X-Men
Season 2, Episodes 7 and 8: “Time Fugitives,” 1993
Dan Says:
What’s better than one time traveler with a big gun, facial
scarring and distinctive theme music? TWO time travelers with big guns, facial
scarring and distinctive theme music!
The 1990s X-Men
cartoon introduced both Cable and Bishop during the first season, but a
two-parter during season two saw them fighting each other in the present to
correct terrible things that were happening in their respective futures. At the
heart of those terrible things was Apocalypse, who was plotting to wipe out
humans and weaker mutants with a techno-organic virus while disguised as a
scientist working for Graydon Creed and the Friends of Humanity.
To 13-year-old me, who was just getting into comics and
loved the X-Men, this two-parter was crazy-town banana pants. Apocalypse was
empirically the show’s best villain. He was big, menacing and given the biggest
bad-guy rants, saying things like “I am as far beyond mutant as they are beyond
you.” He literally got to identify himself as the end of the world. That’s
gangsta. And Cable and Bishop both represented the attitude of comics in
general at the time, each having been co-created by the then-future founders of
Image Comics (Cable: Rob Liefeld and Bishop: Jim Lee/Whilce Portacio). And they
were all shooting lasers at each other. That’s probably the 1993 equivalent of
the Cap-Tony-Bucky fight in the Civil War
trailer.
Also there were certain characters on the cartoon who got
their own cool theme music. Bishop’s blues-y harmonica and Cable’s paramilitary
synths were two of my favorites. Mr. Sinister’s menacing four-note theme was a
close third.
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