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Introduced in X-Men: The Animated Series
Moira MacTaggert
Voiced by: Lally Cadeau (original series), Martha Marion (97)
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Her relationship with Proteus is far healthier, thanks to different circumstances. Since comic Kevin's conception wasn't consensual, Moira despised him from the off, locked him in a room, told the X-Men to kill him and tried to do it herself. Here, she's legitimately trying to help him regain a normal life, and only comes to the conclusion of destroying him when it looks like there's no other option.
- The comics, she works in the shadows of Krakoa's nation, lies and manipulating everyone around her, and her innocence is called into question once she's revealed to be seeking a mutant cure. In '97, she's also involved with the founding government of a mutant nation. Only this time, Moira acts out in the open, has no ulterior motives and is a genuine mutant ally.
- Adaptational Species Change: Via Retcon - In the show, she is human. In the comics, she has since been revealed to be a mutant who possesses the power of Groundhog Day reincarnation.
- Amicable Exes: Despite dumping Charles via letter, they're good friends after twenty years of time. Moira even regards herself as probably the only person Charles can call a friend.
- Mama Bear: The whole reason she became a geneticist was to find a way to help Kevin.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: What prompts Charles's alarm in "Proteus" is Moira calling in total panic as Kevin gets loose.
- Parent with New Paramour: She's engaged to Banshee during season 3, but fortunately despite his dad issues Kevin seems to get on alright with Sean.
- Token Human: She is the only human member of the Interim Council of Genosha as lampshaded by Emma Frost.
- Uncertain Doom: She's glimpsed among the fallen casualties of Genosha, but not confirmed as dead in the following episodes until the penultimate episode.
Robert Kelly
Voiced by: Len Carlson (original series), Ron Rubin (97)
- Adaptational Job Change: Manages to make it to President, which his comics counterpart never did.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, no matter how much the X-Men did, Kelly'd be right back in there demanding a Mutant Registration Act (admittedly, one of their fights killed his wife, which'd make anyone hold a grudge) until long after the show ended... at which point he was Killed Off for Real. Here, he mellows up pretty quickly.
- Adapted Out: Makes a small appearance in The Dark Phoenix Saga which set up his role in the comics, where the Hellfire Club frame the X-Men as dangerous extremists. Since Show! Kelly would be less likely to fall for it, he doesn't put in an appearance.
- Distressed Dude: After being nearly assassinated by Mystique, he's abducted by Magneto, who decided to finish the job, but before he can the Sentinels rescue Kelly... so that they can remove his brain.
- Don't Create a Martyr: His death is the first major milestone that causes the "Days of Future Past" future, but it's only one. The driving force behind it remains out there, and even if Kelly lives, the future still turns out awful.
- Fantastic Racism: At least at first, sees Mutants as creatures who need to be put in concentration camps "for their own good". Fortunately, he grows out of this mindset after the X-Men save him.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After the X-Men save him, he tries to be one as president, which just pisses the Friends of Humanity off tremendously, and they do their best to make him look like a chump.
- Slave to PR: In 97, he is this as he tells Cyclops that he has to make sure he remains President or else someone else with an anti-mutant agenda takes his place.
- Unwilling Roboticization: Master Mold figures he and various other world leaders need their brains removed and replaced with computers. Kelly's protests that they can't do this because he's a US senator do not sway it.
The Morlocks
- Callisto voiced by: Susan Roman (original series), Courtenay Taylor (X-Men '97) (English)Leech voiced by: John Stocker (original series), David Errigo Jr. (X-Men '97) (English)
- Adapted Out: Some of the more prominent Morlocks, like Masque and Healer, don't make an appearance.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Storm decides to challenge Callisto to leadership of the Morlocks just to get her to let the X-Men go. Storm wins.
- Body Horror: While the "main" Morlocks aren't too bad looking, all things considered, the background generics all have varying degrees of it going on, which is why they live underground.
- The Brute: Sunder, the physically biggest and strongest Morlock, but clearly not a lot going on upstairs either.
- The Chew Toy: Their very existence is a good demonstration of how much being a non-flashy mutant sucks. X-Men '97 even has its second episode begin with the Friends of Humanity going after them, with Magneto getting enraged on their behalf that the poor bastards have basically nothing and the F.O.H. can't even stomach that.
- Compelling Voice: Annalee's power can convince people to fall asleep, or that they're children again, or covered in scorpions.
- Eyepatch of Power: Callisto, their leader, has an eyepatch covering her right eye.
- Lighter and Softer: In the comics, Callisto and Storm's duel involved knives, and ended with Ororo stabbing her opponent through the heart. Since this obviously wasn't going to fly in a show for kids, Ororo just handily kicks her behind.
- Puppet King: Callisto is allowed to remain in charge of the Morlocks in Ororo's stead, but she still rankles because it doesn't count as being really in charge to her.
- Spared by the Adaptation: The infamous Morlock Massacre never happens to them. In the original series, that is.
- Stalker with a Test Tube: Callisto has Scott abducted because she wants an heir, not because of any interest in Scott as a person. Even the idea of him being co-ruler with her disgusts her. But she still decides to kill Jean when Scott refuses.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: '97 has Magneto giving them an offer of life outside the sewers, in the now free nation of Genosha.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: After a short while on Genosha, a Tri-Sentinel shows up to exterminate every Mutant on the island.
Illyana Rasputin
Voiced by: Tara Strong (original series), Courtenay Taylor (X-Men '97)
The younger sister of Colossus
- Ambiguous Situation: She is a mutant, as confirmed by a flashforward in "Time Fugitives", but her only appearance in the show is before her powers have activated (in the comics, she can teleport throughout time and space and even other dimensions). The X-Men '97 episode "Fire Made Flesh" further complicates matters by having Morph shapeshift into her as she appeared in New Mutants as Magik, and eventually into her "Darkchylde" look, even though she hasn't actually been part of the Xavier School so far.
- Damsel in Distress: Abducted by Omega Red to get Colossus to assist him.
The X-Ternal
- Adaptation Species Change: In the comics, Candra is an immortal mutant called an External, whereas the X-Ternal is an entity of unidentified origin.
- Berserk Button: If she thinks either party is late with their tithe, she will kill them without a moment's hesitation. When it looks like the Thieves have tried to trick her, she's fully prepared to kill them all.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: The X-Ternal grants the Assassins and Thieves Guilds a reward every ten years in exchange for an unspecified "tithe", in return for which she empowers one of their number. Why she does this, and what she even gets out of it is never specified.
- Power Floats: She never touches the ground.
- Purple Is Powerful: A bizarre and evidently powerful entity, her outfit contains a lot of purple.
- Race Lift: The comic character Candra, on whom she's based, is a Caucasian blonde, whereas the X-Ternal has dark skin and orange hair.
- Significant White Hair, Dark Skin: The X-Ternal has dark red-blonde dreadlocked hair and is brown-skinned, befitting a mysterious being, and one established in New Orleans.
Heather Hudson
- Blind Without Them: Hinted at, as when a feral Logan leaps James, her glasses get knocked off and she has to take a moment to recover them.
- Green-Eyed Redhead: Much like a certain other redhead in Logan's life.
- Reluctant Mad Scientist: Only goes through with performing experiments on Logan because anyone else might be less interested in keeping him alive.
- Resign in Protest: When General Chasen goes too far and makes it clear he'd quite gladly kill Logan, she resigns on the spot and helps him escape.
- We Used to Be Friends: She and James, but mostly her, helped restore Logan's humanity after he escaped Weapon X.
Tyler
- Adaptational Heroism: Comic Tyler turned on his father thanks to (among other things) manipulation from Stryfe, eventually becoming a villain called Genesis who antagonized Wolverine, which worked out exactly how you might expect it to. Here, he remains a freedom fighter alongside his father.
- Artificial Limbs: His right arm, just like his father's, is artificial.
- Missing Mom: The status of Tyler's mother is never brought up, but given the look of the year 3999, odds are not great on her being alive.
- Retgone: Temporarily erased as a result of Bishop's severe screw-up in "Time Fugitives, part 2". On account of his grandfather being killed before having a chance to concieve his father.
- Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Somewhere in his early teens at most in "Time Fugitives", on his return in "Beyond Good and Evil", supposedly starting in the same year, he's suddenly looking a lot older.
Banshee
Banshee / Sean Cassidy
- Back for the Dead: Reappears in '97, and shortly thereafter is incinerated by a stray blast from the Tri-Sentinel.
- Blue Blood: He owns a not-exactly-small castle, Cassidy Keep, located on the northern coast of Ireland.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to his brother Tom's would-be Cain.
- Fighting Irish: As brothers, his and Tom's powers don't work on one another, requiring them to settle things the old fashion way; pummelling one another with their fists.
- Super-Scream: His Mutant power.
Rusty Collins
A mutant that grew up in the same orphanage as Scott
- Age Lift: Over the age of sixteen when he first appeared in X-Factor, here he's somewhere on the younger side of teenagehood.
- Burning with Anger: He tends to lose control of his powers when he's angry or anxious.
- Cassandra Truth: Tries telling the head of the orphanage about Killgrave, but with his prior history of acting out she doesn't believe him at first.
- Commonality Connection: While he's initially rude to Cyclops, learning he's a Mutant as well as an orphan causes Rusty to warm to him considerably.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: He doesn't go by "Firefist" as he's just a civilian.
- The Dragon: Killgrave turns him into his bodyguard and his most powerful minion.
- Playing with Fire: His Mutant power is pyrokinesis, but he hasn't got full control of it yet.
- Power Incontinence: He's just learning to control his power.
- Troubled Teen: He's got a history of lying, stealing and getting in trouble with the police.
- Tyke Bomb: Turned into one by Killgrave's mind control.
Boom-Boom
Boom-Boom / Tabitha Smith
- Brainwashed and Crazy: She's been repeatedly subjected to Kilgrave's mind control and brainwashing videos.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Inverted. She does use the Boom-Boom alias despite being just a civilian.
- Having a Blast: Her mutant power allows her to create plasma bombs that explode after a few seconds.
- Known Only by Their Nickname: Her actual name is not mentioned, just her mutant nickname.
- Tyke Bomb: Turned into one by Killgrave's mind control.
Skids
Skids / Sally Blevins
- Barrier Warrior: Her mutant power is to create a force field around her that allows her to slide and knock off anything in her path
- Brainwashed and Crazy: She's been repeatedly subjected to Kilgrave's mind control and brainwashing videos.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Inverted. She does use the Skids alias despite being just a civilian.
- Known Only by Their Nickname: Her actual name is not mentioned, just her mutant nickname
- Tyke Bomb: Turned into one by Killgrave's mind control.
Taki Matsuya
Takeshi Matsuya
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He's been repeatedly subjected to Kilgrave's mind control and brainwashing videos.
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: He doesn't go by "Wiz Kid" as he's just a civilian.
- Technopath: He can manipulate the shape of objects he touches, which allows him to transform his wheelchair into any form he desires.
- Tyke Bomb: Turned into one by Killgrave's mind control.
Dazzler
Dazzler
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- She and Longshot, her longest term romantic partner, never meet (besides an Early-Bird Cameo that was subsequently ignored).
- Alison and Rogue had an adversarial relationship before either joined the X-Men, with the then-villainous Rogue going out of her way to torment and try to destroy Alison. As with Longshot, they never meet.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Usually blonde (or strawberry blonde at most), but here she's redheaded.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Appears in the first episode of "The Dark Phoenix Saga", but after identifying Pierce's goons as the same who tried to abduct her, she vanishes from the story.
- Damsel in Distress: Cyclops saves her from being abducted by Donald Pierce.
- Killed Off for Real: She's among the confirmed casualties of the Genosha massacre in ''97'.'
- Light 'em Up: Her Mutant power is creating blasts of light.
Amelia Voght
A mutant nurse who fell in love with Xavier and later joined the Acolytes.
- Adaptational Jerkass: One of the reasons comic Amelia and Charles fell out so badly was he, in a Moment of Weakness, tried to make her stay with him. Here, he respected Amelia's wish and let her go, but she's viciously sour towards him on their reunion.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Lacks her comic counterpart's Fantastic Racism, at least, and bears the X-Men no ill will.
- Hospital Hottie: She was Charles's nurse when he was recovering from the injuries Magneto inflicted on him. They fell in love and she returned to the States with him.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Like everyone else on Asteroid M, she falls hook, line and sinker for Cortez's poor lies, but she knew Charles, and should probably know he's the last person who'd try to kill Magneto.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: One of the reasons she and Charles broke up. She just wanted to live a normal life, and realized the X-Men meant more to him, so she left. Unfortunately, by the modern day, things with mutants have gotten so complicated she can't, so she signs up with the Acolytes.
- New Old Flame: A paramour of Charles who was around at the earliest days of the X-Men, who's never mentioned before "Sanctuary".
- Super Smoke: Her power is to turn into fog. Useful for getting past any locked door.
- Survivor's Guilt: Suffers from this in 97, after the Sentinels raid and devastate Genosha.
Silver Fox
Silver Fox
- Adaptational Wimp: By comparison. Comic Silver Fox has some superpowers, but here she just gets by with guns.
- Face–Heel Turn: Not spelled out directly, but when she reappears in the flesh she's wearing the distinctive green and yellow livery of HYDRA.
- Jerkass: Whatever went down, she's much more snappish in the modern day, and no longer has any feelings for Logan.
- Manchurian Agent: She and all the other members of Team X had their minds messed with by the program to be triggered if and when the project wanted to.
- Mysterious Past: Thanks to Weapon X repeatedly wiping their memories, and what ones anyone can remember being contradictory at best or possibly made up just to screw with them.
- Riddle for the Ages: Flashbacks show her and Maverick being left for dead by Sabretooth against Omega Red. They reappear in the modern day, but never explain how they got out of that one alive.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only woman on Team X.
Bender
Immortus / Bender
The "custodian" of the Axis of Time
- Canon Character All Along: Spends most of "Beyond Good and Evil" just generally annoying Bishop. Once everything's wrapped up, he turns out to be Immortus, now really annoyed at the mess he has to clean up.
- The Cat Came Back: Much to Bishop's annoyance, he won't go away, teleporting around the Nexus and sticking with him.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Which he attributes to all his time spent alone in the Axis. Or perhaps not.
- Older Than They Look: Claims to have been stuck in the Axis for ten thousand years.
- Troll: Clearly enjoys annoying the beejezus out of Bishop, which takes on a different element with the reveal.
Introduced in X-Men '97
Sunspot
Sunspot / Roberto Da Costa
Voiced by: Gui Agustini
A rich heir and closeted mutant.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the comics, both Emmanuel and Nina Da Costa were nothing but loving and supportive towards Roberto (it was just one another they couldn't stand), and things only became strained between Roberto and his father after the man tried to have Nina killed. Here, it's suggested things are not terribly great at Casa Da Costa even without them knowing he's a mutant... except they do, or at least his mom does and the angst on that part stems from her being a Slave to PR.
- Face–Heel Turn: Joins Magneto out of resentment for his mother abandoning him to the Sentinels.
- It's All About Me: "Motendo" suggests that Roberto hides his powers because he's afraid there's someone out there filming him and his parents will find out.
- Jerk Jock: Hinted at, given his introduction to the Danger Room is a dismissive "video games are for nerds."
- Parental Neglect: Indications are life with the Da Costas is not all sunny, as when Jubilee brings up how the X-Men are a family, he muses on the idea of loving parents.
- The Power of the Sun: He has the ability to harness solar energy, though he hasn't gotten the hang of it yet.
- Promoted to Love Interest: Sunspot and Jubilee have never been a thing in the comics, usually being featured in different books. Here, their status as the two youngest X-Men leads to them being a lot closer and they ultimately share a Big Damn Kiss in episode 4 after defeating Mojo.
- Upper-Class Twit: Roberto is very rich, and it shows. His reaction to being abducted by the Friends of Humanity is to try and buy his way out. They make clear they really don't care about money. Jubilee even calls him a yuppie early on.
- The Watson: As the new tagalong to the X-Men in '97, he asks the questions about events from the prior animated series to catch any new viewers up to speed.
Val Cooper
Dr. Valerie "Val" Cooper
Voiced by: Catherine Disher
- Adaptational Late Appearance: Comics Val has a history with Gyrich (works with him) and X-Factor (their government liaison). Here, she only appears in the sequel series and has no apparent connection to either.
- Adaptational Villainy: This version of Val was working with Bastion. In the comics, she was trying to help protect X-Factor from Bastion.
- Friend on the Force: Specifically the United Nations, Cooper having worked with them to include the X-Men in peacekeeping operations. However, it's later revealed that she was actually working for Bastion and Mister Sinister, though she had no idea how horrific their plans were going to be for everyone.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: She eventually turned against Bastion after realizing the full extent of his plans and how Magneto was right about humanity and their Irrational Hatred. Though her turning against Bastion would be considered a heroic thing on paper, she did so by releasing Magneto, knowing that he would declare war on the entirety of humanity over what they have done to mutantkind.
- The Mole: She was in league with Bastion and Mister Sinister the whole time, though she turns on them when she realizes the depth of their depravity.
- Maddened Into Misanthropy: The Fall of Genosha, Bastion's insane plans for the human race, and realizing that humanity's history of bigotry is a seemingly Vicious Cycle upon finding out that Magneto was a Holocaust survivor have her deciding that Magneto's hatred of humans was justified, leading her to release him so that he can punish mankind for what it has done.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Is horrified at having helped Bastion's crimes, to the point where she frees Magneto to enact his retribution against humanity.
- Not That Kind of Doctor: It's a doctorate in psychology.
- Predecessor Casting Gag: In Remember It, Madelyne quipped to Rogue and Gambit about having another Jean Grey with Valerie Cooper (who was voiced by Catherine Disher, the previous Jean Grey voice actor) standing behind her.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: As an old friend of Xavier she trusts the X-Men to help with operations and has no manner of anti-mutant sentiment. Even when confronting Magneto she's a professional who gives him due process, including a fair trial.
- Regretful Traitor: She is this as she was working for Bastion the whole time despite being an old friend of Xavier. She apologizes to Magneto, who gave her a Silent Treatment, and later released him.
- Remember the New Guy?: Introduced in '97 as an old friend of Charles Xavier's, despite never having been mentioned before. The comic tie-in shows how they first met.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Related to her Adaptational Villainy, she was working with Bastion here, as opposed to the comics, where she was trying to keep X-Factor safe from him.
- Uncertain Doom: While Val wasn't seen being killed in the Sentinel attack on Genosha, she's referred to as missing in the following episodes. It's revealed in "Tolerance is Extinction" that she survived and is working for Bastion.
Vulcan
Vulcan
- The Cameo: Briefly appears with the Imperial Guard in their attack on the Kree.
- Playing with Fire: It's his power and he intended to burn the Kree prisoners alive in front of Ronan the Accuser when Deathbird makes him choose to surrender to save their lives or let them die horribly to Vulcan.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: In 97, Vulcan is a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. In the comics, he became Emperor and was actually their boss.
