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* AudienceSurrogate: Allison Crestmere, AKA Magma, is the viewpoint character of the game and a newcomer to the X-Men, who eventually joins the team proper. From her perspective, players can learn about various aspects of the X-Men's lore and explore the X-Mansion to interact with the other members of the team.



* NaiveNewcomer: Allison Crestmere, AKA Magma, is the viewpoint character of the game and a newcomer to the X-Men, who eventually joins the team proper. From her perspective, players can learn about various aspects of the X-Men's lore and explore the X-Mansion to interact with the other members of the team.

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* NaiveNewcomer: Allison Crestmere, Crestmere AKA Magma, is the viewpoint character of Magma begins the game believing she's a normal, American teenager until she finds out she's a mutant. From then on she becomes the newest member of the X-Men and a newcomer to large portion of her arc is gradually understanding the X-Men, who conflict humans and mutants, mastering her powers, building bonds with her team members, and eventually joins [[spoiler:saving the team proper. From her perspective, players can learn about various aspects of the X-Men's lore and explore the X-Mansion to interact with the other members of the team.world from a giant asteroid]].
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* NaiveNewcomer: Allison Crestmere, AKA Magma, is the viewpoint character of the game and a newcomer to the X-Men, who eventually joins the team proper. From her perspective, players can learn about various aspects of the X-Men's lore and explore the X-Mansion to interact with the other members of the team.
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* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: At one point during the USS Arbiter mission, the player is tasked with rescuing several trapped crew members in 15 minutes before the ship falls apart, at which point you will receive a NonStandardGameOver and have to reload from another save. It's possible to save at one of the Xtraction points throughout the level when you don't have enough time to rescue the remaining crew members

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* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: At one point during the USS Arbiter mission, the player is tasked with rescuing several trapped crew members in 15 minutes before the ship falls apart, at which point you will receive a NonStandardGameOver and have to reload from another save. It's possible to save at one of the Xtraction points throughout the level when you don't have enough time to rescue the remaining crew membersmembers, essentially bricking your save file and forcing you to start a new one unless you have another non-bricked file.
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* NonStandardGameOver: Running out of time during the last stage of the USS Arbiter mission results in a failure message stating that the Arbiter has sunk with the X-Men aboard.


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* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: At one point during the USS Arbiter mission, the player is tasked with rescuing several trapped crew members in 15 minutes before the ship falls apart, at which point you will receive a NonStandardGameOver and have to reload from another save. It's possible to save at one of the Xtraction points throughout the level when you don't have enough time to rescue the remaining crew members
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* {{Troll}}: Mystique's first appearance has her pretending to be Cyclops so she can punch Wolverine in the face.

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* {{Troll}}: Mystique's first appearance has her pretending to be Cyclops so she can punch Wolverine in the face. Doubles as a reverse MythologyGag to the first ''Film/XMen'' movie.
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** Knockback effects of any kind, which are mostly the specialty of brawler-type characters. It's almost always a better idea to simply beat enemies up.

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** Knockback effects of any kind, which are mostly the specialty of brawler-type characters.characters, will give targeted enemies an opening for a rebound if it doesn't stun them or the attack isn't followed up quickly enough. It's almost always a better idea to simply beat enemies up.

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* PurposelyOverpowered: In the first Astral Plane mission Professor X joins your team of Jean Grey and Emma Frost when he's at level 40, almost three times the rest of the characters' levels. When other characters do about 20-40 hit points with a single punch, he does about 240 points, over 700 if he gets a critical. This makes you feel nice and safe with such a powerful character, until you lose him halfway through the mission [[spoiler: when Shadow King abducts him.]]

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In the first Astral Plane mission Professor X joins your team of Jean Grey and Emma Frost when he's at level 40, almost three times the rest of the characters' levels. When other characters do about 20-40 hit points with a single punch, he does about 240 points, over 700 if he gets a critical. This makes you feel nice and safe with such a powerful character, until you lose him halfway through the mission [[spoiler: when Shadow King abducts him.]]]]
** The final Danger Room mission, Challenge:Legends, is acquired in the final stage of the game only a few rooms before the final boss. It's a gauntlet of 40 powerful enemies as well as Dark Pyro and Juggernaut, which is no small fight. Your reward, however, is the Mask of Xorn item which gives anyone who equips it infinite mutant energy. This means that you can put it on your favorite X-man and make them an unstoppable powerhouse who can spam abilities over and over that normally have to manage their resources like Cyclops or Iceman. Given that you can only receive the Mask of Xorn at the end of the game, it makes a fitting power up to face the final boss or any Danger Room challenges you didn't clear yet.
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** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: That being said, she does come around and apologize for her aggressive behavior once she realizes that Morlocks have been abducted by GRSO soldiers, and she admits that she never wanted any Morlocks to be harmed.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before he takes Xavier prisoner, Shadow King mentions that someone told him how to lure Xavier to his realm, but doesn't elaborate. It doesn't come up against, but the ending implies that person was [[spoiler:Apocalypse.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before he takes Xavier prisoner, Shadow King mentions that someone told him how to lure Xavier to his realm, but doesn't elaborate. It doesn't come up against, again, but the ending implies that person was [[spoiler:Apocalypse.]]

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The first game largely revolved around Allison Crestmere, codenamed Magma, the PointOfView character, being recruited into the X-Men, while the team tries to defend humanity from a devastating attack by Magneto and his minions, the Brotherhood, while simultaneously protecting mutantkind from Gen. William Kincaid's Sentinel robots.

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The first game largely revolved revolves around Allison Crestmere, codenamed Magma, the PointOfView character, being recruited into the X-Men, while the team tries to defend humanity from a devastating attack by Magneto and his minions, the Brotherhood, while simultaneously protecting mutantkind from Gen. William Kincaid's Sentinel robots.



* BrutalBonusLevel: One of the last collectible Danger Room missions in the game, found shortly before the last boss, has all the boss fights from the rest of the game attacking at once.



* ChekhovsGunman: Colossus and General Kincaid are brought up during Alison's introduction to the mansion, reappearing later in the story.



* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: When Destiny makes a prediction in the second game that a team member will betray the others, Toad becomes paranoid and insists that the X-Men not do anything so that the traitor can't betray them any more. Everyone else tells him that they must fight Apocalypse and they can't let the prediction cause them to second-guess everything they do.



* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: If the characters are left standing around inactive for a while, they will directly address the player and tell them to get things moving.



* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: If the characters are left standing around inactive for a while, they will directly address the player and tell them to get things moving.



* PragmaticAdaptation: The first game is somewhat similar to the first ''Film/XMen1'' movie: a young mutant girl whose powers attract the attention of both the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto wants to use her powers for world domination, while the X-Men want to help her control her abilities.



* TimedMission: In the last part of the USS Arbiter mission, the ship is on the verge of coming apart due to Blob's rampaging through the hull, giving you 15 minutes of Jean Grey using her powers to try and keep it together so that you can rescue a number of trapped crewmen. Running out time causes an anticlimactic NonStandardGameOver in which the player is unceremoniously told via a pop-up dialogue box that the ship has sunk with the X-Men on board. The kicker being that saving is possible during this sequence, and you can save with so little time left that it would be [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable impossible]] to rescue any remaining crewmen in time.

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In the last part of the USS Arbiter mission, the ship is on the verge of coming apart due to Blob's rampaging through the hull, giving you 15 minutes of Jean Grey using her powers to try and keep it together so that you can rescue a number of trapped crewmen. Running out time causes an anticlimactic NonStandardGameOver in which the player is unceremoniously told via a pop-up dialogue box that the ship has sunk with the X-Men on board. The kicker being that saving is possible during this sequence, and you can save with so little time left that it would be [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable impossible]] to rescue any remaining crewmen in time.time.
** The nuclear power plant mission requires the X-Men to fight their way through a power plant and fix some bindings holding a generator up before Colossus' strength gives out and he drops it.
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A series of console video games developed by Raven Software and released by Activision. Two games were made, ''X-Men Legends'' (2004) and its sequel, ''VideoGame/XMenLegendsII'' (2005). Both games featured Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/XMen traveling all over the globe to save the world by defeating one of their most powerful [[BigBad villains]] - ComicBook/{{Magneto}} in the first game, ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} in the sequel.

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A series of console video games developed by Raven Software Creator/RavenSoftware and released by Activision. Two games were made, ''X-Men Legends'' (2004) and its sequel, ''VideoGame/XMenLegendsII'' (2005). Both games featured Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/XMen traveling all over the globe to save the world by defeating one of their most powerful [[BigBad villains]] - ComicBook/{{Magneto}} in the first game, ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} in the sequel.
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A series of console video games developed by Raven Software and released by Activision. Two games were made, ''X-Men Legends'' (2004) and its sequel, ''VideoGame/XMenLegendsII'' (2005). Both games featured [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] Comics' ComicBook/XMen traveling all over the globe to save the world by defeating one of their most powerful [[BigBad villains]] - ComicBook/{{Magneto}} in the first game, ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} in the sequel.

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A series of console video games developed by Raven Software and released by Activision. Two games were made, ''X-Men Legends'' (2004) and its sequel, ''VideoGame/XMenLegendsII'' (2005). Both games featured [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] Comics' Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/XMen traveling all over the globe to save the world by defeating one of their most powerful [[BigBad villains]] - ComicBook/{{Magneto}} in the first game, ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} in the sequel.
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* TimedMission: In the last part of the USS Arbiter mission, the ship is on the verge of coming apart due to Blob's rampaging through the hull, giving you 20 minutes of Jean Grey using her powers to try and keep it together so that you can rescue a number of trapped crewmen. Running out time causes an anticlimactic NonStandardGameOver in which the player is unceremoniously told via a pop-up dialogue box that the ship has sunk with the X-Men on board. The kicker being that saving is possible during this sequence, and you can save with so little time left that it would be [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable impossible]] to rescue any remaining crewmen in time.

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* TimedMission: In the last part of the USS Arbiter mission, the ship is on the verge of coming apart due to Blob's rampaging through the hull, giving you 20 15 minutes of Jean Grey using her powers to try and keep it together so that you can rescue a number of trapped crewmen. Running out time causes an anticlimactic NonStandardGameOver in which the player is unceremoniously told via a pop-up dialogue box that the ship has sunk with the X-Men on board. The kicker being that saving is possible during this sequence, and you can save with so little time left that it would be [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable impossible]] to rescue any remaining crewmen in time.
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* TimedMission: In the last part of the USS Arbiter mission, the ship is on the verge of coming apart due to Blob's rampaging through the hull, giving you 20 minutes of Jean Grey using her powers to try and keep it together so that you can rescue a number of trapped crewmen. Running out time causes an anticlimactic NonStandardGameOver in which the player is unceremoniously told via a pop-up dialogue box that the ship has sunk with the X-Men on board. The kicker being that saving is possible during this sequence, and you can save with so little time left that it would be [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable impossible]] to rescue any remaining crewmen in time.
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* {{ComicBook/Wolverine}}, {{ComicBook/Cyclops|MarvelComics}}, [[ComicBook/NewMutants Magma]], {{ComicBook/Storm}}, ComicBook/JeanGrey, {{ComicBook/Iceman}}, {{ComicBook/Rogue}}, {{ComicBook/Beast|MarvelComics}}, {{ComicBook/Nightcrawler}}, {{ComicBook/Jubilee|MarvelComics}}, {{ComicBook/Gambit}}, {{ComicBook/Colossus}}, ComicBook/EmmaFrost, {{ComicBook/Psylocke}}, ComicBook/ProfessorX

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* {{ComicBook/Wolverine}}, {{ComicBook/Cyclops|MarvelComics}}, [[ComicBook/NewMutants Magma]], {{ComicBook/Storm}}, {{ComicBook/Storm|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/JeanGrey, {{ComicBook/Iceman}}, {{ComicBook/Iceman|MarvelComics}}, {{ComicBook/Rogue}}, {{ComicBook/Beast|MarvelComics}}, {{ComicBook/Nightcrawler}}, {{ComicBook/Jubilee|MarvelComics}}, {{ComicBook/Gambit}}, {{ComicBook/Gambit|MarvelComics}}, {{ComicBook/Colossus}}, ComicBook/EmmaFrost, {{ComicBook/Psylocke}}, ComicBook/ProfessorX

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