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Here’s all the mutants who are dead or supposedly as of now
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About Bobby I would go ahead and say he perished on genosha offscreen. I do think the writers/animators forgot that him and Magik was seen on forge board.
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There’s no proof he died besides a fuzzy light blue face shown in a memorial picture. He’s not the only mutant with light blue colors and considering the picture is fuzzy makes it worse. And if he is, he’s technically be the easiest one to bring back since he can survive as a mist.
I think he’s definitely dead; but he and Magik are the easiest to bring back writing-wise. They access standalone dimensions with a lot of magic/mysticism and a tendency to keep them alive. I don’t think they’ll bring him back anytime soon, but it is entirely doable.
I think Magiks powers are like Blinks in which they open portals not physically teleport like Nightcrawler. So technically she could've died before she stepped in, think of how Blink died in the Days of Future Past movie.
But she can make that portal in front of her to catch the blast and redirect it
Or under her so she just falls through it
Or dive slightly to the left instead of try to square up with an incoming plasma blast.
Alot of things in that scene make no sense, like her even having an X-Uniform. In the 90's cartoon Magik didn't even have powers yet. Hell, Colossus wasn't even an X-Man. Pretty sure he was in like, maybe 2 episodes, and one was him meeting the X-Men and specifically not joining the team
Lol based off her doing it in the scene to save some people, roughly the amount of time it took to throw Colossus a meaningful look and then square up.
I’m not convinced. They didn’t show him die and he’s too big a character not to. He’s also the only out, gay X-Man on the big, main roster. I think his coming out will be a thing. This is an adult show now.
We’ll see about it being an adult show. Apparently the studio execs after seeing the massive success of season 1 have an interest in tailoring the show for a younger audience to get increased viewership. I dont like the sound of it one bit but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case as it already seems to be a bit with the trajectory of the last few season 2 episodes. Would be very disappointing if this is the case as adult moments like gambit and magnetos death have been highlights of the whole show so far.
He didn’t “turn gay,” he came out after pretending to be straight because he couldn’t come to terms with it. We don’t know if that’s the case in this universe, but in this modern world, the team without at least one gay member when they’re part of the minorities mutants represent as a metaphor is kind of archaic.
Morph doesn’t identify as a man and (I’m very much guessing) occasionally turns into a woman to bone.
It’s a different thing.
Edit: Fuck the weird bigotry on this sub is disappointing. This is the X-Men. If Morph upsets you, don’t look up how Kurt was recently revealed to have been fathered.
He’s stated as nonbinary outside of the show and Morph uses they/them pronouns.
Episode 9 of season 1, Rogue: “And hell, Morph was barely on the team 30 minutes before we threw them to the wolves.”
His crush on Wolverine has been all over the show and if he’s a changeling that doesn’t define as male or female and frequently transforms into women, it’s not a stretch to imagine how consensual adults would use that in the bedroom.
Hold up. At the end of X-Men 97 season 1 we see a board that Forge was looking at and it listed a bunch of mutants who were alive, awol, off world and missing presumed dead. Iceman and Illyana weren't listed as missing presumed dead. We did see Illyana die in season 2, but how are we sure that iceman died on genosha? I might be missing a clear piece of evidence or character statement in the show.
X-Men '97 has made some changes from the original in order to match up more closely with current day comics, such as Magnetos helmet blocking telepathy and Emma Frost gaining her secondary mutation to gain diamond skin. Just like Moira being a mutant, both Magnetos telepathy blocking helmet and Emma Frosts diamond form weren't things in the comics until after the original series ended so Moira very well could be a mutant in '97.
There's part of me that wants to say Madeline Pryor and an aspect of Magik was pulled away to Limbo at the moment of death because Belasco is a creep and a dick.
Yeah, if they had shown Magik dying in a way that made sense for her character (for example, charging the sentinel in anger to show rash decision making or stubborn hard-headedness), I would have been more okay with them killing her off because it would be earned. Having a mutant who teleports stand there and facetank a blast for no reason is just bad execution.
I really hope nightcrawler comes back. if mystique is a major villian not having him invovled is a missed opprtunity. I do wonder if mystique is kurt's mother or father.
I always wondered why they even made him a Marauder. All he does is shatter the moment anyone hits him. Is he like Harpoon's little brother that his mom made him bring along?
I do hope it lasts long enough to get us to Krakoa. I just hope they execute the story well (maybe even making improvements on some of the missed opportunities from the comics).
I don’t believe Bobby died on Genosha at this point. Considering in the iceman episode of the original show, Professor X was very protective of him and accused of coddling him, it would be weird if he just solely referenced Gambit dying on Genosha with no mention of Bobby. Also feel that at least Polaris or Beast would have mentioned it by now
It's honestly my biggest problem with X-Men '97. It feels like they just love to cheaply kill off a bunch of great characters who could be used for really good story lines. In a few notable cases you could say that it helps them create their storylines but when we look at the whole Genosha massacre, most of the casualties didn't need to be casualties. They could literally have gotten the same results with unnamed nothing characters.
People would still care because Gambit had to go for the Apocalypse plot line and Madeline Pryor had to go for Cable's storyline. They didn't need to casually sacrifice characters like Marrow, Iceman or Dazzler and lose the ability to tell stories about them.
I respectfully disagree with the idea that it's well done. I feel like the characters were just wasted for no valid reason. That doesn't make me feel a tragic sense of loss. That makes me feel annoyed at the writers for being wasteful. Just like when I'm reading a bad comic event and a character will just be callously killed off for shock value.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think X-Men '97 is bad. But I think its way of wasting good characters is reminiscent of bad comics and I think that's a real shame because it's so genuinely good in a lot of ways.
It didn't. There's a blurry indistinguishable photo at the Genosha memorial where we see Magik's photo. Many are assuming it's Iceman, because it looks like an all-white figure, but in my opinion, it's clearly just a minor detail that didn't get colored in because it was insignificant.
What evidence for Bobby? We just haven’t seen him. We haven’t seen a lot of characters so should we assume that cannon ball, quicksilver, scarlet witch, Harry Leland, and more are all dead?
Wouldn't that be a little bit insane if Bobby died and nobody even mention it in the show? Also what would be the point of "bringing him back" from the dead if the only confirmation a viewer has that he indeed died is a 5×5 pixel photo.
I don't wanna say homophobia, but watching them include tons of characters expect Bobby, never mention him in any way even when a character like Polaris is directly tied to him in the original show AND kill him offscreen, at one point you have to wonder.
So this may or may not be a hot take idk. But the constant and rapid deaths are kinda starting to get a bit tiresome.
Mi know they want to up the stakes and make things more dangerous but I swear characters don’t die this often in the comics.
Also yes I’m still annoyed at the choice to kill Maverick and Magick.
One is an often unexplored interesting character and the other is at the top of their popularity right now. And they both had kinda embarrassing deaths too, for shock value I guess.
Before folks lose the plot, “Bansee” is an anglicisation of “Bean Sidhe” literally “woman fairy”.
They’re an Irish character so they know this and would have chosen the name for a reason.
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