Tiny Fucking Bug That Brings Me So Much Joy. Idk Why But I Have A Vivid Memory Of This One Second Morph

Morph.

Pets you.

MARVEL CHARACTER EVOLUTION

MORPH

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.” 

Ladies and gentleman, her

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

Were these three dumbasses watching static?

never any love for my boy XM:TAS Morph

you guys need to understand that they were my everything

X-Men '97 #2 (2024)

written by Steve Foxe art by Salva Espin & Matt Milla

“Fuck you, my child is fine.”

Your child obsesses over Morph from X-Men: the Animated Series because he risked his life for Wolverine who would’ve survived being hit by that Sentinel because of his healing factor but the only thing that mattered to Morph in those few seconds was that his friend was in danger so he threw it all away to save LOGAN-