X-MEN ‘97 — Tolerance Is Extinction Part 3 (S01E10)

This is not a Morph post. This is a Quentin post.

Deal with it

Xavier fixing Morph after the end of X-Men:TAS Season 2:

Morph.

I make very important things

Original:

For Morph

X-Men TAS: Courage

While I really appreciate that they tried a “Morph comes back episode,” probably to quiet any fans like me going, “Where’s Morph?  It’s been like, 2 seasons!” it’s weird to me that Morph’s big issue to deal with is “Fear of Sentinels,” not “Dissociative Identity Disorder, guilt and self-loathing over their actions towards their team-mates, and the lingering trauma of the long-term physical and psychological abuse inflicted by Sinister.”

It’s pretty understandable that Morph would now have a fear response to giant robots that literally killed them, which their shape-shifter powers aren’t super effective against, but everything that Sinister did was so much worse, and probably inflicted significantly more damage.  I’m just going to assume that most of Morph’s time on Muir Island was dealing with all that, whereas the PTSD from their death wasn’t as obvious until they actually encountered Sentinels in the field again.

Of course, the simpler, more obvious explanation is that “Morph gets over their fear of Sentinels” is much easier to write as a plot to a half-hour kids cartoon than “Morph deals with the absolute mess of fucked up shit that Sinister put them through.”

stop being a creep, morph

If I had a nickle everytime these were my favourite characters i'd have two nickles.

If I had a nickel for every time a cheerful, silly, “jester” type character was abandoned by their friends and came back as a bitter, twisted version of themselves with messed up hair and dark marks under their eyes, I’d have two nickels, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

(Also they both ultimately get redeemed and then go off away from the main cast for a long time to recover.)

People seem to forget how powerful original series Morph was. I love this clip/ episode.