YMMV / Pryde of the X-Men

• Accidental Innuendo: "Ah fraulein what a lovely vision you are! Please allow me!" The first thing this version of Nightcrawler says to Kitty Pryde.
• Complete Monster: Magneto, a far cry from the Noble Demon of the comics, is the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists. After stealing the power circuit for Charles Xavier's Cerebo, Magneto uses it and the machinery in Asteroid M to capture a comet and send it on a collision course with the Earth, which would either wipe out most of the human race or entirely destroy the Earth. While his plan is foiled by the X-Men, Magneto rubs it in Kitty Pryde's face that Nightcrawler will have to sacrifice himself to save the Earth before he flees to continue plotting the destruction of the human race. Lacking any of his comic counterpart's redeeming traits or even his Freudian Excuse, this Magneto doesn't care about his fellow mutants and is only interested in power and ensuring his own dominion.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Kitty Pryde is depicted as the protagonist of this pilot, and was intended to go through an arc where she would gradually hone her skills and eventually become a strong leader if the series had been picked up. A few years later, an X-Men animated series was finally made, but Kitty Pryde was never seen or mentioned (even more jarring as it was a show that included, at least in a cameo, every mutant ever made by that point), apparently because of this pilot's failure. In fact, Kitty wouldn't even appear in another X-Men cartoon until eleven years later.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Wolverine has an Australian accent in this continuity, which is hysterical in retrospect due to Australian actor Hugh Jackman portrayed Wolverine in the film series.
  • The cartoon depicting Juggernaut and Emma Frost as members of the Brotherhood of Mutants before the movies did the same thing.
  • Speaking of Juggernaut, audiences would witness another fight between him and Colossus in Deadpool 2.
  • Magneto's plan involves taking control of a comet to have it collide with Earth in the hopes that the resulting cataclysm will wipe humanity out. Darkseid of all people would pull off a similar scheme in the Superman: The Animated Series two-parter "Little Girl Lost." Who would have thought Magneto, Marvel's most prominent Anti-Villain would have something in common with DC's version of the Devil?
• Older Than They Think: While this is the most notorious adaptation where Wolverine is depicted with an Australian accent, it is not the first time he was made Australian. Wolverine also spoke with an Australian accent in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "A Firestar Is Born".
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Nightcrawler can accidentally give off very creepy vibes when he is trying to "be nice" to Kitty in the pilot. Various instances include calling her a "lovely vision" while approaching her the first time they met, stroking her arm, holding her while she was knocked out, and repeatedly hitting on her despite the pilot mentioning she is fourteen years old and he is at least in his twenties. It doesn't make Kitty come off as mean for being afraid of him. This creepiness even extends to the family the X-Men saved. Said family's hostile reaction when Nightcrawler approaches their daughter, while intended to highlight humanity's bigotry towards mutants, can instead be seen as parents being rightfully protective of their daughter.

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