Trivia / Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)

• Directed by Cast Member: The French dub was directed by Alexandra Corréa, who was also Rogue's voice actress.
• Fake Brit:
  • Subverted with Emma Frost. Kari Wahlgren, an American, uses a British accent when voicing Emma — but then again, canonically in the comics, Emma herself is this In-Universe, as she's a Boston native faking an English accent.
  • Played straight with American-born Grey DeLisle as Psylocke.
• Market-Based Title: The Hungarian dub titled the show "X-Men – Az újrakezdés" (X-Men - The Restart).
• Playing Against Type: Mark Hildreth, who usually plays heroes, as Quicksilver.
• Promoted Fanboy: Kari Wahlgren confessed in various interviews to being a diehard comic book fan and that Emma Frost is one of her all-time favourite comic characters. Small wonder she got to voice Frost in Wolverine and the X-Men and claim that she’s one of her favourite roles.
• Recursive Adaptation: The Ultimate Marvel, the X-Men Film Series, and X-Men: Evolution versions of many characters seem to have more influence on their portrayal here than the mainstream Marvel Universe characterizations.
• Refitted for Sequel: Well, refitted for new adaptation anyway. Elements of the plot of this series, such as the prominent involvement of Emma Frost and the Phoenix Force, were originally ideas for a possible fifth season of X-Men: Evolution.
• Role Reprise:
  • In addition to Steve Blum as the titular Wolverine and Fred Tatasciore as the Hulk, Blum's X-Men Legends co-star Peter Lurie reprises his role as Sabretooth and Keone Young reprises his X-Men: The Official Game role as Silver Samurai.
  • In the French dub, Cyclops, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Jean Grey, Gambit, and Sabretooth are voiced by Philippe Allard, Alexandra Corréa, Aurélien Ringelheim, Géraldine Frippiat, Laetitia Reva, Mathieu Moreau, and Robert Guilmard respectively, all of them reprising their roles from X-Men: Evolution.
• Screwed by the Network: A common complaint from fans over cancellation, since Disney had acquired Marvel in the wake of the series' conclusion. However, Joe Quesada, Arune Singh, and Josh Fine have stated it was simply a financing matter. One of the other companies reportedly folded and no substitute could be found.
• What Could Have Been:
  • This series was originally conceived as a solo Wolverine show.
  • It had been announced that Deadpool would be appearing in season 2, with Nolan North reprising his role from Hulk Vs.. This led to much rejoicing. And then they canceled season 2. One can only imagine the hilarity of hearing North alternate between Cyclops and Deadpool if given the chance.
  • Also it looked like we were going to get an adaptation of Age of Apocalypse from the ending of Season 1 when the Days of Future Past got replaced as the Bad Future Xavier was in.
  • According to multiple interviews, Emma Frost would have turned out to be Not Quite Dead and trapped inside of Jean. Obviously, this didn't happen and Emma ended up being Killed Off for Real owing to the cancellation.
  • Associate producer Joshua Fine had reportedly considered incorporating tie-ins with the then-upcoming cartoon The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, such as Wolverine teaming up with Hawkeye and Black Widow on a black ops mission. (Incidentally, some tie-ins with this show did make it into The Avengers, such as Nick Fury asking one of his agents to send Whirlwind to the MRD.)
  • Colossus would have finally become a full-time member. Incidentally, Tara Strong would have voiced Colossus' sister named Magik, one of Tara's early voice acting role she got from X-Men: The Animated Series.
  • Season 2 production art that leaked on line showed that Cyclops and Jean Grey would have worn slightly modified versions of their 90s Jim Lee era costumes, with Jean getting long hair again while Cyclops's suit would have been sans trunks in favor of just having blue pants under a yellow belt.
  • The writers have also stated that had season 2 gone forward fans would have finally seen Cyclops rise up and redeem himself and become the hero we all know him to be. Given that the series ends with Cyclops shown as a minion of Apocalypse in the future, this would presumably involve the series continuing to explore the theme of Professor X contacting Wolverine from the future to prevent a Bad Future from happening.
  • According to a panel at SDCC 2012, Jim Ward revealed he wasn't going to emulate Patrick Stewart when he was originally cast as Xavier, but decided to do so when he heard Tom Kane emulating Ian McKellen as Magneto.
  • According to the scripts for the season 2:
    • The Operation Zero Tolerance would have been approved by Director Kelly after his kidnapping by Magneto.
    • Magneto being captured by the MRD after rescuing a mutant named Shiro (Sunfire).
    • New characters would have appeared as Cameron Hodge, Victor Borwoski (Anole), Callisto, Lucid, Gazer, Unus, Kimura, Kestrel, John Sublime, Maria Callasantos (Feral)
    • Apocalypse directing Weapon X from the shadows.
    • The Legacy Cure by Kavita Rao; eventually she would have performed a Heel–Face Turn and abandoned the project.
    • Pyro would have joined the Brotherhood of Mutants.
    • The MRD would have invaded Genosha, forcing Wanda and Lorna to move the population to Wundagore and finally to Avalon.
• Word of God: According to the producers, Wolverine and the X-Men, the "Wolverine" short of Hulk Vs., and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes all take place in the same universe, despite the countless continuity snarls that seem to say otherwise.

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