Marvel Animation’s X-Men ‘97 Discussion Thread.

[Mr. Adventure]

Beau DeMeyo has posted a half hour long video on his OnlyFans account claiming that the misconduct accusations against him are a lie and a smear campaign set up by Marvel, and then goes on to make a whole bunch of accusations about how bad working on the show was for him.
So now we seem to be in your standard he said/he said kind of situation, and I'm not sure if either side is really any more believable than the other.
Yeah, apparently people do post thing other than porn on OnlyFans.

And we know someone is paying to see DeMeyo's.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Why do some writers have to be like this! I saw What If...? season 2 recently and the idea of one of its main writers taking over another Marvel show doesn't feel me with optimism. I was watching that 'Die Hard with Happy Hogan' episode with my brother, and I had to tap out in the end, leave the room. It wasn't for me.

Something else I've been watching lately is X-Men: The Animated Series, because I'd never seen it before. In fact all I knew about it was the theme music and that meme of Wolverine and the photo of Jean Grey. I didn't know if X-Men 97 was going to carry on directly, or if was just inspired by the old show, but it seemed like the series was made for people who'd seen the earlier show, so I watched it.

Turns out that I made the correct choice.

I've got zero nostalgia for the X-Men cartoon, I don't know all the trivia, or who the voice actors were, or anything like that, all I know is that X-Men 97 felt like going straight into season 6. I watched the finale "Graduation Day" and the first ep "To Me, My X-Men" back to back on the same day, and it was less jarring than going from Batman TAS to New Batman Adventures (which I also did this year). Though of course it looks way better than the classic show, and it's written better, and the action's much better... in fact I'd go as far as saying this is a damn good series! Or at least a very watchable one, where even the Mojo stories are tolerable. Plus now that this exists, there's actually a point to X-Men's penultimate episode being a Mr Sinister origin story flashback!

I'd say my biggest complaint is that they introduced a man with purple skin, referred to him as a returning villain, had him play a song with 'purple' in the lyrics... and then later on they reveal that he's actually some dude I'd never heard of.

 

[Josh Kelton]

IF DeMayo did do a bunch of inappropriate [edit: slash illegal] stuff, it seems like a very bad idea to keep poking at Disney like this. It's hard to see it working out well for him in the long run.

He apparently wanted Magneto to be naked, but that was shot down.

Former Marvel Showrunner Beau DeMayo Claims Disney Told Him To Make 'X-Men '97' Characters "Less Gay"

Marvel showrunner Beau DeMayo came forward with allegations that Disney instructed him to make two X-Men characters on his show “less gay.”

boundingintocomics.com

Although Disney did not respond to DeMayo’s accusations, in several other posts on X, he relayed examples of Disney executives pushing him to make X-Men ‘97 “less gay.”

In one episode, applauded by members of the LGBT community, Magneto is being held captive by supervillain Bastian in his secret base tied to a St. Andrews cross, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers. However, DeMayo claimed his original intention was for Magneto to be fully nude.

“Originally, he was nude, and the beat played as dehumanizing torture,” wrote Demayo. “It was Marvel’s idea to put him in briefs. The crew and I were so beaten down by that point we just gave each other looks, knowing their note would do the opposite. Such is ignorance…”

 

[Marc]

He apparently wanted Magneto to be naked, but that was shot down.

Former Marvel Showrunner Beau DeMayo Claims Disney Told Him To Make 'X-Men '97' Characters "Less Gay"

Marvel showrunner Beau DeMayo came forward with allegations that Disney instructed him to make two X-Men characters on his show “less gay.”

boundingintocomics.com

Not sure what showing Magneto full frontal naked would bring to the to table for showing the torture to be dehumansizing (though he might object to the term). Didn't need it for Chains of Command when Picard is tortured by gul madrad to get the point across.

 

[Christopher]

Not sure what showing Magneto full frontal naked would bring to the to table for showing the torture to be dehumansizing (though he might object to the term). Didn't need it for Chains of Command when Picard is tortured by gul madrad to get the point across.

Uhh, he never said "full frontal." Don't know where you're getting that. It's only a TV-14 show, not TV-MA.

 

[Thestral]

If he's wearing boxers/briefs, and DeMayo felt that didn't qualify as being nude enough, that only leaves full frontal nudity.

 

[Christopher]

If he's wearing boxers/briefs, and DeMayo felt that didn't qualify as being nude enough, that only leaves full frontal nudity.

Hardly, because if he'd been nude, obviously the camera angle would not have been full frontal, but would have shot him from the rear or from the waist up, or with his genitalia obscured by deep shadows or an object in front of him. It's only full frontal if the camera shows everything. That's the definition of the term.