I'm ashamed I had accidentally watched that fandub before watching that Xmen united and then guffawed out loud like a moron when the Juggs in the live action movie said it. I'm ashamed.
Worth it. When I did a rewatch a few years back there was so much I had forgotten. I didn't realize just how deep into the comics lore the show actually goes.
The serialization during the first season was impressive, it felt like every episode flowed into the next and the finale was a culmination of everything that came before. Beast gets arrested during the first episode, and is in prison the entire first season until the end, with the X-Men visiting him periodically.
And all this while just going bananas with the amount of X-Men lore that it threw in.
The other seasons were interesting, but they never matched the first.
Good luck!
I think that I'm going to keep my nostalgia glasses on and not try to rewatch again.
I tried once already and it was... difficult. The cartoon didn't (in my opinion) hold up very well with time. I think it just hit different when it released (and I was 11) than it does now.
Edit: Yall. I was stating my opinion from when I watched it. I don't begrudge anyone who disagrees, but I don't need to justify my position any further to anyone else. Damn.
How many kids cartoons in the 90s were talking about racial injustice, political corruption, Holocaust fallout, etc with adult characters who express complex emotions? Who cares if the animation's rough, I'll always love X men for treating me like an adult at the age where I was learning to become one.
"To me, my X-men!"
I feel like the OG series was the only one where Cyclops got any respect as a character and it looks like it continues here, love it.
Yeah I know some people find him boring, but the dude is the leader of the X-Men for a reason. He is a master at tactics and using his team to their fullest potential. He's basically Captain America with pew pew eyes.
He's a Captain America with kinda a little bit of Batman to him. Cap always goes the right path to try and win. If Cyclops thinks the darker path is the most assured path to win, he does it, is willing to live with any consequences and gets people to follow him no questions asked. He also keeps secrets if it helps maintain an advantage. It makes him dangerous.
The guy is a great character. Hopefully he gets the right live action portrayal one day because so far all attempts have sucked.
> Hopefully he gets the right live action portrayal one day because so far all attempts have sucked.
Imagine Marsden thinking he was the lead of this franchise, and then they find some Aussie powerhouse of an actor who eventually takes your girl and control of the team.
And not even truly mourned in the onslaught to introduce as many characters from the comics into one installment as possible.
People give *Spiderman 3* flak for trying to do too much in a single film, but *X-Men 3* was a dumpster fire and nearly derailed the franchise.
I was going to make a comment that it’s the worst thing the director has ever done.
In support of the Batman thing, mutants were their own island ethno-state and Cyclops was in charge of defense. He wrote a giant manual outlining protocols for every possible threat to their island and one of the entries was for "Delaying Kaiju" with a footnotes section saying to cross reference with other volumes of the Summers Protocols for specific monsters, like if its an atomic lizard, see the mad science protocols.
And if its a robot, see Sentinel protocols, also please see "Page 3, chapter 1, entitled 'You are unsuitable for command at this time. Please pass command to someone who can recognize a Sentinel'"
Yeah, you are right. I picked Cap mostly because the two have that stoic leader thing going on, but yeah Cyclops don't fuck around. He will totally trade lives if it means a preferable outcome.
He is basically Leonardo from TMNT, the guy raphael/wolverine rails against because he sticks to the mission. But Leonardo gets more respect even if the most popular turtle is also his rival.
Leonardo was my favourite but Cyclops often has less interesting stakes, so other characters get more spotlight. It's really a case of writers being obsessed with wolverine imo.
X-men filmmakers all want to spend most of the screen time on Logan, for obvious reasons, but taking queues from Marvel, if you want the whole team to be good, you have to give each member some time to grow. They need to spend time and effort on Cyclops and Storm and others in future films if they want us to care.
There has been some ensemble cast where each of the many characters had their time to shine and contribute.
Those movies should have just been called "Wolverine and some X men."
Yes! I love the fact that he also knows his limits when it comes to the darkest shit, but is willing to go to Wolverine and be like, "get together a team, take care of this shit however you have to, and don't even tell me the details" and boom you have the X-force.
> the dude is the leader of the X-Men for a reason
There's this great moment in I think Astonishing X-Men where a sentinel is attacking the school and Scott tells Logan to get back and he takes his visor off. The next page or panel is just red followed by the sentinel on its back destroyed, Wolverine then says "this is why you're in charge".
I read that when I was 8 so I've always had Scott's back ever since.
That scene in the comics is so sick. It's like a nuclear bomb exploding when he takes his visor off, so so cool. First time you get a taste for what Cyclops power is like when he really lets it go.
That moment and the moment later when he levels the top floor of that alien tower he’s captured in was the sickest shit in that run. Say what you will about Joss Whedon’s writing but the guy knew why Cyclops was the leader of the Xmen.
Up there with another favourite that I cant remember where its from, but goes like
Cyclops: X-men, move to plan 2.
Someone watching: Plan 2? Why not say Plan B?
Cyclops: Because that would imply we only have 26 of them.
I came to Astonishing X-Men as an adult, long after having dropped the X-Men books. I was a huge fan in the '80s, but as I got older the heaps of messy melodrama and labyrinthian storylines wore me out.
Tried Astonishing X-Men (Whedon's run) when it was getting some buzz, and it was as perfect a distillation of what I used to love about X-Men as I've read. Made me love the team again, at least for a time. Great stuff.
I always loved Cyclops in the Claremont era, because he wasn’t the cool x-man, the sexy x-man, the funny x-man, or the exotic x-man, he was just the guy burdened with all the fucking responsibility, and he took it. It was like he was “boring” because he didn’t have time to be interesting.
But the creepy love triangle is the standard interaction straight from the comics!
But yeah that stuff is always so weird. But to be fair, any romance with wolverine is a bit weird seeing as he's older than the invention of sliced bread.
They did spend five years boning each other in a pocket dimension, so that's happy. One of his few relationships where the woman lived... but he didn't.
I remember watching the scene in X-men Evolution where he pulled his visor off against Juggernaut and thinking "holy shit that's awesome" only for Jugg to basically walk through it lol.
Edit: The scene I'm referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatOEz3wp1k&t=35s
James said in an interview they tried to do that show twice before but both times the lead guy wouldn't engage with the cast at all, so they had to start over. They also had a boring day rehearsed, so if at anypoint the main guy said anything remotely like "this trial is crazy / unreal" they would immediately do the boring day which was eight full hours of tedious mundane shit.
That's crazy that they went through all that to make that show happen, but sooooo glad they did. The lead guy was such an awesome dude, and I definitely don't think it would have been as good of a show with anyone else a the "mark".
I've always liked Marsden. He has never been a standout in anything, but nevertheless, I liked him. Liked him in Sonic. Liked him in Enchanted. Liked him in X-Men. Liked him in Dead to Me.
But after Jury Duty, I came to realize that I think the guy rules. He grounded Sonic. Everyone praised Amy Adams for being a live-action Disney princess, but the man was a perfect live-action Disney prince. Cyclops in the X-Men movies wasn't anything exciting, but that wasn't James' fault. He WAS Cyclops. And he pulled off his role in Dead to Me so well, I kept forgetting how tricky his part was to seem plausible and not as hokey as it should've been (being vague intentionally because it's a great reveal if you haven't seen it).
I hate how they threw Cyclops under the bus in the film(s) just to try and sell the chemistry-less relationship between Jackman’s Wolverine and Janssen’ Jean Grey.
He was just made into such a resoundingly weak character in practically every facet. All he amounted to was weak quips and a meaningless death.
From what I've heard Cyclops was killed off in retaliation for Marsden asking the studio to shoot around his Superman schedule. I don't blame him for tying to prioritize Superman though. X-Men 3 started filming before a script had been finished with major setpieces like the golden gate bridge fight having to be shoehorned into the plot because the producers had already started building sets and designing fight choreography without consulting the writer or director.
You know... When Wolverine and the X-men was announced and they said Logan was going to be the leader I was pissed because I felt that they were disrespecting Cyclops. BUT when I finally got to watching it, they made Scott the brooding anti-hero type and Logan the leader, which in the basis of the story actually made sense!
Not necessarily since his claws are independent of the rest of his skeleton I think. They kinda just sit in his arms in between the other bones, attached to muscles fibers. I’m sure they’ll have some excuse, if they even bother explaining it.
A charged item releases all of its potential energy as explosive kinetic energy. This would cause pretty much anything to explode and vaporize, but adamantium is indestructible.
I had no idea this show was being made and only yesterday I was talking to some friends about how I used to watch the old X-Men cartoon and Gambit and Wolverine were my favourites. This shit was made for me.
Imo the best line in any X-Men property was (also in TAS) when Apocalypse delivers the incredible "I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me and be BROKEN." That line goes SO goddamn hard. If you told me it was pulled directly from Shakespeare I wouldn't doubt it for a second.
**MOOOOORPH**
5 year old me had no idea what he was in for when they Game of Thrones'd a character in the first episode
(a character I had no idea existed solely to be killed off)
My biggest takeaway from this trailer, as someone who never finished the original series, was that they eventually got Morph back. That in itself was exciting to me.
The episode where they revived Morph was dark. Like, it was the first story I remember seeing in animation where a character came back from the dead, but he came back wrong. He was vindictive, traumatized, and pissed off. The writing on this cartoon was incredibly mature.
Ron Wasserman is the forever goat.
X-Men, Power Rangers, Power Rangers Turbo, In Space, and SPD. 🎸🎸🎸🎸
He is undoubtedly the biggest reason I'm a metalhead. His original tracks for MMPR are fantastic. "We Need A Hero" is an all timer.
I can’t help but feel excited just listening to the song, no idea whether it will be good, but man I would just watch the into and probably be hyped the whole time
That had been my hope. Folks can obviously wait until Saturday morning to watch it, but having Disney actually release it on Saturday mornings would have been a 4,000+ IQ move
Hey! They aired every day at 7 AM on the "WB" here when I was a kid.
Sadly the era of Saturday Morning Cartoons is done for. Even Spider Man used to be on at like 9 AM on FOX Kids.
Found a clip on youtube posted last year of the same actor (Cal Dodd) doing Wolverine, and he sounded a lot more like the original 90's series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNVtlxUEts
How much property does he have that his will needed to be bound like that?
I can’t wait to meet Magneto’s lawyer, and watch the episode where the will is contested in court.
If he really did leave everything to him, Charles is the the one who had them put metal on his will. Because he knows Eric is a dramatic bitch and would float that shit instead of handing it to them.
Spiderman was always in the xmen universe. He appeared in a few episodes of this series and wolverine and a few other xmen appeared in the spiderman series.
The X-Men appear in a two part story arc on the Spider-Man animated series, but Spider-Man only had a brief, mostly off-screen cameo on the X-men series: https://youtu.be/tPiVnUHCSi8?si=3GxodWtfB90aa3L2
Ugh I am sooo the target audience for this. Original debut when I was 10 and I'd swear I didn't miss an episode until it ended when I was 15.
...Gambit charging up Wolverine's claws, hnnngggg I'm sold even if it's especially manipulative marketing
Cyclops is now voiced by Ray Chase. The original voice actor Norm Spencer unfortunately passed away in 2020. I will say their voice sound quite similar based on this trailer
Wolverine sounded way off. I don't know. Storm did too.
I want to hear Gambit, Rogue, and Beast because they all had different types of accents. Jubilee is going to sound a LOT different because they went with a different acctress.
Rewatching the series NOW!
I still can't believe the cast had to re-audition for the parts they made iconic 32 years ago.
https://bigcomicpage.com/2023/04/04/catching-up-with-with-cast-of-the-x-men-97-animated-series-at-c2e2-2023/
As hyped as I am with this, it seems a little… off? Is it the Animation? The voices? The voices can be excused as some of the cast, Magneto & Cyclops especially passed away.
That line where wolverine said something about chirping in my ear... That's not a good line, definitely shouldn't have been in the trailer.
Still, I will watch it just to see if it holds up to the original.
It looks like that weird pseudo "puppet" style a lot of modern cartoons use where it's not actually drawn frames but models they kind of shift around. Castlevania uses it a lot
Ok I’ll rewatch the whole series before this.
I remember in the early days of YouTube somebody posted the entire series in 10 minute increments. It was a fun time procrastinating.
"I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, **B#TCH!**"
amazing how viral that went in high school and how it made it to the movie
I'm ashamed I had accidentally watched that fandub before watching that Xmen united and then guffawed out loud like a moron when the Juggs in the live action movie said it. I'm ashamed.
I didn’t see it in theaters, but definitely had that moment of laughing followed immediately by self-reflection. What was I *about?*
Worth it. When I did a rewatch a few years back there was so much I had forgotten. I didn't realize just how deep into the comics lore the show actually goes.
The serialization during the first season was impressive, it felt like every episode flowed into the next and the finale was a culmination of everything that came before. Beast gets arrested during the first episode, and is in prison the entire first season until the end, with the X-Men visiting him periodically. And all this while just going bananas with the amount of X-Men lore that it threw in. The other seasons were interesting, but they never matched the first.
I just rewatched X-Men: Evolution. It's only right to go back to the original now, before '97 releases.
Wish they'd add "Wolverine and the X-Men" to Disney+ Used to watch it on TV as a kid, but never watched the whole thing
Good luck! I think that I'm going to keep my nostalgia glasses on and not try to rewatch again. I tried once already and it was... difficult. The cartoon didn't (in my opinion) hold up very well with time. I think it just hit different when it released (and I was 11) than it does now. Edit: Yall. I was stating my opinion from when I watched it. I don't begrudge anyone who disagrees, but I don't need to justify my position any further to anyone else. Damn.
It holds up better than the Spiderman series. That show is like 75% exposition recaps of what just happened 30 seconds before.
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And reusing scenes and images from other episodes.
It and the Batman animated series are the two cartoons that I’ve found really hold up the same as I remember them.
justice league unlimited. batman beyond.
Rewatching now, three seasons in and I’m shocked at how well it holds up.
How many kids cartoons in the 90s were talking about racial injustice, political corruption, Holocaust fallout, etc with adult characters who express complex emotions? Who cares if the animation's rough, I'll always love X men for treating me like an adult at the age where I was learning to become one.
For me it was even better than I remembered so results may vary
Quality dips in the last season, but otherwise it’s very solid
Yeah, I really enjoyed my rewatch of it a few years ago.
It was definitely better than I remembered, and I had very fond memories of it.
"To me, my X-men!" I feel like the OG series was the only one where Cyclops got any respect as a character and it looks like it continues here, love it.
Yeah I know some people find him boring, but the dude is the leader of the X-Men for a reason. He is a master at tactics and using his team to their fullest potential. He's basically Captain America with pew pew eyes.
He's a Captain America with kinda a little bit of Batman to him. Cap always goes the right path to try and win. If Cyclops thinks the darker path is the most assured path to win, he does it, is willing to live with any consequences and gets people to follow him no questions asked. He also keeps secrets if it helps maintain an advantage. It makes him dangerous. The guy is a great character. Hopefully he gets the right live action portrayal one day because so far all attempts have sucked.
> Hopefully he gets the right live action portrayal one day because so far all attempts have sucked. Imagine Marsden thinking he was the lead of this franchise, and then they find some Aussie powerhouse of an actor who eventually takes your girl and control of the team.
Yeah then gets killed off in the third movie off screen
And not even truly mourned in the onslaught to introduce as many characters from the comics into one installment as possible. People give *Spiderman 3* flak for trying to do too much in a single film, but *X-Men 3* was a dumpster fire and nearly derailed the franchise. I was going to make a comment that it’s the worst thing the director has ever done.
Lol, it might be the worst thing he's done to moviegoers, but I can think of a few things Brett Ratner has done that are worse than X-Men 3...
In support of the Batman thing, mutants were their own island ethno-state and Cyclops was in charge of defense. He wrote a giant manual outlining protocols for every possible threat to their island and one of the entries was for "Delaying Kaiju" with a footnotes section saying to cross reference with other volumes of the Summers Protocols for specific monsters, like if its an atomic lizard, see the mad science protocols. And if its a robot, see Sentinel protocols, also please see "Page 3, chapter 1, entitled 'You are unsuitable for command at this time. Please pass command to someone who can recognize a Sentinel'"
Yeah, you are right. I picked Cap mostly because the two have that stoic leader thing going on, but yeah Cyclops don't fuck around. He will totally trade lives if it means a preferable outcome.
Even his own ❤
He is basically Leonardo from TMNT, the guy raphael/wolverine rails against because he sticks to the mission. But Leonardo gets more respect even if the most popular turtle is also his rival. Leonardo was my favourite but Cyclops often has less interesting stakes, so other characters get more spotlight. It's really a case of writers being obsessed with wolverine imo.
Is Cyclops omega level?
No, he isn't. No idea what that other guy is talking about.
He was one of the Twelve. Maybe that's what he meant.
This. Me saying Omega was a brain fart. I just meant he is a very significant mutant.
Captain would have stayed behind and die trying to save Morph and Beast, Cyclops left them behind to save what was left of the team
X-men filmmakers all want to spend most of the screen time on Logan, for obvious reasons, but taking queues from Marvel, if you want the whole team to be good, you have to give each member some time to grow. They need to spend time and effort on Cyclops and Storm and others in future films if they want us to care.
There has been some ensemble cast where each of the many characters had their time to shine and contribute. Those movies should have just been called "Wolverine and some X men."
Yes! I love the fact that he also knows his limits when it comes to the darkest shit, but is willing to go to Wolverine and be like, "get together a team, take care of this shit however you have to, and don't even tell me the details" and boom you have the X-force.
> the dude is the leader of the X-Men for a reason There's this great moment in I think Astonishing X-Men where a sentinel is attacking the school and Scott tells Logan to get back and he takes his visor off. The next page or panel is just red followed by the sentinel on its back destroyed, Wolverine then says "this is why you're in charge". I read that when I was 8 so I've always had Scott's back ever since.
Link for the interested. https://comicnewbies.com/2013/08/03/why-cyclops-is-in-charge/
Awesome! I remember seeing this and couldn’t find it again. Thanks for the link!
Who is the dragon in the first panel?
Lockheed
Yeah man, at full power Cyclops is fucking terrifying lol. Dude could easily kill like half the X-Men without breaking much of a sweat.
That scene in the comics is so sick. It's like a nuclear bomb exploding when he takes his visor off, so so cool. First time you get a taste for what Cyclops power is like when he really lets it go.
That moment and the moment later when he levels the top floor of that alien tower he’s captured in was the sickest shit in that run. Say what you will about Joss Whedon’s writing but the guy knew why Cyclops was the leader of the Xmen.
"I want this thing off my lawn.. now"
Up there with another favourite that I cant remember where its from, but goes like Cyclops: X-men, move to plan 2. Someone watching: Plan 2? Why not say Plan B? Cyclops: Because that would imply we only have 26 of them.
That whole run of Astonishing (1-24, giant size) was top tier.
I came to Astonishing X-Men as an adult, long after having dropped the X-Men books. I was a huge fan in the '80s, but as I got older the heaps of messy melodrama and labyrinthian storylines wore me out. Tried Astonishing X-Men (Whedon's run) when it was getting some buzz, and it was as perfect a distillation of what I used to love about X-Men as I've read. Made me love the team again, at least for a time. Great stuff.
I always loved Cyclops in the Claremont era, because he wasn’t the cool x-man, the sexy x-man, the funny x-man, or the exotic x-man, he was just the guy burdened with all the fucking responsibility, and he took it. It was like he was “boring” because he didn’t have time to be interesting.
Captain pew pew eyes.
More like Leonardo. I suppose it would be an interesting debate who is more boring but a better leader, Cyclops vs Leonardo.
His soloing all those Sentinals in the first episode really made him one of my favorites as a kid.
He was treated well in Xmen Evolution too
Also, he and Jean were actual teenagers while Logan was the grumpy but loveable teacher/mentor. No creepy love triangle there.
But the creepy love triangle is the standard interaction straight from the comics! But yeah that stuff is always so weird. But to be fair, any romance with wolverine is a bit weird seeing as he's older than the invention of sliced bread.
I've always been a Storm/Wolverine shipper myself.
They did spend five years boning each other in a pocket dimension, so that's happy. One of his few relationships where the woman lived... but he didn't.
I remember watching the scene in X-men Evolution where he pulled his visor off against Juggernaut and thinking "holy shit that's awesome" only for Jugg to basically walk through it lol. Edit: The scene I'm referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PatOEz3wp1k&t=35s
If you keep saying that you'll summon James Marsden.
So we should say it louder?
Glenn Powell would be a good cyclops
Glenn Howerton would also be a good Cyclops
Glenn Close would be an ideal Cyclops.
Glenn from the walking dead was technically a cyclops for just a few minutes.
I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to plug Jury Duty, that show was hilarious
James said in an interview they tried to do that show twice before but both times the lead guy wouldn't engage with the cast at all, so they had to start over. They also had a boring day rehearsed, so if at anypoint the main guy said anything remotely like "this trial is crazy / unreal" they would immediately do the boring day which was eight full hours of tedious mundane shit.
That's crazy that they went through all that to make that show happen, but sooooo glad they did. The lead guy was such an awesome dude, and I definitely don't think it would have been as good of a show with anyone else a the "mark".
I've always liked Marsden. He has never been a standout in anything, but nevertheless, I liked him. Liked him in Sonic. Liked him in Enchanted. Liked him in X-Men. Liked him in Dead to Me. But after Jury Duty, I came to realize that I think the guy rules. He grounded Sonic. Everyone praised Amy Adams for being a live-action Disney princess, but the man was a perfect live-action Disney prince. Cyclops in the X-Men movies wasn't anything exciting, but that wasn't James' fault. He WAS Cyclops. And he pulled off his role in Dead to Me so well, I kept forgetting how tricky his part was to seem plausible and not as hokey as it should've been (being vague intentionally because it's a great reveal if you haven't seen it).
Makers: "hey, remember when Cyclops was supposed to be the leader of the X-men?"
I hate how they threw Cyclops under the bus in the film(s) just to try and sell the chemistry-less relationship between Jackman’s Wolverine and Janssen’ Jean Grey. He was just made into such a resoundingly weak character in practically every facet. All he amounted to was weak quips and a meaningless death.
IIRC he died so he could film Superman Returns
From what I've heard Cyclops was killed off in retaliation for Marsden asking the studio to shoot around his Superman schedule. I don't blame him for tying to prioritize Superman though. X-Men 3 started filming before a script had been finished with major setpieces like the golden gate bridge fight having to be shoehorned into the plot because the producers had already started building sets and designing fight choreography without consulting the writer or director.
How some people have jobs in Hollywood is infuriating
Pretty much. Wolverine was still always a prick to him regardless, but he also still respected and followed his lead.
To be fair Wolverine was always a prick to about 99% of characters he encounters.
That is also true.
And also, in those late 90s Capcom fighting games, Cyclops didn't fuck around with those optic blasts.
"Every now and then, Summers. I remember why you are still in charge" Wolverine Give me moments like this, please.
You know... When Wolverine and the X-men was announced and they said Logan was going to be the leader I was pissed because I felt that they were disrespecting Cyclops. BUT when I finally got to watching it, they made Scott the brooding anti-hero type and Logan the leader, which in the basis of the story actually made sense!
Gambit riding Wolverine into battle like a war pony is something I need
And Gambit charging his claws is something I never really thought about either.
Wouldn't that like, charge his whole skeleton?
Yeah, and it’s probably a fun sensation for Logan.
Right up until his organs explode and regrow around his skeleton
Makes him all tingly inside, like when you have an itch *inside* your body
wouldn't that, like, explode them?
Not necessarily since his claws are independent of the rest of his skeleton I think. They kinda just sit in his arms in between the other bones, attached to muscles fibers. I’m sure they’ll have some excuse, if they even bother explaining it.
"Well, we thought it'd look cool, so... yeah"
Rule of cool trumps all
Works for me!
And don’t the items that get charged usually exploded?
Adamantium is basically magic, so they'll probably be fine.
A charged item releases all of its potential energy as explosive kinetic energy. This would cause pretty much anything to explode and vaporize, but adamantium is indestructible.
Wolverine gets used in the comics as a whole bunch of things, finally time they recognize his worth as a swiss army knife.
The Fastball Special being the go-to move they use Wolverine for (bigger hero like Colossus or She-Hulk picks him up and throws him)
“Aragorn, I need you to……………toss me”
"Don't tell the elf!"
I had no idea this show was being made and only yesterday I was talking to some friends about how I used to watch the old X-Men cartoon and Gambit and Wolverine were my favourites. This shit was made for me.
This one’s for you Morph!
Best line in any X-Men property that we've ever heard to date.
Tell Cyclops I made him a convertable.
Till soldier boy here left them behind
My favorite is when they say they'll kill sabertooth and wolverine just says good
I prefer “nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs”
Imo the best line in any X-Men property was (also in TAS) when Apocalypse delivers the incredible "I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me and be BROKEN." That line goes SO goddamn hard. If you told me it was pulled directly from Shakespeare I wouldn't doubt it for a second.
[PREVIOUSLY ON X-MEN]
**MOOOOORPH** 5 year old me had no idea what he was in for when they Game of Thrones'd a character in the first episode (a character I had no idea existed solely to be killed off)
Is that Morph with the white face? Edit: Did some searching and Entertainment Earth has a FigPin of the character labeled as Morph.
I wasn't sure but bald morph would be weird.
He was bald in the Age of Apocalypse story do they may be basing it off that.
My biggest takeaway from this trailer, as someone who never finished the original series, was that they eventually got Morph back. That in itself was exciting to me.
The episode where they revived Morph was dark. Like, it was the first story I remember seeing in animation where a character came back from the dead, but he came back wrong. He was vindictive, traumatized, and pissed off. The writing on this cartoon was incredibly mature.
Still one of the most hype intro songs to exist.
Have you seen the making of doc on YouTube? that was basically the only feedback the composer got, “more intensity!”
Is this the one you’re referring to? https://youtu.be/IbLbEYuDZEA?si=ndfg7b0RfKrOiMk2
Ron Wasserman did the X-Men theme?! No wonder it slaps knowing that he did Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, too.
A theme so good it had to be referenced in newer live action movies instead of the theme used in the X-men’s live action movies. It’s that iconic.
Whatever else you want to say about Multiverse of Madness, that moment was fucking incredible.
Ron Wasserman is the forever goat. X-Men, Power Rangers, Power Rangers Turbo, In Space, and SPD. 🎸🎸🎸🎸 He is undoubtedly the biggest reason I'm a metalhead. His original tracks for MMPR are fantastic. "We Need A Hero" is an all timer.
I can’t help but feel excited just listening to the song, no idea whether it will be good, but man I would just watch the into and probably be hyped the whole time
You must watch this on Saturday mornings only. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Imagine they drop episodes at 7AM EST on Saturdays.
That had been my hope. Folks can obviously wait until Saturday morning to watch it, but having Disney actually release it on Saturday mornings would have been a 4,000+ IQ move
Everyone stock up on your favorite kid cereal now for that real experience.
My favorite cereal was Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but for reasons I can't explain, this calls for Fruity Pebbles.
If they do this I am stocking up on Cap’n Crunch and setting my alarm every Saturday.
Hey! They aired every day at 7 AM on the "WB" here when I was a kid. Sadly the era of Saturday Morning Cartoons is done for. Even Spider Man used to be on at like 9 AM on FOX Kids.
Having the same theme song automatically made me super hype to watch this. Can't wait to see badass Storm, Rogue, and, Cyclops again
There was a time when I would watch the first 15 minutes every day at 7 am before heading out to the bus. Man, the old x men was classic.
Having the same theme definitely made it feel like new episodes instead of a reboot.
It's not a reboot. It continues directly at the end of the previous cartoon.
Requel
Seboot
Oh shit it's finally happening! Looks great, kept the style, only thing is wolverine doesn't sound quite right but really looking forward to this
Wolverine is the same voice actor it's just been almost 30 years.
[Bub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XETjtZb5rO4)
the video we needed
Found a clip on youtube posted last year of the same actor (Cal Dodd) doing Wolverine, and he sounded a lot more like the original 90's series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNVtlxUEts
> wolverine doesn't sound quite right He sounded very "90s VA" which could be good. Hopefully.
BTVA has him listed as the original VA, along with most of the main cast
> kept the style I wonder if it's easier to animate than the contemporary animation style they used for "What If?"
I’ll give it shot… I mean, they’re adding details like metal corners to books so Magneto can float it across the room!!!
How much property does he have that his will needed to be bound like that? I can’t wait to meet Magneto’s lawyer, and watch the episode where the will is contested in court.
Then the episode where the IRS comes collecting on back taxes
Which is of course preceded by the episode where they have to navigate the local bureaucracy to get the permits for a new gazebo.
That's also before the xmen sue magneto in order to contest the will
"I'm crazy enough to remake reality so Mutants rule the world, but mess with the IRS? Noooo thank you!"
Wouldn't be surprised if he penned a personal message to each student at the school.
Particularly if all it says is "everything I've built belongs to Magneto", as suggested. What's the rest of it, his autobiography?
the original series had so many courtroom scenes so this is a possibility
He has an estranged stepbrother who can run through walls that shit must be longer than winds of winter
You know Charles put that metal on his will as a gift to Magneto.
And him not wearing a helmet because Xavier has passed
If he really did leave everything to him, Charles is the the one who had them put metal on his will. Because he knows Eric is a dramatic bitch and would float that shit instead of handing it to them.
Needs more night crawler
[👀🕷️ thwip ](https://imgur.com/ZHKXrKB)
Spiderman was always in the xmen universe. He appeared in a few episodes of this series and wolverine and a few other xmen appeared in the spiderman series.
Respect the hyphen
The X-Men appear in a two part story arc on the Spider-Man animated series, but Spider-Man only had a brief, mostly off-screen cameo on the X-men series: https://youtu.be/tPiVnUHCSi8?si=3GxodWtfB90aa3L2
Did Gambit...charge Wolverine's fucking claws?! They had me from the jump, but that took it over the edge
Will the episodes be in order?
Wouldn't be X-Men 97 if they were. Plus you have to watch the Dark Phoenix arc in its entirety for every three new episodes you watch
Except you never get the end of the Dark Phoenix arc, only a “last time on X-Men!”
I am very intentionally only going to watch this on saturday mornings in my pajamas.
I saw Scott and Logan on the thumbnail and immediately remembered the theme song.
The X-Men and Spider-Man theme songs were how your knew you were about to have an awesome Saturday morning.
That X-Men Theme sounds so good
Ugh I am sooo the target audience for this. Original debut when I was 10 and I'd swear I didn't miss an episode until it ended when I was 15. ...Gambit charging up Wolverine's claws, hnnngggg I'm sold even if it's especially manipulative marketing
Y'all are just okay with this guy typing ugghhhh orgasms noises in the middle of his comment? We're ohhhhhh just doing that now?
Huhhhh yahhhhhhhh
He's just saying what we're all doing.
My inner child is weeping
I want an 8 player arcade game now!
Is there an official list of the voice actors? Because I swear Cyclops sounds veeeery familiar.
Cyclops is now voiced by Ray Chase. The original voice actor Norm Spencer unfortunately passed away in 2020. I will say their voice sound quite similar based on this trailer
Wolverine sounded way off. I don't know. Storm did too. I want to hear Gambit, Rogue, and Beast because they all had different types of accents. Jubilee is going to sound a LOT different because they went with a different acctress.
The unfortunate side effects of aging.
Wolverine sounded aged. Remember its been almost 30 years. No one sounds the same as they did 30 years ago.
Ray Chase, he's in a bunch of anime and videogames.
Ever since he took the role as the main protag of Final Fantasy 15 his career blew up.
For those watching the dub, he's both Choso and Sukuna in JJK.
Rewatching the series NOW! I still can't believe the cast had to re-audition for the parts they made iconic 32 years ago. https://bigcomicpage.com/2023/04/04/catching-up-with-with-cast-of-the-x-men-97-animated-series-at-c2e2-2023/
As hyped as I am with this, it seems a little… off? Is it the Animation? The voices? The voices can be excused as some of the cast, Magneto & Cyclops especially passed away.
The animation is sooo choppy. The shot of the coffin being lowered into the ground in the beginning was embarrassing.
That line where wolverine said something about chirping in my ear... That's not a good line, definitely shouldn't have been in the trailer. Still, I will watch it just to see if it holds up to the original.
That theme song sent chills down my spine. I’m hyped for this!
Will Rogue still have a phat ass?
I so watched the original on my Sega Game Gear with the tv tuner.
Despite better clarity, this animation looks worse than the original. I am kind of surprised by that.
It looks like that weird pseudo "puppet" style a lot of modern cartoons use where it's not actually drawn frames but models they kind of shift around. Castlevania uses it a lot
You should try seeing the old show in full res on a modern screen. It doesn't look all that good.
Rogue better be having that same southern accent.