1992’s “Men-1992-movie-posters/”>X-Men” cartoon was the first time Marvel’s Merry Mutants got a series all of their own, but was it the first time they appeared in animation? Not quite.The team were guest stars on the early 1980s series “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends”, as was their nemesis Magneto.
A few years down the line, Marvel Productions decided to produce an “Men-1992-movie-posters/”>X-Men” cartoon themselves.The resulting pilot was “Pryde of the Men-1992-movie-posters/”>X-Men“.
“Pryde” boasted animation from Japanese studio Toei (“Dragon Ball Z“), and so looked noticeably more detailed and dynamic than previous Marvel cartoons.
Where it did overlap with those older cartoons was the voice cast: the late John Stephenson as Professor X, Michael Bell as Cyclops, Neil Ross as Nightcrawler, Dan Gilvezan as Colossus, and a young Kath Soucie as Kitty.Patrick Pinney, as Wolverine, infamously gives his character an Australian accent (apparently a synergistic holdover from a…
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