The Disney+ series has proven itself the best onscreen treatment of Marvel's mutant heroes
When Disney screened its new animated revival series X-Men ’97 for critics last month, just ahead of the series’ launch, it was with only the first three episodes available to watch. My review, published at the time, reflects that: It describes a series in active conversation with some of the creakier, more nostalgia-forward aspects of the original children’s animated series the show is based on, while still trying to be its own, modern thing.
The mutant metaphor is fluid by design, an abstracted “other”-ness that comes complete with laser eyes and razor-sharp claws designed to scare “normal” people into acts of staggering intolerance. De Mayo’s scripts don’t beat around this bush; unlike the old show, which kept it all to subtext, his characters employ the rhetoric of modern identity politics directly. Self-hating mutant Sunspot bemoans that Genosha is what happens when mutants don’t keep their heads down and hide .
Excalibur New Mutants X-Factor Professor X Genosha Sunspot Bolivar Trask Beau De Mayo Nightcrawler Charles Xavier Jubilee Jean Grey Magneto Disney Grant Morrison Storm Jonathan Hickman The A.V. Club
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