Generation X (1996) on Netflix
NR19961h 27mActionAdventureSci-Fi
Jubilation Lee's powers erupt at an arcade, and Emma Frost and Sean Cassidy bring her to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. A scientist who invades dreams has plans for the students.
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Plot summary
Jubilation Lee's mutant power, bursts of brightly colored plasma she fires from her hands, erupts at a local arcade and lands her in trouble. Emma Frost and Sean Cassidy, who run Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, rescue her and offer her a place at the school, where mutants learn to control their abilities. On the way they collect another teenager, Angelo "Skin" Espinosa, and the newcomers meet fellow students M, Mondo, Buff and Refrax. The headmasters warn everyone against leaving the grounds. Russel Tresh, a researcher Emma Frost fired from a dream-machine project, reaches the students in their sleep, hunting material from mutants' brains that he believes will give him psychic abilities.
Cast
- Amarilisas Monet St. Croix / M
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Generation X (1996)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The budget could not stretch to the comic's Chamber and Husk, whose powers meant drastic changes to their bodies, so the producers had Generation X comic writer Scott Lobdell invent two replacements, Refrax and Buff, with the idea that popular ones might join the comic and Toy Biz's X-Men figures.
- Jubilee, Chinese American in the comics and the cartoon series, was not played as a character of Asian descent here, while Sandra Oh auditioned for the part of Emma Frost.
- The pilot opened with an on-screen definition of mutation, a device the later X-Men theatrical films echoed with their own opening statements on mutation and evolution, spoken in voice-over rather than printed.
