History YMMV / WolverineAndTheXMen2009

** The fact that Storm was demoted to an background character did not sit well with fans, nor did the fact that Professor Xavier and Jean Grey were reduced to plot devices.

%% * EvilIsSexy: Selene, Domino and Sybil Zane.

** ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, real name Raven Darkholme, is [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]'s trusted spy and most successful confidante. First sent out to check on the comatose Charles Xavier, she uses her [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting powers]] to sow mass confusion among the X-Men, allowing her to escape with relative ease. Later appearing in "Foresight", Mystique impersonates Senator Kelly and uses his authority to launch a Sentinel attack on Genosha, giving Magneto an army to use for his conquest. Afterwards, she destroys the controls to the Sentinels, preventing anyone from undoing their programming before [[VillainExitStageLeft making a hasty retreat]]. Intelligent and determined, Mystique ends the series [[KarmaHoudini avoiding any punishment for her actions]].

* FanNickname: Since Wolverine is sometimes known as [[AudibleSharpness Snikt]][[{{Catchphrase}} bub]], this show is sometimes called ''Sniktbub and Bubs''.

** [[AIIsACrapshoot Master Mold]] is the AI [[Characters/WolverineAndTheXMen2009MutantResponseDivision designed by Dr. Bolivar Trask]] to direct his Sentinels' efforts to contain mutants. [[BadFuture After the world is devastated by the Phoenix Force]] and a large portion of humanity is killed, [[TheComputerIsYourFriend Master Mold]] takes over and becomes a dictator. Master Mold has her Sentinels round up mutants and put them in detention camps. Master Mold has turned humans like Colonel Moss into cyborg slaves, having them work as guards in her camps. Powerful mutants are sent to labs to be experimented on, so the Sentinels can reproduce their powers, and are killed after the experimentation is done. Later Master Mold captures Professor Xavier, hooking him up to a Cerebro unit so she can locate every remaining mutant on the planet, planning to have her Sentinels kill them all. After that is done, Master Mold decides Xavier is no longer useful to her and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness orders him to be killed]].

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] is [[TheMole an agent of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle]], who was sent to capture Jean Grey, the host of the Phoenix Force. Emma is revealed to be the one who attacked Jean a year ago, triggering the explosion at X-Mansion and the disappearances of Xavier and Jean. Emma then arrives at X-Mansion offering her services to the team, where Wolverine reluctantly agrees to allow her to operate Cerebro, where she 'finds' Xavier on Genosha to prove herself, where in reality she moved Xavier there herself. Fully gaining Wolverine's trust by helping Storm fight off the Shadow King, Emma officially joins the X-Men on their many missions, while continuing to search for Jean. Eventually locating an amnesiac Jean, Emma knocks all the X-Men unconscious and kidnaps Jean, taking her to the Inner Circle. Convincing Jean they need to extract and destroy the Phoenix Force for the safety of humanity, [[HeelRealization Emma is shocked to discover]] the Inner Circle intended to weaponize the Phoenix. Re-allying with the heroes, Emma takes the Phoenix into herself in order to neutralize it, [[HeroicSacrifice knowing fully well it would kill her in the process]].

** [[Characters/EmmaFrostWhiteQueen Emma Frost]] is [[TheMole an agent of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle]], who was sent to capture Jean Grey, the host of the Phoenix Force. Emma is revealed to be the one who attacked Jean a year ago, triggering the explosion at X-Mansion and the disappearances of Xavier and Jean. Emma then arrives at X-Mansion offering her services to the team, where Wolverine reluctantly agrees to allow her to operate Cerebro, where she 'finds' Xavier on Genosha to prove herself, where in reality she moved Xavier there herself. Fully gaining Wolverine's trust by helping Storm fight off the Shadow King, Emma officially joins the X-Men on their many missions, while continuing to search for Jean. Eventually locating an amnesiac Jean, Emma knocks all the X-Men unconscious and kidnaps Jean, taking her to the Inner Circle. Convincing Jean they need to extract and destroy the Phoenix Force for the safety of humanity, [[HeelRealization Emma is shocked to discover]] the Inner Circle intended to weaponize the Phoenix. Re-allying with the heroes, Emma takes the Phoenix into herself in order to neutralize it, [[HeroicSacrifice knowing fully well it would kill her in the process]].

* {{Asspull}}: While not a big offender in terms of plot, the show has an asspull in the fights between Wolverine and Sabertooth. Since a fight between two guys with healing factor and razor sharp weapons would be far too messy for a children's cartoon, their fights end up being relatively anti-climatic. The asspull comes in their first encounter when Sabertooth pulls a giant taser gun nearly half as big as he is out of his cloak, despite there being no bulk or any sign of it when you can peek into his cloak before. Making it look like he actually pulled it out of his rear end.

* MagnificentBastard: "Thieves' Gambit" & "Aces and Eights": [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]], real name [[GentlemanThief Remy LeBeau]], is a thief-for-hire and a member of the Thieves' Guild who is willing to work for anyone who pays him. Hired by Dr. Sybil Zane to steal a mutant inhibitor collar, Gambit breaks into the X-Mansion and swipes it with no trouble. When Wolverine burns his money, Gambit agrees to help get the collar back when Wolverine hires him at double the fee. Advising Wolverine into taking a subtler approach into breaking into the MRD laboratory, Gambit cuts off Dr. Zane's escape by blowing up her car, then tries to take the collar for himself to resell. Leaving Wolverine to fend off a robot, Gambit [[GracefulLoser is amused]] to discover Wolverine swapped the collar out. Gambit also gets hired by Senator Kelly to travel to Genosha and steal Magneto's helmet, to which Gambit [[TrojanPrisoner confesses everything openly]] before requesting sanctuary, where he charms Magneto's daughter Lorna, and uses her affection to escape from prison. Revealing his true intent was to plant charges all over Genosha to cripple their society, he leaves Lorna behind teaching her [[BeautyIsBad the real world was a lot like he was]].

** Warren Worthington II crossed it by ordering the MRD to go after his own son, then ordered the doctors to amputate Angel's wings, just so he can make his son normal. Worthington refused to understand what mental and emotional pain it would cause his son, and it went back to bite him when Sinister transformed and brainwashed Angel into Archangel, who became bent on revenge against his own father for taking away his wings.
** The above moment also counts for Colonel Moss, who took blatant pleasure from attacking Angel and showing no remorse upon finding out that it was Warren II's son.

%% ** Mister Sinister [[spoiler:transforming Angel into Archangel]]. The moment when his victim's face realises what exactly he has done is both terrifying and heartbreaking.

** Weirdly enough, Cyclops seems to fill the role opposite Wolverine. The flashbacks of "Breakdown" reveal that Wolverine would hit on Cyclops' girlfriend Jean Grey while mocking him, at least until Cyclops started blasting him repeatedly until Jean intervened. While blasting Wolverine in the back for a petty jab doesn't portray Cyclops in the best light, ''Wolverine'' was the one who deliberately provoked him, likely figuring that he was all bark and no bite (only to be proved hilariously wrong). Given that, how exactly is Cyclops the bad guy here?.

** Mr Sinister is revealed to have crossed it when we learn his plotting leads to a future where Apocalypse rules over a dark SocialDarwinist nightmare future where his survival of the fittest creed is unchecked. Before this, in series anyway, he was merely a thoroughly creepy schemer. It's hard to find even the smallest bit of sympathy for a man who ''knowingly'' ushered in hell on earth.

** "Overflow": The [[DarkIsEvil Shadow King]], real name Amahl Farouk, is a cruel and merciless telepathic mutant who forced the young Storm to be a thief and would berate and threaten her if she did not bring back enough stolen goods. Xavier befriended Storm and defeated the Shadow King. Though his body was destroyed fighting Xavier, his evil spirit lived on and he gained the ability to [[DemonicPossession possess others and force them to do things against their will]]. When we first see Shadow King in the present, he has possessed a starving man in a desert. When another man comes to help this starving man, The Shadow King possesses the good Samaritan and leaves his original victim to die in the desert. Shadow King later possess Storm herself and forces her to use her WeatherManipulation powers to destroy all Africa, simply to spite her.