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.
... Sigh... Okay so not to be ungrateful as any non-binary representation is basically a good step.... But there's weird issue with non-binary characters so regularly being rendered as shapeshifters or intersex aliens or whatever.
Like, yes, you talk to us and do the "what superpower would you want" thing and like 3/4 of us would say shapeshifting. But there's still this really weird thing where the audience is lead to accept the character's gender because of the character's body. It's sort of just more gender essentialism but via sci fi fuckery. The character is sort of more arguably intersex with non-binary simply being like Prisig's Buddhist principle of "Mu". Are you sexually male or female? - mu. Un-ask the question as the binary does not apply.
Not so much trans representation as the character's gender is in fact kind of in line with their body's physicality. The cis third gender with a presentation that your brain recognizes as both and neither.
I am sure that the character will end up being endearing but like... It's not exciting.
Interesting, I hadn't really thought about how I perceive non binary people. Clearly you're very well read on the topic. I think your comment might be coming out of left field for some people (heh, "left" field also kind of implies a binary - this shit is everywhere), but I appreciate you taking the time to share.
But this is a throwback show to 90s x men and in the series he very much was drawn and portrayed as a man.
This is probably less than half about the non binary thing and more about just changing a character that already had a Fandom. Like, you never heard anyone complaining about Todd from Bojack Horsemen being asexual. Or the multitude of characters all across the board in the Questionable Content comics. It's almost always people angry about some major change to an established character that doesn't mesh with their history. You never hear about it when it's a new character.
Of course, the fandom for the quintessential X-Man, Morph, who was so well loved that he starred alongside Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry in the 2000s X-Men film.
Morph, who was such an established Marvel character that they had to change his name for the animated show because there was a DC character who had a better claim to it.
Morph, whose iconic design was “a dude”. I remember when every kid wanted the “a dude” action figure.
That Morph?
I would bet good money that not a single soul who is being vocally upset online about this was a part of the “Morph Fandom”. It’s people who assume that a show featuring a non-cis or non-straight character is a personal attack.
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'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 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.
When I may miffed, it's more like minorly inconvenienced,
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.
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.