TheVileOne
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All I know is Greg Johnson was interviewed by the hosts of the Beyond Evolution website at Toonzone.net and claimed he would have liked to focus a little more on the character, but needed another season. Considering that, one could almost be surprised he was so quick to ditch the metal man given another 26 episodes and an X-Men show with less demands for "teenage stuff" as Evolution had from Kid's WB.
Dread, sometimes you become like a broken record with these points. We know what was said, and I think you need to let it go. I think many would agree that we all have awesome man-love for Colossus and we want lots more Colossus in animation and Colossus gets the short end of the stick in animation. We get it. You should tell them that at SDCC next year. The thing is, this is NOT X-men Evolution, you should know that by now. So you seem to have this idea that they have an obligation to fans and Colossus to follow the intentions and promise of more Colossus in the undone year 5 of X-men Evolution. But the thing, is this isn't Evolution so they aren't following that storyline.
In a way that may be true. But Beast isn't nearly as strong. At most in most shows, he breaks a sweat trying to lift a small car. Colossus can chuck tanks like nothing.
OK, but my point was for the creators they might've felt that for their story since Colossus is so strong and so powerful they might've felt he was too powerful for some of the stories they wanted to tell. However, that's just an idea. It could be something else entirely where they wrote him out for a specific reason, and hopefully bring him back in the fold later. That said if we never see Colossus again kicking booty for the rest of the run of this show, I will like you be severely disappointed.
But, as I have said, in a sad way is isn't surprising that he got punted for another X-Men cartoon. It is par for the course.
It's too premature to say punted if they are getting renewed to 26 episodes.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It is POSSIBLE that outcome could be done with Colossus. But I don't see it as terribly likely without some more proof that is a direction we are going. Flash at least had being "the comic relief" going for him, which made having him go against type when it really counted effective. Again, writers struggle with Colossus because they see him as a stock, "nice guy". But there are ways to play with that. Plus, it would be nice one of these days to have Colossus say more than 4 lines to Kitty on screen somewhere.