Jubilee recovers dazed and confused at the X-Men’s HQ, Professor Xavier’s mansion that is both their home and mission base. It’s an inspiring display of badassery, and an easy sell for Storm to recruit her into their fold. Jubilee gets to see two dazzling X-Women toss and electrocute the Sentinel like it’s a plastic toy. When a Sentinel trails and nearly kidnaps her, off-duty Gambit, Rogue and Storm, are in the right place at the wrong time. It's scared the you-know-what out of her foster parents, and now she’s the very real target of a very real threat. It’s still pretty fresh, it seems-Jubilee’s ability to manipulate light into explosive, firework grenades. Trask is the one building the massive, mutant-hunting robots… the likes of which Jubilee encounters at her local mall when she’s arcade-ing away the blues. Both agencies have tapped into the public’s hysteria surrounding mutants, established from our opening news roll cameoing Sabretooth. Our opening two-parter lays down the primary “Big Bads” who will stick around in the worst way-the Mutant Control Agency (MCA), supported by Senator Robert Kelly and headed by federal go-getter Henry Peter Gyrich, and the Sentinel Program, funded by the MCA, and operated by engineer, Dr. We also have the bio-kinetic charger Gambit, the agile and intellectually impressive Beast, shapeshifter Morph, and Jean Grey, a telepath and telekinetic, whose full scope barely scratches the surface in Season 1. There is also the warm and Southern Rogue, able to siphon another person’s powers and memories, coupled with strength, flight, and the invulnerability of Carol Danvers. Jubilee will also meet Wolverine, a superhealer with an adamantium skeleton, keen senses, claws, and a swimming pool of secrets. Through her, we learn all about the players we’ll come to know and understand: our team leaders, optic-blasting Cyclops, and Storm, who commands the weather at her beck and call. Jubilee is our lens into the X-Men, the team and found family she stumbles into accidentally. And for some of us? That dang theme song defined a childhood. The costumes, still cosplayed today.Īnd the show’s still touted as paving the way for the X-Men’s cinematic age. And of course, ‘TAS’ brings its own special something. Much like the comics from which so many of its storylines are drawn, (see: the Phoenix Saga, X-Tinction Agenda, Days of Future Past), the look and voice of the X-Men rings true to their characters off the page. With multi-part storytelling, this show juggles comic book dazzle with complex themes. They are our underdogs, committed to peace despite humanity’s growing intolerance. Beings born with remarkable power within and outside their control, they protect a world that hates and fears their existence. Under the residence and tutelage of telepath Professor Charles Xavier: Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Rogue, Gambit, Beast, Jean Grey and youngest member Jubilee, devote their lives as X-Men. And for the big kid in all of us, it stands on its own nearly 30 years later. Running from 1992-1997, X-Men: ‘TAS’ now spans the globe with billions of views, cementing its status as something truly remarkable-a cartoon that doesn’t wear kid gloves. The entire 76-episode run of ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ is up on streaming hub Disney+, so you can revisit, re-enjoy, or watch this influential cartoon for the very first time. Except this time, Original Crew, you won’t have to wait until next Saturday for your fix. And for those of you who have never watched a single episode, this is also for you. And part of that ritual was waiting an entire week for last episode’s cliffhanger to drop.įor those of you fans who were sucked into ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ from Day 1, this Reading Guide is for you. You may have been one of those kids, teens, or cartoon-loving adults, eagerly awaiting your Saturday morning fix. Have you tried Marvel Unlimited yet? It’s your all-access pass to over 25K Marvel comics, all available at your fingertips.
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