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Ladies and gentleman, her

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.” 

Xavier fixing Morph after the end of X-Men:TAS Season 2:

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

Deal with it

X-Men '97 #2 (2024)

written by Steve Foxe art by Salva Espin & Matt Milla

It’s MORPH’n time! I am loving Morph in X-Men ‘97! Very much enjoying what JP Karliak is bringing to the role and read a really great theory about how Morph uses his new neutral/blank face to mask his trauma. In ep 3 you can see how he reverts to his old face when talking about Sinister, and then immediately changes back to the blank face. If that’s true it would be a deep and fascinating choice for the character and I love it. So here’s my take on Morph, and one last, not so secret sneak peek at the last member of the team illustration. I wonder who it could be…

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

yayyy