What do you think about Spyke?
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Viltrumite — 16 years ago(November 27, 2009 06:30 AM)
He was underdeveloped. He had no love interest, no real angst, no 'past'. His intro episode said he had a lifetime rivalry with Quicksilver.
Like I said before, the writers were lazy. Granted, he didn't really need a love interest, or angst, for that matter. In some ways, he was the most normal of the kids. He just wanted to lead a normal life. A couple of times, one of the adults were all like "Oooh, Evan's cut class again!", but if you've helped save the world a few times, crap like who's going to the prom with whom must seem completely irrelevent (yes, Scott and Jean, I'm talking to you). His reaction to the situation when the mutants were "outed" was probably the most realistic, too. -
GrownUpKid — 15 years ago(October 26, 2010 08:36 AM)
I liked him all right. He was an annoying kid at times but he was far from being my least favorite character on the show. I'm one of those weird people that actually preferred how he was handled in the first seasons to when he went all morlock. I never really liked how he was treated by the show's writing though. Sometimes he was just a little reckless kid who did stupid things but still got along with the others more or less then other times it was as though he was some kind of antisocial problem child. They couldn't seem to develop him in a consistent manner.
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NoWoolRBull — 14 years ago(May 14, 2011 02:24 PM)
I liked him alright, but he shouldn't have been a main character.
If they needed a young black male they could have used Nightcrawler since he was already blue.
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Viltrumite — 14 years ago(May 16, 2011 03:21 AM)
If they needed a young black male, they could have used Nightcrawler since he was already blue
I'm assuming you're joking, but if, on the offchance you're serious, then wow.
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NoWoolRBull — 14 years ago(May 16, 2011 01:11 PM)
Why would i be joking, Nightcrawler is BLUE, not WHITE,
so that means he can be portrayed by any race. That image watch could have made him have black skin or whatever.
I even think he had a black girlfriend too.
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Viltrumite — 14 years ago(May 21, 2011 09:58 AM)
Nightcrawler is a white dude with blue skin. Is that so tough to grasp. The image inducer makes him look like what he'd look like if he weren't a mutant, or at least not such an obvious one. Why would he use it to make himself look like a black dude?
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NoWoolRBull — 14 years ago(May 21, 2011 02:32 PM)
Who confirmed that Nightcrawler was white? Nowhere have I ever seen or read anything that said Nightcrawler or his mother Mystique were white.
If you find it, can you please show it to me.
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Raging_Demon05 — 14 years ago(May 20, 2011 11:32 PM)
Ok, I am re-watching this show and I am realizing just how GOOD it was! I mean the premise and the animation are all superb. As far as Evan/Spike, I think he was done very well. The writers needed and AA male teenage character and he fit the bill. I love the way they didn't make him too stereotypical yet still allowed him to be imperfect.
As far as his looks and hobbies, I think some of these comments are just plain ridiculous. This is a CARTOON about a group of mutant kids with special powers and you think its strange to see a black kid with bleached-blonde hair riding a skateboard? Have you ever heard of Pharrell Williams and Dennis Rodman?
All in all, this is quite an amazing show!
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aRealCoolGuy — 14 years ago(July 26, 2011 01:03 AM)
My biggest issue with Spyke is that he has the same powers as Marrow from the comic books but in a world where every other superpower is telepathy, it makes it difficult to complain about mutants with similar powers..
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Link6321 — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 06:02 AM)
I thought he was annoying. I know this was a reimagining of the X-Men universe (them being teens) and that the show was bound to deal with teenage things, but some of the stuff Spyke did were just plain childish. Up until he joined the Moorlocks, I found him uninteresting. Thank god he joined with them; he finally became interesting when his powers evolvedplus we finally saw less of him. When he reappeared in season 3, I thought it was a good episode and I had no problem with him as a character then. I guess my main problem with him was how childish they portrayed him to be.
For the record, this doesn't mean that I didn't find some of the other characters childish at times, too (like Wolverine and his constant "rawrs" with Sabretooth even when they're supposed to be cooperating with each other put it aside, will you?! You're supposedly a grown man with experience, for crying out loud. Save the childish squabbles for later). But Spyke was just really annoyingly childish the entire time he was at The Institute. There was a time when they just redid the mansion after the explosion; the living room was already immaculate and all but Spyke just HAD to let out his wood. -
Definition00 — 14 years ago(September 25, 2011 01:37 AM)
Wasn't Spyke one of the youngest X kids. He was really the token immature annoying character but I liked him. The power was cool (yes, even if it's the same as Marrow, who doesn't exist in the show BTW). It added a cool dimension that he was Storm's nephew. And it was cool that with him, they could portray secondary mutations or the development of mutations. He represented the mutants who weren't 'beautiful' and couldn't hide their mutation. Nightcrawler typically represents this but they invented the holowatch for him.
I imagined a fan fic type character who was Spyke's brother and had white hair and the same power as Storm. They would compete with eachother and Spyke's struggles and rebellion would be amplified because he had this perfect brother who fit in at school and the X mansion while Spyke was a misfit who couldn't control or hide his power. -
drewjew — 14 years ago(January 26, 2012 03:25 PM)
He annoyed me, the only thing that didn't make him worse than Nightcrawler was the fact that he was a new character to me, therefore his personality did not clash with any preconceived ideas of how his character should be.
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Duke_NukeAss — 12 years ago(August 17, 2013 03:04 PM)
I can't understand some of you, from years ago, think he'd have a healing factor but sorry to say he doesn't. His power was basically the ability to grow tumors out of his flesh. They didnt leave wounds. Any normal damage he took, needed time to recover. He was extremely arrogant, which was horrid, as he literally had the worst ability of all the mutants until his powers evolved. Except Toad maybe. But he was lame. Morlock storyline helped him a LOT, made his spikes look much better.