Sgt. Kabukiman
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Better than Superman TAS ? Madness.
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Better than Superman TAS ? Madness.
MrCunningham
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Wolverine had a bizarre Australian accent in that pilot. It is also interesting to note that the 1992 Konami arcade game was based on Pryde of the X-Men.
The character designs and even some of the voice samples were pulled directly from the pilot.
Unspeakable Evil
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What? No love for Batman: Brave and the Bold?
There was a general lack of professor X screaming.
https://youtu.be/K956y2om92I
Would have been funny to intercut with Jean's mindgasms.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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Wolverine had a bizarre Australian accent in that pilot. It is also interesting to note that the 1992 Konami arcade game was based on Pryde of the X-Men.
The character designs and even some of the voice samples were pulled directly from the pilot.
Shit, I never made the connection between those two. To be fair, the first time I played the X-Men arcade game was on the 360 but still, you just blew my mind !
Yep, may he rest in peace, what a huge loss.
exmachina64
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Made by Darwyn Cooke.
exmachina64
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"This one's for you, Morph!"
KenzinFive
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X-Men was ballsy for its time with its long multi-episode storylines and fairly faithful adaptations to the original comics.Very few cartoons even tried that. It's the main way I learned who Mr. Sinister, Apocalypse, Cable, Bishop, Sauron, and countless other X-Men characters were.
It's easily the best Marvel cartoon of the 90s, even with its suspect overacting and corniness. It's not as great as you remember it, but it took risks. Way, way better than the Spiderman cartoon, which has aged horribly.
That being said, X-Men Evolution was way more competent with its the animation and voice work and Wolverine & The X-Men was apparently very good for its short lifespan.
Second best superhero cartoon is either Superman: The Animated Series or Justice League/JLU though. Given all the great DC shows, I wouldn't even rank X-Men in the Top 5.
Hell, I'd say it's the second best Marvel show after Spectacular Spider-Man.
It's easily the best Marvel cartoon of the 90s, even with its suspect overacting and corniness. It's not as great as you remember it, but it took risks. Way, way better than the Spiderman cartoon, which has aged horribly.
That being said, X-Men Evolution was way more competent with its the animation and voice work and Wolverine & The X-Men was apparently very good for its short lifespan.
Second best superhero cartoon is either Superman: The Animated Series or Justice League/JLU though. Given all the great DC shows, I wouldn't even rank X-Men in the Top 5.
Hell, I'd say it's the second best Marvel show after Spectacular Spider-Man.
roflwaffles
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Young Justice is better than everything except BTAS.
I do love this X-Men show though.
I do love this X-Men show though.
JadedWriter
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Even if BB isn't better than JLU or Superman I do believe Bruce's relationship with Terry is one of the best parts of the DCAU.
This was me in the '90s after watching the X-Men cartoon as a 14 year old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4U4heUOME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4U4heUOME
Ragnorok64
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I don't recall any episodes of Superman the Animated Series being especially strong other than when Darkseid invaded Metropolis and what happened at the end. Batman TaS and Batman Beyond all have episodes that stand out to me.
Also, while they're part of a universes that began in the 90's, both Justice League shows, and Statc Shock are 00's shows. A bunch of other super hero shows mentioned in this thread also have like a decade on X-Men.
Also, while they're part of a universes that began in the 90's, both Justice League shows, and Statc Shock are 00's shows. A bunch of other super hero shows mentioned in this thread also have like a decade on X-Men.
MrCunningham
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The pilot: https://youtu.be/E21a-0mywUc?t=1066
The arcade game: https://youtu.be/HyR138Yui1c?t=9
Pretty sure it is the same voice clip, but played at a slightly different pitch for the game to hide the original voice actors voice. I also thing that the infamous "Welcome to Die" was spliced together from two different sound clips from the pilot. Magneto does say the word "die" to Kitty Pryde once in the pilot.
The pilot does have some great looking animation. Which is unsurprising given that it was produced by Sunbow. But that might have bee the reason why this pilot was never picked up, because each episode may have been too expensive to produce as the quality of the animation is heads and shoulders above the show that did go to air.
"COVERED WITH SCORPIONS"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_Xb512Avc
Loved this show back in the day, main reason why I love comics now. Been working my way through it again on Netflix recently.
It's a real shame Wolverine & The X-Men only lasted a season because it was really promising.
Loved this show back in the day, main reason why I love comics now. Been working my way through it again on Netflix recently.
It's a real shame Wolverine & The X-Men only lasted a season because it was really promising.
Sheriff_Battlesnake
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Duckfeed.tv, the podcast channel who brings us Bonfireside Chat, Watch Out For Fireballs, and Abject Suffering, is started a series called Days of Future Cast where they watch through the entire Animated Series!
It's a Patreon cast, I believe, but it's worth a couple bucks a month. Total quality stuff.
Duckfeed's Patreon
It's a Patreon cast, I believe, but it's worth a couple bucks a month. Total quality stuff.
Duckfeed's Patreon
It didn't do them very well
He did do his signature move of putting 2 claws either side of the guy's cheeks and threatening the 3rd claw.
Though there's also how all the cops in the show got laser guns because real ones are too violent.
Oh man I LOVE Bonfireside Chat so I'm definitely gonna back that.
If there was one thing the show was good at, it was showing the Sentinels completely suck, and Jean tripping and falling clumsily every other episode.
X-Men: TAS definitely aged poorly, no doubt about that. But even still, putting it below X-Men Evolution? Seriously? Half that series was full of nothing but lame high school drama. Not to mention the OST didn't hold a candle to TAS. And I don't know why, but the voice acting for that show seemed...off. Which is weird cause the Ocean guys were among my favorite VAs, but for Evolution it just felt flat.
cj_iwakura
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Jubilee is totally going to happen, bite me trailer guy.
Ragnorok64
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Wait are people putting X-men Evolution above Wolverine and the X-Men? I know when I first learned about it I wasn't so warm to the idea because I was generally burnt out on Wolverine at the time, but it was actually a really good X-Men show as far as I recall.
cj_iwakura
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You say that now, wait for the director's cut.
water_wendi
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i dont know about the entire Superman series but i remember the crossover episode with Batman TAS being especially big at the time. i literally had water cooler conversations at work about it.
Jorok Goldblade
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thecouncil
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The best part was that it brought my attention to the 'making copies' reference.
NipplesAndToes23
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Remember when Proteus fucked up Wolverine so bad that he got PTSD?
Second best superhero cartoon is Young Justice btw.
Shit, I might go back and watch it again. They were right concerning that 5th season. I never knew the show had one until I looked it up and the 5th season was a drop off. I don't know why so many cartoons get bad once they start changing the animation.
Second best superhero cartoon is Young Justice btw.
Shit, I might go back and watch it again. They were right concerning that 5th season. I never knew the show had one until I looked it up and the 5th season was a drop off. I don't know why so many cartoons get bad once they start changing the animation.
Premium Quality
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Only thing I remembered was when ever Jean used her powers, she'd then collapse and had her orgasms. It was usually followed by Cyclops yelling, "Jean!"
I felt the same way. I absolutely hated it every time "To be continued..." showed up as a kid.
Glad they mentioned that here.
Wolverine had a bizarre Australian accent in that pilot. It is also interesting to note that the 1992 Konami arcade game was based on Pryde of the X-Men.
The character designs and even some of the voice samples were pulled directly from the pilot.
I remember being so confused by this as a kid.....didnt get why everyone looked weird
The second Japanese X-Men song is better than the first.
Saban original > Second Japanese > First Japanese
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Likewise Capcom borrowed the Toronto cast from X-Men for X-Men: COTA all the way to Marvel vs Capcom 2. Also this relationship is why starting from RE2 (which has some of the same VAs and same casting studio) the VAs improved. And why 3rd Strike had the best English-speaking VA in a SF game.
Saban original > Second Japanese > First Japanese
Edit:
Wolverine had a bizarre Australian accent in that pilot. It is also interesting to note that the 1992 Konami arcade game was based on Pryde of the X-Men.
The character designs and even some of the voice samples were pulled directly from the pilot.
Likewise Capcom borrowed the Toronto cast from X-Men for X-Men: COTA all the way to Marvel vs Capcom 2. Also this relationship is why starting from RE2 (which has some of the same VAs and same casting studio) the VAs improved. And why 3rd Strike had the best English-speaking VA in a SF game.
Yeah, it was a special. Honestly not worth watching the way it is. But Teamfourstar abridged it and managed to salvage it a bit.
DBZ Episode of Bardock Abridged
If you haven't seen it already, I would suggest watching their DBZ Special - Bardock - Father Of Goku Abridged video first, as I think there may be some callback jokes.
Boss Doggie
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Easily the best Marvel animated show, I personally feel the only other Marvel animated show to come close is Spectacular.
A lot of people have nostalgia for it though, since it has some odd animation problems here and there, and a really bad final season.
schwarbage
A lot of people have nostalgia for it though, since it has some odd animation problems here and there, and a really bad final season.
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exmachina64
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X-Men Evolution is kind of cringeworthy now considering how they approached Wanda and mental illness.
Good memories, I owned that pilot on VHS as a kid and that arcade game was one of my favorites.
I need to take a trip to the universe where this pilot was picked up and made into a good series.
Also, seeing Spider-Man encourage people to register to vote is so surreal. We need something like that today.
Jorok Goldblade
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How much of Evolution did you watch? Because seasons 3 and 4 were on a completely different level than the first two seasons.
MrCunningham
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"Have a voice in your future, register, and vote... and tell them that Spider-Man sent you"
Also the narration from Stan Lee is kinda cool too. Pryde of the X-Men wasn't a bad pitch, and might have been a decent enough series with a little time. Though there were still a few issues with it, most notable one being Wolverines voice.
Jubilee and Claire Redfield are the same voice actress and Quicksilver voiced Leon.
Back in the day, I actually preferred the Spider-Man cartoon over X-Men. Spider-Man really wasn't that bad and had some decent story arcs at times. But it also did suffer from a lot of inconsistencies as well and the mesh-up between CG and animation was bad. They also had cross over episodes between Spider-Man and X-Men. This was the story arc where Peter was mutating and growing extra sets of arms, he visits the Xavier Mansion in some attempt that they can help with his problem. Storm was also featured in the Secret Wars story arc in Spider-Man. For the time it was always novel to see crossovers happen between series. Edward Asner was also pretty good as Jamison.
I think Spider-Man and X-Men were decent attempts to bring mush more nuanced story arcs over to animation. But they could never hold a candle to the DC Animated Universe offerings.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
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Yes I love that the animated series is getting the love it deserves. Now people need to appreciate Wolverine and the Xmen a little more.
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