Continuity mistake: When Red Skull is leaving Wolverine and Captain America alone, he sets Captain America's shield on a table and Wolverine is shown to be hanging from stocks by his wrists with Captain America on his left and the table on his right at roughly a 45 degree angle. In a wide shot after Red Skull has left the room, the shield has vanished from the table and Wolverine is now several feet from where he originally was, with Captain America roughly at his 12 o'clock and the table roughly at his 3 o'clock. (00:10:45)
Continuity mistake: When Captain America says "Red Skull, wait!", his sleeves are entirely blue whereas they should be white from the mid-bicep and down. (00:10:45)
Continuity mistake: The Red Skull punches Captain America's shield with his left hand, but then shows pain in his right hand. (00:13:10)
Continuity mistake: Wolverine's gloves have suddenly disappeared after the robot is destroyed,. (00:15:05)
Continuity mistake: After Wolverine carves "HERO" onto Cocteau's tombstone, he has to walk several feet away from the tombstone to get to Justine. When the shot changes, both of them are only a couple steps away from the tombstone. (00:19:15)
Continuity mistake: When Rogue and Gambit are playing pool, Rogue's arms are bare from the elbow down except a yellow wristband on each wrist. When Beast comes in with the mail, Rogue is wearing her usual green sleeves and yellow gloves. (00:04:00 - 00:05:10)
Continuity mistake: Kenny's hair goes from being light-brown to blonde. (00:05:50 - 00:11:00)
Continuity mistake: When Kirkland is going through photos of Rogue, he stops on a photo of the full X-Men team. When the shot changes, the photo he is stopped at is of Rogue and Cannonball. (00:08:25)
Continuity mistake: Gambit uses his staff to pole vault himself across the rooftops. When he lands, the staff has vanished. (00:09:30)
Continuity mistake: When Gambit jumps out of the ventilation shaft, there is no one around him. Then he is suddenly surrounded by guards who could not have converged on him so quickly unless they appeared out of thin air. (00:10:00)
Continuity mistake: When Gambit is restrained in the chair, his gloves alternate between being his usual gloves that are fingerless at the thumb, index and pinkie fingers, to not being fingerless, to him not wearing any gloves at all depending on the shot. (00:10:05)
Continuity mistake: The ice cream that Cannonball drops when Kenny confronts him disappears in subsequent shots. (00:10:50)
Continuity mistake: In one shot before the nurse shaves a patch out of Gambit's hair, the neck portion of his black headgear is flesh-colored. (00:12:40)
Continuity mistake: When Moira is asking the X-Men how they intend on contacting Lilandra, Jean Grey's face is colored yellow. (00:05:10)
Answer: It appears a number of factors led to its demise. It was originally intended to air for 65 episodes, but its popularity extended that. However, there were continual production quality problems, issues regarding whether the content was suitable enough for children, as well as financial considerations that finally led to it being ended.
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