X Men '97 Is Woke AF 

I don't think people really watch X-Men cause of they did they'd know this show was all about social injustices

I owned X Men giant sized #1 IN 1975 (damn that house fire). My mother brought it home from work one evening. She'd loved comics since she was a little girl and encouraged them for me. I always got a new run each month but the X Men were different they spoke to me as an African American and a misfit in this world. For anyone to say that Woke wasn't there is asinine. At 8 years old I saw "I have a dream and By any means necessary" in every issue. I believe with most contemporaries today, their ignorance is due to the of lack of experiences. When Chris Claremont revived the X-Men in the 1970s, he brought a lot more depth to the characters, and Magneto emerged as far more of a sympathetic anti-hero. But this is also the first time we get the backstory of Magneto as a holocaust survivor; Claremont himself is Jewish, and lived for a short time in a Kibbutz in Israel, and the analogies he's drawn in interviews isn't to Malcom X, but to Irgun and other militant Zionists in Israeli history.

All of a sudden morph is ppls favorite character now

Loved the research and clips you included to make it clear to viewers about the themes of the X-Men. Keep it coming!!!!

Clearly you just found out about x men if you just now calling it woke that has always been what the x men was😂😂😂 poor tink tink

Uh...no shit? That's...kinda the point of the franchise...

Woke is a black term. Not a general culture term. Xmen is based off black struggle...the co-opting of the term for any agenda outside of black struggle for freedom is appropriation...black folks dont get played

To anyone complaining about X men 97 simply don't watch it and let the rest of us enjoy what a great cartoon this is

The mutant gene doesn't become active until after puberty. So what gender was Morph born as?

This video agedlikemilk

I honestly hate the word WOKE. A misappropriated use of language. I guess it is the stolen word these days to describe a difference in culture or societal status that does not conform to what is considered the norm. I have always been a huge fan of the Xmen and the series because it shows us how hard it is to be different and the struggle that come with it. I am sure it had something to do with Beau DeMayo letting go. I read an article that stated he was too Homoerotic. Whatever that means ? Still can't wait for the show tomorrow.

Those trying to grift as antiwoke content creators and failing miserably on X-men 97. Thank you for letting peeps know X-men always been woke.

It’s always been . It’s nothing New

All these rightwing grifters would literally be the F.O.H from the show and comics 😂

Just know that every "woke" hater is the guy in the cartoon holding up a sign that says no more mutants. That's your side in this argument. You aren't down with the X-Men. You rock with the Friends of Humanity. And probably wish you were a Purifier.

Morph was never in the comic books, just added for the original X-Men cartoon and then later added to the comics if I'm not mistaken.

Morph is everyone and no one ....Male, female, or a mix ....he is not woke ... he's a freaking shape changer if he wanted to become mystique...he can and will..

Xmen was always woke tho.... it started as a parallel to Malcom x and MLK

To be aware is a bad thing😂😂😂

It brings me comfort that some people like you are devoid of all logic. I should also note that it's impossible to not have a theme while also having at least one character in your story has an arc, (because all stories are about someone learning or failing something and a theme is what the story is about), and while not every character needs an arc every story needs at least one character that has an arc, and if not a single character in your story has an arc there are no interesting characters because what makes an interesting is either A. them having an arc or B. them making other characters in the story have an arc. I honestly think these clowns will start calling chess woke soon because the strongest piece in that game is the queen which is a woman.

So why isnt mystique non binary?

People weaponizing religion against "others" and people hating others is as old as humanity. So to have those elements in X-Men stories isn't strange. What people are really complaing about is the change to characters and those changes being made specifically to check some boxes. Or to manufacture a plot to try and make it seem like certain actions are acceptable, justifiable, or even righteous and honorable. The X-Men weren't even consistently feared or hated in the beginning. They were just a superhero team battling supervillains. And that B story from issue 1 wasn't in the original issue. That was a later reprint where they started adding those origin stories in. What the comics have become more of today, are stories where agenda comes first and the story often suffers for it and so does characterization. Where the X-Men once were in a place where anyone could see themselves as pretty much everyone has felt out if place at one time or another, it is now more and more specifically allegorical. And now giving a nod of approval to harm and destruction where before it was "yes, they hate and fear us, but we will protect them still for we are all mankind." And, really, if we're taking place in the 90's still, why is this non-binary and they/them terminology showing up? I never liked Morph (his voice and laugh grated on me) but he was called he. So that was a change that was ridiculous and the kind of thing Stan Lee was not fond of. Don't change established characters like that. All that being said. I liked the first couple episodes. And I like moments from most the other episodes. But the way time seems to just skip ahead superfast is throwing me off and so much of the events of the show would have landed better with a bit more patience.

Young rippa is wrong on the X-Men. So wrong. I agree very much with what you have said

Good take. Even if the X-Men weren't created to be what they have become, they have evolved into that. The problem is, and I think one reason things are so divisive nowadays, people don't like being lectured at. Even if I agree with the "lesson", if it is being hammered in I just don't want to listen anymore. Back in the day the X-Men weren't talking about race as in black and white, they were talking about mutant and human and it worked within the story and so it was "subtle" (it wasn't really subtle, but still). Now they not only talk about mutant and human, they bring in the real life ideas of race, gender, and the alphabet groups. That is in the news all the time. It is in schools. It is EVERYWHERE. People read comics/watch tv/movies to escape reality. I want the X-Men to be about social issues, but done in the way they used to do it. I don't want to hear about alphabet peoples. I don't want them talking about black or white. I want them to lead by example. Black Storm with White Wolverine being in love in the AoA arch for example. They didn't bring up black and white.. they loved each other and that was great. Making preexisting characters gay like they did with Iceman.. I mean, there are a ton of old stories showing his thought bubbles and how he was attracted to girls! Retconning him to be gay.. why? What purpose does that have? New students joining the school is a normal thing. They did it in New X-Men. Give us those gay characters that way, don't retcon and ruin fan favorites. Writers are being far too lazy nowadays, OR they truly are just trying to push an agenda and people are just tired of that. I hope that Disney/Marvel/MCU do the X-Men right though. I want them to have the popularity and fame they did back in the 90s. We'll see.

Get Em!

Exactly! ThankYOU💯

At the end of the day just don't make this New X-Men Corny AF IDGAF about all this other stuff. Keep that same 97 energy.

astronaut meme it always was

morph is a male, just gona say that, anything after this, is mental gymnastic

I'm just gonna order the original on DVD...

Just saying: why use Morph as a character over Iceman? Strange choice

😂Wokescolds makes me wanna pull my hair out.😂😂

Meh…. At some point we gotta grow up and complete the transition from adolescence

Awesome take. Thank you.

😂😂😂😂 You serious?

I saw the first two episodes. The show is actually good. No, it's not perfect animation-wise, ans yes, they took away Rogue's Georgia peach of an ass but they're off to a good start. Hopefully they can keep it up. And I too hate WOKE politics in movies in television, but so far no wokeness has peaked out.

I admit that Morph has that wokeness propaganda slapped on him(her / whatever) , but that doesn't mean the whole show is WOKE. This vieo is terrible, they've gone a good job in portraying a good x-men story

Morph was just gay. Watch the show.

What???

I cant wait for EFAP to rip this video to shreds lol

You cooked!!!

As a bisexual i reject the woketardism on Morph's character. He was always a male with only he/him pronouns in the original cartoon...no need to make him go woketarded with the nonbinary nonsense to push the weird D.E.I. cringe crap. Nothing u said in this video is valid...don't go confusing a mutant power of shapeshifting with woke nonbinary they/them shenanigans.

Perversion isn’t diversity.

If another one of these “woke” people ruin my childhood or compare lgdpqt community with the oppression blacks went through in the 1900s it’s gonna be a problem

So they made Morph gay. Definitely wokeism going on here

Just the fact they had to mention this is a good indication of stinky DEI shenanigans

Too bad I'm on mobile, can't see how many dislikes this dumb video has.

#CancelDisEverything f that show and other than DP3 AND SONY I will not be supporting them at all

Cursed u Disney

This guy has his foot directly on youngrippa aka young🦝s neck . Im here for it !! 😂😂😂😂💪