No Thoughts Just Morph's Side Profile

A call back to this piece of gold🔥🔥🔥

obsessed with them

So......

...this is odd. It's consistent with the powers seen in Age of Apocalypse/Exiles, which is where the redesign comes from...

...but this is really not how Morph's powers worked in the old show.

And, like, it's a problem, because I really think the blast in Night of the Sentinels would not have done the kind of damage it did if Morph had this type of body in TAS.

(Animation continuity, what's that?)

It really doesn't work to just say Morph always had the Exiles base form and was just hiding it until now (which doesn't even work anyway, as we see Morph sleeping, unconscious, and flat-lined in the OG show). It needs to be a change that happened between the two shows, but that really needs to be said at some point.

That was gorgeous i'm tearing up

I have posted a little bit about this before, but I finally read some very old X-Men issues to learn the brief history of the Changeling, the character who got retooled into Morph my beloved.

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i have to go get the stupid deadpool wolverine popcorn bucket. i dont have a choice

tiny fucking bug that brings me so much joy. idk why but i have a vivid memory of this one second morph cameo and being happy that they were healing

People seem to forget how powerful original series Morph was. I love this clip/ episode.

Morph.

X-Men TAS: Courage

While I really appreciate that they tried a “Morph comes back episode,” probably to quiet any fans like me going, “Where’s Morph?  It’s been like, 2 seasons!” it’s weird to me that Morph’s big issue to deal with is “Fear of Sentinels,” not “Dissociative Identity Disorder, guilt and self-loathing over their actions towards their team-mates, and the lingering trauma of the long-term physical and psychological abuse inflicted by Sinister.”

It’s pretty understandable that Morph would now have a fear response to giant robots that literally killed them, which their shape-shifter powers aren’t super effective against, but everything that Sinister did was so much worse, and probably inflicted significantly more damage.  I’m just going to assume that most of Morph’s time on Muir Island was dealing with all that, whereas the PTSD from their death wasn’t as obvious until they actually encountered Sentinels in the field again.

Of course, the simpler, more obvious explanation is that “Morph gets over their fear of Sentinels” is much easier to write as a plot to a half-hour kids cartoon than “Morph deals with the absolute mess of fucked up shit that Sinister put them through.”

This is not a Morph post. This is a Quentin post.

Deal with it

Honestly all versions of Morph/Changeling are really interesting i hope we can get more canon of him in any of the universes

I think it’s very interesting, as I kinda mentioned in my last post, that Changeling seems to be much older than his AU counterparts.  When we seem him as Changeling and once out of uniform, he seems to be at least Xavier’s age or older:

TAS series Morph sometimes looks older:

Probably because they were modeled off Changeling, but the animation isn’t consistent, and they sometimes look younger:

TAS Morph’s voice and overall personality also seem younger, and Wolverine calls them “kid” a couple of times, so I generally assume that they are supposed to be somewhere vaguely in their twenties like most of the other adult X-Men. 

AoA Morph doesn’t have a clear age, although the characters acknowledge that he was previously Changeling.  And Exiles Morph gets his age retconned all the way back to being a teenager alongside the New Mutants:

Given that we have AU’s where Avalanche and Toad are teenagers named Lance Alvers and Todd Tolensky, and we have a hilariously young Sebastian Shaw in the X-Campus universe, it’s not unheard of for alternate universe counterparts to have wildly different ages.  616 Changeling might just be the Kevin Sidney whose parents had him earlier. 

But I have a kind of wild idea (not even really a headcanon), that maybe Changeling was, like the original idea for Mr. Sinister, a young shape-shifter pretending to be much older.  Like he was playing-acting as a super-villain.  It would also explain why he turned heroic so quickly, if he was basically a teenager going through a villain phase.  Changeling put on a goofy purple helmet and joined a terrorist group the same way other teens listen to MCR and put on lots of eyeliner.  It would also be completely on-brand for Xavier to read all that in Changeling’s mind, and be like, “Well, we don’t have time to unpack all that.  Get in the chair and pretend to be me, I’ll be in the basement.”