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Warning! Major Spoilers below!

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The Students

Cyclops

"No, we're the X-Men. We're not kids anymore. You trained us, Wolverine, and you know something? We're good. Very good."

Codename: Cyclops
Real Name: Scott Summers
Voiced by: Kirby Morrow ^{Foreign VAs}Philippe Allard (FR)

The leader of Professor Xavier's students. A mutant who shoots high-intensity beams from his eyes. Unfortunately for him, he can never shut this power off so he must always wear special visors or glasses made of ruby-quartz. Due to having a strong sense of morals and drive to be the leader, Scott can sometimes come off as a "boy scout" or "do-gooder". But he also has an extremely competitive side and tries hard to hold his temper in check, which can sometimes get the better of him. In contrast to his reputation for being stiff, he surprisingly shows a good sense of humor. During the series, Scott reunited with his brother Alex, who he thought died in the plane crash both were involved in.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to his cold and serious comic-book counterpart, Scott is much kinder to his friends, likable, and much more unambiguously heroic in this series.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Contrasting with many other incarnations, this version of Scott is not an aloof, doubtful, stiff loner, but a confident and self-assured leader with a much more extroverted personality and more open sense of humor.
• Alliterative Name: Scott Summers.
• Arch-Enemy: Avalanche. Even when he attempts a Heel–Face Turn, Cyclops constantly has issues with him, which Lance is all too happy to provoke.
• Badass in Distress: In "Blind Alley", Mystique abducts Scott, steals his Power Limiter and leaves him stranded in the Mexican desert, as revenge for him leaving her to be captured in Area 51. She comes back to finish him off when he is exhausted, but Jean saves him at the nick of time.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Reliable and level-headed when calm, but piss him off and watch out!
  Juggernaut: (taking a full blast from Cyclops' visor) You think that can stop me? I'm RAW POWER!!
  Cyclops: You want it raw, tough guy, then take it RAW!! (takes off his visor and unleashes his unfiltered, unrestrained optic blast)
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Very protective of his long-lost little brother, Alex.
  • As the team leader, he's protective of the younger mutants, particularly Kurt.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Kurt. He takes him under his wing when Kurt joined the X-Men, giving him pilot lessons and advice when needed and acts as a sort of older brother figure to him.
• Blessed with Suck: Scott's powers ought to be as controllable as any other energy blaster, but he suffered a concussion in his youth (his parents had pushed him out of a burning plane), which somehow led to his inability to shut off his powers after they emerged.
• Blown Across the Room: Cyclops' eye beams knock bad guys back, but not Cyclops himself. It's one of the ways he's immune to his own power.
• Bullying a Dragon: In this case, Scott is the dragon. For some reason, everyone wants a piece of Cyke, especially Duncan and Avalanche, especially when the former finds out why he wears those shades.
• The Captain: And a badass one at that. This is easily one of Scott's most badass depictions yet, especially compared to his less experienced teammates.
• Chick Magnet: Attracted the affections of Rogue, Taryn, and Jean. Even Kitty was seen gushing over him.
• Cool Shades: As usual, still has to wear ruby-quartz lenses to control his powers. These come in the form of sunglasses in his civilian outfit.
• Decomposite Character: His usual role from the comics and other animated adaptations of being the first mutant recruited into the X-Men is given to Wolverine. Perhaps as a trade-off, he's Nightcrawler's Heterosexual Life-Partner, a role that was filled by Wolverine in the comics.
• Eye Beams: Cyclops' mutation is the ability to fire optic blasts of concussive force from his eyes. Unfortunately, he is unable to control it and must wear ruby-quartz glasses to be able to see without destroying everything in his line of sight.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible to Alex's Foolish. His more controlled and mature nature contrasts with Alex's recklessness and immaturity.
• Glasses Are Sexy: His pretty boy design flirts with the idea. It's one of the reasons why girls fawn over him.
  He's, like, totally Hollywood in those shades!
• The Hero: He's the leader of the main X-Men team, as always.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kurt. Scott comes to view him as a younger brother, likely as a result of him being separated from Alex at a young age.
• Ink-Suit Actor: If you take away the shades, Scott closely resembles his voice actor.
• The Leader: Of the levelheaded variety.
• Mr. Fanservice: Tall, Dark, and Handsome, with plenty of Clothing Damage to boot.
• Nice Guy: Less aloof than usual portrayals and surprisingly affable.
• Official Couple: He ends up with Jean.
• One-Way Visor: He wears one of these as part of his X-Man costume, but ditches it for ruby-quartz glasses while in his civilian outfit.
• Person of Mass Destruction: When he opens his eyes while not wearing shades or a visor... it's not pretty to put it mildly.
  Come on Professor. I'm packing a bazooka behind each eyeball! What do ya want from me?
• Power Incontinence: It's Cyclops. The uncontrollable and destructive eye beams are inherent to the character.
• A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Scott is the protagonist of the first and second season, before Rogue takes over in season three.
• Ship Tease: Rogue had a crush on Scott and he might have had some feelings for her, though he was mostly Oblivious to Love.
• Shirtless Scene: Scott suffers Clothing Damage more than any other male character in the series. A notable example is when he spends the majority of the third season's premiere with a torn shirt, which he somehow got when the X-Mansion exploded.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Jean. Once they finally get together, Kurt and Kitty gleefully mock them as being this.
  Kurt: Jean, darling, please accept this croissant as a symbol of my love!
  Kitty: Oh, Scott, you have such a way with pastry!
• Single-Target Sexuality: Scott has only ever had eyes for Jean. He never notices Rogue's obliviously huge crush on him, and even though he dated Taryn for a bit, Scott was always trying to get closer to Jean.
• Sunglasses at Night: Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades, oh no!
• Temporary Blindness: Played with. Scott is dropped off in Mexico as a part of a trap laid by Mystique. He can see fine, it's just that she took his visor so he has to keep his eyes closed to avoid his Eye Beams causing massive damage to everything he looks at. Plus, you know, he's in the middle of the desert with no one to help him.
  (Scott opens his eyes for an instant to get a look at his surroundings)
 Scott: The good news...no one was there. The bad news, no one was there.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Pulls one off against the Juggernaut by tearing off his visor and opening his eyes as wide as he can. Sure, this is the Juggernaut and it only lasts a while, but it takes out huge chunks of the surrounding area.
• Workaholic: Played for Laughs: Scott LOVES Danger Room Simulations, and is happy to suggest them as a possible group activity at two in the morning.

Jean Grey

"It bugs me to always be treated like the weaker sex!"

Real Name: Jean Grey
Voiced by: Venus Terzo ^{Foreign VAs}Laetitia Reva (FR)

Jean was the most popular of the X-Men who attended Bayville High. Beautiful, athletic, and smart, she seemed to not have the problems the others faced trying to fit in and be normal. But her growing powers made her extremely insecure and showed she had her own burdens to bear. And she was ultimately shunned by her former friends when revealed to be a mutant. Jean dated Duncan Matthews for the first two seasons, but later fell for Scott, who had secretly loved her from afar. Jean also has a very close father-and-daughter type relationship with Professor Xavier.

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• Academic Athlete: She's shown to excel in various sports like soccer, track, and basketball, and she's mentioned to have been accepted by several universities to study genetics.
• The Ace: Jean is one of the most powerful mutants at the Institute and she has excellent control over her abilities. She is also intelligent, strong-willed, very well-liked, and a naturally gifted athlete.
• Action Girl: Jean is highly capable of defending herself and others whenever the time calls for it.
• Barrier Warrior: Jean can generate telekinetic force fields to protect herself and others.
• Battle Couple: With Cyclops, combining his optic blasts with her potent psychic abilities.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brains to Kitty’s Beauty and Rogue’s Brawn. Jean is an honor student, and she’s the more level-headed and mature one of the girls.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In episode 25, she is the first victim of Mesmero's brainwashing, and goes around collecting the objects he needs to further his agenda.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Of the passive-aggressive kind. She wasn't outwardly mean to Taryn or Rogue when in the jealous mood, but being a Tsundere she tended to take it on Scott instead via phone Passive-Aggressive Kombat.
• Dude Magnet: Jean has had a total of four guys that have taken an interest in her at some point throughout the series: Scott, Duncan, Fred and Lucas.
• Face–Heel Turn: She pulls one at some point after the show ends, as Xavier remembers having a vision of her transforming into the Dark Phoenix while he was under Apocalypse's control.
  Xavier: With a heavy heart, I saw the dearest of friends become the most terrible of enemies.
• Fiery Redhead: Played with. Jean is level-headed and sensible. However, the mutant-hating Principal Kelly invokes this trope as he questions whether her anger can influence her powers.
  Principal Kelly: A fiery temper? That's a dangerous combination with your kind of powers.
• Girly Bruiser: Jean is girly and well-mannered, but also quite the badass with her psionic powers.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's a feminine young lady who is also a passionate athlete at several different sports and is a Girly Bruiser.
• Green-Eyed Epiphany: At the beginning of the series, Jean never really expressed having romantic feelings towards Scott as she had a boyfriend, and they acted more like Just Friends. Until Season 2 when both Taryn and Rogue start showing interest in him, is when Jean starts showing her jealousy. Taryn even points out the fact that Jean has had plenty of chances at Scott but she never fell through with it. That is until later during Season 3.
• Hypnotize the Captive: Mesmero uses his hypnosis powers on her to make her steal for him.
• Improvised Weapon: She uses this a lot with her telekinetic powers to hurtle stuff at the bad guy.
• Jedi Mind Trick: She usually uses her mind powers to do this trick. For example, when a high school bully breaks Kurt's holowatch and it reveals Kurt's real blue demon form, he starts freaking out. She hypnotizes the bully, making him forget what he saw and to walk away.
  Jean: You're going to forget. You don't remember any of this. You're going to leave now.
  Bully: (while walking away) Yeah... I'm going...
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Along with Kitty, both are the light to Rogue's dark. Jean is a beautiful, confident and polite popular girl whereas Rogue is a snarky, brooding goth loner who has a much shorter hairstyle than the former two.
• Lovable Jock: Jean is the school's star soccer player. Although referred to as 'Miss Perfect', she's considerate and gracious to everyone.
• Mind over Matter: Her powers are telepathy and telekinesis. She often uses her telekinesis to lift herself and others, giving her the ability of levitation and flight. She also uses her telekinesis to create durable shields and energy blasts.
• Mind Rape: Is Mesmero's first victim.
• Moral Guardians: Compare Jean to Cyclops in Season One's Survival of the Fittest. Both the Brotherhood and X-Men competed to get to the top of a mountain and place a flag before the other team. The catch was neither team could use their powers. But Scott had no problem cheating and using his powers after seeing Avalanche cheat. Jean though was quick to point out that the X-Men should be above such things and stick to the rules. Interesting that neither Scott or Jean were portrayed in a positive light here with Jean being shown as slightly overbearing and self-serving.
• Not Quite Flight: Her telekinesis enables her to effectively fly when she uses it on her own body.
• Number Two: She's the second-in-command after Cyclops but it's a role she rarely has to play.
• Official Couple: With Scott starting Season 3 and onwards.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Jean is not only a member of the X-Men, but also a skilled soccer player and the captain of the girls' team in her school. Sadly, she's kicked off the team when it's revealed that she's a mutant.
• Power Incontinence: In "Power Surge", her powers start to manifest in short destructive bursts, though the seizures eventually worsen to the point she creates a telekinetic typhoon. Jean only manages to regain control after Rogue drains her energy.
• Pstandard Psychic Pstance: When she uses her powers, she usually either puts her hands on her temples or stretches her arms in the direction of her target.
• Psychic Powers: Her main powers are Telepathy and Telekinesis.
• Punny Name: Jean Grey has mutant powers because she possesses the X-gene and her powers also involve her grey matter.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Rogue's red, being intelligent, nurturing, more levelheaded and willing to follow the rules.
• Redhead In Green: She wears a black X-Men uniform with a bright green stripe down the front and back.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Scott. Once they finally get together, Kurt and Kitty gleefully mock them as being this:
  Kurt: Jean, darling, please accept this croissant as a symbol of my love!
  Kitty: Oh, Scott, you have such a way with pastry!
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Has vibrant red hair and green eyes and is the leading female character.
• Soapbox Sadie: With her speeches on mutant pride and mutant/human equality, she tips into this. It was even lampshaded at one point, in which she gears herself up for a lecture: "And I for one, am very proud of the fact..." only to be yanked off-screen by Scott. In the Girl's Night Out Episode she and the other mutant girls rail against Scott's overprotectiveness and start fighting crime as the "Bayville Sirens." She mellows out by the end of the episode (although she needed almost getting killed by some random gangsters and Cyke helping with a covert optic blast for her to get it).
• Statuesque Stunner: Is a gorgeous, 5'11 girl who stands taller than a good lot of the cast.
• Straw Feminist: This comes up during "Walk on the Wild Side" and is never really touched on again. She calls Scott out on trying to help and bitches at Duncan for buying tickets to a dance, when it's supposed to be the girl who asks the guy out, while complaining about always feeling like she's treated as the weaker sex.
• Supernatural Floating Hair: Jean’s hair sometimes floats when she uses her psychokinetic powers.
• Telepathy: Like her mentor Professor Xavier, Jean is a telepath which means that she has the ability to detect and read the thoughts of others, project her own thoughts into other's minds, form psychic links with other beings, control others' minds so as to manipulate their physical functions, mentally stun opponents with bolts of pure psionic force, cast near-flawless mental illusions, and project her mind onto the astral plane.
• Tsundere: Type B. She's the sweetest Cool Big Sis, unless Duncan or Scott (or both) are around.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: When Mystique strands Scott in Mexico without his glasses, Jean's rescue is something to behold.

Nightcrawler

"Chicks dig the fuzzy dude!"

Codename: Nightcrawler

Real Name: Kurt Wagner

Voiced by: Brad Swaile ^{Foreign VAs}Aurélien Ringelheim (FR)

Nightcrawler is a blue, furry mutant whose power is the ability to teleport. He uses a holographic image inducer in public to appear as a normal teenage boy. Nightcrawler is the biological son of Mystique, who dropped/abandoned him a long time ago. They don't get along.

In contrast to his demonic appearance, Kurt is kind, fun loving, and a loyal friend. But there also is a sense of sadness about him as he longs to be accepted by the world outside despite his appearance.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Unlike the comics, he's given a more elfish appearance than outright demonic.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed. This version is not a devout Catholic and the Token Religious Teammate, but remains otherwise one of the nicest and most compassionate members of the X-Men.
• Age Lift: Unlike the rest of his peers in the series, Kurt was already an adult (like Ororo and Logan) when he joined the X-Men in the comics.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Blue, just like his mother Mystique, though in his case it's due to his fur.
• Arch-Enemy: Has a rivalry with Toad from the Brotherhood, which was established as early as the first episode. Their antagonism would grow worse as the series progressed due to Toad attempting to sabotage Kurt's date by stealing his holographic image inducer.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: The female version of his human self in "Adrift" is very pleasing to the eyes.
• Badass Adorable: Pretty cute for a demonic mutant. Just don't let your guard down around the fuzzy dude.
• Beast and Beauty: He becomes the boyfriend of pretty-girl Amanda Sefton.
• Beautiful Dreamer: Strangely subverted. Nightcrawler would look cute as he's sleeping... if only he didn't accidentally teleport every time he sneezes due to a bad cold. Taking Kitty with him.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't pull his tail.
  • Also don't steal his Image Inducer. He completely flips out when Toad does it.
• Big Eater: Apparently the price of 'porting is an insatiable appetite.
• Chick Magnet: He has had multiple Ship Tease moments with Kitty, Tabitha, and Amanda despite his demonic visage. Like the above quote says, chicks dig the fuzzy dude!
• Class Clown: Kurt has a playful and teasing nature as he loves to joke around and have fun. He sometimes uses this to cover up his self-esteem issues.
• Cute Little Fangs: The pointy teeth helps accentuate his demon-esque elf theme.
• Cute Monster Girl: A male version of this trope. In this version, Kurt is an elfin cutie with blue fur, a tail, pointed ears and fangs.
• The Cutie: Despite his appearance, Kurt’s compassion and idealism and fun-loving nature make him one of the most adorable X-Men.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Don't be fooled by his demonic appearance, he's one of the sweetest guys around.
• Extradimensional Shortcut: His teleportation abilities involve him slipping into another dimension, travelling very quickly through it then popping out elsewhere.
• Four-Fingered Hands: He has three-fingered hands and feet in his original, demon form. Whenever he's in his human disguise, his fingers stick together in a Vulcan-salute formation.
• Freakiness Shame: While Kurt is ashamed of his appearance, he soon seems to become more relaxed about it around other mutants. He's still afraid of letting normal people see his true face, constantly wearing a device that projects a hologram around him to make him look like a normal person in public, but this trope is invoked when Amanda Sefton convinces him to turn off his image inducer as she likes his real self.
• Freaky Is Cool: Kurt's girlfriend Amanda isn't bothered at all by his true appearance.
• Fun Personified: He loves to party.
• Glamour Failure: Kurt's image inducer. Given that it really only needs the settings "off" and "on", was there really the need to give it so many options and make the off button so incredibly easy to press by accident? As the image inducer only makes him LOOK human, anyone who touches him can still feel his fur or bump against his tail. There is also his permanent Vulcan salute.
• Gratuitous German: Kurt originally comes from Germany and since he’s one of the main characters, this longtime trait is a given trope for his character. There are a few times when he slips German into his sentences, but he stops this early in the first season.
• Hair Color Dissonance: The only one with blue hair. Similarly to Wolverine, they are in-universe black.
• Handy Feet: His feet are shaped very much like his hands and are just as dexterous as shown when he was piloting the X-Jet with just his feet.
• Happily Adopted: Played with, as Kurt loves his adoptive parents dearly and wouldn't trade them for the world, but as time goes on he shows a little too much interest in his birth parent and his origin. However, at the end he's shown to be unwilling to establish any kind of relationship with Mystique.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Quickly befriends Scott in the first episode and develops a sibling-like relationship with him.
• Hide Your Otherness: In order for him to attend Bayville High, Kurt uses an image inducer to go out in public looking like a normal dark-haired, light-skinned teenage boy.
• Hologram: Kurt's normal Bayville High appearance is nothing more than a hologram. Deconstructed at the beginning of Season 3 when it turns out that Kurt is the only Xavier Institute student with his cover still intact thanks to his hologram inducer.
• In-Series Nickname: Fuzzy Blue Elf.
• In the Hood: In the first episode, he wears a trenchcoat with a hood to hide his demonic appearance.
• Nice Guy: One of the nicest members of the cast, to the point Kurt's only negative trait seems to be that he loves partying a bit too much.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Grows very close to Kitty following the events of "Grim Reminder", but never shows any romantic attraction towards her for the entirety of the show's run.
• Pointy Ears: Much like his comic book counterpart, he has elfish ears as part of his physical mutation.
• Poirot Speak: Kurt frequently uses German words and phrases in his speech.
• Prehensile Tail: His tail is strong enough to not only support his body weight but also lift an adult man completely off the ground.
• Pretty Boy: Kurt is very attractive with or without his disguise, although he falls more on the "cute" side. With his elfin features, they reflect his adorable personality, and the impression Nightcrawler leaves on viewers is that he's a cute blue elf rather than a freaky blue demon.
• Red Is Heroic: Like his comic counterpart, Kurt's outfit includes a significant amount of red.
• Red Right Hand: A limitation of his image inducer. If you pay close attention, you can see that his index and middle fingers, plus his pinky and ring fingers, are practically glued together whenever he moves them. This is because the hologram is hiding the fact that he only has three fingers per hand.
• Running on All Fours: On occasion. He usually does this when he's in an urgent situation.
• Sad Clown: Sometimes, not nearly as often as the fandom would have you think. He gets his fair share of angst, but by the next episode he'll be back to making jokes and acting happily.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Due to the blue skin and opaque white eyes, it's pretty obvious that Mystique is his mother.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: He inherited them from his mother.
• Tele-Frag: When Scarlet Witch messes up his powers and causes him to teleport into a sign. The sign is pushed apart by Nightcrawler appearing in the middle of it. What would happen if it had been a person is left to the imagination.
• Teleporter Accident: Forge tries to extend the range of Nightcrawler's teleportation, and ends up creating rifts to the hell-like dimension Nightcrawler uses to move from place to place. Needless to say, the inhabitants get out.
• Teleportation with Drawbacks: Nightcrawler's powers aren't especially elaborated on, though at one point he explains to Kitty he can't teleport them off an airplane due to being way too high up and moving too fast. Objects will also break apart if he teleports into them, so one can only wonder what would happen if he teleported into a person. Messing with his teleporting can also allow a hellish dimension to leak through.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the comics, Amanda is Kurt's adopted sister whom he dates; here they keep the romance but cut out the sibling angle.
• Wall Crawling: He can stick to walls. He's even called "Wall Crawler" at one point.

Rogue

"Me and Miss Popularity there are worlds apart, galaxies, but then I realized something. She would do the same thing for me."^note  regarding Jean

Codename: Rogue
Real Name: Unknown
Voiced by: Meghan Black ^{Foreign VAs}Alexandra Corréa (FR)

Rogue is a mysterious mutant who absorbs the memories and abilities of others through touch. Due to her powers, Rogue has become withdrawn, bitter, anti-social, and sullen. Only after learning to trust the other X-Men, does she begin to open up. Rogue is Mystique's adopted daughter, but turns her back on Mystique after learning that she was only using her and joins the X-Men. She develops a massive crush on Cyclops, but later accepts that Scott loves Jean and not her.

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• Action Girl: She has mutant powers and she does use them occasionally but relies more on her combat skills to fight enemies.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Rogue of the comics and other adaptations is more of a Southern Belle. The cartoon presents her as an awkward, sarcastic goth who happens to be from the South.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Her eyes are generally green in the comics, but they're portrayed as grey in the show.
• Adaptational Wimp: She lacks her comic book self's super strength and flight^note  Those were absorbed from a heroine who doesn't appear to exist in this continuity. ; and although the powers and memories she absorbs from her victims are permanent, she is unable to voluntarily tap into them for more than a few minutes after absorption, and they begin to overwhelm and drive her insane with time.
• All Love Is Unrequited:
  • Her love for Cyclops can never be returned; although series writer Frank Puar says that though Rogue lost to Jean during their teen years, the small glimpse of the future team from the series finale showed subtle hints that after Jean's disastrous contact with the Phoenix Force and subsequent death, Rogue would finally be able to confess her feelings for Scott and they would become a couple.
  • Cody, the star football player from her hometown in her debut episode, had been staring at her for a week before being brave enough to ask her for a dance, but is accidentally put into a coma due to her latent mutation.
• All Your Powers Combined: In "Self Possessed", the personalities she had absorbed in previous episodes begin to surface and overwhelm her mind, allowing her to use all their powers at the same time. Though Xavier erases these abilities by the end of the episode, Rogue would reclaim them on top with a few others in "Dark Horizon".
• Anti-Villain: Starts out as a member of the Brotherhood, due to feeling isolated because of her uncontrollable power.
• Badass Adorable: Is a very shy and pretty girl with superpowers.
• Badass Biker: She commandeers Logan’s motorcycle for them to escape military capture, and proves plenty skilled with it.
• Badass Longcoat: She wears a brown coat◊ every now and then.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Brawn to Kitty’s Beauty and Jean’s Brains. She’s the most aggressive, with a rebellious attitude and a Touch of Death power by skin contact that works wonders in a fist fight.
• Blessed with Suck: Zigzagged.
  • Her mutation means she can never touch anyone without injuring or knocking them out, but it also makes Rogue a force to be reckoned when she joins a fight. She is often shown using her power to knock out one opponent, and then proceeding to use the stolen power to take care of the rest of her enemies. Or if one of her friends is knocked out anyway, she takes their powers as an extra boost to the group's fighting strength. She definitely uses her power much more liberally not to mention more effectively than in other media portrayals.
  • "Self Possessed" reveals that her mutation permanently stores the powers and memories from the people she touches. However, she cannot voluntarily tap into them, and they begin to overwhelm her original personality, driving her to the brink of insanity. It takes Xavier's intervention to prevent the other personalities from taking over her body.
• Broken Bird: Rogue was purposefully raised as an outsider by Mystique and Destiny to manipulate her into becoming Mystique's tool, cannot touch anyone without draining them due to her mutant ability, and to top it all off suffers from a bad case of unrequited love for Scott and consequentially is bitterly jealous of Scott's official Love Interest Jean.
• Clothing Damage: Somewhat justified. In the Season 3 two-parter finale, Rogue is hit head-on by a massive fire blast from Pyro. Having just absorbed Colossus' metal skin power, she comes out of it unharmed. Her clothes, however, are burned off except for the obvious necessary bits and some extra scraps.
• Conflicting Loyalty: In the earlier parts of the first season, Rogue was torn between her feelings towards Scott and the X-Men, and her loyalty to her superior Mystique and the Brotherhood. She ends up officially joining the X-Men when she learns that Mystique has been manipulating her from the start and that her feelings of mistrust for the X-Men were misplaced.
• Conspicuous Gloves: Rogue wears gloves so as not to accidentally touch anyone, since touching her skin causes her to absorb others' memories and physical abilities, often harming or potentially killing them.
• Cute Bruiser: Is a very cute, shy and pretty girl who likes being tough.
• Cool Big Sis: Kurt comes to see her as this once they find out she is his adoptive sister. She seems to reciprocate the feelings by the series' end, as they walk away together after rejecting Mystique.
• Deadpan Snarker: As a rather moody character, she's quick to throw some sarcasm out every now and then.
• Distracted by the Sexy: She's so taken with Gambit when she first meets him that she doesn't realize he's given her a card that's about to explode.
• Energy Absorption: If her skin touches anyone else's then she'll absorb energy as well as their memories and abilities. The longer she holds on, the more she absorbs.
• Fights Like a Normal: Due to the nature of her power, most Danger Room scenes have her instead use basic training and martial arts to deal with the robotic threats and use her powers sporadically. Shown off in Cajun Spice, where she uses her power for mind reading only and mostly takes out the Rippers with just outmatching them in fighting skills.
• Goth: A huge departure from her Southern Belle comic persona. And it proved to be quite popular. Some Comic writers (notably Grant Morrison) wanted to Canon Immigrant this, but never got the chance to. Instead it appears X-23 has absorbed this trait when adapted into the Comics.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Rogue shows some jealousy toward Jean, possibly due to her own power's drawback and Jean seeming to be perfect in every way. This becomes clear in season two's Power Surge where Jean can telepathically hear Rogue snark on her for winning an award, and later for believing Professor Xavier gives Jean preferential treatment. Knowing that Scott, who she has a crush on, really loves Jean doesn't help either. At the end, she acknowledges that for all their differences, Jean does care for her.
• Heel–Face Turn: She initially joined the Brotherhood of Mutants, but left to join the X-Men after finding out that they recruited her to be a potential weapon.
• Hopeless Suitor: For Scott since he only has eyes for Jean.
• Identity Breakdown: In the episode "Self Possessed," Rogue's powers are revealed to not only take the abilities of others, but permanently store them inside of her. The personalities of all the people she's absorbed abilities from begin to overwhelm her and threaten a Split-Personality Takeover, which drives her to the brink of madness as she struggles to maintain her sense of self. Xavier has to intervene, erasing the personalities from her mind, in order to save her.
• Kiss of Death: She did this to Gambit in "Dark Horizon" to absorb his powers, though it only knocks him out.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Jean and Kitty's light. Rogue is a snarky, brooding gothic loner whereas Jean and Kitty are both bright and friendly long-haired extroverts.
• Most Common Superpower: As expected from Rogue. While not to the levels seen in the comics, she is realistically proportioned but still more ample than the other X-Men.
• Mundane Utility: She once used her power so she could dance like Kitty.
• Ms. Fanservice: Despite her appearance, Rogue is very cute, hot and beautiful.
• Nice Girl: She is very kind, protective, caring, brave and loving inside, despite the sarcasm and broken heart.
• No Name Given: She's referred to as 'a rogue' by Xavier in her origin episode, then she expresses a lack of memory. Since then, her name was never revealed in the show, and she was only referred to as Rogue. Many have taken to calling her Anna Marie, her current comic name, but it's more of a fanon thing right now.
• Odd Friendship: With Kitty. The girls have nothing in common, and earlier episodes showed them as not being able to stand each other, though later on the two quickly grow to become close friends.
• One-Man Army: In "Dark Horizon", Rogue ambushes and defeats the entire cast while under Mesmero's control.
• Only One Name: Just Rogue. One wonders how that worked at school.
• Out of the Inferno: When Rogue is brainwashed by Mesmero to steal the powers of dozens of mutants, she targets Magneto's crew. After taking out most of them, Pyro blasts her. She walks out of the fire with some Clothing Damage and Colossus' metal skin power active.
• Personality Powers: She's a gloomy, withdrawn goth with an uncontrollable death touch.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Her comics' counterpart never had romantic feelings for Scott.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Jean's blue, with Rogue being cynical, tough, impulsive and willing to break the rules.
• Redhead In Green: Rogue has auburn hair but she still qualifies. In one of her civvies outfits, she wears a green mesh top over her black halter. And her X-Men battle uniform has a green armor platelet that goes over her chest area.
• The Resenter: A little bit, for Jean. During the first episode of season 2, Jean catches Rogue getting chided by the Professor, with Rogue thinking to herself the Professor would never treat Jean the same way.
• Shapeshifter Identity Crisis: When her powers become unstable all the personalities she's ever absorbed begin to surface and with Mystique's powers she takes the form of whatever person she has previously been in contact with.
• Ship Tease: Beside her crush on Scott, in the later seasons she had one full episode of blatant teases with Gambit, plus scattered moments in other episodes. Though according to the character designer and occasional director of the series, they kept this to a minimum because a lot of the writing team shipped Scott and Rogue.
• Sixth Ranger: She became the last member to join the original team before the recruits appeared.
• Stereotype Flip: Her gothic-influenced fashion sense runs pretty contrary to most stereotypes about people from the American South (particularly the Deep South, where she's from).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She was the unwitting accomplice that helped Mystique release Wanda from the mental institution and recruit her into the Brotherhood, because she briefly toured Risty/Mystique around the Institute in "Power Surge," familiarizing her with Cerebro. When Risty returned there accompanied by Arcade in "Fun and Games," she gathered data on Charles' sessions with Wanda as revealed in "The HeX Factor."
• Wakeup Makeup: Rogue is never seen without her makeup. Even when Avalanche pushed her into a pool, or when she just steps out of the shower, her make-up is completely intact. Though there is one episode in season 4, "Cajun Spice," where Rogue falls into a lake and comes out makeup-free.
• When She Smiles: She doesn't smile a lot, but when she does, it's a very beautiful and heartwarming thing.
• Workout Fanservice: Gets in a couple of very well animated athletic training scenes in a lowcut sports bra and tight leggings.

Shadowcat

"I don't have any gifts, just a curse."

Codename: Shadowcat

Real Name: Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde

Voiced by: Maggie Blue O'Hara ^{Foreign VAs}Géraldine Frippiat (FR)

A mutant from Northbrook, Illinois whose ability allows her to become intangible. Shadowcat is the youngest member of the team and is characterized by her upbeat nature and cheerfulness. She usually pals around with Nightcrawler since they are about the same age. Her on-again off-again romance with Avalanche was a sub-plot that continued through all four seasons. She first develops a crush on him while still in school, but it turned out he was only using her to steal test answers. Later, even though they are on opposite teams, Lance saves her life and her opinion of him changes. They date for a while, but their differences break them up, before ultimately reigniting their romantic relationship after the fight against Apocalypse.

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• Action Girl: She gets to join in on the action frequently as one of the team's core members.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Her eyes are generally portrayed as brown/hazel in the comics, but here they're a light blue.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • "Kitty" is a nickname to begin with. (Her real first name is Katherine.)
  • Avalanche calls her "Pretty Kitty" and "Kit-Kat", alternatively.
  • Wolverine calls her "Half-Pint".
  • Spyke calls her "K-Girl".
• Age Lift:
  • Slightly. In the comics, she was in middle school when she first got her powers. Here, she's in high school.
  • Unlike the comics, Kitty is the same age as Scott, Jean, Kurt, etc. This means she's more of a peer to the other X-Men, not a Tag Along Kid.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted in that Kitty was attracted to the good person inside of Lance, and wasn't super thrilled when he acted like an asshole. Although to a 15-year-old girl being pursued by an older and handsome bad boy wasn't exactly a turn-off.
• Badass Adorable: Cute, sweet, and naïve, and she can whoop ass along with the rest of the X-Men.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Beauty to Jean’s Brains and Rogue’s Brawn. She’s a cute Valley Girl and the most feminine of the X-Men girls.
• Brainy Brunette: Kitty has long, brown hair, most often tied back in a high ponytail. She's shown to be well versed with the mansion's computer system, and was stated to be a straight A student with taking senior-class courses like trigonometry and astrophysics. So its more that she just acts a little ditzy.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: The only class she doesn't ace is gym.
• Dating Catwoman: She briefly dates Avalanche in the second season, but they both realize the relationship is not going to work as long as they are in opposing teams. Their interactions in the final episode imply they still have feelings for each other.
• Ditzy Genius: Although she speaks like a Valley Girl, she's quite smart. In her first episode, the Girl Posse claim she's acing all of her classes except PE. In another episode she and Evan figure out how Forge's machine works simply by examining it. And she also demonstrates knowledge of how to short out a helicopter's weapon system without knocking down the craft.
• Drives Like Crazy: Her driving even scares Wolverine, due to her habit of phasing the car through obstacles. Scott was so scared that he stated he never wanted to ride a vehicle again.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's seen cuddling/sleeping with a stuffed, purple dragon, which is a reference to Lockheed, Kitty's pet dragon from the comics.
• Girly Bruiser: Has a Valley Girl personality but capable of kicking just as much ass as her teammates.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Lance.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At first. But she gets over it after a few episodes.
• Informed Judaism: The only evidence that she's Jewish is a scene of her lighting the menorah in her home in the Christmas Episode.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Kitty has huge light blue eyes and she has a sweet and optimistic personality.
• Intangibility: She can phase through solid objects and even people. Amusingly in one episode she phases through Beast while brushing her teeth...and accidentally leaves the toothbrush inside him.
• Lethal Chef: Oh, yes. She gains this reputation after she uses Kurt as a guinea pig for her muffins. After a couple of batches, he bolts whenever she asks him to taste her cooking.
• Letting Her Hair Down: Shadowcat undoes her trademark ponytail once she starts fighting crime as a Bayville Siren in episode “Walk On The Wild Side”.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Along with Jean, both are the light to Rogue's dark. Kitty is a sweet, bubbly, pink-wearing girl whereas Rogue is a snarky, brooding gothic loner who has a much shorter hairstyle than the former two.
• Like Is, Like, a Comma: Like, she tends to talk this way. Occasionally it gets to the point where her teammates can barely even understand her.
• Morality Pet: From season two on, definitely Lance's. While his antagonism towards the X-Men, especially Scott, remains intact, Kitty is the only member he has a soft spot for, even going as far as to briefly join the X-Men just to be closer to her. She also inspires most of his heroic feats, including how she convinces him to join the battle against Apocalypse during the finale.
• Ms. Fanservice: A modest example, but she spends an episode or two clad in nothing but a swimsuit, so it's there in a "girl next door" kind of way.
• Naïve Newcomer: She definitely feels like a fish out of water when she first joins the X-Men, being particularly weirded out by Kurt's appearance at first.
• Not Quite Flight: Kitty has been shown (at least once) being able to float/walk on air using her phasing power. She can also phase upward through ceilings, which has about the same effect as levitation.
• Odd Friendship: With Rogue. Once the latter joins the team, the two of them can often be seen hanging out together in spite of their very different personalities. They even go on a mission together in "The Stuff of Villains."
• Official Couple: She gets back together with Lance in the last episode.
• Opposites Attract: She's a sweet, naive uptown Valley girl who hooks up with the grungy, hot-headed and rebellious loner Lance. Also, they are on opposing teams; Kitty's part of the heroic X-Men whereas Lance is the field leader of the villainous Brotherhood.
• Pink Is Feminine: She wears a pink sweater cardigan with her main outfit, her pajamas are pink, and she has a pink one-piece swimsuit. And she’s definitely girly too.
• Plucky Girl: Although she's initially nervous with being on the X-Men, she demonstrates a lot of bravery and determination when the occasion calls for it and in later seasons.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: To the extent that Wolverine once snaps at her: "And don't give me them puppy-dog eyes, Half-Pint!"
• Ship Tease: Occasionally with Evan. She's notably more affectionate to him than the other X-kids.
• Stuffed into a Locker: This happens to her in her debut episode, mostly as an excuse for Kitty to discover her ability to phase past solid objects. So naturally, this causes her to bump into Avalanche to kick off the plot.
• Teen Genius: A straight-A student (although her intelligence was somewhat downplayed compared to other versions of Shadowcat).
• Unexplained Accent: Talks like a stereotypical Southern California Valley Girl, despite ostensibly being from Illinois.
• Valley Girl: Unlike her comic book counterpart. However, she stopped, like totally, after the first season. For sure.
• Walking Techbane: Like her comics counterpart, her powers can often cause machinery to malfunction if she phases through them.

The Teachers

Wolverine

"We're definitely gonna need more instructors. An' maybe a couple of tanks."

Codename: Wolverine

Real Name: Unknown, goes by Logan

Voiced by: Scott McNeil ^{Foreign VAs}Robert Dubois (FR)

The X-Men's top fighter and chief drill instructor to the students. His keen senses help him track down adversaries and alert him of danger ahead. His healing powers make him nearly impossible to defeat in a brawl. Adamantium claws are capable of shredding enemies and just about any inanimate object as well. His past is a mystery to everyone, including himself. It is a rather lengthy past as well because his healing factor has drastically slowed the aging of his body. He was already an adult by World War II. Unlike in other X-Men series, Wolverine plays a supporting role in X-Men: Evolution and is more of a Papa Wolf than carousing badass.

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• A Day in the Limelight: A few, particularly "Grim Reminder" in season 1 (which focuses on his backstory), "Operation: Rebirth" (which includes his time fighting alongside Captain America in World War 2), and "X23" (which introduces his eponymous clone).
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Due to the series' changes to certain character's ages, he never falls in love with teenage Jean Grey, and therefore never has the heated rivalry with Cyclops that is the cause for much of his Jerkass behavior in the comics (though the two did briefly have a leadership struggle).
  • Also, while he always was fond of young mutant daughter figures, it would take the comic version decades of Character Development for him to be anywhere close to willing to play father figure with Storm and Xavier for an entire group of mutant children before any school for gifted youngsters or superhero team was properly established. Here, he's one the school's founding members alongside Xavier, Storm, and Beast.
• Anime Hair: It actually bends backwards and up.
• Arch-Enemy: With Sabretooth.
• Badass Biker: Logan owns two motorcycles and is often seen driving them. And just watch the beginning sequence of “Operation: Rebirth” where Wolverine being chased by the military in the woods on his motorcycle. Talk about badass!
• Badass Teacher: He's the students' chief drill instructor, and he kicks a lot of ass.
• Bash Brothers: With Captain America back in WWII, who he promises to one day find a cure for his recovery.
• Berserk Button: If anyone refers him as "Weapon X", it really gets under Logan's skin.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He gradually warms up to Kitty and Kurt nicknaming them "Half-pint" and "Elf" respectively, and is the most friendly to Rogue.
• Composite Character: He has Cyclops' usual role from the comics and other animated adaptations of being the first X-Man and Xavier's right-hand man.
• Cool Old Guy: The guy was around helping Captain America in WWII.
• Costume Evolution: In the first two seasons, Wolverine wore the iconic classic costume with mask like in the comics. But in the final two seasons, he adopted the second costume of his counterpart in Ultimate X Men, which started concurrently with Evolution (both series starting in 2000). Most likely because after mutants were exposed, there was no point in in hiding his face.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often delivers sarcastic lines when dealing with the students.
• Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Whenever the students are having issues with themselves or their powers, he's there to help make sense of it since he's been there himself. Most notably to Rogue.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Can be at times; see Training from Hell below.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Technically, his hair is supposed to be black, but with the way the animation is, it looks more dark blue than black.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Downplayed. Despite his temper and violent attributions, he does try to control them.
• Healing Factor: Due to the nature of most children's shows, this can't be shown that effectively. But it's better shown here when Wolverine’s shown to have broken his legs from a helicopter jump, and later on in Season 4 when he falls out of a plane.
• I Work Alone: Downplayed. Although he prefers to be alone, he does enjoy the company of those he likes.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Kitty and Rogue.
• Mysterious Past: Some episodes go into his past... a little.
• The Nicknamer: "Chuck" for Professor X, "Red" for Jean, "Elf" for Nightcrawler, and "Half-Pint" for Kitty.
• The Nose Knows: His tracking mutant ability.
• Older Than They Look: Thanks to his self-regeneration power, Logan’s true age will never be revealed but it's shown he was at least old enough to have served in the military along with Cap, which he did in this cartoon. Magneto was a kid back then.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: X-23
• Papa Wolf: Hurt any of his X-Men at your own risk. Especially Kitty, Rogue, and X-23.
• Parental Substitute: To X-23. Even though she's basically his Opposite-Sex Clone, he treats her like he would with his own daughter.
• Screaming Warrior: Logan can be counted on to be yelling or roaring in battle when taking down foes.
• Shipper on Deck: Rather amusingly, he serves as one for Scott and Jean here. When Scott is wondering about communicating his feelings to Jean and decides to ask Logan of all people for girl advice, Logan tells him that if he won't tell her his feelings Logan will. At the end when they hook up, Logan merely says, "About time".
• Super-Senses: Wolverine's senses are so high-tuned, he can recognize and track people by individual scents — this ability also allows him to see through shape-shifter disguises.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Inverted. as despite a notable things about the Logan of the comics (including how he got the adamantium regrafted onto his skeleton after Magnetl ripped the metal out in Fatal Attraction), he's never made one on the show.
• Training from Hell: This trope gets first deconstructed, and then reconstructed - in the first X-23 episode, it's established that he can be pretty harsh with training the younger X-Men-to-be, to the point that Rogue wouldn't admit she'd gotten better (after the last episode's events) to avoid it. After his experience with the aforementioned Tyke-Bomb, he loosens up because "Sometimes you gotta let kids just be kids". He realizes that pushing teenagers too far in training is detrimental, and he eases up by the end. Contains hilarity in that Rogue of all people was pretending to still be sick in an effort to evade his training session.
• True Companions: In their first scene together you can tell just how much he and Charles trust each other, and through the whole series they remain good confidants to each other.
• Undying Loyalty: To Charles and his school.
• Wolverine Claws: Well, obviously. His claws along with the rest of the bones in his body were bonded with an nigh-unbreakable metal known as adamantium as part of the Weapon X program.
• The Worf Effect: Need to establish someone like The Juggernaut as a huge threat? Have them kick Wolverine's ass.

Storm

"I'm a weather-witch, not a snow plow. I'm doing the best I can."

Codename: Storm

Real Name: Ororo Munroe

Voiced by: Kirsten Williamson ^{Foreign VAs}Francine Laffineuse (FR)

One of Professor Xavier's top teachers, Storm is seen as a role model by the students. She is also one of the most powerful mutants alive due to her ability to manipulate the weather. One of her few weaknesses is her claustrophobia which was explored in her one spotlight episode African Storm.

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• Action Girl: Due to being an adult in contrast to the rest of the teenagers, she's quite powerful.
• Adaptational Modesty: She doesn't have her usual Leotard of Power from the comics - instead she wears a modest bodysuit.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her nephew Evan calls her "Auntie O".
• Badass Cape: She wears a nice dark blue cape as a part of her costume.
• Badass Teacher: She's not shown teaching that much, but she's suitably badass.
• Blow You Away: She can manipulate the winds to great effect.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: Storm isn't an actual goddess, but her mutant power gives her the ability to smite enemies with massive bolts of lightning from the sky if she's sufficiently mad.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: First when Hungan captures her will into his scepter, giving him the ability to control her body, using her powers to attack the X-Men. Later she becomes one of Apocalypse's Horsemen.
• Brightness Shadows: Storm's lightning attacks create darker shadows upon striking people, as does Rogue's version when she's copying her powers during their fight.
• Caring Gardener: She uses her weather manipulating powers to water the plants in the mansion’s greenhouse in her spare time.
• Claustrophobia: As in the comics, she's got a great fear of confined spaces. One Danger Room simulation had her trapped in a tight box and she freaked out.
• Combat Stilettos: She has these on in both of her series and post-series costumes, but they're a non-issue for her since she's often seen floating or flying.
• Cool Aunt: To Evan. He outright calls her this in his video project.
• A Day in the Limelight: Her spotlight episode, "African Storm".
• Demoted to Extra: Despite always having been a major player in the X-Men franchise, she receives very little focus in this series and only has one episode centered around her during the entire run of the show.
• Elemental Powers: She has complete control over the weather, which gives her the ability to whip up lightning, wind, rain and ice storms in combat. Hence her codename Storm.
• Emotional Powers: Ororo's powers have always been closely linked with her emotions. As such she has had to teach herself a large degree of self control. Containing her emotions isn’t always easy though and when she fails, the results can be quite dramatic.
• Fisher King: The weather changes according to her mood.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Whenever she is using her powers.
• God Guise: She was worshiped as a goddess in Africa due to her ability to summon the rains.
• An Ice Person: Comes with her control of the weather which includes blizzards and hailstorms.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: Word of God from the guy who designed the characters, Storm has very long shapely legs and curvy hips.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Ororo’s eyes can be seen as changing from blue to purple depending on the episode.
• Lady of Black Magic: Her mutant powers give her control over the elements, and she's a Physical Goddess with a regal manner.
• Making a Splash: Can produce rain, of course.
• Mama Bear: It's best not to mess with the younger X-Men. And more specifically with her nephew Spyke.
• Mark of the Beast: She receives blue markings similar to those of Apocalypse when he "recruits" her as one of his horsemen.
• Monochromatic Eyes: She has normal blue eyes until she uses her powers, causing them to glow white.
• Mundane Utility: She frequently use her weather powers to generate small rains to water her plants or fill up a water fountain.
• Mystical White Hair: Courtesy of her mutant powers.
• Not Quite Flight: She can fly by using her powers to manipulate the winds surrounding her.
• Occult Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes, which is extremely rare among non-Europeans.
• Physical Goddess: Was worshipped as one by her tribe.
• Shock and Awe: Her most famous power; creating lightning either from the clouds or her hands.
• Statuesque Stunner: As per usual, Storm is a towering beauty!
• Team Mom: And aunt to Spyke.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Unlike the comics, where she was no ties to the Horsemen, Apocalypse forcibly conscripts her to be one.
• Weather Dissonance: She tends to whip up fogs and tornadoes to suit her purposes.
• Weather Manipulation: As her codename implies, Storm’s mutant abilities allow her to create storms and manipulate wind, rain and lightning. Using the wind she can fly.

Beast

"I can see now that teaching mutants will require entirely different skills."

Codename: Beast

Real Name: Hank McCoy

Voiced by: Michael Kopsa ^{Foreign VAs}Jean-Paul Dermont (FR)

Hank McCoy was a popular teacher at Bayville High who held a dark secret. His mutation gave him a burly physique with large hands and feet and unparalleled agility, but also a feral side to his mind. After school hours, he worked on a serum he hoped would stop his primal regressions when simply reciting Shakespeare wasn't enough to keep him focused. But unfortunately his beastly side was set free by an attempt to make a better serum, turning him into a blue furred beast. He damaged the school, also threatening Principal Kelly in an uncontrollable rage. The X-Men eventually were able to locate and subdue him. Soon the rage subsided, but life would never be the same. His rampage at the school and his drastic and permanent change in physical appearance would make any public appearance too startling for a general population unaware of the mutants among them. Hank remained at the Xavier Institute as a teacher for the New Recruits. Similar to Wolverine and Storm, he is more of a bit player due to the focus being on the students.

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• Adaptational Late Appearance: In the comics, he was in the first issue when the X-Men as founded. Here, Hank appears after the X-Men was already formed in the second season.
• Age Lift: In the comics, he was around the same age as Scott and Jean when he first arrived at Xavier's School. Here, he's a middle-aged teacher while Scott and Jean are high school students in their late teens.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: The fur which covers out his body is a blue-grey color.
• Badass Teacher: He was pretty tough before mutating into his blue, furry form.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a very nice person, but push him too far and you WILL regret it.
• Cool Teacher: In the eyes of the New Mutants, in stark contrast to Wolverine's Stern Teacher or Jean and Scott's Politically Motivated Teacher mentality. He was also this during his brief tenure at Bayville High, as he was a supportive coach for the sports teams and the students enjoyed his science class, as well as his friendly personality and attempts at humor.
• Cultured Badass: Always finds ways to make sophisticated references to literature and science.
• Curtains Match the Window: After his mutation, his eye color matches his blue fur.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He starts off as Bayville High’s chemistry and gym teacher before he officially joins the X-Men later as Beast.
• Establishing Character Moment: His first scene after entering the classroom in Season 2 is to ask if any of the students want to create a stink bomb, right after Lance and Kitty were talking about one. A later scene also has him kick Duncan off the track team immediately after he rams into Scott during a dash. More importantly, when he goes to Scott, whose shades had been knocked off, he instantly but quietly tells him to keep his eyes closed as he puts the shades back on, establishing he's a Secret Secret-Keeper to his mutant students episodes before we learn about his debut as Beast.
• Freakiness Shame: Like with Kurt, Hank feels like a freak at times after trying to cure himself, despite he still retains his mind. Even when Xavier suggested to give him a holographic inducer, Hank doesn't want to reenter the world. He does get over it after a researcher captured Hank McCoy after mistaking him for Bigfoot. When he finds out that McCoy is intelligent, he is amazed and does his best to save him from overzealous hunters. Since then, never had much of a problem of his appearance.
• Gentle Giant: Sure he looks big and scary, but he has the temperament of a teddy bear.
• Lightning Bruiser: Not only is Hank strong, but he's also incredibly fast and agile.
• Mutants: Hank is both a mutant and a mutate. He was born a mutant with ape-like features and abilities. He mutated himself by ingesting a serum which made him more animal-like. It turned him into a new form with new powers. He grew blue-gray fur over his entire body, his muscles expanded, ears became larger and pointed, and his canine teeth became larger, resembling fangs. The serum further increased his superhuman agility, endurance, speed, and strength, as well as enhanced his senses.
• Pointy Ears: When he mutated himself, Beast gained pointy ears.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: He’s stuck in the furry blue “Beast” mode and can never change back into regular human Hank because his mutation could no longer be controlled with the serum he had formulated upon first learning of his mutation.
• Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Not only a practice of his, it's also how Spyke gets through to him.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Hank sometimes wears reading glasses and he's a genius scientist.
• Super-Strength: Has always had some level of super strength which has increased even more when his mutation evolved.
• Team Dad: To the New Mutants.
• Techno Wizard: He is an expert in electronics.
• Underwear of Power: His X-Men costume whenever he’s on missions is just underwear covering his crotch and buttocks.

Professor X

"You know, handling defeat is as much mark of your character as coming home the victor. And from what I see, this was a lesson, apparently, much needed."

Codename: Professor X

Real Name: Prof. Charles Xavier

Voiced by: David Kaye ^{Foreign VAs}Jean-Marc Delhausse (FR)

The team's telepathic mentor and financier. He is the world's most powerful telepath and founder of the X-Men. His goal is to maintain a peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants. He created a school which trains mutants to use their powers responsibly and discreetly in order to prevent panic from the general human population. This philosophy puts him at odds with mutants such as Magneto who believe mutants should be dominating humanity rather than hiding from it.

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• Adaptational Nationality: Xavier was American in the comics, but here he speaks with a British accent. This seems inspired by the movie released few years prior to the series, where Xavier is portrayed by British actor Patrick Stewart.
• Badass Teacher: Professor Charles Xavier has a doctorate in genetics and is the most powerful telepath in the world.
• Big Good: He is the wise leader of the X-Men, principal of the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters, and his mission is to create a world where mutants and Muggles to co-exist peacefully.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the final season, he's captured by Apocalypse and turned into one of his Horsemen.
• Chrome Dome Psi: He’s bald and a telepath.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: As with every version of Xavier since the first X-Men, he sounds a lot like Patrick Stewart, though this version sounds like a fusion of Stewart and Sean Connery.
• Friendly Enemy: How Xavier sees Magneto, although their friendship is not as emphasized as in other portrayals.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He's responsible for the creation of technological achievements such as the mutant-tracking computer Cerebro, the Danger Room, Nightcrawler’s holowatch and the Juggernaut's holding cell.
• Genius Cripple: Paraplegic and not just smart, but also his mutation gives him one of the most powerful minds in the world.
• Gentleman and a Scholar: He's well-educated and carries some characteristics of a Quintessential British Gentleman.
• Mark of the Beast: He receives blue markings similar to those of Apocalypse when he "recruits" him as one of his horsemen.
• Mind over Manners: He often prefers to "ask" before he reads your mind.
• Non-Action Guy: Justified since he's wheelchair-bound. Not that it impedes his telepathic powers. He could perform Mind Rape and the like, making him a destructive force, if he wasn't so moral.
• Not So Above It All: Despite being generally concerned for the larger picture and being a stern but fair father figure they can all trust, it doesn't stop him from reprogramming Nightcrawler's image inducer to make him look like a girl after he broke it.
• Psychic Powers: One of the most powerful psychics in the franchise (the comics and cartoons).
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: Xavier and Juggernaut are half-brothers instead of step-brothers like in the comics.
• Shaping Your Attacks: With Apocalypse’s power-up, Xavier can create a literal psychic scythe.
• The Team Benefactor: Xavier’s wealth allows him to supply the team with whatever they may need. He’s able to fund room and board for all of his students/teachers who all live in a mansion, having access to its spacious grounds and enough money to have his X-Men ride into action in a private jet, rebuild the Xavier Institute including the Danger Room and all the various technology that is inevitably damaged every other week in training simulations.
• Team Dad: Several of the X-Men view him as their father figure, especially Scott and Jean.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Unlike the comics, where he was no ties to the Horsemen, Apocalypse forcibly conscripts him to be one.
• Telepathy: With his formidable psychic powers, Professor X can read and communicate with other minds, apply Mind Manipulation and Laser-Guided Amnesia, has the capability of accessing, suppressing and restoring memories, able to generate mental blocks onto others’ minds, and include sleep. These are just some of the things that he can do with his mutant ability.
• Took a Level in Badass: Once he is turned into one of the Horsemen of Apocalypse, Professor X's psychokinesis receives a boost in versatility and raw power, granting him telekinesis, levitation, the ability to fire psionic blasts, and the power to manifest his mind as a shapeshifting being of pure energy. It took Jean using Cerebro and tapping into the power of the Phoenix just to hold him off.

New Mutants/New Recruits

Iceman

"Hey! Did you see? Were you watching? This time it took me almost twice as long to crash and burn."

Codename: Iceman

Real Name: Robert 'Bobby' Drake

Voiced by: Andrew Francis ^{Foreign VAs}David Scarpuzza (FR)

Iceman, also known as Bobby Drake, is the unofficial leader of the 'baby' group, the New Mutants. He is the most outgoing of the new recruits and he later becomes a standby X-Man to take the place of Spyke. After Spyke's departure, he became a regular in X-Men missions, including being considered one of the more "experienced" students during the Season Three finale to join Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey, Beast, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Shadowcat to fight Apocalypse. Iceman has the ability to convert his body to ice and to produce ice from his hands.

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• Adaptational Late Appearance: In the comics, he was in the first issue when the X-Men as founded and was one of the founding members. Here, Drake appears after the X-Men was already formed in the second season.
• Ascended Extra: Starts off as nothing more than an extra face. By Season 4, he's officially taken over Evan's role in the series, getting to hang out with the main X-Men. Bobby himself points out in one episode that he's practically an X-Men by this point.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He's shown in the few times he gets to be on a mission to be a capable team player, and was a fairly competent leader during a Danger Room session, but usually his immaturity gets in the way.
• Chick Magnet: He gets his own legion of island fangirls while on a vacation cruise, and enjoys showing off for them.
• Class Clown: He’s almost always the one to act out and make a scene in class.
• An Ice Person: His codename is Iceman and his powers involve firing freezing blasts from his hands and shapeshifting into an icy form.
• Mr. Fanservice: He is not as tall or as muscular as the older men being an adolescent boy still but he has a moderate amount of muscle and he does get some scenes like when Beast took them out on a field trip and when the X Men were on a cruise ship wearing nothing but boardshorts.
• The Prankster: On occasion, Iceman uses his powers for pranks, such as dropping the temperature of a pool when the people inside insult the X-Men for being mutants.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: While this version would later join the X-Men, his comic counterpart was one of the original members and thus was never tied to the New Mutants.
• Too Dumb to Live: He stole the X-Jet for a joyride, broke into the Danger Room for unsupervised training, and put an iceberg in front of the cruise ship he himself was sailing on. If it wasn't for the intervention of the other, more experienced X-Men, he would very easily have gotten himself and many other innocent people killed.

Cannonball

Cannonball/Sam Guthrie

Codename: Cannonball
Real Name: Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie
Voiced by: Bill Switzer

The tall, blond southern boy who joined at the same time as the other New Recruits. More well rounded and likable than Bobby in some respects, he's easily identifiable by being a head taller than most of the students, even some of the original cast.

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• Barrier Warrior: Doesn't ever use his power to fight, he's more of an evacuation type person. In the final fight, all he does is fly Rogue to Apocalypse's strong hold.
• Flight: His power allows him to fly like a rocket, however unlike most people, he can't stop or float, meaning his only way to land is to crash.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Bobby.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Could have beat Logan in a race, but got cocky and decided to use his powers. Lost horribly because of this.
• Geek: Word of God bios for the New Recruits refer to him as such.
• Gentle Giant: The tallest of the New Recruits, but easily the nicest.
• The Klutz: He certainly crashes a lot.
• The Lancer / The Big Guy: To the New Recruits anyway.
• Ship Tease: Has a bit with Amara.

Jubilee

"I'm totally chafed. Class dismissed. I'm outta here!"

Codename: Jubilee

Real Name: Jubilation Lee

Voiced by: Chiara Zanni

Usually seen with Bobby, Sam, and Jamie, Jubilee is the second most seen female member of the New Recruits during Season 2. She's Put on a Bus despite proving to be rather popular amongst some of the fans when the executives decided there were too many characters. She has the ability to shoot firework-like 'plasmoids' either in the shape of actual fireworks or beams. Easily identifiable by her yellow jacket.

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• Brilliant, but Lazy: Her Word of God official bio describes her as this, not really shown however.
• Embarrassing First Name: Jubilation, never referred to as such in the show though.
• Lethal Harmless Powers: She fires explosive plasmoids! Regularly seen firing them at friends/other students.
• Mythology Gag: Constantly wears a yellow jacket when out of uniform. Season 2 ends with her clothes damaged enough to turn her normal jeans into shorts, making her look exactly how she did in the comics, only with longer hair.
• One of the Boys: Only seen hanging out with girls in two appearances; in every other scene, she's always with Bobby (and to lesser extent Sam and Jamie), either for his crazy adventures, or for the Ship Tease.
• Personality Powers: A cute, bubbly party girl with the ability to shoot fireworks.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Bobby, depending on who you ask.
• Put on a Bus: Alongside Wolfsbane she was written out at the beginning of season 3. Came back in the finale to help fight Apocalypse.
• Ship Tease: With Bobby, who she's usually paired up with in fanfics.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: She was never a New Mutant in the comics, instead being part of both the X-Men proper and Generation X.

Magma

"If this fails, it's not my fault, I told you I wasn't ready for this."

Codename: Magma

Real Name: Amara Juliana Olivia Aquilla

Voiced by: Alexandria Carter ^{Foreign VAs}Esther Aflalo (FR)

The only one to get a focal episode (two actually) but also the most powerful. Magma, as her name suggests, can generate heat and fire, along with to some extent control lava. A princess in her home country, Amara is one of the more girly members of the group, not to mention a little of a Shrinking Violet at first.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: Magma's appearance has been significantly altered from her comic book incarnation, where she has blond hair and blue eyes; in Evolution, she is fully Brazilian with dark brown hair and brown eyes.
• A Day in the Limelight: Ends up getting two focal episodes, "Walk On the Wild Side" and "Cruise Control".
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Similar to the one below, Amara was apparently going to be one of these, assumed to have mostly happened off screen.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: She can transform her body into magma and molten rocks along with Flaming Hair.
• Flaming Hair: She has this when in her lava form.
• Magma Man: Amara is a mutant with geothermal powers meaning that her mutant ability allows her to harness the power of the earth elements, allowing her to simulate effects associated with volcanic activity. She can create earthquakes too, but this is simply the logical side effect of bringing magma to the surface.
• Naïve Newcomer: In “Walk On The Wild Side”, it’s mentioned that it was her first day of starting high school. She's taken under Jean’s wing (and later Tabitha’s) throughout the episode.
• Ojou: The official bios stated that she’s a princess and has been described as having a somewhat haughty, "royal" attitude at times.
• Playing with Fire: With her mutant abilities, Amara also has the full range of fire powers at her disposal.
• Race Lift: She's actually from Brazil in both show and comics, but her comic appearance had her as a blue-eyed Caucasian Brazilian. In the show she is an Afro-Brazilian.
• Shrinking Violet: A minor example. Amara retains a rather shy, soft-spoken demeanor and she doesn’t have a lot of confidence as she gets easily discouraged when she does not live up to her own expectations.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Tabitha's Tomboy. Amara is more timid, sweet and insecure compared to Tabitha's more bold, adventurous and loud personality.

Wolfsbane

Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair

Codename: Wolfsbane

Real Name: Rahne Sinclair

Voiced by: Chantal Strand

Wolfsbane, also known as Rahne Sinclair, is a relatively serene individual, only speaking in four episodes and eventually being altogether removed from the cast during the third season despite being popular, but returned in a cameo during the series finale. She is of Scottish decent and is able to transform into a lupine form. Her name was mispronounced as "Rohn-ee" in "Retreat", but is correctly pronounced as rain in "Mainstream".

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• Animorphism: Her mutant ability allows her to transform into a full wolf or a werewolf (wolf-like humanoid) at will.
• Fanservice: Got a swimsuit scene in the episode 'Retreat', not only the first to do so but also the only New Recruit girl to wear a two piece.
• Flat Character: She doesn't exactly have as many characteristics that make her stick out from the rest of the cast, leading her to be Put on a Bus later on in Season 3.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her default hairstyle is two short pigtails.
• Magic Pants: Her clothes disappear when she turns into a wolf, and reappear when she turns back into human.
• The Nose Knows: Rahne has a superhuman sense of smell as part of her overall turning-into-a-werewolf package.
• Not Completely Useless: Most of the time her power to turn into a dog seemed almost completely useless, until the kids needed her to sniff out Beast after he'd been kidnapped by some Big-Foot hunters.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: She's a mutant human girl who can turn into either a full wolf or half wolf/human hybrid, her clothes slowly disappear while transforming (they are likely made of unstable molecules, this being a Marvel Universe after all), only to reform while transforming.
• Partial Transformation: She can change into a wolf or a transitional state between human and wolf.
• Put on a Bus: Until she appears one final time in the series finale, in Xavier's glimpse into the future, revealing that she does return to the team.
• Redhead In Green: Rahne has short red hair and (whenever she's not in her wolf form) is usually seen wearing a green cut-out shoulder, turtle neck top. She also has has green eyes and at one point wears a green bikini.
• Scotireland: Downplayed. She has a very mild to non-existent accent that almost sounds like the voice of a fairy.
• Ship Tease: She played around with Sam and helped Jamie with his homework which may explain her ships with them, but the most popular Rahne-related ships are with Roberto, based on the episode Retreat (being the only episode in which both of them actually speak in full sentences).
• The Voiceless: As said before, got two speaking roles; in one of them all she does is laugh a little, usually she's just in the background or in her wolf form.

Sunspot

Sunspot/Roberto da Costa

Codename: Sunspot

Real Name: Roberto da Costa

Voiced by: Michael Coleman

Sunspot, also known as Roberto da Costa, is a rich Brazilian boy with the power to absorb solar energy to gain super human capabilities, such as strength, speed, agility, and (seen in the first episode of Season 2) able to fly. Roberto was shown to be a perfectionist and an overachiever, and he seem to be romantically attracted to Wolfsbane. He does very little for the show but still retains a small but dedicated fanbase.

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• Battle Aura: When using his powers he becomes a black silhouette within yellow, Kirby Dotted flame. And just like his comics counterpart, sun-powered Super-Strength is his power - no heat is generated, regardless of how fiery he looks.
• Energy Absorption: He absorbs solar energy from the sun.
• Flying Brick: Only seen flying once, but his powers make him one.
• The Perfectionist: He is shown to be an overachiever.
• The Power of the Sun: His power comes from sunlight.
• Ship Tease: With Rahne in the episode Retreat, Namely the scene in which they're both wearing swimsuits and staring romantically at each other.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He's noted to be a little arrogant regarding his powers and abilities.
• Super-Strength: Sunspot has the ability to absorb solar energy and convert it for use as physical strength.
• The Voiceless: Speaks in one episode only.

Berzerker

Berzerker/Ray Crisp

Codename: Berzerker

Real Name: Ray Crisp

Voiced by: Tony Sampson ^{Foreign VAs}Alexandre Crépet (FR)

Berzerker, also known as Ray Crisp, has been significantly altered from his comic book incarnation, where he was an extremely violent Morlock; in Evolution, he's fairly mellow, though he still has a temper. He was initially intended to have an on-going rivalry with Sunspot, but aside from one scene this was phased out of the show. It's shown in a later episode that he was allied with the Morlocks before he joined Xavier's school and tried to stop Spyke from joining them. Often seen goofing off with Bobby, if he’s not blowing something up, he’s thinking of new, inventive ways to blow it up anyway. Berzerker's mutant power allows him to harness electricity or electrical discharges.

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• Aborted Arc: Was originally going to have a rivalry with Sunspot, but it was dropped after one episode.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Unlike his comic counterpart, Ray is laid back and generally non-violent.
• 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 dialouge 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.
• Ascended Extra: Appearing once in the comics as an Ax-Crazy Morlock, here he appears in a good number of B-Plots, usually as Bobby's second Male Best friend and speaks in almost every appearance.
• Berserk Button: Apparently hitting him in the face with a ball when using your powers in a non-powered game of volleyball is a sure fire way to set him off.
• Berserker Rage: His codename is Berzerker, after all.
• Big Brother Mentor: To the other New Recruits being the oldest among them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Word of God claims this as the reason they created him, they wanted a New Recruit who has a "bad boy" vibe, someone who acts tough but is really nice. In the show however he's almost always expressing the heart part.
• Mundane Utility: Thanks to his mutant powers, he can charge electric devices on the go, such as laptops and hair dryers.
• Only Sane Man: Surprisingly, he comes off as one of the most mature of the New Mutants. Yes, he has a temper but that doesn't distract that he’s the least seen when the other members are doing their normal shenanigans
• Psycho Electro: Not as powerful or as psychotic as some, but does have serious anger issues which were addressed at times and did hold his own against Storm (who at the time had been upgraded by Apocalypse).
• Shock and Awe: Ray’s mutant ability allows him to harness electricity.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: His comic counterpart was a Morlock throughout his tenure and never joined the New Mutants.

Multiple

"Awww I never get to go."

Codename: Multiple

Real Name: James 'Jamie' Madrox

Voiced by: David A Kaye (not the one who voices Professor X)

The youngest of the ensemble, Jamie is like the little brother none of them wanted. His power is to duplicate himself, his clothes, and any object he's holding but only when hit with external kinetic energy (such as being hit/knocked over), which causes him to get in the way due to his clumsiness.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Related to his Age Lift, but his full comic codename was "Multiple Man."
• Age Lift: He was Scott's age in the comics, while he's the youngest member of the New Mutants in the show.
• In Name Only: Aside from retaining his real name and powers, he has nothing in common with his comic book counterpart.
• Me's a Crowd: He's a self-duplicator - can create multiple copies of himself. It's shown that every copy is independent of itself but Jamie has the ability to also retract these copies at will.
• Precocious Crush: Hinted to have a bit of one on Kitty.
• Self-Duplication: Possesses the power to not only create clones of himself, but also of any objects that he might have knocked over.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: His comic counterpart had no ties to the New Mutants, instead being a member of the back-up X-Men that rose from the fallout of Fall of the Mutants and later various incarnations of X-Factor.
• The Team Wannabe: He keeps begging and pleading to be let in on the antics the other kids get themselves into, it usually never works. Which is actually a good thing.
• Vague Age: While the writers have stated they had no idea how old most of the characters were, Jamie's exact age in particular is uncertain, but they suggested he was around 12, which seems to fit.

Ex-Members

Spyke

"We've been expecting you. You gotta be sharp if you're gonna mess with the Spyke."

Codename: Spyke

Real Name: Evan Daniels

Voiced by: Neil Denis ^{Foreign VAs}Guillaume Legier (FR)

A mutant from New York City and also Storm's nephew. He has the ability to project bone-like spikes from his skin. Spyke is stubborn and lacks respect for authority. This often puts him in conflict with the other X-Men. When his powers can't be controlled he leaves the X-Men, and joins the Morlocks, becoming their champion.

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• Anti-Hero: Part of Evan's character development. At the start of the series he's a Classical Anti-Hero; he's the least serious-minded of the cast, regularly skipping out on meetings and acting hot headed. After his secondary mutation, and seeing the living condition of the Morlocks, Spyke grows into a Pragmatic Hero, taking to vigilantism to protect mutants who are being bullied and attacked by humans, but his heart remains in the right place.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Evan is the youngest member of the X-Men until the New Mutants make their appearance later.
• Bad with the Bone: His power is shooting bone spikes out of his body.
• The Big Guy: He's the most reckless and prone to violence on the X-Men team.
• Canon Foreigner: Evan doesn't exist in the regular Marvel Universe, and due to the circumstances of his origin, won't ever (in the regular Marvel Universe, Storm's an only child).
• City Mouse: He's a city kid, and he has more trouble adapting to the outdoors. Evan would rather be skateboarding than doing any nature hikes.
• Commuting on a Bus: Part of the main cast for the first two and a half seasons. He leaves the X-Men during the third season to join the Morlocks. He is all but forgotten about till he reappears in a season four episode.
• Demoted to Extra: A major character in seasons one and two; in season three, he up and joins the Morlocks. Gets an episode here or there, but he's mostly gone.
• Good Is Not Nice: In Season 4.
• Healing Factor: It’s how he can remove the bones from his body without bleeding to death or injuring himself.
• Hot-Blooded: It makes the future evolution of his powers quite fitting.
• Incendiary Exponent: Flaming spikes after "Uprising".
• Just Like Robin Hood: After joining the Morlocks. Though he never actually steals, he partakes in Street Justice to protect mutants.
• Power Incontinence: He initially had some difficulties with his powers going off without him wanting them to (accidentally taking out a light by stretching on waking up, for example). In fact, this is how Storm noticed he was a mutant: his powers subtly kicked off when he fell over in a game of basketball. Then, in season 3, it got worse. So much worse.
• The Rival: To Quicksilver in their introductory episode.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: An involuntary version of the trope "Uprising".
• Spear Counterpart: To the comics' Marrow, powerset-wise (and him joining the Morlocks later also reflects this, since Marrow was a Morlock to begin with). The show's producers stated that, at the time, they didn't know about Marrow, hence why Spyke's so similar to her.
• Spike Shooter: His usual use of his powers is shooting out projectiles.
• Taking the Bullet: In "Uprising", he takes an energy blast from a laser gun that was intended for Leech.
• Token Minority: He's the only black member of the team (or at least the students) in the first season.
• Took a Level in Badass: After joining the Morlocks.
• Too Qualified to Apply: In one episode, he enters a skateboarding contest and performs well, but is pressured by the other contestants into forfeiting because of his mutant genes. Spyke insists his mutation doesn't affect his ability to skateboard, but leaves the contest anyway, feeling that when the judges find out he's a mutant, he's not going to stand a chance of winning anyway.
• Totally Radical: If the hair and skateboard weren't enough of a clue.
• Troubled, but Cute: He's a scruffy athletic teen rebel with a penchant for trouble. And even after his secondary mutation, is still not exactly ugly.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In "Uprising", he goes to great lengths to defend mutants from mutant-hating bigots.

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