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The Phoenix Saga (5): Child of Light - S3-E7

Trivia: Fellow Marvel Superheroes War Machine and Spider-Man make brief cameos during the montage of catastrophic events around Earth, although all you see of Spider-Man is his shadow and then his left hand when he shoots a web. (00:11:45)

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The Phoenix Saga (4): The Starjammers - S3-E6

Trivia: Marvel Superheroes Captain Britain and Doctor Strange make brief cameo appearances when Phoenix departs the Earth with the X-Men. (00:04:50)

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The Phoenix Saga (3): Cry of the Banshee - S3-E5

Trivia: This episode depicts Banshee and Black Tom Cassidy as brothers. In the comics, they are actually cousins.

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

Trivia: Beast can be seen wearing a Howard the Duck T-shirt in this episode.

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X-Ternally Yours - S2-E6

Trivia: This episode depicted Bella Donna as being Gambit's former fiancée. In the comics, the two were actually married. This change was likely made for the show due to it being too mature of a theme for a kids' show for Gambit to have both an estranged wife and an extramarital relationship with Rogue.

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Out of the Past (1) - S3-E1

Trivia: Lady Deathstrike's outfit had to be slightly modified due to censorship issues. In the show she is wearing a white shirt under her vest. In the comics, the white shirt is not there, revealing a lot of cleavage. Obviously not acceptable for a kids' Saturday morning cartoon show. Director Larry Houston even stated that they deliberately drew her flat-chested in storyboards, because they knew her large breasts would be an issue. However, Philippine Animation Studio, Inc, who were hired to animate the episode, were supposedly huge fans of Marvel Comics and took it upon themselves to improve on the storyboards they were given, and animated her in such a way, that when she would turn, her breasts would follow through and settle. Houston claims he still has the raw VHS footage of this animation in storage.

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Out of the Past (1) - S3-E1

Trivia: The basketball game between Gambit and Wolverine was inspired by X-Men, Volume 2 #4 which depicted a game of basketball featuring Gambit and Jubilee vs. Wolverine and Rogue (which Gambit dominated). Wolverine and Gambit's game attire is even the same they were wearing in the comic.

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: One of the women tending to Longshot in his dressing room when Mojo is firing him is Dazzler, who would make her first official appearance on the show in the season 3 episode "The Dark Phoenix Saga Part 1, Dazzled" although with a different hair color. Longshot and Dazzler were a romantic item in the comics.

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Trivia: The show contained numerous references to the Terminator film series. Several episodes such as "Time Fugitives" and "One Man's Worth" (also "Days of Future Past," but that was based on a pre-Terminator comic) featured one or more characters traveling into the past to prevent an event that causes a dystopian future. The robots from Cable's future bear a resemblance to the T-800s. When Mr. Sinister's body is blown to bits in "Reunion, Part 2" it begins to reassemble itself exactly like the T-1000 when it was frozen and then blown to bits. Wolverine even refers to Bishop as Mr. Terminator in the episode "Days of Future Past, Part 1." Another Schwarzenegger movie, "Total Recall", is referenced in "Time Fugitives, Part 2" when Cable uses a hologram of himself in order to bait someone into shooting at him.

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Time Fugitives: Part 1 - S2-E7

Trivia: War Machine (the supporting character from Iron Man) makes two brief cameo appearances in this episode. The first is in Cable's future after Cable tells his team that they aren't retreating. Whether or not the person inside the armor is James Rhodes or why he is a servant of Apocalypse is not explained. The second is when he is watching the Senate committee on TV along with G.W. Bridge and Nick Fury. (00:02:50)

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Red Dawn - S2-E4

Trivia: When Wolverine is explaining Omega Red's back-story to Colossus, a picture of Captain America is briefly visible. This is a nod to the comic books, where Omega Red was the Soviet Union's attempt to create their own super soldier similar to Captain America. (00:14:05)

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X-Ternally Yours - S2-E6

Trivia: The address for the mansion of the Thieves Guild is shown to be 2420 Melpomene. This is an actual address in New Orleans, although it's not a mansion in the swamp as depicted here. (00:11:45)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Trivia: The two men that are leaving the bar just as Wolverine is entering are Bloodscream and Roughouse, two of Wolverine's enemies from the comic books. (00:07:05)

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The Final Decision - S1-E13

Trivia: One of the images in Gambit's mind-scan is of fellow Marvel Comics superhero Ghost Rider. (00:07:45)

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The Unstoppable Juggernaut - S1-E8

Trivia: After Colossus throws Wolverine across the construction site, Wolverine says he has a great arm. A reference to Colossus and Wolverine's Fastball Special from the comics.

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Days of Future Past: Part 1 - S1-E11

Trivia: The storyline for this two-part episode is an amalgamation of the "Days of Future Past" story from the comics and of Bishop's future where he suspected Gambit of betraying and murdering the X-Men.

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Three Gays of the Condo - S14-E17

Trivia: The voice Hank Azaria uses for Grady is the same voice he used for Agador Spartacus in The Birdcage.

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The Last Temptation of Homer - S5-E9

Trivia: At one point in this episode Homer is watching "Eye on Springfield" and Kent Brockman makes reference to Bill Clinton having an extramarital affair - more than 4 years before Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky became public knowledge.

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Trivia: Although it's not explained in the movie, it was revealed in behind-the-scenes interviews that Magneto was the one that reapplied the adamantium to Wolverine's claws. In the comics, Magneto actually removed the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton.

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Trivia: When Quicksilver is breaking Magneto out of prison he states that his mom used to know a guy that could control metal, implying that Magneto is Quicksilver's father, just like in the comics.

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