“I Want My X-TV!”
Fox wants to mutate their X-Men movie franchise into a new television series. If Marvel and Fox reach an agreement which mutants could make the leap to television?
Here are our top candidates for X-TV:
X-Factor
Imagine “mutant noir.”
The long-running series by Peter David would be a fresh quirky take on another side of the Fox’s X-Men universe like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is for the Marvel Avengers Universe.
X-Factor is filled with charismatic mutants who didn’t attend Xavier’s and was filled with romantic complications, inter-agency love triangles, conspiracies and unique villains.
Jamie Madrox (aka Multiple Man) sets up X-Factor Investigations to investigate M-Day when millions of mutants lost their powers. Jamie is joined by fellow mutant Siryn (seen briefly as a little girl in X2: X-Men United.) Theresa Rourke Cassidy (daughter of Banshee seen in First Class) would have a tortured on-again, off-again romance with Jamie.
The de-powered Rictor and out of this world Shatterstar fell in love and their storyline earned this book a GLAAD Media Award. Guido Carosella (aka Strong Guy) is Jamie’s friend and the team’s muscle. Monet St. Croix is one of my all-time favorite mutants with multiple powers but her glares and wit are her greatest gifts to the motley mix.
Of course there’s Layla Miller (aka Butterfly) who “knows stuff” with powers perfect for solving cases and stirring the romantic complications.
New Mutants
When Professor Xavier believed the X-Men were dead he recruited a new generation of mutants. Dani Moonstar, Sam Guthrie, Roberto Da Costa, Rhane Sinclair, Xi’an Coy Mahn (aka Mirage, Cannonball, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma) continued the tradition of having a diverse group of mutants fighting for a world that feared and hated them.
Creator Chris Claremont took New Mutants into bold directions with Magneto as their temporary headmaster/teacher for a time. Along with new mutants, producers could introduce Warlock, the alien refugee who found a home among the kids and Magik, the younger sister of Colossus, who became a demon sorceress.
New Mutants rarely stayed on campus but invaded Asgard, outer space and the supernatural realm of Limbo. For many X-readers the adventures and friendships of Dani, Sam, Rhane, Bobby, Xi’an and Illyana would make uncanny episodes.
X-Force
The pro-active strike force has a writer but not an official start date from Fox so the spinoff movie could this become a series instead but which version?
The original version of the team evolved from New Mutants when a mystery man named Cable turned the students into a strike force. The cyborg/mutant Cable was actually Nathan Summers, the son of Cyclops from the future who was trying to reshape the past. Cable led Cannonball, Sunspot, Boom Boom, Warpath, Domino and Feral.
The second X-Force was created by Cyclops and Wolverine as a covert squad doing missions the X-Men couldn’t do. Logan led X-23, Warpath, Archangel and Wolfsbane taking the fight to the enemies who preyed on mutants. This team’s primary enemy was the Purifiers – followers of the late William Stryker. When Cyclops shut down the team, Logan secretly started his own X-Force with Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex and Archangel. This unit starred in a long-running war in the Age of Apocalypse reality with some major ramifications still being felt in the Marvel Universe.
and the long shot:
Generation X
The kids already starred in a Fox television movie but could they get another shot? Emma Frost and Banshee rescued several young mutants including Monet, Skin, Chamber, Penance, Synch, Husk and Jubilee before setting up an X-Academy just north of the Xavier Institute.
Which mutants would you like to see in an X-Men television spinoff?
By Editor