Episode #6 - Cold Vengeance
Original Airdate 6th February 1993

Wolverine flees to Canada hoping to find peace, only to discover Sabertooth has taken the people of a small village captive, and plans to kill them all.

Credits
Written By: Michael Edens
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy
Animation Services By: AKOM
Guest Starring: Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Norm Spencer as Cyclops, Cedric Smith as Professor Charles Xavier, Iona Morris as Storm and Catherine Disher as Jean Grey

Review: The rematch between Wolverine and Sabertooth finally occurs, only 2 episodes after they last fought. It’s a pretty decent episode, despite some really annoying scenes and characterisation.

The opening sequence was very cool, with Wolverine skiing in Canada. It’s worth noting that the backgrounds weren’t too bad here, especially compared to the rest of the series’ backgrounds, most of which were God-Awful sketches with terrible colouring. I find the Wolverine scenes here to be some of his best, especially his search for peace. I loved his speech about not wanting to fight Sabertooth anymore, and his reaction to the burnt village.

The annoying sections, as mentioned above, are the jealous villager, who comes across as incredibly annoying and two-dimensional and Cyclops. Whether or not he was trying to be an ass in this episode is unknown, but him constantly blowing up at everyone then doing a 180 and kissing Xavier’s cue ball was laid on a little too thick. I find Cyclops to be an incredibly interesting character when done correctly and a complete and utter bore when he’s not. This series often switched between the two, unfortunately. His romance with Jean was pretty lame, in my opinion. There was no build up or tension. They were a couple, end of story. Their romance was dull, and lacked any spark. I think the movies have done a better job, basically because they made Wolverine a good foil in the romance, not someone who was practically ignored from the triangle.

The final fight sequence was more notable for it’s character moments rather than the actual fighting. Like Spider-Man, this show wasn’t allowed to act violently in anyway, unless they were fighting robots, so basically all they could do was tussle and sometimes punch each other in the gut. It does kind of ruin fight episodes like this, but there’s plenty of good stuff in here.

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