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Amanda Sefton
"Do you know that blue is my favorite color?"
- Voiced by: Moneca Stori Foreign VAs
She's Kurt's human girlfriend. Sweet but shy, she discovered Kurt's mutation on her own but remained deeply attracted to him. She is one of the few humans at Bayville High who does not openly shun mutants. Despite being Caucasian in the comics, Amanda's ethnicity was changed to mixed African/Romany descent, and unlike her comic book incarnation, she is not a practitioner of sorcery.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Comic!Amanda had blonde hair, but Evo!Amanda has dark brown hair due to a Race Lift.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Unlike in the comics, she has no magical abilities whatsoever as she’s a normal human.
- Affectionate Nickname: Kurt calls her Liebchen (which is German for “sweetheart”note ).
- Be Yourself: She possesses a strong belief in standing by your friends and in a person simply being themselves.
- Beast and Beauty: The Beauty to Kurt’s Beast.
- Fan of Underdog: She’s portrayed as one of these, in regards to Kurt.
- Freaky Is Cool: Not only is she okay with the way Nightcrawler looks, his appearance is what made her pursue him in the first place. After all, chicks dig the fuzzy dude.
- Race Lift: Her comics counterpart was originally blonde and very white. Here in the series, she becomes possibly Middle Eastern (or a brown-skinned ethnicity, anyway; it isn't apparent from dialogue or appearance, though she doesn't look quite like the series' black characters). The Lift is extended to her parents, naturally.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: She briefly sees Kurt with his image inducer turned off and using his teleporting powers once. This increases her interest in him and she tries to pursue him romantically. She eventually reveals (during an emergency) that she knows about him, and then just becomes a regular Secret-Keeper for the existence of the mutants until The Masquerade is broken.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the comics she's Kurt's adopted sister whom he dates; here they keep the romance but cut out the sibling angle.
Taryn Fujioka
- Voiced by: Janyse Jaud
An attractive Japanese-American girl who houses a crush on Scott Summers. At first, she is Jean's best friend, but when Jean starts to develop feelings for Scott herself, becomes her most bitter rival. Eventually she and Scott start to date, in part because Jean never tried to date him. However when Scott was outed as a mutant, she shunned him.
- Canon Foreigner: She’s a character created for the show.
- Girlish Pigtails: Whenever she's playing soccer, Taryn styles her hair like this.
- Love Cannot Overcome: She breaks up with Scott after he's publicly outed as a mutant.
- The Rival: To Jean, in regards to Scott.
- Romantic False Lead: To Scott, until she dumped him when mutants were revealed, not because she or he became a jerk, but for the same reason most of them lost their friends: Scott can, quite literally, blow up a building with his eyes.
- Satellite Love Interest: Her only connection to the cast besides Scott is the fact that she's apparently one of Jean's friends, one that appears once or twice for a few seconds standing next to Jean, then doing nothing until suddenly being interested in Scott.
Dr. Deborah Risman
- Voiced by: Lisa Ann Beley
A geneticist who created X-23. She was commissioned by the spy organization HYDRA to create the ultimate weapon for them by using stolen data from the Weapon X project that created Wolverine. Twenty-two times she failed, then realized that Wolverine's healing factor had been what enabled him to survive the Adamantium bonding process.
- Ambiguously Brown: She has a highly noticeable medium skin tone with wavy dark blonde hair and green eyes that would suggest she's either biracial, Latina, or Caucasian with just a heavy tan.
Word of God also states that her features were based on those of the mother of the girl who modeled for X-23's character design. Makes sense as they both have medium-brown skin tones and green eyes. - Canon Foreigner: She was created specifically for the show but when the character X-23 was adapted into the mainstream Marvel Universe, Deborah Risman was replaced with a similar character named Sarah Kinney.
- For Science!: Deborah’s entire motivation for joining Hydra and participating in their goal to create the perfect soldier is originally just a chance for her to experiment in genetics beyond the realm of conventional science and government allowance. She failed 22 times before succeeding with operative X-23, a female clone of the X-Men’s Wolverine (formally operative Weapon X). Ultimately, Deborah comes to see how wrong her part in everything was.
- Heel–Face Turn: She defects from Hydra to Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. because of the moral implications of the project while hoping S.H.I.E.L.D. can recapture X-23 before any harm is done.
- Heel Realization: She helped Hydra create the perfect soldier, X-23. When she realized that HYDRA couldn’t control X-23 and growing to care for her, Deborah defected to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Risty Wilde
- Voiced by: Nicole Oliver
A goth-punk girl from Manchester, England who become fast friends with Rogue in Season 2.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, she appears to be a kind girl who genuinely enjoys Rogue's company. As it turns out, her true form is Mystique, whose true intention was to infiltrate the X-Mansion and destroy it from the inside.
- Canon Foreigner: Subverted. She appears to be a character created for the show, when in reality she is just Mystique in disguise. She does, however, bear some resemblance to Psylocke.
- Delinquent Hair: Her hair is dyed purple and styled in an undercut. It adds to her "goth-punk" image.
- Eye Colour Change: Exaggerated. Sometimes when no one is looking, Risty’s hazel eyes change back into Mystique’s cat-like ones, complete with the glowing yellow.
- Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: Her outer appearance is of a punk-goth girl but Risty has a very amiable and upbeat demeanor.
- The Mole: Risty is actually Mystique’s alternate persona which she uses as a cover to get inside the mansion and obtain data files of the X-Men and the Scarlet Witch.
- Nice Girl: She's kind and chipper to basically everyone. Subverted in that it's just an act so she can get close to Rogue without raising any suspicions.
- Perky Goth: She’s the cheerful and friendly foil to Rogue’s dark and moody goth.
- Secret Identity: She is really Mystique, assuming the form of a friendly goth teenager to earn her adopted daughter's trust.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Risty's true identity as Mystique is revealed to the viewer in the fourth episode of season 2, a mere three episodes after her introduction. The other characters wouldn't find this out until season 3, seventeen episodes later.
- Walking Spoiler: Due to The Reveal that she's really Mystique in disguise.
Nick Fury
- Voiced by: Jim Byrnes
Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and occasional ally to the X-Men.
- Colonel Badass: Held the rank of Colonel for most of his tenure as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s director.
- Eyepatch of Power: Missing an eye, and is in charge of a large government peacekeeping organization.
Captain America
- Codename: Captain AmericaReal Name: Steve Rogers
The legendary Super-Soldier from World War II who fought the Nazis and HYDRA in the name of freedom.
- Adaptational Context Change: In the comics, he wound up frozen after falling from Baron Zemo's exploding rocket. Here, Cap was put on ice to save his life.
- Captain Patriotic: The Trope Codifier himself.
- Composite Character: Steve being put on ice due to a flawed version of the super-soldier serum make him one with the 50's Cap William Burnside, who was put in suspended animation due to his own flawed version of the serum.
- Hero of Another Story: Since this series predominately centers around the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe, Steve is noteworthy for being an unrelated superhero who obviously had his own adventures back in the day, only tangentially connected to them by his friendship with Logan.
- Heroic Build: Justified. He has a rather impressive physique because the Super Soldier Serum turned him into the peak of physical perfection.
- Human Popsicle: Is currently in stasis until they can find a cure for the part of the Super-Soldier Serum that is slowly killing him.
- Military Superhero: A costumed hero who fought for the U.S. Army on the front lines of WWII.
- Super-Soldier: Infused with a genetic formula that brought him to peak physical condition. Unfortunately, that same formula is slowly killing him.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Cap's signature attack is just as present here as it always is.
- The Voiceless: He never speaks.
