New X-Men animated series proposal.

To be honest, I just want to see a second season of Wolverine And The X Men. Wolverine isn't even my favorite character: I just liked what went down with Cyclops/Jean Grey, and the final 2-parter episode with Emma Frost containing the Phoenix.

Plus, a bunch of people wanted to see the altered future with the... other guy. I'm just a casual watcher, but hey - it coulda been pretty cool.

Damn straight - why doesn't someone make that already (if only to do some of us a favor?)!

@ maxwellelvis They're were episodes where the team could switch to black versions of their costumes. Mostly I think they were supposed to be covert from the public since The Light figured out their mission in the very first episode.

edited 25th May '13 5:12:53 PM by zam

I don't think the team in YJ was really covert so much as non-advertised.

While we're at it, could we have Arcade be one of the main villains? He's never really appeared in any of the cartoons (no, i dont count that one ep of X-Men: Evolution), yet his persona seems perfect. Heck, the Murderworld concept (a twisted amusement park) is something tailor-made for animation.

edited 25th May '13 9:16:39 AM by Hadley

Arcade is kind of a joke character. I can't really see him working as a main villain.

I think they recently gave him a power and competency boost.

Competence is never a problem for Arcade. He's just the face that taunts them; Murderworld's the real threat. That's the meat of his stories, figuring out his tricks and traps; a lot of the time, he doesn't even get arrested or nothing.

Just read the first post. I'd say it's a pretty good idea for an adaption; the only problem I see is what to with Angel, powerwise. Maybe turn him into Archangel by the end of the second season?

I also read Truteal's pitch; not much detail to it, but this has got my wheels turning. I think I'll give it a shot.

The series begins with Charles Xavier already having recruited Jean Grey, Iceman, Beast, Angel, Storm, and Colossus. The only thing Xavier has been missing is a true leader for the team, but his answer is is provided to him when he finds Cyclops, a lonely mutant living in an orphange, unable to turn off his beams, and having to keep his eyes forever close. But Xavier seeys in the young man the potential to become a great leader; to take his desire for control, and turn it towards a team. A team devoted to finding other mutants and helping them with their powers, or saving them. Or, if needed, to defeat mutants who desire to use their powers for less-then-noble purposes. At the first, the other mutants aren't sure what to make of Scott, but by the end of the first Arc, Scott's come into his own as a leader, the other X-Men have grown to trust him.

The first half of the first season keeps the cast from that was originally introduced for the most part, introducing them, and fleshing out both them, and their dynamics and relationships with each other, and they slowly begin to work as a true team. However, occasionaly, we are shown glimpses of a covert organization doing experiments on an unknown mut— aw, who am I kiddin'? It's Wolverine. Halfway through the season, he breaks out. Now out of the facility, Xavier is able to find him with Cerebro, and the X-Men save him. With nowhere else to go, as well as feeling a need to repay the X-Men for what they did for him, Wolverine joins the team. Though a distinct attraction to a certain redhead might have also helped...

The first episode involves a skirmish against Magneto, and the Season Finale ends with a full-blown fight against Mag's, as he tries to assassinate Senator Kelly for trying get the Mutant Registration Act through Congress. (We also get the whole 'Days of Future Past' story in there, but with Future!Storm taking Future!Kitty's place.) Also, in various episodes in the season, various members of the Brotherhood are introduced, either on their own, or in pairs. Blob, Mastermind, Toad, Wanda&Peitro, and Pyro&Avalanche. At the end of each of their introductory episodes, we see Magneto gather the the differnt mutants, and in the Season Finale, they've joined together as the Brotherhood of Mutants, helping Magneto in the fight. In the end, Magneto is defeated, with Wanda&Peitro assisting in the fight. They go to prison as well, but they're granted early parole on both good behavior, and with the help of Xavier. And in Season Two, with no Avengers to join, they instead become Reserve X-Men, usually doing their own thing, but still popping in from time to time, including the 'big' episodes. However, before the credit's roll, we're taken a completely pitch-black room, where we hear three people talking to each other; two women, and one man. As we later learn in Season 2, these three people are Mystique, Emma Frost, and Sebastian Shaw.

Season 2 deals with the rising threat of Hellfire Club, and the mysterious Power Upgrade of Jean Grey, who calls herself Phoenix. Angel also leaves the team for a team to assist his ailing father in his business; taking his place is Banshee, a middle-aged former Interpol Agent, who we actually meet in the first season. There, he's been brainwashed by Mesmero mid-season, but is brought back to his senses by the X-Men. He initially rejected the offer to join the team, but since we've seen him last, he's done some thinking, and has decided to give the team a try. Nightcrawler also joins the team halfway through the Season, saved by the X-Men from an angry mob in a mission in Germany.

Each of the X-Men also have their own subplots to deal with.

• Cyclops tries to control his mutant power; has a romance with Jean Grey; doesn't really like Wolverine; meets long-lost brother Alex in Season 1, and long-last dad Corsair in Space in Season 2.
• Jean Grey has a romance with Scott, has to fight off Wolverine's advances, had to control her mutant power so that she isn't involuntary scanning everyone's thoughts, and in Season 2, has to deal with the mysterious Pheonix. It doesn't end well for her.
• Iceman has to deal with his abusive father, but he's mainly more of a moodmaker. He's an immature teen that tries to help levitate the mood, though not always at an appropriate time, but he matures as the show goes son.
• Beast soon creates his famous 'Furry-Formula', and has to deal with looking like more then just a muscular human with large hands and feet; now, he looks like an actual beast, and had to discover how he truly feels about that.
• Angel actually starts off a well meaning jerk; he comes from a very wealthy family, and because of his wings, he hasn't had much experience in just how the world works, but he tries his best to work on that from the get-go, and by the end of the first season, his Jerkass tendencies only pop up occasionally. He also tries to reconcile with his father, who's ashamed at having a freak in the family. Also, to make him more useful, he has more then just wings. Like Dazzler, he can create various blasts and structures of energy that look like light, but he needs sound to use it. (This also means that Dazzler doesn't appear in this show, or at least not as a main team-member.) At the end of Season 2 though, his wings get ripped off, and anyone who has read the comics should know what happens next...
• Wolverine has to deal with the experiment's from Weapon X, but he's also led a long eventful life before WX got a hold of him, one that often comes back to haunt him. He also finds himself fancied to one Jean Grey, but she's already taken...
• Storm has to deal with her claustrophobia that she's had ever since she was buried underneath a ton of rubble as a child, in a bombing that killed her parents. Aside from that, she also eventually discovers that her caring, loving, and yet also naive Nature Girl persona isn't all that useful as an X-Man, and even nearly costs the lives of her teammates. She has to decide whether to leave the X-Men, or toughen up.
• Colossus is more a supporting character at first, being the team's muscle, as well being The Heart. But eventually, his little sister Illiana gets captured by a vicous demon named Belasco, and he has to deal with sister suddenly becoming a teenager. She herself eventually joins the X-Men, as Magick.
• Banshee, being a former Interpol Agent, naturally has quite a few things in his past that he'd prefer not be digged up, but much to his displeasure, they come back to bite him in the @$$ anyway. He also has to deal with his treacherous brother (yes, he's his brother here,) 'Black Tom' Cassidy, who has also taken under his wing a young teenage lass that Banshee just can't seem to take his mind off of... And that has similar powers to his...
• Nightcrawler starts his time in the series mostly happy with how he looks due to his Catholic Faith, but starts to have doubts after the Angry Mob attacks with, with torches&pitchforks no less. He also develops a strong friendship with Colossus, as well as with Beast.

Season 2 ends with the death of Jean Grey, and the advent of Apocalypse and Mr.Sinister. ...Aaaaaand that's all I've got for now.

What? No Dust?

I have a proposal for a pilot for a New Mutants cartoon, myself. It starts with an amnesiac youth finding himself on the steps of Xavier Manor. Professor X, scanning the young man's mind, finds it to be a jumbled mess with strange, machinelike forms in shadow. The boy is kept in the mansion for observation, where he soon meets Doug Ramsay, a mutant who can communicate with anything that uses any language. They become fast friends, and Doug lets it slip that he and his classmates are secretly a team of young mutants, training to continue the battle for peace between man and mutant. In short order we're introduced to them all; Magik, Kharma, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, Magma, and Moonstar. (Hope I didn't forget anyone.) Our focus character observes them in a Danger Room training session when an accident injures his arm, and the skin falls of to reveal black metal with yellow Tron Lines. End of part one.