X-Men: Evolution/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

 

* First, even if a mutant response force is in some way essential to deal specifically with mutant threats, there are still plenty of legally adult and even combat trained mutants to deal with this instead of teenagers. Exhibit 1: Weapon X program. Second, hiding the existence of these uber-dangerous mutants from the army does not help them prepare to deal with the threat they pose. Third, while there would have been problems no matter how mutants were revealed, hiding themselves away and training themselves for an undeclared war only heightened the perception that mutants must be dangerous and up to no good. Why else would they be hiding and training harder than most black op corps? Compare the history of the LGBTQ movement. It's never been easy, and there have been any number of violent setbacks and horrific hate crimes. But we've still come a long way from where were and it was done by openly presenting sexual identities and allowing people to see that no matter what one's orientation was, they were still the same brother/sister/friend/father/mother/teacher/coach/etc... that you always respected and loved. Fourth, why is it acceptable for Xavier to work outside the law, but not someone like Magneto? What is the fundamental difference? Fifth, although simulating 'missions' would make for more entertaining lessons, that's not what Xavier's doing. He is actually training them for these missions to occur in real life, hence the initial complaint about the Danger Room going beyond self-defense.

*** The Weapon X program was a highly immoral and likely illegal vivisection program, that didn't seem to achieve much. Their only successful creations where Wolverine (who went rogue) and Sabretooth (who also went rogue and was psychotic to boot). The only other manufactured superhumans we see are Captain America and X-23. The experiment that produced Cap was flawed, hence his cryogenic suspension, and X-23 was the product of a far worse child-warfare program than anything Xavier did. The army seemed hopelessly outmatched against the X-Men (who were trying [[Technical Pacifist|not to hurt them]]) while the Brotherhood would have likely massacred them.

*** Before mutants where even publicly known to exist, Sentinel's where in development- the means to defend against mutants where therefore available, and Xavier was shown to be justified in his fear that humans would attempt to destroy mutants if they knew they existed- someone had to be there to defend mutants in case of such eventualities.

Isn't the whole point of going to a private academy so you don't ''have'' to go to public school?

* Presumably, they attend the Xavier school for specialized classes, and the high school either for general-education (Xavier's has all of what, three teachers? Four?) or to ensure the Gifted Youngsters have a chance to be properly socialized. It isn't uncommon for even homeschooled children to attend a local public school for a couple hours a day, to cover subjects the parents aren't up to teaching.

*** It doesn't matter what they told him. Whatever it was, Xavier could just brain-zap him to make him believe it. They could've told him they were part of a secret society of extra-dimensional aliens plotting to take over the world by creating human-butterfly hybrids if they wanted to.

 

 

== How did this show have such consistently good animation? ==

* And ''that'' bugs you?

** Headscratchers are for questions, not complaints. So yes.

== [[Did Not Do the Research|"The SR-77 Blackbird. Twice as fast as the SR-71 and with three times the range and firepower."]] ==

I'm sorry, WHAT? The SR-71 was a recon craft and lacked weapons of any kind. Three times nothing is still nothing.

* I figured they meant three times the firepower of the (or at least ''an'') earlier XJet, which was a modified Lockheed SR-71 and ''did'' have firepower.

* Scott ''might'' have been: a) actually referring to the [[wikipedia:Lockheed A-12|A-12/YF-12]], an earlier Lockheed aircraft design that the SR-71 was developed from (and which it's often mistaken for; they're nearly identical) , and which ''was'' armed (although the YF-12 ''and'' the missile that it was tested with never entered service), possibly conflating the two, or just using the more well-known aircraft's name; b) referring one of the proposed variants of the SR-71 proper (though in real life, never built) that ''would'' have been armed (chillingly, for Scott's boasting, the B-71s were ''nuclear'' strike platforms), or c) just have been being stupid, bragging about something he didn't really understand. Which also seems embarassingly in-character, admittedly.

 

== Was the tear on Mystique's statue ever explained? ==

* It's supposedly just extremely coincidental condensation; something for Kurt to see to think she was still alive.

 

 

== Regarding Arcade... ==

** They probably thought that Murder World was a bit too much for a children's cartoon. And who knows? That kid was too unreasonably smart to be a normal kid (he hacked Cerebro? Seriously?), maybe he'll grow into Arcade later. Though you're right about the second part, that did bug me that he didn't recognize the characters. He might not have known the others, but he obviously does know Kitty. I suppose he just assumed that they designed the game and added themselves as characters or something.

*** Not just about Kitty, but the other characters (with the exception of Nightcrawler, as he uses an image inducer at school) should've been easy to recognize. How many kids look like Evan, what with his hair and all? Same with Rogue and her hair.