Trivia / Jem and the Holograms (IDW)

• Ascended Fanon:
  • Kimber and Stormer were always a popular pairing in Jem, with fans claiming there was some serious Les Yay between them. The 2015 IDW comic Continuity Reboot acknowledges this by making them an outright lesbian couple.
  • In many fanfics, Mary "Stormer" Phillips is the Token Religious Teammate of her group. She's either Christian or treated as a Nice Jewish Girl. Word of God (Sophie Campbell, who redesigned the characters) is that Stormer is half-Israeli, though it's never mentioned if she's Jewish or not.
• Development Gag: Jetta being half-black and half-Japanese is a nod to the character's original concept, as she was going to be black in the cartoon before Executive Meddling resulted in her being British instead. This is a rare case of a Race Lift actually being true to the creator's original intention.
• Exiled from Continuity: Although the IDW staff place it as part of the newly-created Hasbro Comic Universe, it wasn't a part of Revolution crossover due to tonal issues, although references have popped up in the other comics (Ian Noble has a Misfits poster in his room). With the HCU's ending after the Unicron Crisis Crossover and subsequent reboots of the Transformers and G.I. Joe titles, the Jem title's presence in the new HCU (if there indeed is one) is unclear.
• Promoted Fanboy: In 2011 Campbell posted several Jem redesigns on her DeviantArt and said she would want to work on a reboot. Come 2015 and she's the main artist of the comic reboot.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A few years before release Sophie Campbell posted some fan redesigns for the characters online. There are noticeable differences between the early designs and final ones.
  • Also, Synergy played a major role in Hasbro's failed Unit: E crossover comic from 2011; there, she was an alien AI who assisted characters from Micronauts in gathering info on many Hasbro-owned characters throughout the multiverse. Jem herself was mentioned as going to compose the "music of the spheres", presumably with Synergy's assistance.
  • Graphix, a character meant to be in the show before it was canceled, was meant to be in the comic before it was canceled. Also canned were original characters Shade and Misty.
  • A new character, The Fox, was supposed to replace Raya as drummer for the Stingers, but the comic was cancelled before this could happened.
  • Sophie Campbell had planned a one-shot story featuring axed 80s characters the Mongrels, but nixed this because 80s head writer Christy Marx was uncomfortable with the idea.

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