ratfoot you got it the other way around . Hugh Jackman does an excellent job portraying Wolverine . the X-Men Cartoon career launched in 1992 before Hugh Jackman came out . Hugh Jackman's Acting career launched in 1995.
That is the MOST Australian sounding Wolverine, even more than Hugh Jackman since he played with an American accent. He sounds like the TF2 Sniper and Saxton Hale!
@@foldabotZ Canadian accent. Apparently he was in a bar just after he got the role and a big Canadian guy came up to him and said, "You better be playing him canadian." Jackman replied, "Well, it's really up to the produc..............." "NO, YOU WILL BE PLAYING HIM CANADIAN!" The guy stated and proceeded to take his shirt off, revealing a large Wolverine tattoo, covering his chest.
Yeah they do Marvel studios had some the best artists & animators during that time, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Visionaries, Inhumanoids Dugeons and Dragons great stuff.
Fun fact: the budget for this pilot episode was taken from what was to be the 13th episode of the 1980's RoboCop cartoon from Marvel Productions. Now you know and knowing is half the battle.
1:27 RIP Stan Lee, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making our childhood magical with all the superhero comics you wrote for us. Nuff said!!
Love the actor but I know he's freedom and family wouldn't live as they do in another country like north Korea. He lives in the USA. Rich and happy. Come live in my shitty life. I give you a day.🤬😱🔥
You’re correct. I remember when the game came out, many people loved it but they didn’t recognize the Dazzler character. I remember one guy did but he said she looked different than she looked in the Dark Phoenix storyline
This was the original idea for the X-Men animated series. It was the pilot. After they shopped it around to the networks, they made some changes and we got the X-Men animated series from fox that everyone loved. But this was the original idea and Konami was told the series would be based on this team.
Kitty Pryde in this version was voiced by the enormously talented Kath Soucie, who has been lending her delightfully feminine voice to memorable animated characters for over 30 years.
Its cool to hear those voices again and pick them out even if you don't know their names. I loved changing channels and saying hey thats Mirage from Transformers.
Kitty: "Then I really am a mutant. I'm a freak." Charles: "No, no, my dear. We mutants aren't freaks. Except the Morlocks. Have you seen the Morlocks? They are most definitely freaks. I mean God DAMN! Hahaha... Sigh... What were we talking about?"
It's so ironic how Wolverine is so Australian here and isn't supposed to be. However, Hugh Jackman his live action actor is Australian. Foreshadowing :P
xOmniCloudx Orginally Dougray Scott was going to play Wolverine but dropped out because he was shooting Mission Impossble 2 so they found the next best thing in Hugh Jackman
Is no one gonna talk about how amazing Nightcrawler was? Honestly he selflessly saved everyone, and all people are mentioning is Wolverine's Australian accent and how much "better" Kitty Pryde would have been in the Animated Series. My man is so underrated :(
Yeah, Kurt was the MVP in this special. Heck, we also saw great development with him and Kitty, given how fearful Kitty was of him for his demonic-like appearance, but seeing how brave and selfless he was to willingly risk his life in the climax.
To be honest as longtime comics fan I thinking the very same thing but around comics times most times the teams change before the 90s and also kitty and the nightcrawler kurt did had a team with captain Britan psylocke's big brother and of course wolverine did train kitty from time to time before she became a teacher in the x-men school years later
My memory is fuzzy but I'm convinced there were at least 5 other episodes but nobody's admitting it. Or I could be mixing episodes of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends with this ...🤔
+Th. Noatak The blame goes to an episode of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends where he was given an Australian accent, they obviously copied the idea from that.
@@mitchfletcher2386 And destroy a character in the process as he is Canadian not Australian. Doing this sort of thing would have just have fans complaining about it. Stupid is as stupid does after all.
im looking at this for the first time. i only know the series that featured Jubilee in the first episode and the Sentinels. The script is cringy. But I was a kid in the 90s. I would have loved this too.
6:07 _"Storm: Who's mutant ability to control weather itself is still not completely understood"._ When I was growing up they made Storm powerful. Even going so far as to say she could control celestial things, since the moon and tide and gravity are related. Now they just reduced her to lighting bolts and fog in the Bryan Singer movies.
Rick Hoberg , Larry Houston, & Will Meugniot who were the storyboard artists for this were also comics artists which is why this looks like a comic bought to life. It`s beautiful & deserves a DVD release.
wow! i NEVER thought i'd see this ever again in my life. a child my grandmother used to babysit had this tape and me and him would watch it whenever we could. of course by this time the 90's x-men cartoon was out, but i really like this too. i guess cause it had the old look and it was different from what i was used to. also, it helped that my favorite x-man was a main focus in this tape.....nightcrawler.
I randomly found this in a Blockbuster when I was a kid just before the 90's cartoon came out. They were both equally awesome in my mind and I would have loved to watch this cartoon along with Transformers, GI Joe and Thundercats in the 80's
''Tell 'em Spider-Man sent you'' Yeah that's a great way to demonstrate you're serious, capable and competent voter. By Golly! Thanks Spidey I sure will!
I had this on vhs. I always assumed there was more episodes to the show. Its a tragedy this pilot didn’t get an approved series. The animation and art are really great.
Man, how did you get this on VHS back in the '80s, I'm 42, and you were lucky if you got a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special. Yo, you guys are legendary! Even if you were able to get a copy of this pilot in the '90s you're still one badass collector!💯
@@ty12t2 yeah idk how i got it. I was just a kid and i guess my parents got it for me. Back then there were only so many shows and tapes so we rewatched it often.
I find it funny & ironic that Cyclops chose to fight the White Queen (aka Emma Frost). Eventually, in the comics, Cyclops has a relationship with Emma Frost. I also find it funny & ironic that this version of Wolverine is Australian. Hugh Jackman, (who plays Wolverine in various Marvel movies) is Australian. Almost feels like the creators were foreshadowing in a way when it came to Wolverine.
Reminds me of when the X-Men had a comic crossover with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Patrick Stewart who then played Captain Jean Luc Picard ended up playing Professor Charles Xavier. The characters even remarked on their similar appearance.
Err isn’t wolverine supposed to be Canadian? Which is why he debuted in as a member of alpha squad when he first fought the hulk? Also is that Australian? It sounds to me more like bad British like when the Simpson’s do a bad brutish accent
I loved this as a kid and my appreciation for it has only increased with time. There are so many things about this that are great. The VO, the writing, the animation style, the Aussie Wolverine, Lockheed, the Colossus vs Juggernaut fight, how Wolverine tried to straight up kill Toad with his first slash, the White Queen, how bad ass this makes Magneto, something about Scott’s voice, how Kitty somehow sounded evil when she tells Magneto his plan failed, that awesome rescue, the writing, the writing, oh the writing. I wish that somehow they can revive this series and continue. Giant Size X-Men. Fingers crossed. RIP Stan the Man Lee.
everything about this was so top notch, it felt like they crammed an hour and 15 minute movie into 22 1/2 minutes by the end. (also clearly the direct inspiration for the x-men arcade game from the early 90's.)
@caitlyncarvalho7637it doesn't have an anti racism allegory, there's some level of anti semitism with magneto and what he had to deal with but the mutants are so different than humans that racism got basically suspended by fear of mutants. They're the next step up on the evolutionary scale, it doesn't make sense to compare it to racism mutants can hide that they're mutants you can't hide your race.
Wolverine... I know the accent is way off, but I always thought this depiction of him was *hilariously* fun. He just wants to stab somebody SO BAD. He pops his claws in almost every scene he's in...even casual conversations.
This was really good actually, I like the starting team much better then what the ended up going with in the actual series. The trio of Nightcrawler, Collossus, and Shadowcat was always a favorite of mine.
Wish super hero animation could look like this again with realistic comic book proportions and looks. These days its all drawn simple and stylized. I guess its faster to do it that way but this is so much better.
Japanese animation is the best! Its unfortunate this show didn't take off but on the other hand, because of this shows cancellation we got X-MEN TAS which was really good and Cathal Dodd was definitely a better voice for Wolverine.
@@thedangerwich5476 Well, if the other comment is true, that means the money that would've gone to AKOM for a 13th episode of "Robocop" went here instead, which would make the point I always made about better talent making better product with the same budget. And then, guess what? They went *back* to AKOM for the "X-Men" series! SMH
I actually learned this was supposed to be the start of the X-men TV series we would have gotten but it never worked out til the one we all know on Fox Kids during the 90s.
@@eduardochavacano This kind of half way continued with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Biggest issue to why the pilot failed was it cost a fortune to animate it.
Or their little visit could have gone like this: :) Magneto and Jaggernaut invade the room. Jaggernaut smiling at Kitty: Don't you know who I am? Kitty trembling: No, sir. I have never see you again in my life. Jaggernaut proudly: *I'm the Jaggernaut, B...* Kitty as Jaggernaut is ready to call her a Bitch : *Aaaaaaaaaahhh!! Nooooooooooooo!!* Professor, I'm so sorry!! It's been very nice to meet you but... *I'm out of here!!!* She phases out from the exterior wall and she starts to run to the yard. Jaggernaut: Oh No, You Don't! *Get Back Here You Little...* Magneto: Concentrate yourself! We have come for... Jaggernaut: I don't care at all! That brat needs to take a nice lesson!! And he starts chasing her.
In the original comics Magneto has a strong enough mind to resist Prof X. In the films they put that thing in about the helmet. It's different in every medium
@MC Of course, its Toei. They also animated Hokuto No Ken, early episodes of the Real Ghostbusters, The Transformers (original series), GI Joe (original series), Jem, and many more.
How did this not get made into a series? The animation is absolutely incredible! Maybe it was Kitty being so annoying and Wolverines bad Australian accent.
It did. It turned into the X-Men cartoon in the 90s. This was the pilot episode for the X-Men cartoon series but it was too expensive and time consuming to have this quality weekly so they simplified the animation
Classic Afternoon Cartoon rooster.... I'm 42 and I remember this along with Bravestar, Transformers, Mask, Voltron, Silverhawks, Conan and my favorite Thundercats. Good times the 80's.
i bought this VHS years ago in my scholastic fair book catalog... i've watched this so many times that i am mouthing all the words to the episode... damn i'm old
Based on the context, this all occurred in one day. So like Kitty ran away from home, her parents don't even know about her powers, suddenly Professor X becomes like her new dad, she goes to space and stops a terrorist, and somehow she's comfortable with Nightcrawler creeping on her.
It's funny that this video came out nearly a decade ago, and 90% of comments are from this week 🤣 Edit: Before more idiots come and explain that "Pryde of the X-Men" released longer than 10 years ago, yes I know, I'm referring to this RU-vid video... how the actual "F" could anyone comment on the cartoon in the 80's when the internet wasn't even a thing? Dayum!
@@gabrielhughes8221 I wasn't talking about "Pryde of the X-Men" coming out almost a decade ago... I was talking about this RU-vid video coming out almost a decade ago 🙄
Let me start be saying that I *do* love the later series. HOWEVER... I kinda love this pilot so much more in some ways. - Toei did some fantastic work here visually. WAY higher quality than the 90s series. - Nailed that early 80s era Byrne/Claremont vibe - Kitty as this scared, naive child slowly morphing into a hero felt on point; That's how she started in the comics. - THE best animated Nightcrawler thus far. Charming. Roguish. Playful. All he needed was a sword to do his Erol Flynn thing and he'd have been perfect. - Earl Boen (Dr. Silberman, "Terminator") was hands down a better Magneto. Don't get me wrong. David Hemblen ("Earth Final Conflict") did an amazing job in the `92 series. However, Boen's version had this slightly deeper and more authoritative voice. SO good for a villain. - Only 22 minutes, but every character gets a chance to shine. - A slightly less mature plot than the `92 series' darker "Kill Morph" opener, but it is SUPER tight. They accomplish a whole lot. Not a wasted minute, really. - It served as the style guide for the arcade game. What's not to love about that? :D - Great voice work for Storm & Xavier too. - Three words.... Stan Lee Narration - Kitty Pryde. The OG Wolverine sidekick and trainee. Accept no (Jubilee) substitutes. Okay. So what's wrong or, maybe, a little inaccurate? - Wolverine's Aussie voice and "dingo" remark don't feel right. However, this is a carry over from Spider-Man's animated series. - Juggernaut SHOULD be able to wipe the floor with Colossus. However, some versions of them in the comics vary strength-wise. Juggernaut's had low points in his power where he WAS only as powerful Colossus. In that sense, it's not THAT unforgivable of an oversight. - People complain about Toad being a whiny, abused Renfield-type henchman. The thing is, however, he's been depicted like that a LOT in the comics. Seems pretty accurate. If anything, certain issues have him being far sadder of character. - People complain about how Magneto kicks Lockheed. Uhmmm... He's the bad guy. - People like the `92 series theme song better. I get it. It rocks hard. Still, there's NOTHING wrong with this theme. It's actually kinda catchy. Definitely an improvement over other 80s Marvel theme songs. - "Emma Frost is being handled all wrong!" ... ... ... Maybe by today's standards. Yes. She wasn't particularly deep in this episode. Yes. She was a straight up bad guy her. However, she WAS a straight up bad guy during this period. Also, with everything going on in 22 minutes, there was zero room to deal with her Hellions/Academy/Hellfire club stuff. I hear you now... "Okay, but she was flying and shooting blasts! That's wrong!" Well, I contend that she was NOT flying. It's just an exaggerated jump. Also, it's just a weird depiction of a psi-blast. Coulda' handled it better? Sure. Coulda' handled it worse too. IMO, this pilot gets as much wrong/right as the `92 series opener did. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. FOR me, I like this one better in some regards because of the 80s era visuals and vibe. The 90s show has 90s era inspired design wrapped around 80s era stories, which sometimes makes for a weird mix.
Yeah, the design and physical appearance is much more detailed and closer to real life and were mostly hand drawn . Unlike most of today's cartoons are made with awful, lazy, simplistic mostly computerized animation and art designed for easy production. The only thing missing from this cartoon is more story and character development in general, better dialogue and the voices from the 90s series, which some are better and iconic. But the art and animation of this one is much more intricate than the series, which wasn't kept unfortunately, they started to get a bit lazy in the animation and art in my opinion. Probably they had Japanese support designers behind this one and were dropped for the 90s series. This is a wonderful combination of both styles western and Japanese art and animation style.
@@julenreus5777 The art style and designs for "Pryde of the X-Men" were largely designed to mimic that of 70s/80s "Uncanny X-Men" comic artist John Byrne. If they have this more intricate, painterly look to them then it's all thanks to Japanese studio Toei Animation. Overseas, Toei is most famously known for anime such as "Dragon Ball Z" and "One Piece." Stateside, their work is instantly recognizable to kids of that era and can be seen in the likes of "GI Joe", "Transformers", "Muppet Babies", "Smurfs", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Voltron", "Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends", and literally dozens of other Saturday morning staples of the 1980s. The story behind the production of "X-Men" cartoon is really one of good intentions and money woes. In 1981, Marvel started to branch out from comics and into animation with their own "Marvel Productions" company. Under this label, this produced a number of their own properties as well as ones such as "GI Joe". While Spider-Man had long been popular, the X-Men were really starting to blow up by the late 1970s and early 80s thanks to classic stories such as "The Dark Phoenix Saga". With the writing on the wall, Marvel wanted to strike while the iron was hot and make the "X-Men" a household name. In that spirit, Spider-Man's "Amazing Friends" were to include X-Men staple Iceman and newcomer Firestar. Numerous episodes made references to the team with 2 or 3 of them even featuring X-Men guest appearances. That's why the same Wolverine voice actor (and accent) would later be used in "Pryde of the X-Men". Fans ate it up and Marvel decided to move ahead with a proper X-Men spinoff. To fund the "Pryde of the X-Men" pilot, Marvel enlisted Toei animation and used the money originally intended for a 13th episode of the animated "Robocop" series. This X-Men pilot episode made its stealth debut early 1989 and would be played numerous times. UNFORTUNATELY, Marvel as a company wasn't doing well financially. In 1987, Marvel had been bought out by Ronald Perelman. In its state as a now publicly traded company, numerous changes were made including Marvel Comics' over expansion and the eventual firing of 17 year X-Men writer Chris Claremont in 1991. Generally speaking, from a business standpoint, Marvel in the 1980s and much of the 1990s wasn't doing well. They were always on the brink of collapse; Marvel would eventually file bankruptcy by 1996. "Pryde of the X-Men" was popular and fans certainly wanted more. However, it was produced early during that period of financial chaos. Despite a long string of popular TV shows, Marvel Productions really couldn't sustain itself and would eventually halt production on everything other than "Muppet Babies". This version of the X-Men, while potentially superior to what would come later, was dead in the water. The money well dried up. Thanks in no small part to "Pryde of the X-Men" being popular with FOX's head of children's programming, Marvel started preproduction of a new version of the series a year and a half later and with Saban as the production company. With the Japanese studio Toei Animation now engaged in other projects such as "Dragon Quest" and "Vampire Wars", Marvel and Saban enlisted South Korean AKOM animation instead. AKOM's version of X-Men opted instead for the 90s costumes paired with the 70s and 80s stories. AKOM's visuals were garbage compared to Toei's. They were rushed to air - with the first 2 episodes debuting with only partially finished animation and backgrounds. The visual would later improve, but it was all still very ugly and not nearly to Toei standards. AKOM was no Toei. Worse yet, with X-Men still being on FOX, but their original 65 episode order being completed and Marvel now bankrupt, X-Men's final season animation was moved from South Korea based AKOM to a different studio based in the Philippines. If you thought that the visuals were rough and bad before... pure trash. IMO, "Pryde of the X-Men" had all of the makings of a winner. John Byrne inspired visuals. Toei animation. A classic Claremont era roster. Even Stan Lee narration. If they had continued along that path and gone with equally classic Claremont stories, we'd be talking about this series today instead of the `92 version. Sadly, Marvel was broke af in those days and the whole project collapsed.
Dude , i viewed this episode on its original air date and to this day my question hasn't been answered. How did Blob fit through that small ass square opening in order to confront Nightcrawler?! LOL I also agree with the points in your statement above. It's nice to know that there are others besides myself who also leave detailed wall of texts as a comment.
Pryde of the X-Men, a result of Marvel Productions attempting at a pitch for a full on TV series, but never came to be due to the increase of the price of the Japanese Yen being one of them. As this was made by Toei instead of a 13th Robocop episode, animated by AKOM in South Korea at the time, who ironically would go onto animate the 90's X-Men series, produced by Saban who made it big by adapting Toei Company's Super Sentai into Power Rangers, which was due partially to former Marvel Productions executive and then president of the Fox Kids network; Margaret Losch, accepting Haim Saban's promo pitch for the show. Even more ironic is when Saban's show came on the air, Konami released the arcade game that was loosely based on this pilot in the same year in 1992. In fact AKOM came into being thanks partially due to Transformers and being a cheaper studio for Marvel/Sunbow to use if they couldn't get Toei to animate certain episodes, series etc. as it was founded by Nelson Shin who was a producer on Transformers at the time he founded the studio in Seoul in 1985. Funny how all these things come full circle in one way or another. What's also interesting is for whatever reason this tape is an edited version of this pilot, there are a couple of scenes which were trimmed for this video release for some reason? The original pilot was split into three acts with proper title cards too. All which can be seen on my channel.
+Xaionik Not exactly. I think this was farmed out to Toei, the Japanese animation studio, whereas the '90s series was produced by AKOM from South Korea. To my eye this hews much more closely to a traditional Japanese style, cleaner and more streamlined. I hate the AKOM stuff.
+Xaionik I mean if the characters were drawn like this and it had as much detail. The 90's cartoon looked a little "glitchy" and wasn't very detailed. Or even the 90's anime would have been cool to see and I'm not even an anime fan.
Jokin_a_box The character designs changed because Marvel gave a LOT of characters a redesign for the 90s. Much like the reboot they're giving them now in the new Marvel Universe. The animation studio had problems in the beginning, but corrected its issues as time went on. Also, this pilot was animated by Toei. But by the time Fox picked it up, the production contract went to a South Korean studio called AKOM which handled a LOT of popular 90s animated shows.
OH MY GOD. I haven't seen this video in years. I owned the VHS back in the early 90's. I'd watch this tape with my mother over and over again. It was our favorite mother/son thing to do back then. Thanks for posting this. It brung back a lot of good memories.
Supposedly this cartoon never went to series because the production budget was too high. I've always wondered didn't they know that before they made this pilot episode so why bother making it at all? Darn shame because the animation and character design was top notch.
The reason they couldn't make more was because they chose to give it the axe so they could make more of "Muppet Babies". What a waste of money and time.
This is SO. Well. Produced! I always liked it, but watching it now in the era of Flash animation, it comes off so much more incredible. Even the sound design is dope! Thanks for sharing!
Just a few things 1. Emma Frost can fly? 2. Professor X can find Magneto even when he has his helmet on 3. The machine Magneto uses is the same design the one in Xmen first movie
Yeah Emma's powers are a bit different here than in the comics. She also uses a telekinetic spear power. She doesn't have any telekinetic powers in the comics.
It's so funny when Wolverine asks "Are we gonna talk about this all day or do it?" Then Cyclops responds in Wolverines voice. Hahaha. The voices were so terrible on this show.
I haven't seen this in over 30 years!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It was this that got me in to The X-Men and all other Comics... R.I.P. Stan Lee.. .Thank you for all you did
I had this VHS back in the day. I ended up loosing it while I was visiting family out of town. I brought the tape everywhere with me. Nice stroll down memory lane watching this.
LMAO Looks like this was the major inspiration for the arcade game. Coincidentally, Nightcrawler was the one I completed the game with on my first playthrough.
the main positive of this show was it inspired the arcade game and colossus and nightcrawler were major players........I believe rogue, havok and psylocke(non ninja) were also the other xmen at the time
8-13-20 @Earworm Thank you for uploading this video. As a little kid I loved the Konami X-Men arcade, that is based on this video. My ideal X-men cartoon series, would be the Toei animation used here but with the dark and serious tone of the 1990s Fox series. I dont understand why some people bash Neil Ross's Aussie-voiced Wolverine, it actually fits the character. He was the same voice actor for Wolverine, on Spider-man and His Amazing Friends. Wolverine is Canadian, but back in the 1980's (from what I understand) they were thinking of making his backstory, as an Australian expatriate in Canada. Of course we now know, that an Australian actor, later played the live-action role for close to 20 years. So its cool.
