Itâs MORPHân time! I am loving Morph in X-Men â97! 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 thatâs true it would be a deep and fascinating choice for the character and I love it. So hereâs 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 beâŠ
Straight up ballinâ.
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 itâs 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 Xavierâs age or older:
TAS series Morph sometimes looks older:
Probably because they were modeled off Changeling, but the animation isnât consistent, and they sometimes look younger:
TAS Morphâs voice and overall personality also seem younger, and Wolverine calls them âkidâ 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.Â
AoA Morph doesnât 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 AUâs 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, itâs 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.Â
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 Changelingâs mind, and be like, âWell, we donât have time to unpack all that. Get in the chair and pretend to be me, Iâll be in the basement.âÂ
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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Ladies and gentleman, her
For Morph
it's logan moping about jean and an idolized relationship that was always doomed to fail while morph is right there and understand logan better than anyone can. it's how morph knew that the way to get logan out of his funk was not talking but by getting into a sparring session and logan doesn't even realize that what he really wants is right in front of him while simultaneously saying shit like "morph is the only one who could make me laugh" in this essay i will-