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: 2013-08-28 04:02 pm (UTC)1) Canon Remy was a master thief, apprenticed to the Guild after being picked up off the streets as a child. XP Remy is an operative and assassin, trained by the CIA after being picked up off the streets as a child.
2) Canon Remy is close friends with Ororo after rescuing her following the Seige Perilous. The pair have never been in a romantic relationship together. XP Remy became close friends with Ororo following several missions and eventually became a couple, marrying in 2011.
3) Canon Remy was once a Horseman of Apocalypse. XP Remy has knocked off a pair of Apocalypse's Horseman and is unlikely to ever be turned to his side.
4) Canon Remy had a long and complex on-again/off-again romantic relationship with Rogue. XP Remy initially detested Rogue, although they eventually became friends and allies. There has never been any hints of romantic interest between them.
5) Canon Remy, despite a checkered past, is generally considered to have been a moral man. XP Remy was a sadistic monster who was only stopped by the scrubbing of his personality and 20 years of experiences.
Garrison Kane/Dominion
1) Canon Kane was part of the Weapon-X project. XP Kane never was.
2) Canon Kane worked for Cable until an explosion made him a quadraplegic. XP Kane has no association with Cable beyond the X-Men and has all his limbs, although his right arm was surgically rebuilt by Essex.
3) Canon Kane fought for Cable in the 40th Century with upgraded future technology. XP Kane has never been closer to the 40th Century than Futurama DVDs, which he once upgraded to blu-ray
4) Canon Kane has the personality of damp cardboard. XP Kane has a personality mostly stolen from Ryan Reynolds films, Canadian stereotypes, and too much baseball.
5) Canon Kane was once romantically linked to Copycat while working at a community theatre. XP Kane was almost romantically linked to Copycat and can't find the community theatre without his GPS.