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@jacklaridian Better animated than X-Men '92, and it's interesting to see the "new girl" throughline from X-Men #1 → Pryde of the X-Men → X-Men '92 → the first X-Men movie.

Its biggest problem was introducing too many villains at once, which was at least partly down to toy company pressure.

Marvel thought the X-Men '92 team was nuts for not introducing Magneto until episode 3. They had a point; that'd be like starting a Batman series with some third-stringer like Man-Bat instead of the Joker.

@jacklaridian Pryde of the X-Men did air, BTW, it just wasn't picked up for series. I remember catching it in a Saturday morning block that was usually a rerun of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends followed by an episode each of Dino-Riders and the Robocop animated series. IIRC once in awhile they'd run the X-Men pilot instead of Robocop, and pair it with one of the Spider-Man episodes that guest-starred the X-Men.

@jacklaridian Yeah, a glance at Wikipedia confirms my memory of it being slotted in for Robocop is right. Apparently they made it instead of a 13th episode of Robocop.

...man, it's pretty fucking weird that they used to make Saturday morning cartoons out of movies like Robocop and Toxic Avenger, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pryde_of_the_X-Men

@Thad
I remember some pretty weird Saturday Morning Cartoons. The few that come right to mind are Rambo, Police Academy and DEFINITELY the Toxic Crusaders!

@Thad
Oh also, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! Like WTF?

@jacklaridian And Beetlejuice was PG-13 so it wasn't quite as kid-unfriendly as those others, but, like, dude is a sex pest. So that was another pretty bizarre choice for a Saturday morning cartoon and toy line.

(And to tie it back to X-Men, Alyson Court, who played Lydia on the Beetlejuice cartoon, went on to play Jubilee in X-Men. And Abcissa in X-Men '97.)