Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Hugh Jackman is iconic as Wolverine, but some may be surprised to hear that a long-forgotten X-Men project had a different Australian play the role years earlier. Apart from the Fox X-Men movies, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s mutant ensemble has been reinterpreted in animation time and again with a coming-of-age makeover , a post-apocalyptic saga , and even a limited anime run .
Before a full-fledged X-Men TV show, the mutants appeared as guest stars on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends . Compared to the otherwise clunky visuals of other Marvel Action Universe block programs at the time, the action sequences of the 1989 pilot were more fluid, and the character outlines were more defined. The Uncanny X-Men comics inspired the general premise of the X-Men foiling Magneto’s plans of diverting a comet to Earth, blocking the sun, and ushering in a new Ice Age.