I have been watching X-MEN the 90s version on Disney XD the past two weeks and i have to say, goodness i love that show. Phil is probably going to disagree but that’s because he’s too old and didn’t enjoy growing up watching quality cartoons like Batman the animated series and X-MEN. The phoenix saga, legacy virus, apocalypse, savage land, morlocks, omega red…i mean they hit A LOT for a kids show. And the more i realize, that show shaped a lot of my opinions on love, sex, justice and mutants.
I still haven’t seen the new Wolverine and the X-men cartoon, but i am very very nervous considering X-MEN: evolution was …I am not going to say bad. but it wasnt good. i get it, it was a re-imagining of the whole thing, but making them teens was LAME. well at least it made jean grey hot and kinda cool, even though she felt like a Nikki Cox lookalike.
So, through my youtube travels, i found this amazing gem, Japan’s take on the intro to X-MEN, the cartoon. Arguably, the X-MEN cartoon opening was insanely amazing. Batman TAS, was also incredible, as was the beginning to the GI JOE movie (nowhere to run, nowhere to hide!). the video:
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phil
// Apr 2, 2009 at 11:15 am
Greg you are only a couple of years younger than me but those were big years in terms of cartoon quality. I agree about the Batman show which you can tell the creators took a lot of pride in, but the X-men looked so cheaply made that i could never watch it. The people drawing it were making below minimum wage in Thailand.
Wasn’t it just Wolverine stabbing robots every show because they couldn’t show blood? How did they have him not stab people and yet still keep him exciting, since his whole thing is stabbing people?
Also I can’t look at the things I used to love as a kid because they never hold up. When I was little i loved this cartoon called the Go-bots, which were essentially cheaper Transformers. I tried to watch it as an adult and found it painful. Not only was my sepia tinged nostalgia ruined, but I now thought of myself as having been a stupid child.
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beth
// Apr 2, 2009 at 11:39 am
I loved watching Batman TAS everyday after school! X-men was just part of the package deal as it played either directly before or after BTAS. But of the two, Batman was definitely my fave.
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jake
// Apr 2, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I really liked the Phoenix saga, Savage Land, and Morlocks… when I read those stories in the 80s.
I wasn’t that into Apocalypse, Legacy Virus and Omega Red, which I read in the 90s.
I was raised by the X-Men. I tried watching that cartoon but couldn’t get into it. It felt like eating five-year-old ‘Nilla Wafers when I was accustomed to freshly-made bread pudding.
That said, I can understand how someone could like that cartoon if it was their first exposure to the X-Men.
Almost all of the X-Men entered the team (and were introduced to the fans) as teens, btw.
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phil
// Apr 2, 2009 at 1:23 pm
The original X-men were teens and Kitty Pryde was, but all the rest were adults, weren’t they?
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jake
// Apr 2, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Colossus was in his late teens. So was Rogue. Rachel Summers was a teen, as well. Storm, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird & Sunfire were no older than their early twenties.
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devin
// Apr 2, 2009 at 1:49 pm
rad intro.
sounds like a japanese iron maiden.
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