Recap / X-Men S2 E2 "Till Death Do Us Part, Part 2"

• Achilles' Heel: Cyclops's blasts are the only thing that can cause painful damage to Mister Sinister. Unlike the comics, this is played completely straight, as otherwise, Sinister would be unstoppable.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: After the team takes care of the Nasty Boys, Wolverine calls them the B-Team and says it's time for the big game. He is immediately blasted by Mister Sinister. Gambit lampshades it.
• Beast Man: Hairbag's mutation.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Wolverine saves Jubilee from a likely execution by the Friends of Humanity.
  • The fight with the Nasty Boys is a series of this. When Wolverine is temporarily blinded and about to get beaten by Slab and Hairbag, Gambit throws numerous cards at them. When Gorgeous George gets a hold of Gambit, Rogue swoops in to deal with it. When Ruckus is about to get the drop on the three X-Men with his power, Beast gets the drop on him.
• The Brute: Slab fills this role in the Nasty Boys
• A Father to His Men: Mister Sinister learns the hard way that Cyclops is this.
  Cyclops: So, you like playing God with mutants' lives? Well, just KEEP AWAY FROM MY FRIENDS!
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: What did mutants do to make the Friends of Humanity hate them so much? They were born.
• Foreshadowing: Wolverine intending to find Morph sets up his subplot in the next episode.
• Genre Savvy: Morph as Xavier immediately starts telling the team about a potential weapon that makes people irrational, knowing full well Wolverine would immediately be able to smell though his disguise. Sure enough, a minute later, Wolverine walks in and accuses "Xavier" of being Morph, so he orders the team to restrain him because he's been affected by the "weapon." It almost works, but as Wolverine gets increasingly insistent, Morph starts to get desperate, and "Xavier" being a little too eager to order them to harm Wolverine makes Gambit suspicious enough to test Wolverine's theory.
• Healing Factor: Mister Sinister possesses an advanced one that allows him to recover from Torso with a View without even flinching. The only weakness is an optic blast from Cyclops.
• Impostor-Exposing Test: Wolverine insists that's not Xavier in the war room; it's Morph. The others don't believe him, but in all the commotion, "Xavier" gets knocked over and demands that Logan be destroyed. Gambit notices this and performs a simple test: throwing a charged card towards "Xavier," who immediately stands up and tries to take cover.
• It's Personal:
  • Morph has an axe to grind against the entire team for being left behind, but it's Cyclops most of all he despises.
    Cyclops: Is this some kind of sick joke?
    Morph: It wasn't a sick joke when you left me to die. How do you like feeling your last seconds on Earth ticking away?
  • This episode makes every confrontation with Mister Sinister personal for Cyclops.
• Never Say "Die": Averted. Morph didn't die, but it's acknowledged that he should be dead, and everyone remarks with surprise that he's alive. The usual go-to ("destroy") is never used in reference to him. Just to hammer it home, Sinister describes his body as appearing lifeless and later uses the below quote that explicitly uses the word that the network usually didn't allow. Actually, as noted on the trope's Western Animation subpage, there was apparently some leeway from the network for using the given word if they could show the given character was still alive.
  Mister Sinister: I should've let you die!
• No-Sell: Morph shooting Mister Sinister is how we learn about the latter's healing abilities.
• The Power of Friendship:
  • Early on, Morph starts wavering from seeking revenge on the grounds that the team were his friends, but Mister Sinister knows how to use this trope to his advantage.
    Mister Sinister: But friends don't betray friends, Morph. They don't abandon them.
  • After Morph departs:
    Beast: Let him go, Wolverine. Morph may be afraid of what he would do if he stayed with us. He must learn to deal with what he has become.
    Wolverine: He is my friend. He's the only one who could ever make me laugh. I'm not gonna desert him this time.
• Properly Paranoid: After Morph escapes the mansion, Beast immediately guesses that he will hunt down the X-Man he has the most reason to hate.
• The Reveal: Mister Sinister found Morph barely alive after the team was forced to retreat from the Sentinels. He healed Morph's body, but the damage to Morph's mind caused a split personality: the heroic Morph and a dark personality who wanted revenge against Cyclops.
• Spot the Imposter: When Morph shape-shifts into Wolverine to fight him, Jubilee can't tell which is which. Morph tells her to blast them both with her powers and Jubilee falls for it, blasting the real Wolverine and giving Morph the chance to flee in the Blackbird.
• Super-Scream: This is Ruckus's mutant power.
• This Cannot Be!: Mister Sinister when he learns the hard way what a blast from Cyclops can do to him.
  "My body! This is impossible!"
• To Be Continued: Just as Xavier and Magneto meet, explosives go off and send them falling into a valley.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: With the Nasty Boys trounced and Mister Sinister taking a vicious blasting from Cyclops, the villains rush to their jet and flee the island.
• Villainous Breakdown: Mister Sinister loses all of his cool when Cyclops blasts him.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Gorgeous George, whose body seems composed of a tar-like substance.