X-Men

X-Men (1992)

17 mistakes in Whatever It Takes

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Plot hole: After Magneto and Xavier discover that their powers have vanished, Mr. Sinister is shown to be watching them through surveillance footage, zeroed in on their faces from a straight angle. At this point, Magneto and Xavier are standing at the edge of a cliff in the Savage Land, which is a jungle hidden in Antarctica. There's no conceivable way Mr. Sinister could have security footage of them from where they are located. Any camera would have to be mounted onto a tree, and the cliff is at a considerably higher elevation than the jungle itself, as well as a considerable distance away. Even if Mr. Sinister was able to zoom in on them from such a distance, the treeline being lower than the cliff would only allow him to view them from a low angle, and that's only if the cliff wall didn't obscure them. (00:20:00)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Storm is reunited with Mjnari after purging Shadow King from her body, Mjnari has a tear coming out of the outside corner of his right eye. When the shot changes, the tear is gone. (00:16:03)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: In the flashback of Shadow King terrorizing a young Storm, in one shot she is shown sitting on the palm of his left hand. When the shot changes, she is now on the palm of his right hand. (00:15:18)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When the riverboat captain is talking about how Wolverine is looking for Morph, Wolverine is standing several feet away looking over the side of the boat. When the shot changes, Wolverine's left arm is suddenly behind the captain's back, offering his monkey a peanut. (00:04:41)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When the opening of the Astral Plane is first shown emerging from Mt. Kilimanjaro's Kibo summit, the summit is correctly depicted as being somewhat flat. Near the end when the opening of the Astral Plane is diminishing, the mountain summit is shown to have a pyramidal peak. (00:02:35 - 00:16:50)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: The boomerang that Xavier uses to throw at the jungle warrior astride the pterodactyl appears from nowhere. While it probably belonged to the warrior himself, neither he nor the other warrior with him were shown to have dropped it when they swooped by and captured Magneto and knocked Xavier down. (00:20:15)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Audio problem: When Magneto is saying "Strange. What would restore your...," his mouth remains wide open and unmoved after saying "restore," which would make it impossible to then say "your." (00:19:45)

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Question: Does anyone know why Gambit was featured less and less in episodes as the show went on? He was one of the most popular characters in not just X-Men, but all of Marvel Comics around the time this series first aired, so unless it had something to do with his voice actor's contract, it seems odd they wouldn't have utilized him more.

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Answer: Chris Potter, the original Gambit voice actor, did indeed quit the role in the 4th season. His last episode was The Phalanx Covenant Part 1 so it seems reasonable that Fox would limit the use of the character even though it was recast. It doesn't appear that Potter left the role due to animosity, he stated in an interview that he wished to play Gambit in the first live action X-Men film.

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