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** In the first season, it emerges that Magneto experimented on Kurt when he was a baby, and he is adamant that [[spoiler: Mystique]] not tell Kurt ''anything'' about his past. Why did Magneto choose to do these things? Your guess is as good as ours; it's never mentioned ever again.
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*** It's also heavily hinted that Magneto experimented on Kurt when he was a baby - [[spoiler: Mystique's]] cry of "What have you done to him?!?" - implies this version of Kurt didn't start out with the blue fur et all.
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* CreatorsPet: Jean Grey is given a case of severe {{Chickification}}, is made to be the best student in school and great at sports and really popular, and has multiple boys fall for her in the first season alone, and received a lot of hate for being the one Scott chose over Rogue. Characters repeatedly gushing about how great she is and her constant whining didn't help either. The creators put her repeatedly as the main focus of a number of episodes, regardless of the fact that the fandom generally sees her as an annoying Mary Sue.
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* CreatorsPet: Jean Grey is given a case accused of severe {{Chickification}}, is made this by some fans. Being depicted as a beloved, popular girl who's good at both academics and sports, who's always liked by everyone, similar to be her comic-self but without the best student in school and great at sports and really popular, and has multiple boys fall for her development to warrant it. Though, she actually got the ''least'' amount of focus in the first season alone, and received a lot of hate for being the one Scott chose over Rogue. Characters repeatedly gushing about how great she is and her constant whining didn't help either. The creators put her repeatedly as the main focus of a number of episodes, regardless of the fact that the fandom generally sees her as an annoying Mary Sue.series, averting this.
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* IdiotPlot: Say what you want about most of the episode, but ''Joyride'' falls apart pretty quickly when you remember Wolverine's advanced senses and Xavier and Jean's telepathy, either of which should hve identified who was the culprit instantly.
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* IdiotPlot: Say what you want about most of the episode, but ''Joyride'' falls apart pretty quickly when you remember Wolverine's advanced senses and Xavier and Jean's telepathy, either of which should hve have identified who was the culprit instantly.
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** But the fact that, in doing so, he ended up in a win win situation for EVERYONE probably makes him one. [[spoiler: Toad can now spend time with Wanda, Pietro no longer has to fear her, Wanda's childhood trauma is gone, and he's free to do whatever he wants without the single most powerful mutant known at the time trying to kill him.]]
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** But the fact that, in doing so, he ended up in a win win win-win situation for EVERYONE probably makes him one. [[spoiler: Toad can now spend time with Wanda, Pietro no longer has to fear her, Wanda's childhood trauma is gone, and he's free to do whatever he wants without the single most powerful mutant known at the time trying to kill him.]]
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*** Which is hilarious when you look at his characterisation in the comics (and in the animated series that followed, ''Wolverine & The X-Men'' where he was so dominated by negative traits that he could barely function at all). In the comics all his negative and positive traits are [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: At the end of an episode where they find out that contact with a new sports drink can harm mutants, [[spoiler: the creator of the drink promises Professor X to stop selling the drinks. But when Prof. X leaves, the creator gets out his phone and calls someone to tell them about it, with obvious malicious intent toward mutants]]. But it never goes anywhere and we never hear about it again. This, along with a few lose plot threads found in the fourth season, could probably be atributed to Marvel deciding to axe the series.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: At the end of an episode where they find out that contact with a new sports drink can harm mutants, [[spoiler: the creator of the drink promises Professor X to stop selling the drinks. But when Prof. X leaves, the creator gets out his phone and calls someone to tell them about it, with obvious malicious intent toward mutants]]. But it never goes anywhere and we never hear about it again. This, along with a few lose plot threads found in the fourth season, could probably be atributed attributed to Marvel deciding to axe the series.
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* RomanticPlotTumor: Scott and Jean for some. They didn't get together unrealistically fast as would be required by the above trope, in fact it took them three seasons to. The problem is, some people got sick of waiting for them, or of them hogging the spotlight. However, this view is only supported by Scogue fans, Brotherhood fans, or just people who don't like them. Those who like them, or are just plain neutral to them, however, do NOT believe this.
* RootingForTheEmpire: The original Brotherhood members just don't come off as evil to many fans, despite all the horrendous things they did including [[MoralEventHorizon rigging a train accident to look like heroes one last time]] and then fleeing when they discover it's going right at another speeding train with eight tankers of fuel. Even with this, however, they are ''just'' the "Bad" in a TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil situation, which lends a certain degree of sympathy to them, as does how they're constantly abandoned by the people who strung them along or generally treated horribly by everyone, including their supposed allies.
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** RomanticPlotTumor: Scott and Jean for some, so much so that people keep mistaking it for the above trope. They didn't get together unrealistically fast as would be required by the above trope, in fact it took them three seasons to. The problem is, some people got sick of waiting for them, or of them hogging the spotlight. However, this is massively YMMV, as this view is only supported by Scogue fans, Brotherhood fans, or just people who don't like them. Those who like them, or are just plain neutral to them, however, do NOT believe this.
* RootingForTheEmpire: The original Brotherhood members just don't come off as evil to many fans, despite all the horrendous things they did including [[MoralEventHorizon rigging a train accident to look like heroes one last time]] and then fleeing when they discover [[ItGotWorse its going right at another speeding train with eight tankers of fuel]]. Even with this, however, they are ''just'' the "Bad" in a TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil situation, which lends a certain degree of sympathy to them, as does how they're constantly abandoned by the people who strung them along or generally treated horribly by everyone, including their supposed allies.
* RootingForTheEmpire: The original Brotherhood members just don't come off as evil to many fans, despite all the horrendous things they did including [[MoralEventHorizon rigging a train accident to look like heroes one last time]] and then fleeing when they discover [[ItGotWorse its going right at another speeding train with eight tankers of fuel]]. Even with this, however, they are ''just'' the "Bad" in a TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil situation, which lends a certain degree of sympathy to them, as does how they're constantly abandoned by the people who strung them along or generally treated horribly by everyone, including their supposed allies.
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** Pietro had his when he had a train derailed for the purpose of pretending to save people, and upon finding out that if they fail hundreds will die, including himself, he runs away and leaves those trapped, and potentially the entire town, to die. He knew his Brotherhood friends ''and'' his sister were there, ''and he left them there anyway'';
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** Pietro had his when he had a train derailed for the purpose of pretending to save people, and upon finding out that if they fail hundreds will die, including himself, he runs away and leaves those trapped, and potentially the entire town, to die. He knew his Brotherhood friends ''and'' his sister were there, ''and he left them there anyway'';anyway''!
*** Technically, he only sped into Lance's jeep in the driver's seat and waited for Toad and Blob to hop in (Wanda was not present). Still crosses the MEH, however due to the fact they only did it to end their heroics "the way they came in - with a bang"
*** Technically, he only sped into Lance's jeep in the driver's seat and waited for Toad and Blob to hop in (Wanda was not present). Still crosses the MEH, however due to the fact they only did it to end their heroics "the way they came in - with a bang"
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** Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
** There was also the soft-drink manufacturer who unknowingly laced his drink with mutant poison. You can tell he's genuinely surprised... then MoodWhiplash kicks in and he figures he can make a lot of money off the discovery.
** There was also the soft-drink manufacturer who unknowingly laced his drink with mutant poison. You can tell he's genuinely surprised... then MoodWhiplash kicks in and he figures he can make a lot of money off the discovery.
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** Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]].machinery and munitions]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
** There was also the soft-drink manufacturer who unknowingly laced his drink with mutant poison. You can tell he's genuinely surprised... then MoodWhiplash kicks in and he figures he can make a lot of money off the discovery. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot It ended up not going anywhere, however.]]
** There was also the soft-drink manufacturer who unknowingly laced his drink with mutant poison. You can tell he's genuinely surprised... then MoodWhiplash kicks in and he figures he can make a lot of money off the discovery. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot It ended up not going anywhere, however.]]
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** The previously mentioned JerkassDissonance of Scott. Scott was a bit of a workaholic and didn't have much in the ways of humour, and at times seemed a little hotheaded. The former two were played for laughs while the last was something he shared with a lot of characters, including his rival Lance (who fans are usually the ones giving Scott this treatment). He didn't trust the Brotherhood and Lance in particular, and once told Kurt to stop goofing around. That is because the Brotherhood often antagonised him, and Kurt's goofing around consisted of him joking about revealing his secret, something that Scott would naturally have an issue with. But, completely ignoring his BigBrotherMentor like relationship with the others, his dedication to Xavier's cause, his various CrowningMomentsOfAwesome, and the fact that, he always apologises for anything wrong he actually does, a lot of fans, especially Brotherhood fans but ocasionally others as well if its shipping related, have gone as far as to declare him a hypocrite or have other characters talk about how much they hate him for being a JerkAss in fanfics.
** Which is hilarious when you look at his characterisation in the comics (and in the animated series that followed, ''Wolverine & The X-Men'' where he was so dominated by negative traits that he could barely function at all). In the comics all his negative and positive traits are [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]].
** Which is hilarious when you look at his characterisation in the comics (and in the animated series that followed, ''Wolverine & The X-Men'' where he was so dominated by negative traits that he could barely function at all). In the comics all his negative and positive traits are [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]].
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** The previously mentioned JerkassDissonance of Scott.Scott "Cyclops" Summers. Scott was a bit of a workaholic and didn't have much in the ways of humour, and at times seemed a little hotheaded. The former two were played for laughs while the last was something he shared with a lot of characters, including his rival Lance (who (whose fans are usually the ones giving Scott this treatment). He didn't trust the Brotherhood and Lance in particular, and once told Kurt to stop goofing around. That is because the Brotherhood often antagonised him, and Kurt's goofing around consisted of him joking about revealing his secret, something that Scott would naturally have an issue with. But, completely ignoring his BigBrotherMentor like relationship with the others, his dedication to Xavier's cause, his various CrowningMomentsOfAwesome, [[Awesome/XMenEvolution Crowning Moments of Awesome]], and the fact that, that he always apologises for anything wrong he actually does, a lot of fans, especially Brotherhood fans but ocasionally others as well if its shipping related, have gone as far as to declare him a hypocrite or have other characters talk about how much they hate him for being a JerkAss in fanfics.
** *** Which is hilarious when you look at his characterisation in the comics (and in the animated series that followed, ''Wolverine & The X-Men'' where he was so dominated by negative traits that he could barely function at all). In the comics all his negative and positive traits are [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]].
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* RootingForTheEmpire: The original Brotherhood members just don't come off as evil to many fans, despite all the horrendous things they did. That they are ''just'' the "Bad" in a TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil situation lends a certain degree of sympathy, as does how they're constantly abandoned or generally treated horribly by everyone, including their supposed allies.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: The original Brotherhood members just don't come off as evil to many fans, despite all the horrendous things they did. That did including [[MoralEventHorizon rigging a train accident to look like heroes one last time]] and then fleeing when they discover [[ItGotWorse its going right at another speeding train with eight tankers of fuel]]. Even with this, however, they are ''just'' the "Bad" in a TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil situation situation, which lends a certain degree of sympathy, sympathy to them, as does how they're constantly abandoned by the people who strung them along or generally treated horribly by everyone, including their supposed allies.
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** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} had schemes such as evolving the mutants he deemed to be 'worthy', and assembling a group of followers to his cause, in preparation for the inevitable war against humans [[TheUnmasquedWorld when the world finds out they exist]]. Xavier always felt he was taking an extreme stance against humanity and opted to reveal themselves when they were ready...except there was one rogue SHIELD agent who deemed mutants a threat to humanity and built a KillerRobot with advanced weaponry to go after Wolverine and the larger X-Men and Brotherhood members, though ''Magneto'' arranged the battle was brought to the world's attention. The result is a widespread witch-hunt against mutants leaving them on the run. [[DeusExitMachina Xavier was conveniently out of commission]] thanks to Mystique, but one wonders what his reaction would be to see police around his school.
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** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} had schemes such as evolving the mutants he deemed to be 'worthy', and assembling a group of followers to his cause, in preparation for the inevitable war against humans [[TheUnmasquedWorld when the world finds out they exist]]. Xavier always felt he was taking an extreme stance against humanity and opted to reveal themselves when they were ready... except there was one rogue SHIELD agent who deemed mutants a threat to humanity and built a KillerRobot with advanced weaponry to go after Wolverine and the larger X-Men and Brotherhood members, though ''Magneto'' arranged the battle was brought to the world's attention. The result is a widespread witch-hunt against mutants leaving them on the run. [[DeusExitMachina Xavier was conveniently out of commission]] thanks to Mystique, but one wonders what his reaction would be to see police around his school.
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** Several plots and ideas were left hanging, including-but-not-limited-to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Jean becoming the Phoenix and the debut of Mister Sinister]], or [[spoiler:the David/Legion plot]], Gambit & Colossus potentially joining the X-Men... The last season was only ''9 episodes long''.
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** Several plots and ideas were left hanging, including-but-not-limited-to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Jean becoming the Phoenix and the debut of Mister Sinister]], or [[spoiler:the David/Legion plot]], Gambit & and Colossus potentially joining the X-Men... The last season was only ''9 episodes long''.
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** JerkassWoobie: Evan evolved into this. While he was probably the closest in the X-Men to Jerkassery, he developed into a Woobie during Season three after anti-mutant sentiment caused former friends to start bullying him (While they were all suffering, Evan was the only one to be shown ''repeatedly'' being picked on for his powers)- while also slowly but steadily losing control of his ''very'' visible powers. Eventually, he takes a Mutant harming poison and completely loses the hang of his abilities, so the poor kid moves in with the Morlocks as, despite the X-Men's good intentions, the Morlocks are the only ones who can understand his pain. And worse, its unconfirmed if they stop being poisoned by Power8 or if the effects will ever wear off, and they never mentioned if there was a cure.
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** JerkassWoobie: Evan evolved into this. While he was probably the closest in the X-Men to Jerkassery, he developed into a Woobie during Season three Three after anti-mutant sentiment caused former friends to start bullying him (While him. While they were all suffering, Evan was the only one to be shown ''repeatedly'' being picked on for his powers)- powers. All this while also slowly but steadily losing control of his ''very'' visible powers. Eventually, he takes a Mutant harming poison (which were supposed to be a toxin ''eliminators'') and completely loses the hang of his abilities, so the poor kid moves in with the Morlocks as, despite the X-Men's good intentions, the Morlocks are the only ones who can understand his pain. And worse, its unconfirmed if they stop being poisoned by Power8 or if the effects will ever wear off, and they never mentioned if there was a cure.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In Wanda's first extended appearance in "The Hex Factor" (when she goes berserk and tries to attack Pietro on sight), Toad half-jokingly asks Pietro if she's his ex-girlfriend. Four years after that episode came out, MarkMillar and JephLoeb rather infamously wrote Wanda and Pietro as [[{{Twincest}} an incestuous couple]] in ''TheUltimates'', much to the [[BrainBleach consternation]] of many fans.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In Wanda's first extended appearance in "The Hex Factor" (when she goes berserk and tries to attack Pietro on sight), Toad half-jokingly asks Pietro if she's his ex-girlfriend. Four years after that episode came out, MarkMillar Creator/MarkMillar and JephLoeb Creator/JephLoeb rather infamously wrote Wanda and Pietro as [[{{Twincest}} an incestuous couple]] in ''TheUltimates'', much to the [[BrainBleach consternation]] of many fans.
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* GrowingTheBeard: The show has decent to average quality in season 1, near the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3, the show gets a lot better. It becomes more serious, while still retaining its playful humor, and focuses more on characterization and action (While previous seasons focused on introductions and mostly romance respectfully).
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* GrowingTheBeard: The show has decent to average quality in season 1, near 1. Near the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3, however, the show gets a lot better. It becomes more serious, while still retaining its playful humor, and focuses more on characterization and action (While previous seasons action. Seasons 1 and 2 focused more on introductions and mostly romance respectfully).respectively.
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* JerkassWoobie: Mystique. She was a ManipulativeBitch throughout the entire series, but by the time she realizes the err of her ways in the finale, and begs forgiveness from [[spoiler: her children]] Nightcrawler and Rogue, they've completely lost faith in her, and don't want anything to do with her.
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* JerkassWoobie: Mystique. She was a ManipulativeBitch throughout the entire series, but by the time she realizes the err error of her ways in the finale, and begs forgiveness from [[spoiler: her children]] Nightcrawler and Rogue, they've completely lost faith in her, and don't want anything to do with her.
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* MagnificentBastard: Magneto. For this troper, the clincher was [[spoiler:erasing his daughter's memory rather than accepting the damage his own actions caused.]]
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* MagnificentBastard: Magneto. For this troper, the The clincher was [[spoiler:erasing his daughter's memory rather than accepting the damage his own actions caused.]]
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** The worst case in show, however, is Mystique. Even though she's typically very competent, when she lets TheJuggernaut out of prison and expects to able to just order him around and [[BullyTheDragon just plain insults when he doesn't act obedient]], even though he has no reason to listen her. This would have ended in her death if the X-Men and the Brotherhood didn't come rescue her and Xavier.
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** The worst case in show, however, is Mystique. Even though she's typically very competent, when she lets TheJuggernaut out of prison and expects to able to just order him around and [[BullyTheDragon [[BullyingADragon just plain insults when he doesn't act obedient]], even though he has no reason to listen her. This would have ended in her death if the X-Men and the Brotherhood didn't come rescue her and Xavier.
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** Adding to that, this trope should be renamed 'Jean Grey Was A Bitch' thanks to how badly she gets this. Unlike Xavier, Lance and others, Jean had ''almost no'' shades of jerkiness, and was easily [[CoolBigSis the friendliest character in the show.]] While she does act too perfect, in fact a lot of people who didn't like her cite her being [[PuritySue too perfect as the reason]]: she '''did''' have her flaws like everyone else ([[ClingyJealousgirl clingy]], passive-aggressive, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] sometimes, [[CannotSpitItOut can't be true to herself and others]] [[{{Tsundere}} about her crush on Scott, asell as hag a bit of a temper]]), but she was a good person overall. Unlike Lance, however, this isn't motivated mostly by Die For Our Ship, though ''did'' happen in regards to entitled Scott/Rogue fans: many people hate her and Scott (who also gets this from some corners of the fandom, but not nearly ''as'' badly as Jean) just the same, but most of the fandom hate her for 'being a manipulative bitch and a whore', despite there being ''zero'' evidence to this. As ''much'' she flirted a little with Scott while with Duncan and showed jealousy when her best friend Taryn showed interest in Scott, but there's no real evidence about her cheating.
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** Adding to that, this trope should be renamed 'Jean Grey Was A Bitch' thanks to how badly she gets this. Unlike Xavier, Lance and others, Jean had ''almost no'' shades of jerkiness, and was easily [[CoolBigSis the friendliest character in the show.]] While she does act too perfect, in fact a lot of people who didn't like her cite her being [[PuritySue too perfect as the reason]]: she '''did''' have her flaws like everyone else ([[ClingyJealousgirl clingy]], passive-aggressive, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] sometimes, [[CannotSpitItOut can't be true to herself and others]] [[{{Tsundere}} about her crush on Scott, asell as hag well as having a bit of a temper]]), but she was a good person overall. Unlike Lance, however, this isn't motivated mostly by Die For Our Ship, though ''did'' happen in regards to entitled Scott/Rogue fans: many people hate her and Scott (who also gets this from some corners of the fandom, but not nearly ''as'' badly as Jean) just the same, but most of the fandom hate her for 'being a manipulative bitch and a whore', despite there being ''zero'' evidence to this. As ''much'' she flirted a little with Scott while with Duncan and showed jealousy when her best friend Taryn showed interest in Scott, but there's no real evidence about her cheating.
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*** Sympathetic anti-hero trying to live her own life despite being raised as a weapon, or mentally ill mutant held back for the good of the general public? The answer depends on the fan, but her mood whiplash and the randomly placed {{flashback}}s in her premiere episode may be evidence that she isn't stable enough to function outside the military. Even as a child, when they tried to socialize her, she would end up breaking things and having to be forcibly removed from the area. Perhaps HYDRA's holding her prisoner was a good thing.
*** Her instability could very likely be a ''result'' of HYDRA's treatment of her for her entire life (as a weapon, that is). Attempts to bring her outdoors were clearly more about making her blend in with society that genuinely trying to socialise her. To further this point, the doctor who gave Wolverine this information in X-23's first appearance seemed to lean towards this point and felt terrible about the way HYDRA treated her; and their attempts to recapture her in her second appearance. Add Wolverine's disgust with their treatment of her, and the episode largely implies that if she'd been raised as a normal child she would be more stable (her ''existence'' was about creating a weapon based on Weapon X, so ...)
*** Sympathetic anti-hero trying to live her own life despite being raised as a weapon, or mentally ill mutant held back for the good of the general public? The answer depends on the fan, but her mood whiplash and the randomly placed {{flashback}}s in her premiere episode may be evidence that she isn't stable enough to function outside the military. Even as a child, when they tried to socialize her, she would end up breaking things and having to be forcibly removed from the area. Perhaps HYDRA's holding her prisoner was a good thing.
*** Her instability could very likely be a ''result'' of HYDRA's treatment of her for her entire life (as a weapon, that is). Attempts to bring her outdoors were clearly more about making her blend in with society that genuinely trying to socialise her. To further this point, the doctor who gave Wolverine this information in X-23's first appearance seemed to lean towards this point and felt terrible about the way HYDRA treated her; and their attempts to recapture her in her second appearance. Add Wolverine's disgust with their treatment of her, and the episode largely implies that if she'd been raised as a normal child she would be more stable (her ''existence'' was about creating a weapon based on Weapon X, so ...)
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* CreatorsPet: Jean Grey is given a case of severe {{Chickification}}, is made to be the best student in school and great at sports and really popular, and has multiple boys fall for her in the first season alone, and received a lot of hate for being the one Scott chose over Rogue. Characters repeatedly gushing about how great she is and her constant whining didn't help either. The creators put her repeatedly as the main focus of a number of episodes, regardless of the fact that the fandom generally sees her as an annoying Mary Sue.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
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** Pietro had his when he had a train derailed for the purpose of pretending to save people, and upon finding out that if they fail hundreds will die, including himself, he runs away and leaves those trapped, and potentially the entire town, to die. He knew his Brotherhood friends ''and'' his sister were there, ''and he left them there anyway'';
** Toad stole Kurt's image inducer -- not that bad, until you remember that he purposely chose to do it while Kurt was ''meeting with his girlfriend Amanda's parents'', ruining his chance at making them like him.
** Magneto had it when he had his own daughter Wanda mindraped, just so she'd stay away from him. Said mindrape took place via replacing her memories of him abandoning her in a mental insitution, which is what made her become a DarkMagicalGirl in the first place, into loving memories that made her forget his abuse;
** Mystique when she tried to kill the New Recruits, for no reason other than them being unable to fight Magneto. And she did it again via kidnapping Scott, stealing his PowerLimiter aka his ruby quartz glasses, ''and leaving him stranded in the middle of nowhere''
** Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
** Pietro had his when he had a train derailed for the purpose of pretending to save people, and upon finding out that if they fail hundreds will die, including himself, he runs away and leaves those trapped, and potentially the entire town, to die. He knew his Brotherhood friends ''and'' his sister were there, ''and he left them there anyway'';
** Toad stole Kurt's image inducer -- not that bad, until you remember that he purposely chose to do it while Kurt was ''meeting with his girlfriend Amanda's parents'', ruining his chance at making them like him.
** Magneto had it when he had his own daughter Wanda mindraped, just so she'd stay away from him. Said mindrape took place via replacing her memories of him abandoning her in a mental insitution, which is what made her become a DarkMagicalGirl in the first place, into loving memories that made her forget his abuse;
** Mystique when she tried to kill the New Recruits, for no reason other than them being unable to fight Magneto. And she did it again via kidnapping Scott, stealing his PowerLimiter aka his ruby quartz glasses, ''and leaving him stranded in the middle of nowhere''
** Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
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** Pietro's was derailing the train to get more hero points... and then abandoning it when he realized how dangerous it is to try and stop it, therefore leaving the whole town plus Lance and Wanda (his ''ex-leader/still-friend and twin sister respectively'') to their fiery deaths.
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* TheScrappy: Spyke was sometimes dismissed by fans as a TokenMinority replacement for the more famous and "[[NinetiesAntiHero edgy]]" Marrow. WordOfGod says they didn't have Marrow in mind, some sources claiming they didn't even know about her.
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* TheScrappy: Spyke was sometimes dismissed by fans as an example of the crew's attempts to bring in a TokenMinority replacement brand new X-Men character for the series who would be the "epitome of cool." This failed ''so'' badly (with almost all of the fans being irritated by his [[TotallyRadical "cool lingo"]] and overall skater persona) that he was PutOnABus halfway through season 3, having experienced further growth of his "spikes" to the point where he looked more famous and "[[NinetiesAntiHero edgy]]" Marrow. like an armadillo than a kid, he ran away to live with the Morlocks in the [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer underground sewer system]]. It didn't ''really'' help matters that he had basically the same powers as a relatively well-known Morlock from [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} the comics]], Marrow, although WordOfGod says they didn't have Marrow in mind, some sources claiming they didn't even know about her.this was a complete accident.
-->''Yo Rogue, why don't you shed them gloves and give K-Girl a tiny tap?"''
-->''Yo Rogue, why don't you shed them gloves and give K-Girl a tiny tap?"''
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The Lance-Kitty. Your mileage will HEAVILY vary there since they have numerous fans who support them, but they did get together fairly quickly and seemed to forget their previous hostilities.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The Lance-Kitty. Lance-Kitty Relationship. Your mileage will HEAVILY vary there since they have numerous fans who support them, but they there. This is because the writers didn't seem to realize that while the two definitely had the potential to be a good pairing, mostly due to Lance's CharacterDevelopment during the course of the series, it was made [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little tough to believe]] due to Lance trying to kill Kitty and her parents in his first appearance and her [[EasilyForgiven forgiving him so quickly]], and did so ''before'' his CharacterDevelopment, which appeared to be motivated so he could get together fairly quickly and seemed to forget their previous hostilities.with her, or that it started from him saving her from a mess he caused. Judging from the large number of supporters though, its probably an example of this working.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: When Lance joined the X-Men, Scott does not trust him and eventually accuses him of being behind a series of joyrides which have totaled the various X-Vehicles. He is presented as being in the wrong for not trusting Lance and being so apprehensive, in order to motivate Lance [[StatusQuoIsGod to stick with the Brotherhood]], even after Scott realizes he was being a dick about it and apologizes. However, Scott had every right to be suspicious as Lance had been an aggressive criminal and was only interested in joining because of his crush on Kitty. Scott even did try to welcome him at first, but became dissuaded when Lance repeatedly did things for the fun of angering Scott including lying about going on joyrides [[ConflictBall when he did not]].
** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} had schemes such as evolving the mutants he deemed to be 'worthy', and assembling a group of followers to his cause, in preparation for the inevitable war against humans [[TheUnmasquedWorld when the world finds out they exist]]. Xavier always felt he was taking an extreme stance against humanity and opted to reveal themselves when they were ready...except there was one rogue SHIELD agent who deemed mutants a threat to humanity and built a KillerRobot with advanced weaponry to go after Wolverine and the larger X-Men and Brotherhood members, though ''Magneto'' arranged the battle was brought to the world's attention. The result is a widespread witch-hunt against mutants leaving them on the run. [[DeusExitMachina Xavier was conveniently out of commission]] thanks to Mystique, but one wonders what his reaction would be to see police around his school.
** SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} had schemes such as evolving the mutants he deemed to be 'worthy', and assembling a group of followers to his cause, in preparation for the inevitable war against humans [[TheUnmasquedWorld when the world finds out they exist]]. Xavier always felt he was taking an extreme stance against humanity and opted to reveal themselves when they were ready...except there was one rogue SHIELD agent who deemed mutants a threat to humanity and built a KillerRobot with advanced weaponry to go after Wolverine and the larger X-Men and Brotherhood members, though ''Magneto'' arranged the battle was brought to the world's attention. The result is a widespread witch-hunt against mutants leaving them on the run. [[DeusExitMachina Xavier was conveniently out of commission]] thanks to Mystique, but one wonders what his reaction would be to see police around his school.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Brotherhood, probably the reason they're so popular. Also probably the reason the Acolytes were introduced, to show ''real'' villainy. Each B-hooder has their levels, but probably the most inefectual and sympathetic is Toad.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Many can be seen, just a matter of opinion...
** The Brotherhood as a whole, Are they Ineffectual villains who do try to be bad but are easily outmatched, or are they missunderstood misfits being targetted by the X-Men.
** Lance: did he really have a heroic side, or was it just a trick to get Kitty to like him? Can it be ''both'' in the end, with Lance starting to do good things just to get Kitty into liking him and then keeping up just because he was in the mood? And if it's either the first or both, just ''how'' heroic can he be: sympathetic AntiVillain, hard-ass AntiHero, prospect NinetiesAntiHero, or something else whatsoever?
** Scott: was he just trying to be a responsible leader who let his rivalry with Lance get the better of him sometimes, or was he unneedingly hostile to him? We also have his relationships with Jean and Rogue to consider...
** Were the New Recruits complete idiots who crossed into TooDumbToLive, or just inexperienced and excited at the prospect of being mutants that they got ahead of themselves a few times?
*** More specifically, Bobby/Iceman. Did he truly learn his lesson and become a good asset to the X-Men/New Mutants, or were his TooDumbToLive credential just swept under the rug?
** Was Spyke an asshole who was EasilyForgiven only for being a newbie and Storm's relative, or just an antihero as well as too young and constrained to do it right?
** Was Rogue really a sympathetic and lost young girl and in dire need of help, or was she just a self centered whiner who only paid attention to her own problems?
** Did Mystique really try to help her stepdaughter, or was it just her way of emotionally manipulating her to get more information easier? And what about her and her biological son Kurt...?
* AccidentalInnuendo: Season 2 Episode 1 had these lines by Lance & Kitty:
--> '''Kitty''': ''Shouldn't you be Erupting Somewhere?''
--> '''Lance''': ''Hey Kitty, you wanna see some real shaking?''
** A lot of Lance's dialog comes off as this because of all his rock puns.
* BaseBreaker: Avalanche. Due to CharacterizationMarchesOn, he ends up with two distinct versions. One a violent and aggressive villain, the other a nice guy with bad friends, and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold something in between]]. Its up to the fans to decide which one they proffer and/or chose to see him as.
** The fans can't decide wether or not Iceman was funny or annoying.
*** That's okay, neither could the writers.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The completely out of nowhere music [[{{Montages}} montage]] in 'the "Sirens of Bayville" episode.
* BizarroEpisode: Said episode, ''Walk On The Wild Side'', counts for some people - it comes off as an {{Anvilicious}} "feminism" episode where the writers just wanted to preach about men not gloating about how girls are lucky to get saved by them, coupled with some OOC behaviour (seriously, why would Kitty, Jean or Amara wear those black leather outfits?) Since it's filler, though, people who dislike it tend to simply ignore its presence.
** Arguably, and to a much lesser extent, ''African Storm'', since the episode is about a magic priest of some kind stealing Storm's soul, when magic has never even been mentioned before (save for Xavier talking about Juggernaut's powers being activated via mysticism, but a later episode retconned this by claiming the gems of Cyttorak are radioactive, rather than magical). Sadly, this is the only episode where Storm is the main focus.
* CrazyAwesome: Everything the New Mutants do. They STOLE THE X-JET FOR A JOYRIDE! They BROKE INTO THE DANGER ROOM FOR UNSUPERVISED TRAINING! HilarityEnsues!
* DieForOurShip: Avalanche was bashed by Nightcrawler x Shadowcat fans. Jean was bashed by Cyclops x Rogue fans. Surprisingly, Nightcrawler's canon girlfriend Amanda took ''much'' less heat than them...
** ...Thought still took a lot of heat herself. Like, [[SarcasmMode did you know she was actually repulsed by Kurt's appearence and wanted him to hide it? Neither did we!]] Either that, or Amanda wanted to flaunt his appearance around ''too'' much. However, Piotr/Colossus, who was Kitty's comic book love interest and got some ship teasing at one point, doesn't ever get bashed in the show's fandom, probably because many forget he existed. Thought, Kitty/Piotr fans are just as likely to bash Lance as they are. Kurt himself isn't usually bashed by Lance/Kitty fans, as most just think of him and Kitty as close friends. Some do, however, still hate him, despite not actually being in the way of anything.
* DracoInLeatherPants: It ''is'' very true that the Brotherhood is much more sympathetic than in other continuities, but some of their fans claim they're utter saints bullied by the evil X-Men, and conveniently "forget" that sometimes the boys reach dangerous levels of ''criminal negligence'' in their actions. Even some pages of this very Wiki tend to forget that, while yes, they weren't as active as most villains and weren't very competent, they ''were'' still criminals who did do a lot to deserve their treatment. Some people avoid this by, instead of down playing their bad points, they instead give them a few levels of Badassary to make them more of a match for the X-Men (Extremely common in 'Season Five' fanfictions).
* DudeNotFunny: In the fourth season, [[spoiler:when the Brotherhood play around with a petrified Mystique. Nightcrawler reacts in appropriate horror, given she's his mother]].
** Also, pulling Nightcrawler's tail, as Scott found out.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Brotherhood started out as stock villains for the X-Men to battle in the first season, but became incredibly popular. This likely led to their roles as [[AntiVillain Anti Villains]] and eventual HeelFaceTurn.
** Iceman, to some.
** Jubilee was surprisingly quite popular, even got a C2 on Fanfiction.net dedicated to her.
** Wolfsbane was surprisingly popular for a character who made less than two speaking roles.
** Multiple was surprisingly popular for a kid member.
** Gambit and Kurt are the two male characters with the most fanfictions on FF.net. Rogue has the most, but she was easily the main character of the series and was a point of focus in all the plots, so she doesn't really count. Most of those fanfictions are InNameOnly AU fics.
** No mention of [[CanonImmigrant X-23]]?
* EpilepticTrees: While Ray started out as a Morlock in the comics, the writers never clarified just what his connection with them was in the cartoon, other than he had arguably heard of them, which is how he managed to lead the rest of the New Recruits to hide with them after the X-Men were exposed. And the implications of that connection has made his back story even more ambiguous, even compared to the other Recruits, given that most of them never discussed their backgrounds. Most of the fans tend to write him, in fan fiction, as the child of a broken home who ran away and wound up with the Morlocks before being found by Professor X. They also tend to explain that the Morlocks actually pretended not to know him, since he left them they saw it as an act of betrayal and have since shunned him.
** People on TheOtherWiki have made some guesses about Avalanche. Namely, they've guessed he's likely greek, with 'Alvers' being an Americanized coruption of the name 'Alvez', and that his middle name is 'Domonic' to match his name in the comics.
* EvilIsCool: The Brotherhood, though this is more like "misbehaving yet not being super evil is cool".
* EvilIsSexy: Mystique, naturally.
** The Brotherhood in general have fangirls who find them extremely attractive, [[FatBastard except for Blob]], but like before, more "Criminal misbehavior is sexy than evil is sexy". ([[DoubleStandard Unless it's Tabitha, yeah.]](
* FandomHeresy: Concerning Avalanche's morality, if you ''don't'' think him and Kitty were cute together, or you're critical of the way he was written to make their relationship work, you ''must'' be a childish, whiney Lancitty hater who's just mad that he 'stole' Kitty away from Kurt, Piotr, or whoever else. While Lance ''is'' very unfairly treated by some fans of Kitty/anyone else, the romantic plot with the two is hardly the best written or strongest aspect of the show, yet you can't so much as mention it was forced without people writing off anything you say as 'ranting'.
* FanDumb: Quite a vicious case of it, by no means are they ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', but certainly quite bad. Mostly from the shipping side, namely, you can't express any interest in any ship without ''someone'' wishing death on you.
* FanPreferredCouple: Rogue and Cyclops. There was a lot of ShipToShipCombat in the series, but this was by far the less debated pairing compared to what actually became canon (Cyclops and Jean).
** Nearly all fanfics featuring Toad have him paired with Nightcrawler rather than Wanda.
** Nightcrawler/Shadowcat. It was mostly a side-effect of [[IncrediblyLamePun porting]] [[PlatonicLifePartners their relationship from the comics]] to the show.
*** In their defense, it is at least canon that Kurt had some kind of crush on Kitty (he got jealous when Kitty checked out Scott, tried to impress her multiple times, as well as trying to steal a kiss from her), but the two were definitely JustFriends as far as canon goes.
** Among yaoi fans, Lance/Pietro.
* FoeYay: The show seemed to set up a few of the X-Men and Brotherhood as having counterparts on the other side. Avalanche x Cyclops wrote itself with their rivalry. The same can be said with Toad x Nightcrawler and Spyke x Quicksilver.
** Magneto x Xavier! Those to have so much UnresolvedSexualTension between them it isn't funny. There was the suggestive looks, the fact that Magneto protects him at several points in the series and Xavier 's unfailing objections to putting an end to Eric. This can cross to {{Ho Yay}} when Magneto does a {{Heel Face Turn}} (or in the origin when they were still on the same side)
*** Probably because the focus of the series was on the younger and more attractive cast. The show's younger fanbase probably didn't want to think about [[{{Squick}} two old guys doing it]] while there are hot teenagers like Cyclops, Avalanche, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, etc, to ship together.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In Wanda's first extended appearance in "The Hex Factor" (when she goes berserk and tries to attack Pietro on sight), Toad half-jokingly asks Pietro if she's his ex-girlfriend. Four years after that episode came out, MarkMillar and JephLoeb rather infamously wrote Wanda and Pietro as [[{{Twincest}} an incestuous couple]] in ''TheUltimates'', much to the [[BrainBleach consternation]] of many fans.
* GrowingTheBeard: The show has decent to average quality in season 1, near the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3, the show gets a lot better. It becomes more serious, while still retaining its playful humor, and focuses more on characterization and action (While previous seasons focused on introductions and mostly romance respectfully).
* HoYay: Yaoi fans were particularly interested in what Avalanche and Quicksilver did with their free time together living in the Brotherhood Boarding House.
** Nightcrawler and Cyclops. And Wolverine and CaptainAmerica in the season 2 episode about Operation Rebirth.
*** Re: Nightcrawler and Cyclops. In the "Evan with a camera" episode, Evan says, "Scott's pretty stiff, but Kurt usually takes care of that." Can't make this up.
**** The scene where, [[spoiler: after the mansion is destroyed and characters have to share rooms,]] Scott and Kurt emerge from their bedroom with Scott being covered in Kurt's fur.
* HilariousInHindsight: It's a bit ironic that Noel Fisher would voice Toad, a mutant resembling a frog-human hybrid, considering that one of his earlier roles was [[MaxKeeblesBigMove Troy McGinty]], who was deathly afraid of a human-frog hybrid children's show character named [=MacGoogles=].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Brotherhood, probably the reason they're so popular. Also probably the reason the Acolytes were introduced, to show ''real'' villainy. Each B-hooder has their levels, but probably the most inefectual and sympathetic is Toad.
* JerkassWoobie: Mystique. She was a ManipulativeBitch throughout the entire series, but by the time she realizes the err of her ways in the finale, and begs forgiveness from [[spoiler: her children]] Nightcrawler and Rogue, they've completely lost faith in her, and don't want anything to do with her.
* LesYay: The entire "Bayville Sirens" [[{{Montages}} montage]] in ''Walk on the Wild Side''. Especially the part [[GirlOnGirlIsHot where Jean and Magma are grinding on each other]].
** Amara. Tabitha. [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship That's all.]]
** Risty asked Rogue to a Sadie Hawkins dance. That is literally what happened; Scott was taken, so Risty suggested that she and Rogue go. [[spoiler:This, of course, makes the reveal that Risty was Mustique this whole time VERY awkward.]]
* MagnificentBastard: Magneto. For this troper, the clincher was [[spoiler:erasing his daughter's memory rather than accepting the damage his own actions caused.]]
** It wasn't so much that he erased it; he had Mastermind [[MindRape change it,]] simply so she would stop ruining all his plans and trying to to kill him.
*** Also, some people consider Magneto's treatment of [[spoiler: Wanda]] more of a MoralEventHorizon than a MagnificentBastard move.
** But the fact that, in doing so, he ended up in a win win situation for EVERYONE probably makes him one. [[spoiler: Toad can now spend time with Wanda, Pietro no longer has to fear her, Wanda's childhood trauma is gone, and he's free to do whatever he wants without the single most powerful mutant known at the time trying to kill him.]]
* MemeticMutation: I WILL CRUSH YOU LIKE A CAANN!!
** "Chicks dig the fuzzy dude!"
* MemeticSexGod: As said above, chicks ''dig'' the fuzzy blue elf.
** Gambit gets this as well. He's currently the most popular male character for this reason (and because he's Rogue's comic book love interest and flirted a little with her).
* MoralEventHorizon: Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
** There was also the soft-drink manufacturer who unknowingly laced his drink with mutant poison. You can tell he's genuinely surprised... then MoodWhiplash kicks in and he figures he can make a lot of money off the discovery.
** Magneto's [[spoiler: use of Mastermind to MindRape his daughter into loving him]] might qualify, and [[spoiler: threatening Colossus's family to ensure his loyalty.]]
** Apocalypse was planning on using his machine to turn the populace into mutants... But even he notes that this may ''kill'' much of the human population, due to their bodies not being able to take it. He still was willing to go through it.
** Pietro's was derailing the train to get more hero points... and then abandoning it when he realized how dangerous it is to try and stop it, therefore leaving the whole town plus Lance and Wanda (his ''ex-leader/still-friend and twin sister respectively'') to their fiery deaths.
* NeedsMoreLove: Sunspot. Boy does he need it.
* NightmareFuel:
** Mesmero's introductory episode was this from the beginning to the end.
** Apocalypse straddled the line, helped by the fact he wasn't particularly wordy in this continuity.
* [[PossessionSue Possession]] [[SympatheticSue Sympathetic]] RelationshipSue: Rogue is ''not'' a MarySue in canon, but fangirls latched onto her so strongly that they often made her look/act in their fanwork like anything ''but'' herself, as well as making her Scott's [[OneTruePairing One True Love]] despite him not even realizing that she had a crush on him. Made even worse by their bashing of Jean, whom they demonized to an horrifying degree because Scott liked her more than the precious Rogue Sue they had in their minds.
** Kitty is also often used in some stories as a Bella Swan like Step in for the Author and reader's romantic fantasy, either with Kurt as a friend turned boyfriend who's in an unhappy relationship (Forgetting that Kurt and Amanda were seen as very loving), or Avalanche as a loving, perfect, flawless boyfriend (Forgetting that, as heroic as he could be at times, Avalanche had a lot of flaws).
* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: For some "fans", Kitty and Jean (though mostly Jean) were... too girly to be "likeable and relatable". Rogue, and later Wanda, were the yardstick to measure "womanly strength" in the series. And yet, there's ''still'' fans who call them out (along with X-23) for being 'too whiney'. That's right, having a considerable amount of issues has caused some fans to call them Wangsty.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Spyke, who after living with the Morlocks, became a {{Badass}}, mutant-protecting vigilante that can light his spikes on fire.
** Jubilee is often regarded as the most useless X-Woman to the general public, here however, she's an EnsembleDarkhorse. All they needed to do was get rid of the shorts, give her long hair, and a few funny lines and minimum screen time and BAMB! Instant popularity.
* RonTheDeathEater: Just ask the rabid Brotherhood fans what they think of Professor X. Just... do it. And see them foam at their mouths.
** Also, Lance/Avalance. He ''does'' have his shade of jerkiness and specially at the beginning... but considering how some people talk about him, you'd swear he's a BastardBoyfriend who'd ''rape and murder'' Kitty if he could.
** EVERYONE gets this from some corner of the fandom. However, the biggest victim is Jean. The nice friendly psychic who was disgusted at the prospect of using her powers for unhonest deeds was utterly defiled in a lot of fanfictions.
** Adding to that, this trope should be renamed 'Jean Grey Was A Bitch' thanks to how badly she gets this. Unlike Xavier, Lance and others, Jean had ''almost no'' shades of jerkiness, and was easily [[CoolBigSis the friendliest character in the show.]] While she does act too perfect, in fact a lot of people who didn't like her cite her being [[PuritySue too perfect as the reason]]: she '''did''' have her flaws like everyone else ([[ClingyJealousgirl clingy]], passive-aggressive, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] sometimes, [[CannotSpitItOut can't be true to herself and others]] [[{{Tsundere}} about her crush on Scott, asell as hag a bit of a temper]]), but she was a good person overall. Unlike Lance, however, this isn't motivated mostly by Die For Our Ship, though ''did'' happen in regards to entitled Scott/Rogue fans: many people hate her and Scott (who also gets this from some corners of the fandom, but not nearly ''as'' badly as Jean) just the same, but most of the fandom hate her for 'being a manipulative bitch and a whore', despite there being ''zero'' evidence to this. As ''much'' she flirted a little with Scott while with Duncan and showed jealousy when her best friend Taryn showed interest in Scott, but there's no real evidence about her cheating.
** The previously mentioned JerkassDissonance of Scott. Scott was a bit of a workaholic and didn't have much in the ways of humour, and at times seemed a little hotheaded. The former two were played for laughs while the last was something he shared with a lot of characters, including his rival Lance (who fans are usually the ones giving Scott this treatment). He didn't trust the Brotherhood and Lance in particular, and once told Kurt to stop goofing around. That is because the Brotherhood often antagonised him, and Kurt's goofing around consisted of him joking about revealing his secret, something that Scott would naturally have an issue with. But, completely ignoring his BigBrotherMentor like relationship with the others, his dedication to Xavier's cause, his various CrowningMomentsOfAwesome, and the fact that, he always apologises for anything wrong he actually does, a lot of fans, especially Brotherhood fans but ocasionally others as well if its shipping related, have gone as far as to declare him a hypocrite or have other characters talk about how much they hate him for being a JerkAss in fanfics.
** Which is hilarious when you look at his characterisation in the comics. All his negative and positive traits are [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]].
* TheScrappy: Spyke was sometimes dismissed by fans as a TokenMinority replacement for the more famous and "[[NinetiesAntiHero edgy]]" Marrow. WordOfGod says they didn't have Marrow in mind, some sources claiming they didn't even know about her.
** Boom-Boom when she first joined The Brotherhood.
** Iceman, to some, and the New Mutants in general.
* StrangledByTheRedString: The Lance-Kitty. Your mileage will HEAVILY vary there since they have numerous fans who support them, but they did get together fairly quickly and seemed to forget their previous hostilities.
** RomanticPlotTumor: Scott and Jean for some, so much so that people keep mistaking it for the above trope. They didn't get together unrealistically fast as would be required by the above trope, in fact it took them three seasons to. The problem is, some people got sick of waiting for them, or of them hogging the spotlight. However, this is massively YMMV, as this view is only supported by Scogue fans, Brotherhood fans, or just people who don't like them. Those who like them, or are just plain neutral to them, however, do NOT believe this.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: At the end of an episode where they find out that contact with a new sports drink can harm mutants, [[spoiler: the creator of the drink promises Professor X to stop selling the drinks. But when Prof. X leaves, the creator gets out his phone and calls someone to tell them about it, with obvious malicious intent toward mutants]]. But it never goes anywhere and we never hear about it again. This, along with a few lose plot threads found in the fourth season, could probably be atributed to Marvel deciding to axe the series.
** Several plots and ideas were left hanging, including-but-not-limited-to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Jean becoming the Phoenix and the debut of Mister Sinister]], or [[spoiler:the David/Legion plot]], Gambit & Colossus potentially joining the X-Men... The last season was only ''9 episodes long''.
** Half the canon pairings were only hinted at, but they never did anything with the potential story-lines. Iceman and Jubilee, Magma and Cannonball, Wolfsbane and Sunspot...
* ToyShip: Multiple gets shipped a lot, despite being younger than everyone.
* UglyCute: Nightcrawler and Toad.
* {{Wangst}}: Everyone, but especially Rogue.
* WhatAnIdiot: Not a life-threatening case, but a big one nonetheless. Spike honestly did a research report on Star Wars when the subject was "The Star Wars". To an outsider, that's understandable... except in high school you only get an assignment after at least five weeks on a subject! You'd have to be a major idiot to not get that!
** Another Spike one. He uses his camera to record Wolverine's training session... while [[TooDumbToLive SKATING TOWARDS HIM!]] Also, his recording any mutant in general! Especially since, last episode, they mention keeping mutant activites a secret! Friggin' idiot.
* TheWoobie: X-23 in her first appearance, especially when she breaks down in Logan's arms.
** Kurt and Rogue also have shades of Woobiness at times, as does Wanda.
** David[[spoiler:/Legion]], who was first told by his mother that his father [[spoiler:Xavier]] abandoned him, then he moved to a new place where he had no friends, and ''then'' was slowly taken over by an alternate personality. An alternate personality that kidnapped and held him hostage in a castle. [[spoiler:Then he gets ''permanently'' taken over when his dad tries to save him.]] Poor kid. [[spoiler: Because the series was cancelled after Season 4, this becomes a case of TheBadGuyWins, at least as it stands - there are hints he could've been still saved had the show continued...]]
** It's ''X-Men'', its one of the staples of the franchise is that (almost) every named character is a woobie in need of hugs. Scott has dead parents and uncontrollable powers, Jean has a dead friend (Not actually touched upon in the series) and powers that vary from 'too powerful to control' to 'too weak to be useful', Rogue had uncontrolable powers that she has no way of practising to use safely like others, Kurt had the whole 'my momma's evil' thing, Kitty was bullied for being too smart, Logan had no memory and was the victim to expermimentation that he still has PTSD over... And that's just the ''important'' characters.
** JerkassWoobie: Evan evolved into this. While he was probably the closest in the X-Men to Jerkassery, he developed into a Woobie during Season three after anti-mutant sentiment caused former friends to start bullying him (While they were all suffering, Evan was the only one to be shown ''repeatedly'' being picked on for his powers)- while also slowly but steadily losing control of his ''very'' visible powers. Eventually, he takes a Mutant harming poison and completely loses the hang of his abilities, so the poor kid moves in with the Morlocks as, despite the X-Men's good intentions, the Morlocks are the only ones who can understand his pain. And worse, its unconfirmed if they stop being poisoned by Power8 or if the effects will ever wear off, and they never mentioned if there was a cure.
*** It's pretty hard to feel sorry for Pietro, what with his jerkassery and all--but then you realize that his sister hates him, his dad only cares when he needs to use him (and Pietro is ''painfully'' aware of it), and none of his friends seem to like him (though a good bit of it comes from his own actions). He's shown living entirely on his own, at 15-16, on two separate occasions in the series. It's not quite on the level with the others, but it's worth a little bit of sympathy.
**** The reason a lot of people dislike him is because although he's had it bad, his friends in the Brotherhood might have had it just as bad, yet aren't nearly as aggravatingly egotistical as he is. It doesn't help that his comics counterpart - while still frequently a {{Jerkass}} - was shown to possess noble traits nonetheless. Pietro also has these from time to time, so it might just be chalked up to uneven characterization with little time for good balance (especially thanks to the series' cancellation.
**** The problem with Pietro was he never was shown in a sympathetic light like the other Brotherhood members. Then in ''No Good Deed'' he left Lance and Wanda to essentially die. Lance was probably the closest thing he had to a friend and Wanda was his sister. Pietro was always a back stabbing traitor jerk, but that was low even for him.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Many can be seen, just a matter of opinion...
** The Brotherhood as a whole, Are they Ineffectual villains who do try to be bad but are easily outmatched, or are they missunderstood misfits being targetted by the X-Men.
** Lance: did he really have a heroic side, or was it just a trick to get Kitty to like him? Can it be ''both'' in the end, with Lance starting to do good things just to get Kitty into liking him and then keeping up just because he was in the mood? And if it's either the first or both, just ''how'' heroic can he be: sympathetic AntiVillain, hard-ass AntiHero, prospect NinetiesAntiHero, or something else whatsoever?
** Scott: was he just trying to be a responsible leader who let his rivalry with Lance get the better of him sometimes, or was he unneedingly hostile to him? We also have his relationships with Jean and Rogue to consider...
** Were the New Recruits complete idiots who crossed into TooDumbToLive, or just inexperienced and excited at the prospect of being mutants that they got ahead of themselves a few times?
*** More specifically, Bobby/Iceman. Did he truly learn his lesson and become a good asset to the X-Men/New Mutants, or were his TooDumbToLive credential just swept under the rug?
** Was Spyke an asshole who was EasilyForgiven only for being a newbie and Storm's relative, or just an antihero as well as too young and constrained to do it right?
** Was Rogue really a sympathetic and lost young girl and in dire need of help, or was she just a self centered whiner who only paid attention to her own problems?
** Did Mystique really try to help her stepdaughter, or was it just her way of emotionally manipulating her to get more information easier? And what about her and her biological son Kurt...?
* AccidentalInnuendo: Season 2 Episode 1 had these lines by Lance & Kitty:
--> '''Kitty''': ''Shouldn't you be Erupting Somewhere?''
--> '''Lance''': ''Hey Kitty, you wanna see some real shaking?''
** A lot of Lance's dialog comes off as this because of all his rock puns.
* BaseBreaker: Avalanche. Due to CharacterizationMarchesOn, he ends up with two distinct versions. One a violent and aggressive villain, the other a nice guy with bad friends, and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold something in between]]. Its up to the fans to decide which one they proffer and/or chose to see him as.
** The fans can't decide wether or not Iceman was funny or annoying.
*** That's okay, neither could the writers.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The completely out of nowhere music [[{{Montages}} montage]] in 'the "Sirens of Bayville" episode.
* BizarroEpisode: Said episode, ''Walk On The Wild Side'', counts for some people - it comes off as an {{Anvilicious}} "feminism" episode where the writers just wanted to preach about men not gloating about how girls are lucky to get saved by them, coupled with some OOC behaviour (seriously, why would Kitty, Jean or Amara wear those black leather outfits?) Since it's filler, though, people who dislike it tend to simply ignore its presence.
** Arguably, and to a much lesser extent, ''African Storm'', since the episode is about a magic priest of some kind stealing Storm's soul, when magic has never even been mentioned before (save for Xavier talking about Juggernaut's powers being activated via mysticism, but a later episode retconned this by claiming the gems of Cyttorak are radioactive, rather than magical). Sadly, this is the only episode where Storm is the main focus.
* CrazyAwesome: Everything the New Mutants do. They STOLE THE X-JET FOR A JOYRIDE! They BROKE INTO THE DANGER ROOM FOR UNSUPERVISED TRAINING! HilarityEnsues!
* DieForOurShip: Avalanche was bashed by Nightcrawler x Shadowcat fans. Jean was bashed by Cyclops x Rogue fans. Surprisingly, Nightcrawler's canon girlfriend Amanda took ''much'' less heat than them...
** ...Thought still took a lot of heat herself. Like, [[SarcasmMode did you know she was actually repulsed by Kurt's appearence and wanted him to hide it? Neither did we!]] Either that, or Amanda wanted to flaunt his appearance around ''too'' much. However, Piotr/Colossus, who was Kitty's comic book love interest and got some ship teasing at one point, doesn't ever get bashed in the show's fandom, probably because many forget he existed. Thought, Kitty/Piotr fans are just as likely to bash Lance as they are. Kurt himself isn't usually bashed by Lance/Kitty fans, as most just think of him and Kitty as close friends. Some do, however, still hate him, despite not actually being in the way of anything.
* DracoInLeatherPants: It ''is'' very true that the Brotherhood is much more sympathetic than in other continuities, but some of their fans claim they're utter saints bullied by the evil X-Men, and conveniently "forget" that sometimes the boys reach dangerous levels of ''criminal negligence'' in their actions. Even some pages of this very Wiki tend to forget that, while yes, they weren't as active as most villains and weren't very competent, they ''were'' still criminals who did do a lot to deserve their treatment. Some people avoid this by, instead of down playing their bad points, they instead give them a few levels of Badassary to make them more of a match for the X-Men (Extremely common in 'Season Five' fanfictions).
* DudeNotFunny: In the fourth season, [[spoiler:when the Brotherhood play around with a petrified Mystique. Nightcrawler reacts in appropriate horror, given she's his mother]].
** Also, pulling Nightcrawler's tail, as Scott found out.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Brotherhood started out as stock villains for the X-Men to battle in the first season, but became incredibly popular. This likely led to their roles as [[AntiVillain Anti Villains]] and eventual HeelFaceTurn.
** Iceman, to some.
** Jubilee was surprisingly quite popular, even got a C2 on Fanfiction.net dedicated to her.
** Wolfsbane was surprisingly popular for a character who made less than two speaking roles.
** Multiple was surprisingly popular for a kid member.
** Gambit and Kurt are the two male characters with the most fanfictions on FF.net. Rogue has the most, but she was easily the main character of the series and was a point of focus in all the plots, so she doesn't really count. Most of those fanfictions are InNameOnly AU fics.
** No mention of [[CanonImmigrant X-23]]?
* EpilepticTrees: While Ray started out as a Morlock in the comics, the writers never clarified just what his connection with them was in the cartoon, other than he had arguably heard of them, which is how he managed to lead the rest of the New Recruits to hide with them after the X-Men were exposed. And the implications of that connection has made his back story even more ambiguous, even compared to the other Recruits, given that most of them never discussed their backgrounds. Most of the fans tend to write him, in fan fiction, as the child of a broken home who ran away and wound up with the Morlocks before being found by Professor X. They also tend to explain that the Morlocks actually pretended not to know him, since he left them they saw it as an act of betrayal and have since shunned him.
** People on TheOtherWiki have made some guesses about Avalanche. Namely, they've guessed he's likely greek, with 'Alvers' being an Americanized coruption of the name 'Alvez', and that his middle name is 'Domonic' to match his name in the comics.
* EvilIsCool: The Brotherhood, though this is more like "misbehaving yet not being super evil is cool".
* EvilIsSexy: Mystique, naturally.
** The Brotherhood in general have fangirls who find them extremely attractive, [[FatBastard except for Blob]], but like before, more "Criminal misbehavior is sexy than evil is sexy". ([[DoubleStandard Unless it's Tabitha, yeah.]](
* FandomHeresy: Concerning Avalanche's morality, if you ''don't'' think him and Kitty were cute together, or you're critical of the way he was written to make their relationship work, you ''must'' be a childish, whiney Lancitty hater who's just mad that he 'stole' Kitty away from Kurt, Piotr, or whoever else. While Lance ''is'' very unfairly treated by some fans of Kitty/anyone else, the romantic plot with the two is hardly the best written or strongest aspect of the show, yet you can't so much as mention it was forced without people writing off anything you say as 'ranting'.
* FanDumb: Quite a vicious case of it, by no means are they ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', but certainly quite bad. Mostly from the shipping side, namely, you can't express any interest in any ship without ''someone'' wishing death on you.
* FanPreferredCouple: Rogue and Cyclops. There was a lot of ShipToShipCombat in the series, but this was by far the less debated pairing compared to what actually became canon (Cyclops and Jean).
** Nearly all fanfics featuring Toad have him paired with Nightcrawler rather than Wanda.
** Nightcrawler/Shadowcat. It was mostly a side-effect of [[IncrediblyLamePun porting]] [[PlatonicLifePartners their relationship from the comics]] to the show.
*** In their defense, it is at least canon that Kurt had some kind of crush on Kitty (he got jealous when Kitty checked out Scott, tried to impress her multiple times, as well as trying to steal a kiss from her), but the two were definitely JustFriends as far as canon goes.
** Among yaoi fans, Lance/Pietro.
* FoeYay: The show seemed to set up a few of the X-Men and Brotherhood as having counterparts on the other side. Avalanche x Cyclops wrote itself with their rivalry. The same can be said with Toad x Nightcrawler and Spyke x Quicksilver.
** Magneto x Xavier! Those to have so much UnresolvedSexualTension between them it isn't funny. There was the suggestive looks, the fact that Magneto protects him at several points in the series and Xavier 's unfailing objections to putting an end to Eric. This can cross to {{Ho Yay}} when Magneto does a {{Heel Face Turn}} (or in the origin when they were still on the same side)
*** Probably because the focus of the series was on the younger and more attractive cast. The show's younger fanbase probably didn't want to think about [[{{Squick}} two old guys doing it]] while there are hot teenagers like Cyclops, Avalanche, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, etc, to ship together.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In Wanda's first extended appearance in "The Hex Factor" (when she goes berserk and tries to attack Pietro on sight), Toad half-jokingly asks Pietro if she's his ex-girlfriend. Four years after that episode came out, MarkMillar and JephLoeb rather infamously wrote Wanda and Pietro as [[{{Twincest}} an incestuous couple]] in ''TheUltimates'', much to the [[BrainBleach consternation]] of many fans.
* GrowingTheBeard: The show has decent to average quality in season 1, near the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3, the show gets a lot better. It becomes more serious, while still retaining its playful humor, and focuses more on characterization and action (While previous seasons focused on introductions and mostly romance respectfully).
* HoYay: Yaoi fans were particularly interested in what Avalanche and Quicksilver did with their free time together living in the Brotherhood Boarding House.
** Nightcrawler and Cyclops. And Wolverine and CaptainAmerica in the season 2 episode about Operation Rebirth.
*** Re: Nightcrawler and Cyclops. In the "Evan with a camera" episode, Evan says, "Scott's pretty stiff, but Kurt usually takes care of that." Can't make this up.
**** The scene where, [[spoiler: after the mansion is destroyed and characters have to share rooms,]] Scott and Kurt emerge from their bedroom with Scott being covered in Kurt's fur.
* HilariousInHindsight: It's a bit ironic that Noel Fisher would voice Toad, a mutant resembling a frog-human hybrid, considering that one of his earlier roles was [[MaxKeeblesBigMove Troy McGinty]], who was deathly afraid of a human-frog hybrid children's show character named [=MacGoogles=].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Brotherhood, probably the reason they're so popular. Also probably the reason the Acolytes were introduced, to show ''real'' villainy. Each B-hooder has their levels, but probably the most inefectual and sympathetic is Toad.
* JerkassWoobie: Mystique. She was a ManipulativeBitch throughout the entire series, but by the time she realizes the err of her ways in the finale, and begs forgiveness from [[spoiler: her children]] Nightcrawler and Rogue, they've completely lost faith in her, and don't want anything to do with her.
* LesYay: The entire "Bayville Sirens" [[{{Montages}} montage]] in ''Walk on the Wild Side''. Especially the part [[GirlOnGirlIsHot where Jean and Magma are grinding on each other]].
** Amara. Tabitha. [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship That's all.]]
** Risty asked Rogue to a Sadie Hawkins dance. That is literally what happened; Scott was taken, so Risty suggested that she and Rogue go. [[spoiler:This, of course, makes the reveal that Risty was Mustique this whole time VERY awkward.]]
* MagnificentBastard: Magneto. For this troper, the clincher was [[spoiler:erasing his daughter's memory rather than accepting the damage his own actions caused.]]
** It wasn't so much that he erased it; he had Mastermind [[MindRape change it,]] simply so she would stop ruining all his plans and trying to to kill him.
*** Also, some people consider Magneto's treatment of [[spoiler: Wanda]] more of a MoralEventHorizon than a MagnificentBastard move.
** But the fact that, in doing so, he ended up in a win win situation for EVERYONE probably makes him one. [[spoiler: Toad can now spend time with Wanda, Pietro no longer has to fear her, Wanda's childhood trauma is gone, and he's free to do whatever he wants without the single most powerful mutant known at the time trying to kill him.]]
* MemeticMutation: I WILL CRUSH YOU LIKE A CAANN!!
** "Chicks dig the fuzzy dude!"
* MemeticSexGod: As said above, chicks ''dig'' the fuzzy blue elf.
** Gambit gets this as well. He's currently the most popular male character for this reason (and because he's Rogue's comic book love interest and flirted a little with her).
* MoralEventHorizon: Duncan Matthews and his pals went from {{Jerk Jock}}s, to physically assaulting Scott ''unprovokedly'' after he was outted as a mutant, to post-graduation attempted [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal mutant murder with mining machinery]]. [[spoiler:That last one got them sentenced to life in prison. [[WhatAnIdiot Duh]].]]
** There was also the soft-drink manufacturer who unknowingly laced his drink with mutant poison. You can tell he's genuinely surprised... then MoodWhiplash kicks in and he figures he can make a lot of money off the discovery.
** Magneto's [[spoiler: use of Mastermind to MindRape his daughter into loving him]] might qualify, and [[spoiler: threatening Colossus's family to ensure his loyalty.]]
** Apocalypse was planning on using his machine to turn the populace into mutants... But even he notes that this may ''kill'' much of the human population, due to their bodies not being able to take it. He still was willing to go through it.
** Pietro's was derailing the train to get more hero points... and then abandoning it when he realized how dangerous it is to try and stop it, therefore leaving the whole town plus Lance and Wanda (his ''ex-leader/still-friend and twin sister respectively'') to their fiery deaths.
* NeedsMoreLove: Sunspot. Boy does he need it.
* NightmareFuel:
** Mesmero's introductory episode was this from the beginning to the end.
** Apocalypse straddled the line, helped by the fact he wasn't particularly wordy in this continuity.
* [[PossessionSue Possession]] [[SympatheticSue Sympathetic]] RelationshipSue: Rogue is ''not'' a MarySue in canon, but fangirls latched onto her so strongly that they often made her look/act in their fanwork like anything ''but'' herself, as well as making her Scott's [[OneTruePairing One True Love]] despite him not even realizing that she had a crush on him. Made even worse by their bashing of Jean, whom they demonized to an horrifying degree because Scott liked her more than the precious Rogue Sue they had in their minds.
** Kitty is also often used in some stories as a Bella Swan like Step in for the Author and reader's romantic fantasy, either with Kurt as a friend turned boyfriend who's in an unhappy relationship (Forgetting that Kurt and Amanda were seen as very loving), or Avalanche as a loving, perfect, flawless boyfriend (Forgetting that, as heroic as he could be at times, Avalanche had a lot of flaws).
* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: For some "fans", Kitty and Jean (though mostly Jean) were... too girly to be "likeable and relatable". Rogue, and later Wanda, were the yardstick to measure "womanly strength" in the series. And yet, there's ''still'' fans who call them out (along with X-23) for being 'too whiney'. That's right, having a considerable amount of issues has caused some fans to call them Wangsty.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Spyke, who after living with the Morlocks, became a {{Badass}}, mutant-protecting vigilante that can light his spikes on fire.
** Jubilee is often regarded as the most useless X-Woman to the general public, here however, she's an EnsembleDarkhorse. All they needed to do was get rid of the shorts, give her long hair, and a few funny lines and minimum screen time and BAMB! Instant popularity.
* RonTheDeathEater: Just ask the rabid Brotherhood fans what they think of Professor X. Just... do it. And see them foam at their mouths.
** Also, Lance/Avalance. He ''does'' have his shade of jerkiness and specially at the beginning... but considering how some people talk about him, you'd swear he's a BastardBoyfriend who'd ''rape and murder'' Kitty if he could.
** EVERYONE gets this from some corner of the fandom. However, the biggest victim is Jean. The nice friendly psychic who was disgusted at the prospect of using her powers for unhonest deeds was utterly defiled in a lot of fanfictions.
** Adding to that, this trope should be renamed 'Jean Grey Was A Bitch' thanks to how badly she gets this. Unlike Xavier, Lance and others, Jean had ''almost no'' shades of jerkiness, and was easily [[CoolBigSis the friendliest character in the show.]] While she does act too perfect, in fact a lot of people who didn't like her cite her being [[PuritySue too perfect as the reason]]: she '''did''' have her flaws like everyone else ([[ClingyJealousgirl clingy]], passive-aggressive, [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] sometimes, [[CannotSpitItOut can't be true to herself and others]] [[{{Tsundere}} about her crush on Scott, asell as hag a bit of a temper]]), but she was a good person overall. Unlike Lance, however, this isn't motivated mostly by Die For Our Ship, though ''did'' happen in regards to entitled Scott/Rogue fans: many people hate her and Scott (who also gets this from some corners of the fandom, but not nearly ''as'' badly as Jean) just the same, but most of the fandom hate her for 'being a manipulative bitch and a whore', despite there being ''zero'' evidence to this. As ''much'' she flirted a little with Scott while with Duncan and showed jealousy when her best friend Taryn showed interest in Scott, but there's no real evidence about her cheating.
** The previously mentioned JerkassDissonance of Scott. Scott was a bit of a workaholic and didn't have much in the ways of humour, and at times seemed a little hotheaded. The former two were played for laughs while the last was something he shared with a lot of characters, including his rival Lance (who fans are usually the ones giving Scott this treatment). He didn't trust the Brotherhood and Lance in particular, and once told Kurt to stop goofing around. That is because the Brotherhood often antagonised him, and Kurt's goofing around consisted of him joking about revealing his secret, something that Scott would naturally have an issue with. But, completely ignoring his BigBrotherMentor like relationship with the others, his dedication to Xavier's cause, his various CrowningMomentsOfAwesome, and the fact that, he always apologises for anything wrong he actually does, a lot of fans, especially Brotherhood fans but ocasionally others as well if its shipping related, have gone as far as to declare him a hypocrite or have other characters talk about how much they hate him for being a JerkAss in fanfics.
** Which is hilarious when you look at his characterisation in the comics. All his negative and positive traits are [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]].
* TheScrappy: Spyke was sometimes dismissed by fans as a TokenMinority replacement for the more famous and "[[NinetiesAntiHero edgy]]" Marrow. WordOfGod says they didn't have Marrow in mind, some sources claiming they didn't even know about her.
** Boom-Boom when she first joined The Brotherhood.
** Iceman, to some, and the New Mutants in general.
* StrangledByTheRedString: The Lance-Kitty. Your mileage will HEAVILY vary there since they have numerous fans who support them, but they did get together fairly quickly and seemed to forget their previous hostilities.
** RomanticPlotTumor: Scott and Jean for some, so much so that people keep mistaking it for the above trope. They didn't get together unrealistically fast as would be required by the above trope, in fact it took them three seasons to. The problem is, some people got sick of waiting for them, or of them hogging the spotlight. However, this is massively YMMV, as this view is only supported by Scogue fans, Brotherhood fans, or just people who don't like them. Those who like them, or are just plain neutral to them, however, do NOT believe this.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: At the end of an episode where they find out that contact with a new sports drink can harm mutants, [[spoiler: the creator of the drink promises Professor X to stop selling the drinks. But when Prof. X leaves, the creator gets out his phone and calls someone to tell them about it, with obvious malicious intent toward mutants]]. But it never goes anywhere and we never hear about it again. This, along with a few lose plot threads found in the fourth season, could probably be atributed to Marvel deciding to axe the series.
** Several plots and ideas were left hanging, including-but-not-limited-to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Jean becoming the Phoenix and the debut of Mister Sinister]], or [[spoiler:the David/Legion plot]], Gambit & Colossus potentially joining the X-Men... The last season was only ''9 episodes long''.
** Half the canon pairings were only hinted at, but they never did anything with the potential story-lines. Iceman and Jubilee, Magma and Cannonball, Wolfsbane and Sunspot...
* ToyShip: Multiple gets shipped a lot, despite being younger than everyone.
* UglyCute: Nightcrawler and Toad.
* {{Wangst}}: Everyone, but especially Rogue.
* WhatAnIdiot: Not a life-threatening case, but a big one nonetheless. Spike honestly did a research report on Star Wars when the subject was "The Star Wars". To an outsider, that's understandable... except in high school you only get an assignment after at least five weeks on a subject! You'd have to be a major idiot to not get that!
** Another Spike one. He uses his camera to record Wolverine's training session... while [[TooDumbToLive SKATING TOWARDS HIM!]] Also, his recording any mutant in general! Especially since, last episode, they mention keeping mutant activites a secret! Friggin' idiot.
* TheWoobie: X-23 in her first appearance, especially when she breaks down in Logan's arms.
** Kurt and Rogue also have shades of Woobiness at times, as does Wanda.
** David[[spoiler:/Legion]], who was first told by his mother that his father [[spoiler:Xavier]] abandoned him, then he moved to a new place where he had no friends, and ''then'' was slowly taken over by an alternate personality. An alternate personality that kidnapped and held him hostage in a castle. [[spoiler:Then he gets ''permanently'' taken over when his dad tries to save him.]] Poor kid. [[spoiler: Because the series was cancelled after Season 4, this becomes a case of TheBadGuyWins, at least as it stands - there are hints he could've been still saved had the show continued...]]
** It's ''X-Men'', its one of the staples of the franchise is that (almost) every named character is a woobie in need of hugs. Scott has dead parents and uncontrollable powers, Jean has a dead friend (Not actually touched upon in the series) and powers that vary from 'too powerful to control' to 'too weak to be useful', Rogue had uncontrolable powers that she has no way of practising to use safely like others, Kurt had the whole 'my momma's evil' thing, Kitty was bullied for being too smart, Logan had no memory and was the victim to expermimentation that he still has PTSD over... And that's just the ''important'' characters.
** JerkassWoobie: Evan evolved into this. While he was probably the closest in the X-Men to Jerkassery, he developed into a Woobie during Season three after anti-mutant sentiment caused former friends to start bullying him (While they were all suffering, Evan was the only one to be shown ''repeatedly'' being picked on for his powers)- while also slowly but steadily losing control of his ''very'' visible powers. Eventually, he takes a Mutant harming poison and completely loses the hang of his abilities, so the poor kid moves in with the Morlocks as, despite the X-Men's good intentions, the Morlocks are the only ones who can understand his pain. And worse, its unconfirmed if they stop being poisoned by Power8 or if the effects will ever wear off, and they never mentioned if there was a cure.
*** It's pretty hard to feel sorry for Pietro, what with his jerkassery and all--but then you realize that his sister hates him, his dad only cares when he needs to use him (and Pietro is ''painfully'' aware of it), and none of his friends seem to like him (though a good bit of it comes from his own actions). He's shown living entirely on his own, at 15-16, on two separate occasions in the series. It's not quite on the level with the others, but it's worth a little bit of sympathy.
**** The reason a lot of people dislike him is because although he's had it bad, his friends in the Brotherhood might have had it just as bad, yet aren't nearly as aggravatingly egotistical as he is. It doesn't help that his comics counterpart - while still frequently a {{Jerkass}} - was shown to possess noble traits nonetheless. Pietro also has these from time to time, so it might just be chalked up to uneven characterization with little time for good balance (especially thanks to the series' cancellation.
**** The problem with Pietro was he never was shown in a sympathetic light like the other Brotherhood members. Then in ''No Good Deed'' he left Lance and Wanda to essentially die. Lance was probably the closest thing he had to a friend and Wanda was his sister. Pietro was always a back stabbing traitor jerk, but that was low even for him.
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