Spyke-Good or Bad?

[Donald Duck 12]

As in the current X-23 thread I would like to know your opinions on the character of Evan Daniels, Spyke. I personally liked the character, do you?

[Pyro]

I honestly didn't have any feelings about him one way or the other. However, I found one thing very odd about him. I hope this doesn't become misunderstood, but as the only black character on the show (excluding Storm) I found him very unrelatable. I'm a black teenage male myself, and while I'm glad he wasn't a stereotype, I wish I could have related to him more.

[StormDragon318]

Spyke was OK, I guess. He wasn't anything special; his powers were ok, his personality in the first two seasons was annoying but later on, as his powers developed and he joined the Morlocks, he grew into a much more interesting character, especially in that episode in season 4 about hate crimes in Bayville, which also introduced Leech (can't remember what it was called).

I also liked that at least his relationship with Storm meant she got some more screentime and a few more lines to say.

[Spider-Friends]

...as his powers developed and he joined the Morlocks...
I haven't seen many X:E episodes and that statement made me curious: What would make someone choose to join the morlocks as opposed to staying at Xavier's?

[Stu]

I haven't seen many X:E episodes and that statement made me curious: What would make someone choose to join the morlocks as opposed to staying at Xavier's?

In Evo, the mutants still go to school, have social lives, etc. Spyke couldn't do that, because he was mutating a little beyond his normal powers.

http://x-men.toonzone.net/gallery/images/48-02.jpg

You can't really go to school looking like that... :)

[Bearpod91]

Spyke was really cool by being those mutants who showed thier powers in a basketball game. the shirts with holes thing also felt like johhny storm burning his shirt off lol. the return of spyke as a dark evil-ish mutant was cool to see becuz his powers grew into him having his wooden spikes coming out and becoming a body shield and having the wood burn too. the picture stu showed is mostly wat i'm talking about. He also, in the first eps of spyke, had a relationship with magneto's father(forgot the guys name) and it was a cool way to introduce 2 characters, one bad and the other good turned bad.


I liked Spyke and he was a good character. But if the thread title asks if i think hes a bad guy or good guy, I would mostly go towards him as a good guy that had a bad guy phase.

[STARTOUNZ]

If the thread title asks if i think hes a bad guy or good guy, I would mostly go towards him as a good guy that had a bad guy phase.I believe the issue of this topic is whether or not Spyke was a good or bad addition to the X-EVO series in general. And IMO, he was good for the show.



Later on, as his powers developed and he joined the Morlocks, he grew into a much more interesting character, especially in that episode in season 4 about hate crimes in Bayville, which also introduced Leech (can't remember what it was called).

The episode was titled "Uprising", which was among the best from that season. One thing I liked about Spyke was that he let his feelings be known about how mutants were being treated and wasn't afraid to do anything about it. At the Institute, they would have told him to refrain from using his powers in anger. But that would have probably gotten him more frustrated. With the Morlocks, he was their protector and got the opportunities he needed to kick butt when any of them came into danger.

[Spider-Man]

I thought he was a pretty one-note character until his appearance in "Uprising." He was really well handled in that episode and become a fully fleshed out character. I really didn't enjoy his antics in the first couple seasons although he was tolerable.

[Dudley]

I like Spyke, he's an okay character, but every now and then, I still see him as a character they needed to add because they didn't have a black teenager.

[Spider-Man]

So he was creating just for the animated series too right? I don't remember seeing him in any of the X-Men comics I read. So what makes his character any less of "Mary Sue" or whatever you call those than X23? They're both made up and had their own focus episodes away from the animated versions of comic characters.

[Crash]

...Spyke. A character with interesting possibilities. I did enjoy using him in a handfull of fanfics, but in the show itself.... The only time I liked him in the show was when he was introduced (and only then because he was played off of Quicksilver) when he left (because its always nice to see the heros rebuffed) and when he returned (because he was so different that time).




So he was creating just for the animated series too right? I don't remember seeing him in any of the X-Men comics I read. So what makes his character any less of "Mary Sue" or whatever you call those than X23? They're both made up and had their own focus episodes away from the animated versions of comic characters.
Why X23 a 'Mary Sue' when Spyke isn't? 'Cause X23 was 'cool' and Spyke wasn't. ...X23 single-handedly took down everyone in the mansion, easilly tore up HYDRA's Light-Sentinel-Wannabes, and hounded HYDRA to near oblivion. Spyke had his moments, to be sure, but was most often a skateboarding goof-up. To be a Mary Sue, one must be cool to the point of implausibility. Whatever one feels about Spyke, he was never presented as implausibly cool...

[Sandoz]

Spyke was...okay. Until his power surge it seemed like the writers never knew quite what to do with him. His rivalry with Quicksilver could have been interesting, but it was abandoned after Season 1. His relationship with his aunt was never given any serious depth. He also never seemed to integrate himself well with the other young X-Men. The Morlocks gave his character an actual purpose.