Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with five years' worth of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly science fiction, fantasy and comic book adapatations as well as animation.
The Big Picture The X-Men have been a staple of television for a very, very long time. Even before they helped kick-start the superhero movie boom, Marvel's mighty mutants appeared in various animated series, including Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and X-Men: Pryde of The X-Men. Most fans will point to X-Men: The Animated Series as the pinnacle of these shows; after all, it managed to introduce the X-Men to a wider audience.
In fact, the show's best element may be its portrayal of Cyclops. In most X-Men media, including the comics, Scott Summers is often portrayed as a strict, humorless leader who often butts heads with the more popular Wolverine. But in Evolution, Scott actually gets to be a teen. He cracks jokes. He shows a variety of emotions.
But the character who changed the most is Magneto . Throughout X-Men history, the Master of Magnetism has been haunted by the memories of surviving the Holocaust, and is determined to rule the Earth so that mankind cannot visit any atrocities on mutants. X-Men: Evolution's take on Magneto is a bit more Machiavellian than his previous counterparts.
Season 2 introduced a new class of mutants, and a new teacher: Hank McCoy, aka The Beast . McCoy started off as a teacher at Bayville High, until an experiment unlocked his mutation and transformed him into a massive, blue-furred beast. It took Spyke and the other X-Men to snap McCoy out of his feral state, upon which he took up a teaching position at the Xavier Institute.
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