Are you kidding.. any fan will tell you that the cartoon from the 90's was shit... Rogue from that cartoon was a mockery of what she was in the comics.. she was pretty much the stereotypical southern belle made up for cheap laughs when in the comics she was strong anything but a stereotype.. same goes for Storm.. Storm was so blank she could have been played by a stone and you wouldn't have known the difference whereas the comic version she was WAY more complex. The movies gave most of them character ... yes Rogue and Storm were shortchanged in the movies but not nearly as much as in that awful cartoon from the 90's
Hmm...wrong. While I may not expect a perfect translation of comic book to cartoon or cartoon to movie, the cartoon did a far better job of portraying everyone
overall. I'll give you the fact that the 90s cartoon watered down people's full-potential in powers, and the women's personalities were watered down; however, it was still accurate to some degree.
On the other hand, the movie completely altered the majority of the X-Men Universe, excluding names. While I expected the movie to be completely different from cartoon and comic books, as Bryan Singer said that was the direction he intentionally took, why not keep the most basic ideas the same. Here are examples that I can remember:
1) Storm was from Africa. The cartoon acknowledge this; however, the movie seemed to have forgotten this fact. As far as her personality, Storm was portrayed as weak in the movie and the cartoon. If I really want to be technical, Storm has a darker complexion than what she was cast in the movie.
Honestly, I cannot believe that you can say that Halle Berry did a good job as Storm from an acting perspective.
2) Rogue was watered down in the both the cartoon and the movie. However, the Anna seemed to have consistency problems with her accent as she seemed to forget that she was even southern at all.
Rogue should have been cast as someone in her twenties, not a teenager in a love triangle with Iceman and Shadowcat. In addition, Rogue gained her white streak from Magneto in the movie, whereas she had the streak before she ever met Magneto. Finally, Rogue is obviously missing her Ms. Marvel abilities without an explanation whatsoever.
3) Wolverine has no connection to Lady Deathstrike at all; he does not know who she is or what she does. The cartoon, again, acknowledge this fact that they had/have a history. In addition, Lady Deathstrike was basically X-23; Lady Deathstrike was partially a cyborg. I do not believe that Wolverine's connection to Sabretooth was explained; he was just another man to brawl.
4) Phoenix...where do I begin? While the cartoon portrayed the Phoenix force as merging with the original Jean, the movie portrayed it as a split personality, as opposed to a force. Again, the cartoon was more accurate.
Of course, once she became Phoenix she listened to Magneto and killed Professor X? She killed Cyclops, with whom she has a psychic rapport, but she keeps Wolverine alive. As a matter of fact, why could she not kill Wolverine, of all the mutants.
5) Mystique has no connection to Rogue or Nightcrawler. She does not know who either of them are.
6) Beast's connection to Xavier really is not explained. Again, Beast has no knowledge of any the X-Men outside of Xavier.
7) Pyro...why was he on the X-Men team at all? In addition, he should have been older as he was portrayed as a teen in the movie. Finally, where's his accent?
8) Juggernaut...where did he get his accent? All of a sudden, Juggs has an Irish accent. Again, he does not know (or it was never explained) that Professor X is his step-brother.
9) Colossus, once again, he's a teenager and where's his Russian accent? For someone who's been in Russia for a great deal of his life until his teens, there should have been a hint of an accent, even if he were acculturated.
10) Iceman: see Rogue and storyline issues in the movie. Of course, the cartoon acknowledge his true romantic storylines, although they may have been inaccurate.
11) Leech was supposed to be with the Morlocks. He was also supposed to be green, but that's a technicality.
12) Callisto was given brand new powers. As far as I knew, she never had superspeed or the ability to sense mutants' potentials. Callisto was basically a human at peak physical form in the cartoon and movie.
13) All of the mutants begin at their full potential in the movie, whereas the cartoon had expressed that mutants grow into their potential.
So, if one really wants to see inaccuracies and gaps, the movie wins. As it should, as it was clearly made for entertainment, as opposed to being paralleled with the video games, comic book series, or cartoon.
