Meme: XP canon vs. Comics/Movie canon
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x_projectSo, we haven't had a meme in a while, and I was thinking of this the other day. Besides, work is driving me crazy and I need stuff to read.
Name 5 ways the XP version of your character is different from their comics or movie canon.
Amanda Sefton/Dayspring ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] vs. canon)
1) XP Amanda is a mutant. 'Cause that was/is the rule for XP characters with powers, they have to be mutants. So Amanda has the power to convert energy into magic.
2) XP Amanda didn't grow up with a German circus family - she was taken by a bad man and raised in England as a magical battery.
3) XP Amanda is not romantically involved with her adopted brother Kurt Wagner. At all. Way to be creepy there, Marvel.
4) XP Amanda is not and never has been a stewardess. She came to the school as a 16 year old street brat, under the supervision of Pete Wisdom, for training with her mutant powers and somewhere safe to keep her out of trouble.
Oops.
5) Comics Amanda also never dated Manuel de la Rocha aka Empath. XP Amanda had a fairly long-term relationship with him (about 3 years, iirc), that was fraught with drama, emotional manipulation and lots of sex.
Yvette Petrovic/Penance ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] vs. canon
1) XP Penance is the daughter of an Albanian Muslim woman who was raped during the later part of the war by a Serbian soldier. Canon Yvette... isn't. I actually developed the Penance character based on early Generation X development hints, where it was intended that Penance be a Yugoslavian war survivor by the name of Yvette. I wasn't 100% comfortable with writing a religion I wasn't very familiar with, so rather than botch it, I made Yvette's mother (and Yvette, by extension), atheist following her traumatic experience and her family's response to it.
2) XP Penance was born in a Red Cross refugee camp and named by the French doctor who delivered her. Since "Yvette" isn't a Slavic name, thank you Marvel.
3) XP Penance can talk. Mostly because trying to RP her completely mute and without Artie's handy powers workaround was just too difficult to face.
4) There is no family relationship of any kind between XP Penance and the St. Croix family. Marius bought her while he was in Europe, as a 'cure' for his maladaptive mutation, and while she remains his friend, they don't consider each other family. Also, Marius isn't evil in XP. ;)
5) XP Penance doesn't have the resistance to telepathy that canon Penance/Hollow does. There didn't really seem a reason to need it.
(Extra: also, I hadn't realised this, but apparently Penance was on the list on Stryker's computer files in X2.)
Anyone game to go next?
Name 5 ways the XP version of your character is different from their comics or movie canon.
Amanda Sefton/Dayspring ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] vs. canon)
1) XP Amanda is a mutant. 'Cause that was/is the rule for XP characters with powers, they have to be mutants. So Amanda has the power to convert energy into magic.
2) XP Amanda didn't grow up with a German circus family - she was taken by a bad man and raised in England as a magical battery.
3) XP Amanda is not romantically involved with her adopted brother Kurt Wagner. At all. Way to be creepy there, Marvel.
4) XP Amanda is not and never has been a stewardess. She came to the school as a 16 year old street brat, under the supervision of Pete Wisdom, for training with her mutant powers and somewhere safe to keep her out of trouble.
Oops.
5) Comics Amanda also never dated Manuel de la Rocha aka Empath. XP Amanda had a fairly long-term relationship with him (about 3 years, iirc), that was fraught with drama, emotional manipulation and lots of sex.
Yvette Petrovic/Penance ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] vs. canon
1) XP Penance is the daughter of an Albanian Muslim woman who was raped during the later part of the war by a Serbian soldier. Canon Yvette... isn't. I actually developed the Penance character based on early Generation X development hints, where it was intended that Penance be a Yugoslavian war survivor by the name of Yvette. I wasn't 100% comfortable with writing a religion I wasn't very familiar with, so rather than botch it, I made Yvette's mother (and Yvette, by extension), atheist following her traumatic experience and her family's response to it.
2) XP Penance was born in a Red Cross refugee camp and named by the French doctor who delivered her. Since "Yvette" isn't a Slavic name, thank you Marvel.
3) XP Penance can talk. Mostly because trying to RP her completely mute and without Artie's handy powers workaround was just too difficult to face.
4) There is no family relationship of any kind between XP Penance and the St. Croix family. Marius bought her while he was in Europe, as a 'cure' for his maladaptive mutation, and while she remains his friend, they don't consider each other family. Also, Marius isn't evil in XP. ;)
5) XP Penance doesn't have the resistance to telepathy that canon Penance/Hollow does. There didn't really seem a reason to need it.
(Extra: also, I hadn't realised this, but apparently Penance was on the list on Stryker's computer files in X2.)
Anyone game to go next?
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Date: 2013-08-20 09:25 pm (UTC)Marie-Ange
1. Tarot isn't dead in XP. In canon, she's been killed either two or three times, depending on if she's dead right now or not. Furthermore, if she is not dead at the moment in canon, my Tarot is also not a techno-zombie raised by Selene.
2. My Tarot is much more fully precognitive than canon. Canon, they mostly hinted with very little use of the precognition. In XP, I've pulled the precog into a somewhat useful if headache inducing (for me and her!) power with a whole connection to actual tarot use and mysticism. Well, by "I've" I mean I had thoughts and then threw myself upon the mercy of Dex and Rossi's brains who helped me with the Tante Mattie connection and other developments.
3. Canon Tarot certainly never dated Deadpool. or Garrison Kane. (she did have a little crush on Cypher, sort of, and there were hints of some connection with Empath I think maybe) and I'm pretty damn she she never slept with Gambit.
4. Mostly by virtue of being dead a lot, Tarot in canon's never grown up to be much of anything, except people's minions. XP Tarot's a spy and assassin.
5. In canon, Marie-Ange is the nicest of the Hellions, when she's given characterization. Nice, but on the side of the "bad guys". In XP, Marie-Ange is reserved but friendly at best, and at worst, pretty much an awful person, but she does terrible things for "good" reasons, so she's awful but on the side of good.