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?
Rachel
Date: 2013-08-29 04:53 pm (UTC)1) Canon Rachel is the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from an alternative future. XP Rachel is the daughter of Nathan Dayspring (not a Summers) and Moira MacTaggart.
2) XP Rachel is technically 8 years old, but due to Essex's manipulations, she "grew up" in a bubble in the astral plane and returned as a nineteen year old. Canon Rachel grew up in the alternative future before travelling to the past and deciding to stay.
3) Canon Rachel took the code name "Phoenix" in honour of her dead mother and was a host for the Phoenix Force. There is no Phoenix Force in XP and Rachel's mother Moira is very much alive. So is Jean.
4) Canon Rachel was part of the Excalibur team with Shadowcat, Daytripper, Meggan and Nightcrawler. XP Rachel only met Shadowcat as a baby, hasn't been seen on-screen with Daytripper or Meggan yet, and was trained as an X-Man partly by her world's version of Kurt.
5) Canon Rachel has the permanent scars/tattoos on her face from when she was made a Hound. XP Rachel's face is unmarred.