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The Mutant Agenda
Review by Amazing Spidey; Screenshots by Kolbar
Episode #17 - The Mutant Agenda
Original Airdate - September 30, 1995
Spider-Man's progressing neogenic
mutation is making him ill and he seeks the aid of a man known to help all
mutants...Professor Charles Xavier. In doing so he meets the X-Men but is
disappointed to learn that Xavier does not 'cure' mutancy, only helps those born
that way to accept and control their abilities. In the process of this endeavor
though he becomes involved in a plot to destroy mutants everywhere. Will he be
able to stop this hideous plan with the help of the X-Men?
Review:
When this first aired, I remember
thinking how insanely cool it was. These where the days before guest stars in
shows where common, so, it was nice to see Spidey and The X-Men meet each other.
What was even better was, it established continuity between two of my favorite
cartoons.
For me, the beginning was the highlight. As a fan of the X-Men cartoon, one of
the main things I liked was the danger room. It wasn't used as much as I'd have
liked in their cartoon so I was pleased to see it here. It also gave Spidey the
opportunity to fight some of my favorite X-Men villains, The Sentinels, without
having to explain why.
The main plot, with the Landon foundation was a nice way to link their worlds.
It was especially cool that Beast and Wolverine where the main focus of the
episode, because they're my favorites, and Beast was missing from most of the
first season of X-Men, because he was in jail.
This episode get bonus points because it brought back The Hobgoblin, in a useful
why that remained true the brilliant character introduced in his own 2 part
episode. He was his usual scheming little self, after everyone else's money.
Overall, as most of the 2 part stories did in this show, it set up the climax
nicely.
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