There’s a little known fact: we were going to change the X-MEN:TAS team. We had written the script where four members left and four new ones came on. It seems hard to imagine now. One of the strengths of the series is that we had found an excellent balance of diverse characters. How would we write stories without four of our team, mixing in four new-comers? The trick is that we were not planning to. Fox Network had decided to end the series at 65 episodes with a big story that concluded with four members leaving and four, who had proved themselves within the story, replacing them. The big four-part story was “Beyond Good and Evil,” and we had finished the four scripts — story laid out by Mark Edens and Michael Edens — with heartfelt farewells included. Then word came down that Fox didn’t want to end the series after all. They wanted another season (season five). Oops. Now I had to go back into “B. G. & E.” and take out all of the story bits that lead to four characters leaving and four new ones stepping in. Not pleasant. What was a really well-constructed 88-minute story now needed to be patched together to be something different. Fast. Oh, well. Below are our original ten X-Men (including Morph), plus some guest stars. See if you can guess which four of our ten was set to leave and who would have replaced them. Two of the replacements are among those shown below.
WHO LEFT AND WHO REPLACED THEM?
