Well…. it’s happening.

Disney has given us a preview of how they’re going to rape the X-Men. And unfortunately, they’re coming after the legendary 90s cartoon series! THOSE… BASTARDS!!!

Reportedly, they brought back the original VAs from the 90s toon with the exception of Cyclops since his VA passed away years ago. Wolverine’s old VA sounds rusty as hell. Eh, it has been about 20+ years.

They’re using CG animation like those horrid Netflix animes. It’s difficult to notice since they’re doing the ASW trick of “not using a whole lot of frames”, but it makes some scenes look a tad awkward (Wolverine’s running animation looks stiff at the end). Though I do like the part where Gambit charged up Wolverine’s claws.

Seems they’re retconning the series finale. Xavier survived thanks to Lilandra and went to the Shi’ar Empire to rest and recover. They left that detail out of the flashback at the beginning. Don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. But they want to be shocking and have Magneto inheriting the X-Men, like people don’t know how many times Magneto has joined the X-Men (Then again, looking at how many people forgave what they DID to Spider-Man, they probably won’t care). I guess it’s nice that they’re emphasizing Cyclops since he IS the leader and main character of the X-Men, unlike Fox with their whoring of Wolverine. Yeah, Wolverine’s cool and all, but Cyclops is too hardcore to be overshadowed.

Yah know, that was the main reason I hated X-Men 3 so much. Yeah yeah, Marsden was doing Superman at the time, but they shat on Cyclops in the first 2 movies. If anything, they wrote the films in a way that the audience would want Wolverine to steal Jean Grey away from Cyclops, and I’m like “This is so messed up”. Don’t know why Fox hated Cyclops so much. I mean… how could they hate him!? Cyclops is such a badass, he could make Captain America his bitch!

I’m kinda over Disney trying to use nostalgia as their meal ticket to free money and praise, but it’s another thing entirely to go after the original series. That shit is too precious to be destroyed by modern Disney. But they’ve shown over and over again that nothing is sacred to them. It is their MO to tarnish everything they get their hands on, but ohhhhhh, the 90s series…. no…. just no. Already, you can see the fake hype generated by AI bots all over the tubes. Cringe slogans like “To me, my 90s kids!” abound. Not to mention the fake outrage.

Already, I see a defamation campaign going on where people are allegedly outraged over Rogue’s bubble butt not being here. It was because of one single episode in the early seasons where Rogue’s ass was fuckng HUGE for like… one shot of the entire series, but that was for one episode. The rest of the series… well yeah, Rogue was still hot, but we never saw that glorious ass again. Nevermind how inconsistent the art direction and animation has been for X-Men (or hell… every cartoon in existence), cause you’d have some episodes with very stiff and static animation, and some episodes you would swear was animated by Gods. One point, Jubilee looked like that one girl from Captain Planet. That Asian chick with the water powers? I can’t remember her name. So honestly, outrage of this scale seems… rather fake and disingenious. We can honestly say Disney has a couple of rats scurring through the internet posing as fans to try and discredit the people who will have legitimate complaints about the series (Why does Morph look like an Alien now?), so they have these fucks posing as people who are outraged over the most shallow of decisions. I don’t care how ridiculous that sounds, but this outrage sounds too phony to be real. We already know the Entertainment industry has been on a constant defamation campaign against legacy fans, and they’ve been rather successful because people already had a negative view of fans in general (Henry Cavil withstanding, he seems chill), so this doesn’t surprise me that this phony outrage has come about. I’m personally more upset they gave Storm that BS mohawk (I hate that fucking hairstyle, I swear! Her anime look was the best), but yeah, people have been going on about the desexualization of characters for years for this to not be a tired argument.

But… yeah, I am actually shocked that they went after the original 90s cartoon. This is proof that nothing is sacred to Disney. That’s been their MO since Snow White, honestly, taking existing stories and putting them into a meat grinder for commercial purposes. But they went after the 90s cartoon. That… that is just bold. Like they don’t give a damn what they mess up. They’re gonna apply the cold frog strategy as usual by having the first couple of installments (or in the case, episodes) feel like what we expect out of X-Men before they slowly but surely warp it to push whatever nonsense they want out of the series. Cyclops might get pushed out of his leadership role in favor of Storm (not necessarily an issue, but the purpose of doing so would be neferious and not out of respect for the character or comics), they’re already screwing around with Morph (What the hell is “Non-Binary”?!), and I’mma be real honest, if they turn Ice Man gay out of the blue JUST because they did that in the comics, I refuse to pay any mind to anything they push out again.

…. Ok, lemme clarify that before people get the wrong ideas. It has something to do with my hatred of the character, Havok. A rather… juvenile hatred, I admit. Couldn’t be more juvenile than “I hate Hulk because he beat up Thing in the Fantastic Four cartoon”, could it?

Lets go back to the 90s and risk some seizures because GODDAMN, all the flashing lights in that show, man! One of these episodes was about X-Factor and Ice-Man. Now I have to reiterate that…. I am NOT a shipper. Regardless of my outrage over Vegeta tappin Bulma when she was Yamcha’s gal (and I will never forgive that shit), I do not go around pestering people about characters who should find a janitor’s closet and get it over with…. well, maybe except Nightcrawler and Storm… and Cyclops and Psylocke. 😛

Aside the point, since I was a kid, I had the usual trappings of “EWW YUCK, COUPLES!”, so as expected, I cared nothing of Ice Man and Polaris being an item. Course, midway through the episode, Bobby explains that Polaris had left him because he was unwilling to get involved in the wars between humans and mutants, and she felt an obligation to that cause. So… later on in the episode, the X-Men fight X-Factor, and they come to find that Polaris had gone into the arms of Havok.

And I say… fuck Havok. Fuck ol’ lightbright from the Gifted series too.

Now I was confused since the concept of a breakup was foreign to my fragile little mind. But furthermore, I was honestly pissed! Cause I’m like “That was Ice Man’s girl!” I figured they would’ve gotten back together by the end of the episode, but that simply did not happen. To this day, I fucking HATED that episode! Course delving into the comics, Polaris and Havok seemed to have always been a thing, but fuck it. It doesn’t help that Havoc has always been a prick, and Ice Man was always cool (pun intended).

So them turning Ice Man gay REALLY irritated me, because the chances of those two getting back together was completely demolished after that, all because they wanted that Blackrock money. As far as I remember, this was Ice Man’s only appearance in the show, so they have NO REASON to do that. But… this is Disney.

The boldness to go after the 90s cartoon speaks volumes of how much they wish to destroy all childhood memories and legendary works. Next thing you know, they’ll buy out the studio that makes Attack on Titan, and people would still find a reason to defend them.