fuckitimfangirling:

I loved X-M:E! Honestly, I adore cartoons/anime/animated films. I really feel like cartoons have always been ahead of the game when it came to storytelling. One of my ex bfs is an animator now (he’s an amazing artist I’m telling you, I’m so glad he followed his dream) and he used to let me watch his process: cartoonists are able to spend the time to think of good SLs and ships and development bc they have to review their storyboards like crazy and KNOW what they’re going to tell before they animate anything bc animating is crazy $$$. Granted, not every cartoon is great, but I do think if they utilize their time wisely, writing then drawing the writing allows for more second opinions and time to adjust arcs before they hit the studios. So yeah. Sorry I had to gush.

Avalanche and Kitty! Ngl, I haven’t really thought about them/X-M:E for the longest, but you’re right about them being a great subversion of the usual bad boy and good girl trope. I think it may be bc they were kinda establishing a villain + hero trope as well, but like…the hs version. You remember how they met? Dude literally said he was going to rock her world, even back in 1st grade I thought that was cheesy.

That may have been cheesy, but at least it was a promise he could deliver on. 😂😂😂

Avalanche and the brotherhood were always my favorite back then at least in later seasons when they became less of Magneto’s goons and more dimentional characters. There was always more of a story with them because they were very flawed characters, so they had more leeway in terms of development — with the X-Men, a lot of the time, it was morally sound character learns how to be more morally sound (this of course didn’t happen all the time) and that wasn’t as compelling as watching the process of “bad” characters become “good”, which I’m using loosely because I can’t think of a better word because they were still morally challenged by the end, but I always felt that they were slightly better than the X-Men because they had a better grasp on both perspectives of the X-Men and the Brotherhood and by the end of the series they decide to be neither becoming independent. That was solid storytelling that still holds water today which is kind of weird when you consider how ridiculous the concept of X-Men: Evolution is — it’s literally a genre in fanfiction that’s not heavily revered, but like that one story that rises above it’s stereotypes, this did as well.