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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: The TV salesman that is assisting Cyclops and Jean is a caricature of former Marvel president Joe Calamari. His name tag even says "Calamari." (00:04:28)

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A Rogue's Tale - S2-E9

Trivia: The man who attempts to steal Mystique's umbrella at the beginning of the episode is a caricature of series producer Frank Squillace.

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Time Fugitives: Part 1 - S2-E7

Trivia: When Beast is looking through the logbook detailing patients and their slide numbers, some of the names listed, such as Frank Squillace and Larry Houston, are people who worked on the show. (00:09:47)

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Days of Future Past: Part 2 - S1-E12

Trivia: In this episode, Storm tells Gambit that she knows him better than anyone. This is a reference to the comics, in which Storm was the first member of the X-Men that Gambit met, and whom vouched for his initiation onto the team. (00:07:08)

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: After Silver Surfer passes by the Marvel Comics office, two other characters fly by his path, while a third lands on the building on the right. The two that fly by are Darkhawk and Justice, and the other is Speedball. All three are members of the superhero team New Warriors. (00:01:00)

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: When Silver Surfer is departing Africa, you can very briefly see a woman jumping out of the ocean and back in with a couple of dolphins. This woman is Namorita, cousin of Namor, who appeared as a foe-turned-friend to the Fantastic Four early in the series. (00:00:50)

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Trivia: The first three letters on the license plate of Q's car are "LRY." This is a reference to "Larry," an imaginary character from the TV series that Joe is usually calling out to or frantically searching for.

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: The X-Men's Blackbird jet makes two appearances in this episode. First it is shown attacking Dr. Doom after he traps the Avengers inside a bubble, and then again it is shown in outer space when Johnny is trying to destroy Doom with a supernova blast. (00:11:34 - 00:16:02)

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Trivia: George Buza, who voiced Beast, never watched any episodes of this show until 2019, more than 20 years after the show ended. He finally decided to watch them at the insistence of Cal Dodd, who voiced Wolverine, because Buza was scheduled to be a guest at his first comic con, and decided he needed to have knowledge of the show, knowing that fans at conventions would be asking him questions about it.

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Trivia: Chris Potter, who voiced Gambit, has said he always wanted to play Gambit in the films, stating that he looked like Gambit when he was younger. He was actually brought in to audition for the role of Cyclops for the first X-Men film, but thought to himself before the audition that he didn't want to play Cyclops and have to wear those "bad sunglasses."

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Doomsday - S2-E13

Trivia: When Silver Surfer is flying by the Marvel Comics office, the black man seen in the window bears a resemblance to Larry Houston, who was an animator, producer, and director for several Marvel cartoons, including this one. (00:00:56)

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Trivia: In the comics, Pyro is Australian. In this show, he has a British accent.

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Season 2 generally

Trivia: H.O.M.E.R. is an acronym for Heuristically Operative Matrix Emulation Rostrum.

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Trivia: When the show was in early stages of development, Saban Entertainment sold executive producer Stan Lee on the idea of the show's premise being a "mutant of the week" series, which would see Professor X and Cyclops as the only two main characters, and they would drive around in a van, accompanied by a dog, and search for different mutants every episode.

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When Calls Galactus - S2-E8

Trivia: When Reed is exploring Frankie's memories of when she snuck into her stepfather's lab as a child, he discovers that her stepfather was working on an android Human Torch for the military. This is a reference to the original Human Torch from the comics, who alongside Namor and Captain America, was one of Marvel's very first characters. (00:04:20)

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Prey of the Black Panther - S2-E7

Trivia: After the Fantastic Four have battled Black Panther, there is a panning shot in the village, and you see a young man in the foreground wearing a red headband. This is Mjnari, who is the godson of X-Men member Storm, and appeared in the X-Men episode "Whatever It Takes." Additionally, the woman standing next to Mjnari bears a strong resemblance to the younger version of Storm that was shown in the flashback of the aforementioned episode. On a related note, Storm and Black Panther have been married in the comics. (00:12:25)

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Nightmare in Green - S2-E9

Trivia: When Dr. Doom is attacking Mr. Fantastic, there is a portrait of a nude woman on the wall that somehow made it past the network censors. (00:16:11)

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Nightmare in Green - S2-E9

Trivia: When Johnny and Rick Jones are taking the air-cycle out for a spin, the following Marvel characters make a cameo appearance: the Scarlet Spider, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Gambit, Wolverine, Storm, and Juggernaut. Additionally, the Juggernaut is shown with his hand emerging out of the New York Harbor, which alludes to his previous appearance in X-Men, where he was thrown out into the ocean by Gladiator near Cassidy Keep in Ireland in the season 3 episode "The Phoenix Saga, Part 3: The Cry of the Banshee," and seemingly walked all the way back to New York from the ocean floor for his next appearance in the episode "Juggernaut Returns." (00:09:31)

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'Til Death Do Us Part: Part 1 - S2-E1

Trivia: During Cyclops and Jean Grey's wedding ceremony, a man can be seen standing next to Storm, and after the nuptials can be seen standing in the background after Rogue rejects Gambit's attempt to kiss her. According to the book "X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series," this character is intended to be Doctor Strange. The book also reveals that a character model was drawn for J. Jonah Jameson to be at wedding as well. However, he didn't make it into the episode. (00:02:55 - 00:04:09)

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A Deal with the Devil - S5-E3

Trivia: According to the book "Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series," this episode was originally conceived as an episode called "Bring Me Charles Xavier" (a reference to the film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia), and would have been the 47th episode of the series overall. In addition to the return of Omega Red, it also would have seen the returns of Colossus and his little sister Ilyana, as well as Darkstar. The episode was written by showrunner Eric Lewald, and after being told numerous times by his colleagues that the script just didn't work, he reworked it into what became this episode. An image for the cast list of the unproduced episode is visible in the book "X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series."

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