Marvel Animation’s X-Men ‘97 Discussion Thread.
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Morph will be nonbinary and have a past with Mr. Sinister
https://twitter.com/XMenUpdate/status/1758110185447444943
https://twitter.com/XMenUpdate/status/1758110185447444943
That's nice to hear.
I really do wish I was as excited about this as everyone else, but the original run of the series happened during a time in my life that prevented me from really watching it. And when I did watch it, the show just didn't gel with me.
When it arrived on Disney+ last year, I decided to give it another shot...and, oof, it's cheesy as fuck. Yeah, I know it was the 90s and such, and a lot of the love for it is baked-in nostalgia. Which is fantastic for those fans. I just don't have it.
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Actually, it's an interesting idea with a shapeshifting character.
I watch some episodes on VHS black in the mid '00s as a kid but not the full show
so I am going to try watching it.
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They're setting up Spider-man early
"Hellfire Gala"
"Text by Eddie Brock"
"Photos by Peter Parker"
"Hellfire Gala"
"Text by Eddie Brock"
"Photos by Peter Parker"
It's been so long since I've seen this show, I don't remember much about it other than the characters' costumes, and that darn theme song. Guess I'll have to check it out again.
Which is weird, because the '90s X-Men shared continuity with the contemporary Spider-Man series, in which Eddie Brock was fired from the Bugle in the series premiere, and was last seen throwing himself into a dimensional portal to stop Carnage. Although I guess there could've been some unseen story where he was rescued, separated from Venom, and rehired at the Bugle. But it's still a weird choice. Why Eddie Brock? Why not, say, Ben Urich?
Also, the Bugle in that era should've still looked like a traditional newspaper, not a supermarket tabloid. And for all his hostility toward Spider-Man, at least J. Jonah Jameson always hyphenated his name correctly.
This seems like the type of situation tailor-made for a No Prize.
Its looking good. I don't like the modernized Storm hair, she always looks like a doofus with a mohawk, but thats the only visual thing I dislike and at least she's not wearing the punk rock clothes to go with the hair. I do think they shouldn't have brought back any of the old voice actors, Wolverine specifically is giving me modern Simpsons flashbacks when it comes to having an older person try to do a voice they originally did decades ago and not succeeding. Still I'm excited for the show, its potentially the first good Non-comic X-Men thing since the DoFP film.
It does stand out in the trailer when you have the re-casted voices like say Cyclops (the original voice actor died a few years ago) talking and then you hear Wolverine or Storm voiced by the original VA's who are now in their 60s. Will see how a full episode sounds because obviously it can vary person by person as to how they can use their voice as they get older.
I think Steven Blum who voiced Wolverine in Wolverine and the X-men and reprised it in other animated things and recently within the past year or two voiced him again in the Midnight Sun video game sounds pretty similar to when he first voiced Wolverine, but it's only been about 15 years and he was already almost 50 when he first voiced him.
(BTW, just to avoid confusion I know that Blum isn't in this show. This Wolverine is voiced by Cal Dodd who was Wolverine in the original. Was just using Blum as an example of someone who I don't think has gone through a massive voice change as the character)
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'Modernized'?
This thread rang me: and I’ve answered - here for this! 
It more closely matches Storm's modern version of the mohawk, its not the OG 80s Mohawk. When she first went "punk" in the 80s she had what I call a "classic" mohawk, meaning that her head was shaved bald except for the mohawk jutting up from the middle. In more modern times its a different style, with the big part in the middle but with hair still on the sides, its a much thicker hair cut, and the new animated version looks more like that then the 80s Mohawk version.
In general I just don't get why they messed with her design, although luckily she seems to be the only one they changed.
First look at the X-Men '97 comic
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-97-1-official-prelude-first-look-preview
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-97-1-official-prelude-first-look-preview
A new YouTube spot for the series has dropped with a little bit of new footage, in particular we get to hear more dialogue from Wolverine, Jubilee, and Cyclops:
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