Trivia / New Mutants

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: On the Mostly Nitpicking podcast episode on the 2020 film adaptation, both the comic and film versions of Scottish Presbyterian mutant Rahne Sinclair are referred to by the hosts as an Irish Catholic.
• What Could Have Been: In a 2018 convention panel, artist Bret Blevins noted that he and writer Louise Simonson planned a subplot in which it would be revealed that the source of Boom-Boom's brash behavior was insecurity over the fact that she was illiterate, after which her teammates would teach her how to read. This never happened due to the switch-over to X-Force.
  • Gosamyr was going to officially join the team following her Heel–Face Turn but due to her unpopularity with fans, she was Put on a Bus in issue 74.
  • Wolfsbane was originally conceived as a devout Muslim girl with the codename "Shikari", but because the team already had two dark haired female characters (Karma and Mirage) she was changed to a devout Presbyterian Scottish girl with her trademark deep red hair. The X-Men would not get a Muslim member until 2001's New X-Men when Dust was introduced.^note Technically, Generation X's M was the first, having been introduced seven years prior to Dust but she wouldn't be established as a Muslim until 2011.
  • Likewise Cannonball originally was conceived the power to project a beam of energy from his hands and during that design phase briefly had the, very unfortunate, codename "Holocaust"

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