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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When the civilian slams on his brakes to avoid hitting the Sentinel, you can see he is wearing sunglasses, but within the same shot, the dark lenses turn into clear lenses. (00:14:59)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When the Sentinel is resting against the building while lying in wait for Jubilee, the building itself has a solid exterior with the occasional window. When the shot changes, it is now a glass building. Additionally, when the Sentinel was resting against the building, its entire body was obscured, but when the shot changes, part of the right side of its body was sticking out. (00:14:35)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee blasts Wolverine across the Danger Room, Gambit is shown lying flat on the ground. When the shot changes, he is now resting on his elbows. (00:11:30)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee is trying to gain entry to the Danger Room, she is pressing random buttons that light up. When the shot changes, some of the lit up buttons are not ones she pressed, and some of the ones she pressed are no longer lit up. (00:10:34)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee is trying to open the door to the infirmary, the door handle is pointed at roughly 3 o'clock. When she uses her powers to blast the handle off, it is now pointed at roughly 5 o'clock. (00:08:42)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Gambit is blasted through the sign advertising the car that can be won, there is a noticeable amount of spacing between the exclamation point and the end of the sign. When the Sentinel begins approaching Gambit, the exclamation point now goes nearly to the edge of the sign. (00:07:11)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Deliberate mistake: When the Sentinel is first walking through the mall, its footsteps are so heavy that it shakes the building. When it is shown walking past the shop Gambit is in, there is no shaking of the building, presumably done so Gambit wouldn't notice it. (00:04:08)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee is first shown in the arcade, the space between the rows of games is roughly six feet. When Jubilee runs out of the arcade, the corridor is suddenly much wider. (00:02:57 - 00:03:37)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When the arcade manager is confronting Jubilee after she accidentally destroyed the game she was playing, he is several feet away from her, with other patrons between them. When the shot changes, he is suddenly in her face. (00:03:27)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee is first seen eavesdropping on her foster parents, you can see the shelves of their entertainment unit are empty. Moments later when her foster mother is questioning if Jubilee is really a mutant, her husband shows her what Jubilee did to the VCR just by touching it, and you can see the bottom two shelves now have items on them. Additionally, the coffee table goes from having a blue top with a brown border within it, to being a solid brown top altogether. (00:01:39 - 00:02:17)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee's bedroom is first shown, the door is on the left side of the wall, she has a poster next to the door of what appears to be a chicken in a boxing outfit with gloves, a bookshelf next to that poster, a nightstand next to her bed and a poster of a girl playing drums on the wall behind the nightstand. After the Sentinel crashes through the window and pulls her bed out of the house, the nightstand and drummer poster have disappeared. When her foster mother comes into the room to see if everything is OK, the door is suddenly in the center of the wall, and the room itself, save for one poster on the wall that the head of the bed was on, is now completely empty. (00:01:54 - 00:02:51)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee is eavesdropping on her foster parents, her right hand is resting on and pointing in the same direction as the railing. When the shot changes, her hand is now nearly perpendicular to the railing. (00:01:39)

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Family Ties - S4-E17

Other mistake: This series is in the same continuity as the other Marvel animated series that aired around the same time - Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Fantastic Four - by virtue of each aforementioned show crossing over with at least one of the other shows. However, in Iron Man, Scarlet Witch has an Eastern European accent, and in this episode she has an American accent.

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Trivia: Following Disney's acquisition of Fox, the creators of this show pitched a revival to stream on Disney+. Producer Larry Houston has said he would come out of retirement specifically to work on this. The revival - titled X-Men '97 - was announced on Disney+ Day in November of 2021 for a 2024 premiere date, with much of the surviving original cast returning.

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Show generally

Question: Does anyone know why Gambit was featured less and less in episodes as the show went on? He was one of the most popular characters in not just X-Men, but all of Marvel Comics around the time this series first aired, so unless it had something to do with his voice actor's contract, it seems odd they wouldn't have utilized him more.

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The Phoenix Saga (2): The Dark Shroud - S3-E4

Other mistake: After the shuttle crashes into the Upper New York Bay, the X-Men escape the wreckage and swim up to the surface, with Wolverine being the first one to appear. Given that Wolverine's skeleton is coated with a heavy metal, not only should he not be the first one to surface, he should actually sink instead. (00:04:06)

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Trivia: Much like in the comics, the Savage Land is a rainforest hidden within Antarctica. In April of 2020, it was reported that scientists discovered evidence of a rainforest that existed in Western Antarctica 90 million years ago.

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Trivia: In 2019, the creator of a 1980's Hungarian TV series called "Linda" filed a lawsuit against this show, alleging that the theme song to "X-Men" is a ripoff the theme song to "Linda." Despite airing in another country, the creator of "Linda" stated that the creators of "X-Men" had visited Hungary in the late 80's and rubbed shoulders with members of the Hungarian film industry. Interestingly, despite "X-Men" being far more popular globally than an obscure Hungarian TV show, its creator said he was unfamiliar with "X-Men" until 2017.

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Trivia: The character Morph was created for the show, though he was based on a character from the comics called Changeling. The creators of the show created the character with the sole purpose of killing him off, in order to establish stakes, though he was later brought back because of his popularity. Showrunner Eric Lewald stated that originally the character of Thunderbird was going to be used instead of Morph, but they then decided against killing off who would have been the only Native American character on the show.

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Trivia: At the end of the opening titles, there is a short bald man in a green outfit running with Magneto's crew. For years, fans had wondered who this character was, as he has no counterpart in the comics, and he only had a fleeting appearance in the season 1 episode "Slave Island." Series director Larry Houston finally revealed that the character is nobody in particular, and that he was mistakenly placed in the opening titles by the animation company AKOM.

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