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Come the Apocalypse - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When the cameraman drops his camera, it lands on the ground and rests on a rock so that the lens is at a slanted angle. When the shot changes to the camera's point of view, it shows Apocalypse right side up, when he should be slanted to correspond with the camera. (00:10:14)

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Come the Apocalypse - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Storm turns on the TV, much of the Eiffel Tower is in the background. A couple of shots later, the reporter is standing in front of a building that would obscure much of the Eiffel Tower, and is also suddenly standing next to a news van. (00:07:47)

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Come the Apocalypse - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Mystique, disguised as Warren Worthington, first walks into the bar, the walls are purple. When she is saying "You don't have to be mutants," the walls are now red. When the shot changes, they are back to being purple, and a framed picture has appeared over her left shoulder. (00:04:18)

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Come the Apocalypse - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Rogue, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Xavier are first shown in the bar, the glasses in front of Rogue and Cyclops contain green liquid. When Cyclops is consoling Rogue, the liquid is now blue. When the shot changes, the liquid in the glass in front of Rogue is now green again. (00:03:49 - 00:04:18)

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Captive Hearts - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: When Gambit is saying "Scott and Jean pick one strange romantic hideaway," the encircled X on Rogue's right shoulder is entirely red, when the X and the circle around it should be black. (00:11:39)

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The Cure - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Jean telekinetically drives the nails through the wood panel, she drives them through the left and bottom edges. When the shot changes to her driving nails into the top and right edges, the nails at the bottom edge have disappeared. (00:06:34)

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Night of the Sentinels: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Jubilee's foster father is showing his wife what Jubilee did to the VCR, the glass door for the entertainment shelf goes all the way to the top. When the wife is asking her husband if he is sorry they took in Jubilee, the glass door is now only tall enough to cover the bottom and middle shelves. (00:02:17)

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The Cure - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Mystique reveals herself to Pyro and Avalanche, she is sitting in a different spot than she was when Avalanche placed her on the ground seconds earlier. (00:15:32)

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The Cure - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Avalanche is destroying the device in Adler's lab, he is standing in front and to the left of Pyro. When the shot changes, he is now on Pyro's right. (00:14:43)

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The Cure - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Rogue is telling Mystique disguised as Dr. Adler that she heard he can reverse mutations, Adler's arms are at his sides. When the shot changes, his arms are behind his back. (00:11:45)

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The Cure - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Xavier and Moira are walking towards the door to Adler's lab, the control panel for the intercom is horizontal. A couple of shots later, it is vertical. (00:04:51)

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The Cure - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When Warren Worthington's fireplace is first shown, it is depicted as being raised off the floor and surrounded by masonry on all sides, with a wooden floor in front of it. When he is telling his girlfriend that she wouldn't want to get close to him, the fire is closer to floor-level, and the masonry that was underneath the fire is now a slab on the floor. (00:02:07 - 00:02:30)

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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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