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Time Fugitives: Part 1 - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: Throughout the episode, Bishop's goatee alternates between fully covering his chin and having a small spot of exposed skin beneath the soul patch. Sometimes there is even the outline drawn of the exposed skin beneath the soul patch, but it is colored the same as the goatee. (00:05:10 - 00:20:05)

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Time Fugitives: Part 1 - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: When Graydon Creed is first shown giving his testimony, in an overhead shot, we see the front row of the benches in front of him are filled with civilians. When the shot changes, the X-Men are now occupying the row on Creed's right. (00:14:34)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Other mistake: When Jean is trying to dodge Spiral's teleporting blast, she ends up tripping on a power cord running across the floor. An electronics store wouldn't have a power cord running across its floor for this very reason. They would be begging for a lawsuit if they did. Her foot is also closer to the wall in the first shot than in the second shot. (00:07:30)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: When Mojo first starts talking to Cyclops through the television screen, Jean is standing next to Cyclops on his right. She then disappears and reappears for the next several shots, and when Mojo is telling Cyclops that he's offering the X-Men a lifetime television contract, she walks up to Cyclops. (00:04:59 - 00:05:48)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: The cube that Mojo has the X-Men captive inside is transparent on all sides, except for when Cyclops is saying "The X-Men don't fight without a reason." In this shot and the following one, the wall behind them, as well as the ceiling, are now paneled. (00:09:36)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: After Rogue and Beast have been shuffled out of the cube and into their television program, Jean is shown sitting down and leaning back on her elbows, while Wolverine is on his knees. When the shot changes, both are now standing upright. (00:13:08)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Continuity mistake: When Wolverine is climbing the building, his upper body is shown as being higher than the top story windows. When he calls out to Jean after she gets attacked by the Punisher robot, he is now three floors down. (00:16:03)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Revealing mistake: When Jean is dodging the Punisher robot's gunfire, the edge of an animation cel is visible, most noticeable when she is starting to form a telekinetic bubble around herself. (00:16:38)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: When the camera is panning across Mojo's studio audience after he has abducted the X-Men, you can see an older man in the middle of the crowd. This man is a caricature of Marvel Comics legend Jack Kirby. Coincidentally, Kirby died the day after this episode originally aired. (00:07:52)

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A Rogue's Tale - S2-E9

Plot hole: In the season one episode The Cure, when Pyro and Avalanche are in the bar on Muir Island waiting for Mystique to arrive, Avalanche says "This friend of yours better show up soon or I'm going back to jail, just for something to do!" Rogue then comes in and Pyro suggests to Avalanche that Rogue could be Mystique, to which Avalanche responds "What do you mean it could be? Don't you know what she looks like?", leading Pyro to tell Avalanche that Mystique is a shape-shifter. This dialogue implies that Avalanche has no idea who Mystique is, which is further substantiated when Pyro and Avalanche kidnap Mystique later in the episode while she is in the guise of Dr. Adler, and Avalanche didn't recognize Mystique when she revealed her true form. However in this episode it is shown that Pyro and Avalanche were both previously members of Mystique's Brotherhood of Mutants, so Avalanche should already know who Mystique is without Pyro having to tell him. Rogue was also a member of that group yet neither Pyro nor Avalanche recognize her.

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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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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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Answer: Chris Potter, the original Gambit voice actor, did indeed quit the role in the 4th season. His last episode was The Phalanx Covenant Part 1 so it seems reasonable that Fox would limit the use of the character even though it was recast. It doesn't appear that Potter left the role due to animosity, he stated in an interview that he wished to play Gambit in the first live action X-Men film.

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