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Fantastic episode! Just so well done. 
Wolverine and the X-men Episode 19 "Guardian Angel"
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It is something worth noting at this stage in the show's life when it appears that every single episode that does not exclusively star Wolverine tends to be better than the ones that exclusively star him, at least at a better ratio than 3:7 (as in, about two of Wolverine's 3 solo or team-up episodes have been above mediocre). These episodes seem to be paced better and give the supporting characters more to do. In episode 12, Scott got a lot of focus but other characters on the X-Men team had a bit to do, too. And so it is with episode 19 as well, which focuses almost exclusively on Angel/Warren, but also gives other characters some airtime, especially Storm and Beast.
This does tell me, though, that the writers seem to have an easier time with the premise when they are not overdosing on Wolverine or going out of their way to prove he is better than everyone in an episode. Maybe they should start following that.
If this show has done anything right towards any character that other shows haven't, it has been that of Warren Worthington III, also known as Angel. In the 90's show, he was essentially defined by Apocalypse; he becomes the villain's pawn almost immediately, and his past before that is unknown. Afterward, he only showed up in some Apocalypse episodes and while he got more airtime on that classic show than, say, Iceman, Colossus, or even Nightcrawler in a way, much of it was simplistic and one-note. They tried giving him a personality in his last episodes of Season 4, and it appeared awkward.
X-MEN EVOLUTION, though, reinvigorated the character, envisioning him as a costumed superhero/crime-fighter who hid in isolation from the world and his parents due to his wings, but still sought to use them to do good in the world; his episode, "On Angel's Wings" in the second season of that show alongside Cyclops and Rogue was not only one of the better episodes of Season 2 Evolution before the finale, but was one of the best Christmas themed cartoon episodes ever, as well as a solid animation episode in general. Still, beyond for one return in Season 3 and a cameo in the series finale, little more was done with him. It was a great build up, but the show was too clogged for much more. Mark Hildreth, who now voices Quicksilver, played Warren there.
In WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN, though, Angel has gotten much more play.
It will, and is, episodes like this one of WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN that fuel my intolerance for mediocrity from it.
This does tell me, though, that the writers seem to have an easier time with the premise when they are not overdosing on Wolverine or going out of their way to prove he is better than everyone in an episode. Maybe they should start following that.
If this show has done anything right towards any character that other shows haven't, it has been that of Warren Worthington III, also known as Angel. In the 90's show, he was essentially defined by Apocalypse; he becomes the villain's pawn almost immediately, and his past before that is unknown. Afterward, he only showed up in some Apocalypse episodes and while he got more airtime on that classic show than, say, Iceman, Colossus, or even Nightcrawler in a way, much of it was simplistic and one-note. They tried giving him a personality in his last episodes of Season 4, and it appeared awkward.
X-MEN EVOLUTION, though, reinvigorated the character, envisioning him as a costumed superhero/crime-fighter who hid in isolation from the world and his parents due to his wings, but still sought to use them to do good in the world; his episode, "On Angel's Wings" in the second season of that show alongside Cyclops and Rogue was not only one of the better episodes of Season 2 Evolution before the finale, but was one of the best Christmas themed cartoon episodes ever, as well as a solid animation episode in general. Still, beyond for one return in Season 3 and a cameo in the series finale, little more was done with him. It was a great build up, but the show was too clogged for much more. Mark Hildreth, who now voices Quicksilver, played Warren there.
In WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN, though, Angel has gotten much more play.
Included within the first few episodes of the show, the series has taken some cues from X-MEN 3 with his father being driven by bigotry due to his son's plight, and both characters being torn in their ideals due to it. At first deciding to refuse rejoining the X-Men to keep out of the public and especially his father's attention, Warren met Emma Frost and at the very least was funding Wolverine's new X-Men, aiding in rebuilding the Mansion and likely covering operating costs without Xavier there (in the flesh, anyway). His father, played by Jim Ward (who voices Xavier and once Colossus), has been funding Sen. Kelly and the MRD's Sentinel program for some time now, which has disturbed Warren (Liam O'Brien, who also plays Nightcrawler). Last episode, Warren could no longer stand to be on the sidelines and rejoined the X-Men as Angel again. While he did absolutely nothing useful during the fight (beyond catch a falling Storm, which now seems to have more meaning), but it did get him the notice of Worthington II, who now was especially torn that his efforts were putting his son in danger.
This episode brings this subplot to a head, and unlike a lot of the other subplots in this series, I honestly think this one has been handled well, a tad better than the "Scott is mourning" subplot, if only because it had more impact on the series as a whole. After all, at least Angel would TALK every time he showed up. It also brings the return of another classic villain from prior episodes, Clancy Brown's Mr. Sinister. It seems as if practice makes perfect, as his vocal tones sounded a lot better here. Fans sometimes forget that even good actors sometimes need more than one episode to settle into a part at once. Even Kevin Conroy was hardly perfect in his first few Batman episodes than he would be now, over a decade later. Plus, in this way the comics have managed to do a better job at translating more of Warren's character. The 90's series naturally immediately dove into the metal winged Archangel stuff, because that was current. EVOLUTION introduced us to the feather winged "Avenging Angel" side of Warren, but had no time for more. WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN over the course of several episodes, including this one has managed to do both and make the devolution of Angel into the vengeful Archangel seem more tragic and powerful than before. Despite all my complaints about the show, Angel isn't one of them.
In this episode, Angel has returned to his spandex full time, operating against the MRD as they arrest a young mutant boy with heat-based powers. Through his flying skill, guile, and a little bad shooting on a soldier's part, he manages to free the boy, and the animation makes a nice showing of the angelic imagery. Sadly for Warren, this "boy" ended up being Mr. Sinister, who now has Warren in his sights.
We also learn that he apparently has been dating Storm (Susan Dalian), and if I have any complaints, it is that this subplot would have worked a LOT better had we seen these two together before this episode. As it is, it works well enough and it gives Ororo something, finally, to do, but it seems a bit rushed. More so than the rest of Warren's story. It ties back into the Bendis-written year of ULTIMATE X-MEN that introduced Warren to the team and hinted at his crush on Ororo because she, too, could fly. They work together and I liked the flight animation, but this angle could have been SO much better had we learned of it before now. Maybe last episode? Or one before? I mean, that would have been more important than seeing Logan imagine the X-Men being pwned by ninja with trippy gas effects.
Once it is announced that the Worthington company is funding a "cure" for the mutant gene, Angel becomes furious with his father. Despite the best advice from Logan, Beast, and Storm, Warren flies off to confront his father. The bits where the two of them lock verbal horns over their philosophy and the life of mutants is good stuff, as is Warren's striding proudly with his wings down the hall of the office building. This episode, if anything, helped cement the idea that Warren was not ashamed of his wings, at least not anymore, and was firmly on the side with the X-Men, and embracing himself.
Sadly, of course, this cannot last. He becomes injured during a fight with the MRD, who were out to track down the winged vigilante. He practically falls from about 30,000 feet up to street level with barely anything to slow his fall, which made the crushing injury to his wings all the more powerful. We later learn that the wings are hopelessly shattered, and despite being answered that Col. Moss (the ever reliable Michael Ironside) roughly dispatched with his son, Worthington II takes the first opportunity to "cure" his son by authorizing the wings' amputation. While showing no actual gore, the episode handled the amputation of the wings, and the aftermath, powerfully. Warren is screaming in pain and fanatic about losing his wings.
Of course, there is symbolism. Angel of course always looked like a mythical angel and that theme was sometimes used for various bits of animation in this episode; here you could claim that in losing his wings and becoming "mortal", he is now being in prime position to be tempted by the devil, in this case Mister Sinister. Clancy Brown was virtually perfect in this scene, sounding incredibly creepy. At first Warren refuses, but upon escaping to the Mansion and learning from Beast that the loss of his wings is likely permanent, not even Storm can soothe his pain. There's a bit when he is on the bench near the cliff of the estate (which I call "Scott's Emo Seat", because it seems everyone who is undergoing turmoil sits there, including Cyclops) and watching the sea-gulls fly. Without any dialogue, it was very clear the pain Warren was undergoing, and that he had silently consented to Mr. Sinister's offer. All I ask is; where the hell was this mastery of subtle stuff 18 episodes ago?
Warren winds up in Mr. Sinister's laboratory, and again without any gore, captures the horror of the procedure and the creation of Warren into Archangel, with the metal wings. In fact the only downside is that the original 90's design for Archangel has some ridiculous colors (who the hell would fear someone wearing purple and lavender? Those are like Death Barney colors!) and is a complicated design to animate; I wouldn't have minded the show trying to improve on things a little with this design, rather than be so faithful. Still, the colors were more subdued and with a decent animation budget it looked a lot better than it did in the 90's show. Having detected him via Frost & Cerebro, Wolverine has to sadly inform Storm that her boyfriend has been twisted by Mr. Sinister. The two team with Beast to rush to Worthington's tower to save the old man from his son's vengeance.
Archangel appears before his distraught father, now a metal winged agent of death, and trashes his laboratory before attempting to kill his old man, or at least make him bare witness to more destruction, until Wolverine appears and the two wind up in a fight (which reminded me of the the X-TINCTION AGENDA I believe where the two fought in the comics). Archangel believes that he is doing what is inevitable for mutants and to avenge the destruction of his life; Wolverine essentially tries to relate and inform Warren that, basically, he may be monster enough to declare revenge on those who took his life away, but Warren supposedly isn't. It seemed an odd line in a way but Wolverine has usually sought to try to prevent others, especially allies, from walking down his dark paths. When written well it seems noble; when written poorly it seems hypocritical (akin to, say, Batman in BATMAN FOREVER going on to Robin the entire time about how wrong it would be to kill Two-Face, before basically doing so himself in the final battle). One could say that an edge that Wolverine had morally is that while he may seek to avenge himself on Weapon X, he wouldn't give himself over to someone like Mr. Sinister for that opportunity, as Warren had. Sure, he teamed up with Mystique, but begrudgingly. It would be akin to Wolverine allowing Mojo to make him a grinning psycho again so he could tear apart Weapon X with no remorse or mercy.
The fight between Wolverine and Archangel is pretty good, with some effective pacing and use of the metal wings beyond just throwing shards (which Warren does many times). Storm flies in and zaps Warren, and appears to get through to him, but she cannot break Mr. Sinister's brainwashing, and Archangel escapes. The entire battle, however, gets Mr. Worthington II to cut his funding of the MRD and finally realize, albeit a bit late, that their crusade against mutants had gone too far and claimed too many casualties. I agree with some that Sen. Kelly is a bit one-dimensional here, but he sure was in some other versions of the cartoons as well, so I was used to it. He was all against mutants in the 90's series until they saved him from Master Mold at the end of Season 1, and in EVOLUTION it wasn't long before his hatred of mutants was having him for an alliance between the Brotherhood and the jocks against the X-Men and having a humble school principal run for the senate on an anti-mutant crusade. Given all that, Kelly is about what I expected of him.
If there was one omission, it is that Cyclops wasn't involved. Mr. Sinister is his enemy, and Angel was supposed to be one of the founding X-Men alongside Jean, Beast, and maybe Iceman. It would have been interesting to see how he reacted to some of Warren's issues. Still, it isn't a huge problem to me because I know Scott is due to get focus next episode, and the show was wise to try to flesh out 4 X-Men rather than insert the entire team. I'm not without critical mercy when things work out.
Definitely one of the better episodes to come along, and hopefully as the final stretch of this season wraps up, the show is able to maintain the feel and quality of this episode, without resorting to jobbering or sloppy storyboards. The episode also shows that if you handle the characters right, the story can write itself without needing a Sentinel cluster**** battle. What a concept...characters make stories, not mindless story-lines where the characters are almost along for the ride.
This episode brings this subplot to a head, and unlike a lot of the other subplots in this series, I honestly think this one has been handled well, a tad better than the "Scott is mourning" subplot, if only because it had more impact on the series as a whole. After all, at least Angel would TALK every time he showed up. It also brings the return of another classic villain from prior episodes, Clancy Brown's Mr. Sinister. It seems as if practice makes perfect, as his vocal tones sounded a lot better here. Fans sometimes forget that even good actors sometimes need more than one episode to settle into a part at once. Even Kevin Conroy was hardly perfect in his first few Batman episodes than he would be now, over a decade later. Plus, in this way the comics have managed to do a better job at translating more of Warren's character. The 90's series naturally immediately dove into the metal winged Archangel stuff, because that was current. EVOLUTION introduced us to the feather winged "Avenging Angel" side of Warren, but had no time for more. WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN over the course of several episodes, including this one has managed to do both and make the devolution of Angel into the vengeful Archangel seem more tragic and powerful than before. Despite all my complaints about the show, Angel isn't one of them.
In this episode, Angel has returned to his spandex full time, operating against the MRD as they arrest a young mutant boy with heat-based powers. Through his flying skill, guile, and a little bad shooting on a soldier's part, he manages to free the boy, and the animation makes a nice showing of the angelic imagery. Sadly for Warren, this "boy" ended up being Mr. Sinister, who now has Warren in his sights.
We also learn that he apparently has been dating Storm (Susan Dalian), and if I have any complaints, it is that this subplot would have worked a LOT better had we seen these two together before this episode. As it is, it works well enough and it gives Ororo something, finally, to do, but it seems a bit rushed. More so than the rest of Warren's story. It ties back into the Bendis-written year of ULTIMATE X-MEN that introduced Warren to the team and hinted at his crush on Ororo because she, too, could fly. They work together and I liked the flight animation, but this angle could have been SO much better had we learned of it before now. Maybe last episode? Or one before? I mean, that would have been more important than seeing Logan imagine the X-Men being pwned by ninja with trippy gas effects.
Once it is announced that the Worthington company is funding a "cure" for the mutant gene, Angel becomes furious with his father. Despite the best advice from Logan, Beast, and Storm, Warren flies off to confront his father. The bits where the two of them lock verbal horns over their philosophy and the life of mutants is good stuff, as is Warren's striding proudly with his wings down the hall of the office building. This episode, if anything, helped cement the idea that Warren was not ashamed of his wings, at least not anymore, and was firmly on the side with the X-Men, and embracing himself.
Sadly, of course, this cannot last. He becomes injured during a fight with the MRD, who were out to track down the winged vigilante. He practically falls from about 30,000 feet up to street level with barely anything to slow his fall, which made the crushing injury to his wings all the more powerful. We later learn that the wings are hopelessly shattered, and despite being answered that Col. Moss (the ever reliable Michael Ironside) roughly dispatched with his son, Worthington II takes the first opportunity to "cure" his son by authorizing the wings' amputation. While showing no actual gore, the episode handled the amputation of the wings, and the aftermath, powerfully. Warren is screaming in pain and fanatic about losing his wings.
Of course, there is symbolism. Angel of course always looked like a mythical angel and that theme was sometimes used for various bits of animation in this episode; here you could claim that in losing his wings and becoming "mortal", he is now being in prime position to be tempted by the devil, in this case Mister Sinister. Clancy Brown was virtually perfect in this scene, sounding incredibly creepy. At first Warren refuses, but upon escaping to the Mansion and learning from Beast that the loss of his wings is likely permanent, not even Storm can soothe his pain. There's a bit when he is on the bench near the cliff of the estate (which I call "Scott's Emo Seat", because it seems everyone who is undergoing turmoil sits there, including Cyclops) and watching the sea-gulls fly. Without any dialogue, it was very clear the pain Warren was undergoing, and that he had silently consented to Mr. Sinister's offer. All I ask is; where the hell was this mastery of subtle stuff 18 episodes ago?
Warren winds up in Mr. Sinister's laboratory, and again without any gore, captures the horror of the procedure and the creation of Warren into Archangel, with the metal wings. In fact the only downside is that the original 90's design for Archangel has some ridiculous colors (who the hell would fear someone wearing purple and lavender? Those are like Death Barney colors!) and is a complicated design to animate; I wouldn't have minded the show trying to improve on things a little with this design, rather than be so faithful. Still, the colors were more subdued and with a decent animation budget it looked a lot better than it did in the 90's show. Having detected him via Frost & Cerebro, Wolverine has to sadly inform Storm that her boyfriend has been twisted by Mr. Sinister. The two team with Beast to rush to Worthington's tower to save the old man from his son's vengeance.
Archangel appears before his distraught father, now a metal winged agent of death, and trashes his laboratory before attempting to kill his old man, or at least make him bare witness to more destruction, until Wolverine appears and the two wind up in a fight (which reminded me of the the X-TINCTION AGENDA I believe where the two fought in the comics). Archangel believes that he is doing what is inevitable for mutants and to avenge the destruction of his life; Wolverine essentially tries to relate and inform Warren that, basically, he may be monster enough to declare revenge on those who took his life away, but Warren supposedly isn't. It seemed an odd line in a way but Wolverine has usually sought to try to prevent others, especially allies, from walking down his dark paths. When written well it seems noble; when written poorly it seems hypocritical (akin to, say, Batman in BATMAN FOREVER going on to Robin the entire time about how wrong it would be to kill Two-Face, before basically doing so himself in the final battle). One could say that an edge that Wolverine had morally is that while he may seek to avenge himself on Weapon X, he wouldn't give himself over to someone like Mr. Sinister for that opportunity, as Warren had. Sure, he teamed up with Mystique, but begrudgingly. It would be akin to Wolverine allowing Mojo to make him a grinning psycho again so he could tear apart Weapon X with no remorse or mercy.
The fight between Wolverine and Archangel is pretty good, with some effective pacing and use of the metal wings beyond just throwing shards (which Warren does many times). Storm flies in and zaps Warren, and appears to get through to him, but she cannot break Mr. Sinister's brainwashing, and Archangel escapes. The entire battle, however, gets Mr. Worthington II to cut his funding of the MRD and finally realize, albeit a bit late, that their crusade against mutants had gone too far and claimed too many casualties. I agree with some that Sen. Kelly is a bit one-dimensional here, but he sure was in some other versions of the cartoons as well, so I was used to it. He was all against mutants in the 90's series until they saved him from Master Mold at the end of Season 1, and in EVOLUTION it wasn't long before his hatred of mutants was having him for an alliance between the Brotherhood and the jocks against the X-Men and having a humble school principal run for the senate on an anti-mutant crusade. Given all that, Kelly is about what I expected of him.
If there was one omission, it is that Cyclops wasn't involved. Mr. Sinister is his enemy, and Angel was supposed to be one of the founding X-Men alongside Jean, Beast, and maybe Iceman. It would have been interesting to see how he reacted to some of Warren's issues. Still, it isn't a huge problem to me because I know Scott is due to get focus next episode, and the show was wise to try to flesh out 4 X-Men rather than insert the entire team. I'm not without critical mercy when things work out.
Definitely one of the better episodes to come along, and hopefully as the final stretch of this season wraps up, the show is able to maintain the feel and quality of this episode, without resorting to jobbering or sloppy storyboards. The episode also shows that if you handle the characters right, the story can write itself without needing a Sentinel cluster**** battle. What a concept...characters make stories, not mindless story-lines where the characters are almost along for the ride.
It will, and is, episodes like this one of WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN that fuel my intolerance for mediocrity from it.
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^ Wow. Great essay on this.
It's true, though. They really pulled the Angel thing off--extremely well. I wasn't sure how I would feel when the roomers started up about Sinister taking Apocalypse's place, but I think he really does translate to the screen better.
Thanks for the great read, Dread.
It's true, though. They really pulled the Angel thing off--extremely well. I wasn't sure how I would feel when the roomers started up about Sinister taking Apocalypse's place, but I think he really does translate to the screen better.
Thanks for the great read, Dread.
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i hope storm and angel don't hook up. i don't wanna see that.
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^ Wow. Great essay on this.
It's true, though. They really pulled the Angel thing off--extremely well. I wasn't sure how I would feel when the roomers started up about Sinister taking Apocalypse's place, but I think he really does translate to the screen better.
Thanks for the great read, Dread.
they gotta have apocalypse in theis series.
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Storm isn't tied down to Black Panther, so she can have as many love interest as she wants... Im interested in the one shes maybe got with Angel since I've never seen it before. Which brings up the question, is Beast going to get any? lol everyone else has one, except maybe Rouge... but you can say Domino has taken a liking to her.
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^ Wow. Great essay on this.
It's true, though. They really pulled the Angel thing off--extremely well. I wasn't sure how I would feel when the roomers started up about Sinister taking Apocalypse's place, but I think he really does translate to the screen better.
Thanks for the great read, Dread.
Mr. Sinister sat out X-MEN EVOLUTION while Apocalypse got to be a central story arc and was reimagined there. Considering Essex took an 11 year break between animated appearances, I certainly don't mind him showing up. While a lot of the X-Men's enemies have some sort of ideal or moral objective to their schemes, Mister Sinister really doesn't. He seeks to experiment on mutants to aid his own selfish ambitious research, and more than enjoys the pain he inflicts.
Glad you liked the review.
I forgot to mention the nice "Legacy" allusion in the episode, to those who enjoy mentions of classic mishandled X-Men subplots from the comics.
Considering that this team has thrown in everything including Mojo, I would be surprised if Apocalypse didn't show up, especially for next season.
Storm isn't tied down to Black Panther, so she can have as many love interest as she wants... Im interested in the one shes maybe got with Angel since I've never seen it before. Which brings up the question, is Beast going to get any? lol everyone else has one, except maybe Rouge... but you can say Domino has taken a liking to her.
As I noted in my review, ULTIMATE X-MEN during the start of Brian M. Bendis' year long run on the book after Mark Millar left after about three years launching the title, he had Angel join the team and have a crush on Storm, since she could fly like him. At the time, Storm was dating Beast in Ult. XM, but he was seemingly killed battling Sentinels in Washington at the climax of the arc. Then Brian K. Vaughan took over the book for 19 issues and had Angel hook up with Dazzler, while Storm went a bit mad with grief after a bit and had some attractions to Logan. Beast would end up alive in Robert Kirkman's abysmal two year stint on Ult. XM.
So in a way the idea of Storm and Angel being romantically involved has been touched upon before, just not really played with. Methinks, though, that a bigger reason this is happening is because it has been very clear the writers have had difficulty giving Storm something to do beyond exposition and throwing thunderbolts, so this seemed an easy in.
As for Beast, he always has had trouble with relationships in cartoons. Anyone remember his ill fated romance with Carly in "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST", circa 1994 (Season 2 of the 90's series)? Granted, that's probably the only time he ever dated anyone in a cartoon. Basically it seems women aren't as into "furries" as men are.
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I never really cared for Angel in the comics but this episode really made me like him. They handled the character very well.
Spoiler Alert regarding Apocalypse
Spoiler Alert regarding Apocalypse
I hear that after defeating Sen. Kelly and the MRD's Sentinels the future changes to Age Of Apocalypse which will be the back drop to next season.
I noticed that too. Its ironic that the character whos supposed to be the most popular has solo episodes which dont live up to his popularity
As for this Angel focused episode, it just left me speechless .tugged at my heart so much. It felt like watching Rogue push statue Mystique off a cliff for the first time. To simply put it, it was amazing.
But I really expected Scott to try to reason with Warren, since he had a recent encounter with Sinister and also went on a rampage to find Jean. Or even Storm or Beast to play bigger roles. Storm more so. But since Wolvie and Warren had been shown close since the beginning of show, makes sense for him to do the talking.
But I really hope this isn't start of a trend where the next character who goes out of control, we'll have Wolvie saying the same cliched lines and trying to relate to him or her.
I agree. Writers need to realize that their strength lies in making every character shine instead of trying to prove Wolverine is better than everyone. In TAS I actually use to feel for Wolvie, but now his solo episodes only make me groan not another Wolverine episode.
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I noticed that too. Its ironic that the character whos supposed to be the most popular has solo episodes which dont live up to his popularity
As for this Angel focused episode, it just left me speechless .tugged at my heart so much. It felt like watching Rogue push statue Mystique off a cliff for the first time. To simply put it, it was amazing.
But I really expected Scott to try to reason with Warren, since he had a recent encounter with Sinister and also went on a rampage to find Jean. Or even Storm or Beast to play bigger roles. Storm more so. But since Wolvie and Warren had been shown close since the beginning of show, makes sense for him to do the talking.
But I really hope this isn't start of a trend where the next character who goes out of control, we'll have Wolvie saying the same cliched lines and trying to relate to him or her.
I agree, it would have been interesting to have Scott play a role in the episode, but I was willing to let it go since I know next episode deals with him, and some showdown may be inevitable.
Yeah, it does seem that Wolverine has to "prove" his title on the show, before the team, a lot. This episode at least focused a lot on Angel, building from before, and gave Storm more to do. More Beast would have been cool; I mean doesn't the Blackbird have autopilot for hovering?
To add to this, Wolverine often is stronger alongside decently written characters as well.
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This wasn't a Wolverine solo episode. Wolverine gave his best effort to get through to Warren, and he failed. Cyclops wouldn't have. Xavier might've.
Warren defined his life through his wings and his flying, and his father took all that away from him. Sinister took advantage and exploited him at his lowest, weakest place.
Warren defined his life through his wings and his flying, and his father took all that away from him. Sinister took advantage and exploited him at his lowest, weakest place.
I agree, it would have been interesting to have Scott play a role in the episode, but I was willing to let it go since I know next episode deals with him, and some showdown may be inevitable.
Yeah, it does seem that Wolverine has to "prove" his title on the show, before the team, a lot. This episode at least focused a lot on Angel, building from before, and gave Storm more to do. More Beast would have been cool; I mean doesn't the Blackbird have autopilot for hovering?
What if Warren suddenly flew up at the Blackbird and scratched it with his wings? Someone needed to be there to dodge him if that happened
Scott being the focus of the next episode is the only reason I really dont mind his absence in this one. But if the next character goes out of control and Wolverine is uttering the same Im a monster and people who did this to me stuff, then Im seriously going to erase him out of the episode using some good video editing software.
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I just saw the widescreen version of this episode, the one that aired on cbbc, and it's sad how they butchered the whole fight between Wolverine and Archangel. This is ridiculous... and I was so happy watching it in widescreen. 
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That is what Mr. Sinister does. He also exploited Cyclops' anguish over losing Jean in episode 12 to lure him into a trap there as well. The only difference was that Cyclops wasn't willingly seeking Mr. Sinister's aid, and the X-Men were able to rescue him in time. While it would have made sense to include Scott in this episode, I did note that I am aware that Scott has a focus episode next, and so this dynamic between he and Warren and a mutual enemy may be due to addressed, and so long as I honestly believe it can and will be in the future, I can wait an episode or two. I only get impatient about dynamics I feel NEVER will be addressed.
I know this wasn't a Wolverine solo episode. Most of Wolverine's solo episodes depend solely on what "side-kick" he is allied with and the strength of the action/plot. Ironically, Wolverine often has been a stronger character in episodes where the spotlight wasn't exclusively on him, such as this one. Considering Weapon X sought to turn Logan into a weapon, I did understand why he sought to get through to Warren.
What if Warren suddenly flew up at the Blackbird and scratched it with his wings? Someone needed to be there to dodge him if that happened
Scott being the focus of the next episode is the only reason I really dont mind his absence in this one. But if the next character goes out of control and Wolverine is uttering the same Im a monster and people who did this to me stuff, then Im seriously going to erase him out of the episode using some good video editing software.
To be fair, every time a mutant has been transformed into a weapon via technology or genetic engineering, Wolverine is going to be that X-Man who relates. Especially if it involves some mind control as well. Still, it is because of this element in Wolverine's past that you'd think he would have been more disturbed by Mojo transforming him into a similar weapon a few episodes ago, but that never came up.
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Take serious notice Dread, you are going to get massively knocked out by the next episode.
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Much like how I don't wanna see Rogue and Logan hook up either. Still waiting for when/if Rogue and Remy meet up for the first time.
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WOW. This episode was all kinds of awesomesauce.
His trip to the dark side was well-played as well. Bravo, episode. Bravo. 9/10.
I actually felt sorrow when Warren's father ordered the wings to be removed. I don't know why, but I thought it would be one of those things where just as the knife is going down Wolverine busts in a stops it. But nope, we get to see a bandaged Warren wingless and broken. 
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Same thing I thought, DL
And even though its a cartoon... the actor did the screams pretty believably
Yeah, his rantings screams were pretty haunting.
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