If I had to guess he will either be revelated as Man Behind the Man and be main villain of season finale or he will be set to take over as Big Bad in second season.
I just looked up Wolverine getting his adamantium ripped out.
Holy cow Magneto is one Shakespearean f#@%!%r in the comics.
The original cartoon managed to show Wolverine getting unmade by Proteus and the resulting PTSD with some subtlety, so I think they could handle the above.
Edited by FOFD on Feb 18th 2024 at 8:27:18 AM
Regarding Morph, do we think the bald version is the same person as previously after some therapy (my preference) or a version from an alternate universe?
I’ve read Wiki entries a couple times and I don’t completely understand the Changeling/Morph thing. IIRC the Morph from the cartoon is like a more sympathetic version of a minor villain and that guy has an alternate universe version who is a cool goofball right?
Relatedly, I’m curious, why does one of them have a default “human” appearance and the other (the nice one) looks like a friendly version of the Chameleon?
Edited by Hodor2 on Feb 18th 2024 at 6:08:43 AM
Morph's Mutant power in the cartoon was actually more like Mystique's shapeshifting rather than Changeling's power copying. As for his hairless look, that actually is bec of the Age of Apocalypse big event that introduced him to comics and gave him his now-iconic hairless look.
To add more confusion, the Morph from AoA who is inspired by the animated series, is Kevin Sydney and presumably that's also his name here. Meanwhile, Brian Bendis later introduces his version of Morph when he took over Uncanny X-Men who's a gay teen named Benjamin Deeds whose shapeshifting is only limited to a person he's physically close to at the moment.
Edited by KRider on Feb 18th 2024 at 6:30:11 AM
Set! Avenge! "Henshin." Black General! Bujin Sword! Ready, Fight!Makes you wish you kept your Phoenix powers a bit longer, eh, Jean? ;)
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!Watching season 2 of the original cartoon, but perplexed by the decision to have Magneto and Xavier have one scene an episode stuck in the Savage Land. You'd think you'd just have them missing until you dedicated a whole B plot to them.
Anyway, really confused by the Shadow King episode, which is written as if it's a follow up to an episode that doesn't exist.
The Shadow king used to be a mutant Storm worked with in Cario? But then Storm joined the X-Men and Xavier trapped him in the shared subconsciousness of everyone on Planet Earth?
But this isn't really explained because Rogue knows all this, you'd think you'd have Rogue be the view point character so Stone can provide the backstory in a flashback.
We know that we join this incarnation of the X-Men In Media Res.
They've been around for a while, enough that Cyclops, Jean and Beast are veteran members and Iceman has left.
Rogue, Gambit, Storm and Wolverine all joined some time after that, and it's possible they've only been a team for a little bit by the time of the first episode.
I'm guessing that a lot of stuff just happened off screen by that time. They were adapting the 90's era of the comics, but channeling a lot of the old school stuff, so that may have something to do with it.
One Strip! One Strip!Yeah he used to run a gang of child prostitutes and pickpockets their. It's wild he went from scumny middle eastern crime lord to worldwide threat.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."In some ways, the show followed off from Chris Claremont's original intent (which the comics mostly followed - outside of missteps here and there - from the 70s all the way up to Decimation) that the X-Men be a kind of generational series where characters age and grow in defiance of Comic-Book Time, the team and it's structure evolves, and sometimes members retire or die if their stories are finished to make way for new ones. So the show begins with an X-Men team that's been operating for a decent while and parts of the OG team have drifted away and been replaced, and the plot kicks off with Jubilee joining as the newest member (with her character arc from there, like in the comics, being growing from the goofy teenage rookie to an adult and a seasoned superhero). And the show ends (and this season begins) with a major shift in the team dynamics where Xavier is leaving, quite possibly going to die, and Magneto is stepping into his role as patriarch/team leader while the team gets more permanent new members and Scott and Jean expect their first child.
Edited by immortaleditor on Feb 18th 2024 at 1:04:12 AM
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It is kinda weird in hindsight that Kurt and Colossus both never joined the team permanently in this version, given how much it draws from the Claremont era and team. In fact, the OG show was pretty hesitant to add new X-Men to the core team, generally preferring to keep the other members from the comics as either independent heroes or as part of other teams. Maybe they were worried they couldn't handle the comic's Loads And Loads Of Characters as well as the comics do and their solution to include everyone without straining their central cast was to just keep the X-Men a small team with a lot of friends.
A small cameo or radically different role is pretty much what'd they have to do with Kitty, since Jubilee filled her role in pretty much every major story of Kitty's that the show adapted.

So you think we'll ever find oit what happened to apocyplse?
This season is using Mr. Sinister as Big Bad. And I'm all fot it as it finally gives a great x men villain his due. But kinda wild the shows main villain is awol.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."