The X-Men are no strangers to television, with a surprising number of TV appearances under their belts.
As cartoons go,Pryde Of The X-Menwas generally considered…alright.
The animation was great, but the writing was cliched.
It was not the dignified end a once-popular show deserved.
and dont ignore the social issues that made the X-Men popular in the first place.
That said, it isnt a total wash-out.
Yes, they cast Jubilee as white instead of Chinese.
And yes, it featured more swearing than any other Marvel adaptation except theBladefilms.
However… wait, where was I going with this again?
It does have its moments.
If you squint, you could see that they were aiming for theTomorrow People-meets-Dawsons Creekformula thatSmallvilleeventually nailed.
And clearly Fox treated some parts of it like a dry run for future X-Men adaptations.
It was only the execution that doomed it.
Lessons to learn:Dont whitewash ethnicities.
Eventually Marvel and Fox settled, Tribute and Fox settled, and Fireworks folded.
Tribune then sued Marvel claiming that theyd been encouraged by Marvel to connect Mutant X to the X-Men.
It was all settled in 2005.
Lessons to learn:Dont try and play hardball with character rights.
Some of its ideas were pretty good.
The only bad thing about it?
Lessons to learn:It helps to put familiar characters in unexpected roles.
It was an interesting approach that gave old characters a new spin.
It also doesnt help that about 90% of the series seems to take place in snowy mountains.
It looks better than any other animation on this list by some distance.
Though it wouldve benefited considerably from being about half as long.
Still, you cant fault those action scenes.
Finding excuses for the same 5 characters to repeatedly visit one hillside in Japan gets old really fast.
And that, more or less, brings us to today.
So for reference, the quality order of the X-Mens various TV outings is as follows:
1.
Wolverine & the X-Men2.
X-Men: The Animated Series3.
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men6.
