Poll of the Day > Re-watching the 90s X-men cartoon

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They sure did introduce Apocalypse pretty early in it. I'm on like episode 9 or something and we've already seen him.

Its been years so I watched it and never watched it in order so I don't remember anything.

One of the greats

I never watched the series as a kid, so I marathoned the series before finally watching X-Men 97. It was pretty good, and made watching 97 more fufilling.

Phantom_Nook posted...

I never watched the series as a kid, so I marathoned the series before finally watching X-Men 97. It was pretty good, and made watching 97 more fufilling.

That's exactly why I'm watching it now.

fettster777 posted...

They sure did introduce Apocalypse pretty early in it. I'm on like episode 9 or something and we've already seen him.

Its been years so I watched it and never watched it in order so I don't remember anything.

In the original X-Factor comics he shows up in shadows about 20 issues (nearly 2 years) before you ever see his face or hear his name, and he's recruiting his Four Horsemen every couple of months over that whole time. And there's about a year gap between Angel "dying" and when he shows up as Death.

He's probably the most foreshadowed villain they ever had. Mr. Sinister might come close, but he wasn't teased quite a long (even if they took longer to explain him). Same with Stryfe.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

In the original X-Factor comics he shows up in shadows about 20 issues (nearly 2 years) before you ever see his face or hear his name, and he's recruiting his Four Horsemen every couple of months over that whole time. And there's about a year gap between Angel "dying" and when he shows up as Death.

He's probably the most foreshadowed villain they ever had. Mr. Sinister might come close, but he wasn't teased quite a long (even if they took longer to explain him). Same with Stryfe.

I wouldn't know. The only X-Men comics I had would have been ones from random stacks whatever I got as a birthday or Christmas present. I only remember having an Uncanny X-Men comic but not what it was about or how many I had.

Same binged watched before 97'. First season was pretty great especially. Wolverine was savage as fuck and never wasted a opportunity to start shit which is kinda missing from 97 and other weird characterizations...or uncharacteristic characterizations.

Agreed! Wolverine used to be way more hard. It was great. I think the movies kinda softened up his character.

Wolverine's personality in the 1970s was "asshole".

For most of the 1980s, he kind of evolved into "trying to be an honorable samurai-type character in spite of his uncontrollable rage", along with "scary and bitterly sarcastic man who is nevertheless strangely drawn to protecting and mentoring pre-teen girls".

The problem now is that when Disney inevitably does the X-Men movies they want to do and they recast Wolverine as a character, his personality will probably be based on the post-2011 Marvel stories (because that's what the MCU almost exclusively draws on for inspiration). But those are also the stories where you get pretty much the worst version of his character (along with the worst versions of everyone else's character as well, because those stories are terrible).