha is a carefree spirit with an adventurous and absent-minded nature. She’s constantly labeled as an insane maniac.Tabitha: Nightcrawler, huh? That name's just not working for you, I'm sorry. Woah! I got it. How about "Wild Blue Yonder Boy"?Kurt: You are insane!
- Cool Big Sis: A bit of one towards Amara.
- A Day in the Limelight: "Bada-Bing Bada-Boom"
- Fun Personified: She views the world as a place needing to "lighten up" and she's just the little pied prankster to lead the way.
- Genki Girl: With her high-energy, Tabitha is pretty lively as she’s loud, playful and somewhat crazy.
- Having a Blast: Boom-Boom has the mutant ability to create energy 'time bombs' that can explode at will. She can control the size and the delayed release of these charges, allowing her quite a bit a diversity.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Though she only really joined the Brotherhood while Mystique was MIA and they were mostly just being harmless mild jerks, and when push comes to shove, she's always on the right side.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Tabitha's not malicious, her lack of discipline and mischievousness have made her a troublesome guest for anyone willing to take her in. She often plays practical jokes on the Brotherhood boys and abuses their hospitality, but she does have some Pet the Dog moments.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She becomes this to the X-Men girls as she tries to get them to loosen up in what can only be described as an entire
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment episode. - Pet the Dog:
- When Blob and Toad complain about them not having dates for a party, she takes both of them as her dates.
- Also, her relationship with Amara.
- The Prankster: Her usual mindset is basically that of a Troll. She uses one of her booms as a firecracker to scare Ray, Jubilee and Amara and then shaved off Blob’s mohawk while he was sleeping, all the while laughing at their reactions.
- Pretty Freeloader: Her looks got her into the Brotherhood boarding house and kept her there no matter what stunt she pulled.
- Sticky Fingers: She pretty much took anything she wanted. She liked Lance's Jeep so much she "borrowed" it when she wanted, even after she left the Brotherhood.
- Stuff Blowing Up: With Tabitha’s kind of powers, you can expect a lot of collateral damage.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: While she was part of the New Mutants in the comics, this version joined the Brotherhood after leaving.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Magma's Girly Girl. Tabitha is more bold, adventurous and loud, while Amara is more timid, sweet, and soft-spoken.
X-23
"Protect me? I left to protect you!"
- Codename: X-23Real Name: UnknownVoiced by: Andrea Libman (X-23), Brittney Irvin (Target X)
Trained from birth by HYDRA to become the ultimate weapon, X-23 underwent the same Weapon X modifications as Wolverine, being given his healing factor and adamantium bones and claws. She escapes, breaks into rival spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and researches the X Men, before stalking the students over the institute. She begins capturing all of them in a bid to lure Logan into a confrontation, believing him to be responsible for what was done to her. Logan convinces her that he, too, is a victim, before chasing her off so that Nick Fury wouldn't find her.
She would later appear after HYDRA captures Wolverine, where the two would work together in a bid to survive as Logan tries to talk X-23 out of seeking revenge.
- Action Girl: She took out all the X-Men save Wolverine, and only because he got her to see sense after she made him run for his life. Yes, she sent frakking Wolverine running.
- Ambiguously Brown: Despite being a clone of Wolverine who is white, X-23 has a much darker complexion, with features that have been interpreted as anything from Latina to First Nations. It's explained that the Wolverine DNA sample was incomplete, so Dr. Deborah Risman used some of her own DNA as well. The staff would later state that her features were based on those of the girl — who is ethnic — who modeled for the reference shoot as a thank-you.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Towards Wolverine in her first appearance. She blamed him for HYDRA getting the idea to put her through the Weapon X program. It's very much played as an angry daughter attacking her father.
- Artificial Family Member: She is Wolverine's Opposite-Sex Clone. During the two's battle, Wolverine commented on that the two were the only family they had. What kind of family relationship was never established but many fans assume it would evolve into a father/daughter one.
- Berserk Button: She gets very pissed if someone calls her a child or a kid, as it reminds her of the childhood she didn't have.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Her claw arrangement was intended to be this according to
Word of God, with her foot claws specifically designed to be a trait of females with the same mutation as Logan. As described by Craig Kyle, the concept was that of a lioness; front claws for hunting prey, rear claws for self-defense. - Broken Bird: HYDRA created her to be a weapon, robbing her of her childhood.
- Canon Immigrant: Her surprising popularity quickly brought her into the mainstream Marvel lineup — albeit as a very much Caucasian noirette teenager.
- Cry into Chest: At the end of her debut episode, she breaks down sobbing into Logan's chest after everything she's endured.
- Disney Death: She fakes her death blowing up HYDRA in a bid to evade S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Gone Horribly Right: HYDRA sure got what they wanted alright, except she was so full of rage she would try and destroy them even before escaping. After she defeats Logan, X-23 intends to kill everyone working for them.
- Good Is Not Nice: After saving Logan in her second appearance, she interrogates him at claw point, before trying to force him to leave, whining that he hasn't healed and allowed a tracer to be placed on him, before trying to chase him off. This is all because she's scared he would be killed when she wipes out HYDRA.
- Guile Hero: She outsmarts everyone: S.H.I.E.L.D. (breaking in and gaining information on the Institute,) Xavier (he finds her genuinely upset and allows himself to get close enough to be taken out,) the X-Men (the only one not taken out is Logan), HYDRA (she tries to fight Logan off from following her because she wanted to be captured so she could destroy them) and Logan himself (making him think she was on a suicide mission so that S.H.I.E.L.D. won't come after her).
- Healing Factor: Her mutation is implied to be more advanced than Logan's, as she starts complaining when he doesn't heal as fast as she does."Gimme a break kid, I started the morning by falling out of an airplane."
- This is usually explained as being because only her claws are laced with adamantium, as opposed to Logan's entire skeleton, so her healing factor isnt spending most of the time healing adamantium poisoning.
- Human Weapon: She was treated as such by HYDRA, which was a great deal of angst and resentment for her.
- I Will Protect Her: Turns out this was the reason she was so antagonistic towards Logan when she was being hunted. She didn't want him to be a target for HYDRA and didn't want to risk him dying when she destroyed HYDRA.
- I Work Alone: She keeps shoving away Wolverine when he tries to help. Turns out it's not only because of the threat from HYDRA or SHIELD, but she intends to kill off HYDRA and Logan might get in the way.
- Junior Counterpart: To Wolverine, with all the same powers. She even joins the Future X-Men, taking Wolverine's place on the team.
- Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: HYDRA wanted to create the ultimate weapon based on Wolverine. They got more than that, a young girl who ends up bossing Logan about so he won't be caught up in her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Little Miss Badass: She's even smaller than Wolverine but can take care of all the mutants on Xavier's school by herself.
- Opposite Gender Clone: Of Wolverine. She has the same genes and powers as him, but she's a lot younger than him. Their age gap creates an Intergenerational Friendship between them.
- Psychotic Smirk: Flashes one to Madame Hydra who did the experiments on her, after calmly setting explosives that will kill them all.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Because of the terrible life she had been living up to that point, she mercilessly hunted down Wolverine, whom she blamed for having the genetic material that allowed her to exist. Once Logan got through to her, she began targeting HYDRA operatives, which led to her blowing up the organization's headquarters.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: She acts stupid and antagonistic when on the run. Emphasis on acts, she had wiped out most of HYDRA and planned to get captured so she'd have a clear run at the supreme commander, or she would have had a clear run had she got Logan to leave her alone.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Implied. When infiltrating Jean's room, she acts girly with her teddy bear before showing a dislike to her perfume.
- Wolverine Claws: As Wolverine's female clone, X-23 also has these - two metal claws per hand, and one per foot.
- You Are Number 6: X-23 was the only name she was ever given in her two appearances, but the writers stated that she would've been named Laura Logan.
Destiny
"An ancient mutant will rise to once again walk the earth. Your fates, both yours and Rogue's, are in his hands."
- Codename: DestinyReal Name: Irene AdlerVoiced by: Ellen Kennedy
Rogue's foster mother and a close confidante of Mystique's. Destiny seems to truly care for both Rogue and Mystique and usually only shows up when one or the other seems to be in danger. The history of the relationship between Mystique and Destiny has not been revealed, so how Rogue (Mystique's adopted daughter) came to be under Irene's care is still unknown. Although she is blind and unable to see, Destiny has the mutant ability to foresee future events before they happen.
- Age Lift: She is significantly younger than her elderly comics counterpart, who was frequently implied, and later confirmed in Immortal X-Men, to be the Irene Adler from Sherlock Holmes (with Mystique herself having been Holmes).
- Blind Seer: Irene has the ability to look into the future and she’s blind.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She disappears in Season 3 without any mention. When she last appeared she tells Mystique that she'll be involved in a plot to bring back an ancient mutant, but by Mystique's next appearance, she's working with Mesmero to bring back Apocalypse without any mention or reason.
- Didn't See That Coming: Irene explains her powers of future vision as seeing probabilities or pathways, and it seems she can be caught off-guard by outcomes she never considered possible, such as seeing that Rogue’s mutant power would be Power Copying via Touch of Death. This makes her take precautions with Rogue, telling her that she had a skin condition and must always be covered up. But Irene did not know when this power would manifest.
- Multiple-Choice Future: Par for the course with her precognition, she can see the future but makes it clear that what she sees are probabilities, not set-in-stone facts.
- Precognition: Her mutant ability.
- Sunglasses at Night: Wears sunglasses during the day and at night, because she's blind.
Forge
- Codename: ForgeReal Name: UnknownVoiced by: Samuel Vincent Foreign VAs
Known only as Forge, in great contrast to his comic counterpart, is a Bayville High student and mutant inventor from the late 1970s who was trapped in a pocket dimension he called "Middleverse" for several years. Only when Nightcrawler found his way there and the X-Men found a way to free him did Forge return. While he rejected the offer to join the X-Men, claiming that he had nearly 30 years worth of catching up to do with his family, he still remained an ally of the X-Men. He later helped create a machine to test Nightcrawler's teleportation powers. He spoke with an outdated groovy, far-out slang, and had a mechanical multi-tool arm which transformed to suit whatever he needed and could even appear like a normal arm with the added mutant power to innately comprehend technology and build anything he can think of.
- Artificial Limbs: He has a cybernetic right arm that transforms into a wide range of tools.
- Ditzy Genius: He's energetic and brilliant, but somewhat foolish and lacking in foresight.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Since it wasn't badass enough for Forge to be able to whip up any manner of Applied Phlebotinum you can possibly imagine, he also given the ability to transform his arms into any imaginable tool to help him make his creations.
- Mr. Fixit: His mutant ability helps him build machines by simply imagining what they should do, rather than working out the pesky details.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is not revealed.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: Forge has a cybernetic arm that transforms from a normal human-looking one to a big cannon to whatever else seems particularly plot-relevant at the time.
- Techno Wizard
- Totally Radical: Justified as he was literally caught in a timeless limbo since the mid-seventies, and sounds just "groovy".
Havok
- Codename: HavokReal Name: Alex MastersVoiced by: Matt Hill Foreign VAs
Cyclops's younger brother who was long believed to be dead as Alex was separated from his brother after escaping the plane crash. He was adopted by the Masters family and he was later reunited with Scott. Unlike the other X-Men animated series, Scott and Alex do develop a bond, although he still declined full-time membership in the X-Men to pursue a career as a professional surfer.
The Summers brothers have very similar mutations. But where Scott's blasts are focused from his eyes, Alex is able to fire them off from his hands.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Alex manifests his powers here as simple red energy hand blasts rather than as the massively powerful circular power signature from the comics.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the series, he was adopted by the Masters family rather than the Blanding family as in the comics.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Comic!Alex is a hot-blooded rebel with an inferiority complex regarding Scott which often fuels the many conflicts the two have. Evo!Alex is a more laid back guy who gets along pretty well with Scott.
- Back for the Finale: He aids the X-Men in the defeat of Apocalypse and his Horsemen in the Season 4 finale.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to Scott’s Responsible. Alex’s recklessness and immaturity contrasts with Scott’s more controlled and mature nature.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: He turns down an offer to join the X-Men, preferring to stay in Hawaii and become a professional surfer.
- Long-Lost Relative: He is Scott’s long-lost brother, who was separated from him during a plane crash that killed their parents as children.
- Refusal of the Call: Decides to become a professional surfer rather than join the X-Men. He still keeps in touch with Scott though.
- Surfer Dude: He is portrayed as a stereotypical long haired surfer - even with the stereotypical surfer accent and vernacular.
- Totally Radical: Speaks in this.
Angel
- Codename: AngelReal Name: Warren Worthington IIIVoiced by: Mark Hildreth Foreign VAs
A young multi-millionaire who has a hard time adjusting to his mutation. He decided to become a lone vigilante, donning a costume and mask to perform heroic deeds in New York City, but stopped after his actions garnered negative attention from Magneto. Though he ultimately does not join the X-Men, he becomes allies with them. Eventually, Angel joins the X-Men in their concerted assault against Apocalypse, and in Xavier's glimpse of the future in the final episode, he's shown alongside the other X-Men.
- Adaptational Heroism: Angel was always a hero in the comics, but he turned into a villain after being turned into Archangel in the 1980s thanks to Mystique. Here, he remains as Angel throughout the show's run.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Because he doesn't turn into Archangel, Worthington doesn't suffer from the events as Apocalypse doesn't use him as as one of his Four Horsemen in the finale.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: In the comics, he was part of the team in the first issue when the X-Men were founded. Here, Worthington only appears after the X-Men were already formed in the second season and doesn't join the team.
- Alliterative Name: Warren Worthington
- Back for the Finale: Plays an important role in one episode each of the second and third seasons; then shows up for a few cameos in the series finale, first by assisting Kitty's team against Magneto, then amongst the other heroes as they pose for a group picture.
- Demoted to Extra: Was one of the original five X-Men in the comics, but is much less important here.
- Flight: His only mutation is his pair of wings, which allow him to fly.
- Friend to All Children: Warren certainly as a soft spot for children. He rescues a girl’s wheelchair-bound mother from a burning building and a little girl named Hailee from a car accident over the Brooklyn Bridge. He feels overwhelming guilt for when Hailee is placed in a coma due to getting a serious case of hyperthermia from accidentally falling into a river (which he unintentionally caused). He frequently checks up on her while she’s in the hospital and goes to a local church to pray for her and her family. Hailee does end up waking up though and both of the girls still admire and thank their “guardian angel”.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Angel’s a very kind and good hearted person. He’s introduced by using his powers to help people and refusing to join Magneto's team, even when he was blamed for an incident that caused people to shun him.
- Once a Season: Angel appears at least one episode for the remainder of whe show.
- Pretty Boy: He is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed man who looks like a model.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted. Was one of the original five X-Men in the comics, but isn't a member here although its hinted he will join the group. Also despite one of the most notable things about the Warren of the comics having served as a Horsemen, he's never made one on the show.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Due to his mutation, Angel is unable to wear regular outfits. He wears his red and blue uniform while on a mission, and a long coat that hides his wings when he needs to pass off as a normal human; but is shirtless during any other occasion.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Angel's only power is having two large wings that enable him to fly. He does put them to creative use every so often, such as using them to generate a gust of wind that blows Gambit's explosive cards back at him, but is more often than not pretty worthless when it comes to actual fighting.
- Wind from Beneath My Wings: Angel uses his wings occasionally to generate gusts of wind in combat.
- Winged Humanoid: He's a mutant with a pair of huge white feathered wings.
The Morlocks
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"You're with the Morlocks, we understand you."
The Morlocks are a secretive group of underground mutants whose mutations make them unable to live unnoticed on the surface. When the group first appears, their survival is being threatened as the waste from a sports drink being dumped into the sewers is unintentionally poisonous to mutants. To stop the dumping, they repeatedly break in to taint the batches and are aided by Spyke/Evan Daniels who was rescued after being poisoned. When his mutation starts to become more obvious, he chooses to stay and become their champion.
In the fourth season they appear in a single episode where they are still living in the sewers trying to survive the anti-mutant uprising by staying hidden, but appear on the surface after being directly attacked by Duncan Matthews to defend themselves before returning to hiding.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Callisto. In the comics and most other depictions, she is extremely butch and is covered in scars, whereas here she's more feminine, despite her claims that she, like the other Morlocks, is too deformed by her mutation to be able to live above ground.
- Adaptational Heroism: Callisto again. In her comics debut she was a sadistic bitch who abducted Angel and planned to keep him as her love-slave. Here, she's compassionate, even sweet, and did abduct Evan, but only to cure him of the poison he drank and offer him (with his newfound extra-spikiness) sanctuary.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's never stated if Berzerker was a Morlock prior to his introduction in season 2 based on his interaction with them in "X-Treme Measures". The dialogue makes it sound like he had some history with them and knew some of the members (considering in the comics Berzerker was a member), but it's unknown if he was part of the group, encountered them at some point before or after joining the X-Men. The fact this was never brought up again in the Morlocks' second episode muddies the water the relationship between the two.
- Canon Foreigner: Facade, Lucid, and Torpid were all created for the series.
- Chameleon Camouflage: Facade’s mutant ability allows him to blend into any environment and literally disappear into the background of it.
- Eyepatch of Power: Callisto, of course.
- Hobos: An entire community of them who all live in the sewers of Bayville. This is justified by most of them having physical mutations that severely limit their ability to lead normal lives.
- King of the Homeless: Callisto is the Morlocks leader.
- The Paralyzer: Torpid's power is this.
- Psychic Radar: Caliban's mutant ability; he can detect other mutants.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted with Caliban and the Horsemen, as he isn't one here, whereas he had two tenures as one in the comics.
Leech
- Voiced by: Danny McKinnon
A mutant boy with the power to dampen the powers of other mutants.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He is much better-looking than his bald and noseless depiction in the original comics, having a full head of hair and looking more like a green-skinned human.
- Named by the Adaptation: Leech's real name was never revealed in the comics, while this version of the character is given the name Dorian Leech.
- Power Nullifier: His power is disabling the powers of others.
