X-Men '97's Take on Morph Is Already Making Bigots Mad

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X-Men '97's Take on Morph Is Already Making Bigots Mad
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So in the latest installment of what won't make MAGA throw a tantrum.

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Wait - X-men has storylines regarding being different from the norm?

What is this woke garbage.

Next thing you'll tell me is that the whole concept of being a mutant is a metaphor tied to acceptance of different races, sexual orientations, etc.

I bet with their woke agenda they even do something ridiculous like have some plotline about ableism and have their most powerful mutant be in a wheelchair.

MAGAts are the untamed brats in the shop aisle pitching a fit for attention and should be treated the same: keep walking, don't give them any notice, let somebody else whup they ass.

"I can't believe X-Men went won't!" say the "fans" who has apparently never read X-Men

I mean these are the same people who are confused about what machine RATM have been raging against this whole time.

The same folks who complain about new Star Trek being ruined by the "woke mind virus" and apparently never watched the original series.

I’ve never watched any Star Trek aside from those newer movies but doesn’t Star Trek literally take place in like a socialist utopia?

Yep, specifically a post-scarcity society that is absent the concept of money.

The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity

-- Jean-Luc Picard

Yeah but it's also about shooting aliens and space battles so that's all they pay attention to.

Who cares. I'm glad they went with the white featureless morph. He was my favorite character in exiles.

I'm more miffed that they nerfed Rogue's butt and made it almost pancake-flat for the sake of trying to keep everything E-rated. Original vs reboot for comparison.

If you're rebooting a 90's Marvel animated series and trying to make it as authentic as possible to the original art style and source material, maybe sanitising female body proportions to appear more modest whilst keeping every guy jacked isn't the way you go about things? But then again, maybe the House of Mouse should've realized that the core demographic who read comic books are vastly different to those who consume non-acquisition Disney media and that if you put the two audiences on a Venn diagram, you'd damn near get two perfect circles.

At least the Morph changes make thematic sense and people getting upset over them being non-binary are the same kind of snowflakes who flipped out because Starfield asked them to select their character's pronouns - a choice that took all of about zero to three button presses to select on the character creation menu and also makes thematic sense for a game set hundreds of years in humanity's future.

I’m more miffed

I'm more miffed that anyone gave enough shits about a cartoon depiction of an ass in a childs cartoon show to have spent the time even getting miffed about it.

  1. When I may miffed, it's more like minorly inconvenienced,

  2. Wasn't aware that the show was produced specifically for Fox Kids, probably because Fox Kids/Jetix in the UK was known moreso for hours of Power Rangers reruns and the occasional good show. That changes things slightly.

  3. Wasn't the reboot commissioned specifically with fans of the original 1992-97 show in mind? It feels weird to do this when the core demographic that has nostalgia for the original animated series is likely in their thirties now.

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Get this.

It's completely irrelevant and spending that much time and mental effort on it is not a thing that warrants as much focus and attention you've put on it.

this focus on her ass is bizarre and borderline creepy.

I can't believe they just yanked her cakes! What kind of sick world is this?!