Never Any Love For My Boy XM:TAS Morph

Were these three dumbasses watching static?

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.”

Pets you.

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

I will fight you for the title of biggest Morph fan. (Just kidding, it's good to see another fan out there. You are doing good work!)

Bring it on!

Or we should work together and spread our Morph agenda

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

I don't know if the artist/writer did it on purpose, but I like how, in the very brief flashback glimpses we get of Morph's parents in Exiles:

you could see how those two people could conceivably have a child who grows up to look like this:

Although Exiles Morph's "human child" form is blond like his father. IF TAS Morph has the same origin of being born as a vaguely human-shaped blob (and I'm not 100% sold on that, we really don't know), my headcanon is that TAS Morph's human form is basically copying and combining their parents' features. They didn't even really intend to, they just sort of did it instinctively as they grew, because children expect to look like their parents.

Further headcanon: Whenever child Kevin was upset with one parent, their features would subtly change to resemble the other parent slightly more. That was also an unintentional, subconscious thing. (At first, at least. I could see an older Morph doing it on purpose to be a little shit.) They definitely looked more and more like their mother while she was dying.

If I had a nickle everytime these were my favourite characters i'd have two nickles.

If I had a nickel for every time a cheerful, silly, “jester” type character was abandoned by their friends and came back as a bitter, twisted version of themselves with messed up hair and dark marks under their eyes, I’d have two nickels, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

(Also they both ultimately get redeemed and then go off away from the main cast for a long time to recover.)

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-