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| Series | X-Men | |||
| Release Date | October 21, 1995 | |||
| Episode Number | 51 | |||
| Writer | Steven Melching David McDermott | |||
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Magneto builds a sanctuary for all mutants. But not everyone shares his vision for peace.
Story[]
Magneto kidnaps some astronauts and crashes into the UN. There, he announces on TV that he has established a living space on an asteroid in space for all mutants who wish to be away from humanity. Professor X, watching Magneto's speech, is saddened as he thinks that he has failed in his mission to bring humanity and mutants together. Gambit wonders if he should leave for Asteroid M as he starts to doubt that the X-Men are making much progress towards their goal. The Professor talks with President Kelly, who is worried about Magneto and if he has any real intentions.
Professor X, Beast and Gambit head off to meet with Magneto whom they find preparing to send a batch of mutants up to the asteroid. Magneto joins the group as they travel to Genosha, where mutants are still being captured and used for slave labour. On the island, the trio of X-Men, Magneto and his followers, including the Acolytes fight a group of Sentinels. After the fight, Fabian Cortez suggests that all the humans be murdered but Magneto just releases all the captive mutants and everyone travels up to the asteroid.
Once on Asteroid M, Magneto deals with a laser satellite attack, thinking it was an unprovoked attack on the mutants, but learns that it was a retaliatory attack as a missile had been fired from the asteroid. Professor X meets up with his ex-girlfriend Amelia Voght but she abruptly denies him. Magneto learns that Cortez fired the missile but also finds out that he is dependent on Cortez's powers and so he fires Magneto out into space, in a capsule. Cortez then blames the X-Men for assassinating Magneto.
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- Only appearance of Black Panther in the series. He would make his first full appearance twenty-one days later in the Fantastic Four episode "Prey of the Black Panther".
Cast[]
Background[]
Larry Houston made the storyboards for the episode. He listed Black Panther as "African Mutant 3" in order to keep the "suits" unaware that he was appearing in a cameo.[1]
Houston said, "We had two X-Men episodes in Africa, one with Storm's mutant godchild and the other with Magneto gathering up mutants to take them to his mutant sanctuary Asteroid M. I was able to include the Black Panther into the show whenever they were in Africa, which some sharp-eyed fans were able to spot." He added, "I couldn't give him a speaking part, but it was a great opportunity."
Artist Mark Lewis designed the character based on the Jack Kirby design. Lewis said, "Of course, I didn't do a dead-on Kirby impression, because that wouldn't have fit stylistically into the look of the X-Men cartoon. But I did at least try to get some of that Kirby feel in his hands and some of the masses of his body."
This was part of plans Houston made to develop a Black Panther series, with Fantastic Four's "Prey of the Black Panther" being a backdoor pilot. However, it never got went ahead at all. Houston wanted to use the episode to launch a Black Panther series. He said, "The more inquiries I made about it becoming a regular series, it'd just keep getting put off and put off." He added, "The promise of doing the first animated Black Panther was one of the reasons I left directing the last year of the X-Men series." Houston had wanted to adapt Fantastic Four issues 52 and 53 into the series, which became the basis for "Prey of the Black Panther". Houston said of the 2018 live-action film, "I am...so glad to have lived long enough to see the comic book I bought off a spinner rack in 1966, as a child, to now see the Black Panther, and all of my other childhood heroes, on the big movie screen. And done right."[2]
Writer Stephen Melching released some censorship notes from Broadcast Standards and Practices.[3]
- Please do not have the Astronaut say "My God."
- Please avoid having Cortez call Magneto his "savior."
- Please avoid calling Magneto's followers "Acolytes."
- Please do not refer to the objects as "killer satellites."
- Please do not have Cortez accuse the X-Men of "assassinating" Magneto.
- Also on this page, Magneto's compartment should not look as though it is burning, nor should Magneto be surrounded by flames — no "fireball" with him inside it. Perhaps the compartment could break up or eject Magneto before it explodes.
- Also, please change the villain’s name from "Cortez" to something non-Hispanic. There are no prominent Hispanic X-Men to provide balance for this kind of negative character.
- Please show that the Magistrate in the hovercraft is alright when the craft is knocked out of the sky.
- Please show that Delgado is alright immediately after the Sentinel's blast.
- Please do not show Amelia with suitcases in her hands when she leaves Xavier.
- Revised Draft: As also mentioned previously, please do not show Amelia with suitcases when she leaves Xavier.
- Caution that, as it appears here, the hovercraft is only about six feet off the ground when Cortez hurls the pilot out.
- Please ask the producers to forward models of the new Mutants in this episode. All women, including Unuscione, should be modestly dressed — no low-cut costumes, please.
- Also, what will the "skinsuited" Genoshan slaves look like?
- Please show that the two guards are alright after they are blasted off their feet.
- Please show that the two mutants hit by advancing Genoshan guards are alright afterwards.
- Please do not show a suitcase in Amelia’s hand when she leaves.
- Please do not give the two Nomads such large, hooked noses.
Reaction[]
References[]
- ↑ Ken Penders at Twitter
- ↑ Why Didn't 'Black Panther' Get a TV Show 20 Years Ago? at The Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ Comic Legends: How the Censors Saved the Eiffel Tower from the X-Men at Comic Book Resources