X-Men (video game)/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Adaptation Displacement: The video game is much better known than the one-episode pilot Pryde of the X-Men, which it was spun off from. Dazzler is also much better known for appearing in the game than any of her comic appearances.
  • Ham and Cheese: While the dialog is cheesy, the actors seem to be hamming it up, especially since the remake required all voices to be re-recorded, so the new actors had to be made aware of what they were doing and be told that the cheesy dialog was kept on purpose.
  • I Liked It Better When It Sucked: It was announced that the dialog would be re-recorded and the cheesy lines would be removed and replaced with more natural dialog. As it was, the dialog had to be re-recorded anyway due to legal issues with the original voices, but upon hearing the fans' complaints, the company making the port decided to keep all the cheese on purpose so the game would avert this.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • "Welcome to DIE!" and the myriad other dialogue voices by our favourite "Master of Magnet".
    • There's Colossus's shouting when using his Mutant Power (usually transcribed along the lines of "OoooooooOAAAAARGH!"). The latter is a favorite in the video game convention MAGFest, to the point that shouting it at nearly any time will usually be answered with others answering OoooooooOAAAAARGH! themselves.
    • "NOTHING moves the Blob!"
    • "The White Queen welcomes you...TO DIE!!"
  • Narm Charm
  • No Problem with Licensed Games: The arcade game is still popular and well-liked to this day. What helped is that Konami used the same formula that made the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons arcade games successful in the first place.
  • So Bad It's Good: The cutscenes and dialog, and possibly the simple gameplay. According to IGN's video review: "Sometimes something is so terrible that it's fantastic, and that's more or less the case here."