Mutant X
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mutant X |
| Original title | Mutant X |
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| Country of production |
Canada , United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2001-2004 |
| Production company |
Fireworks Entertainment , Marvel Studios , Tribune Entertainment |
| length | 42 minutes |
| Episodes | 66 in 3 seasons |
| genre | Drama , science fiction , fantasy |
| idea | Avi Arad |
| production |
Avi Arad , Jay Firestone , Jamie Paul Rock |
| music | Louis Natale |
| First broadcast | October 6, 2001 (USA) on syndication |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 8, 2003 on RTL II |
| occupation | |
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Mutant X is an American - Canadian science fiction series produced by Fireworks Entertainment and Marvel Studios . It was filmed in Toronto and is based on the Marvel Comics . It is about the fate of a group of genetically modified young people ( mutants ) and their mentor in the fight against an overpowering genetics company. Three seasons with 66 episodes were produced.
Emerge
After the success of the films Matrix and X-Men , the aim was to create a series that is based on the aforementioned films both in terms of style and content and takes up the two major themes of the late 1990s: genetic engineering and the Internet .
Genre affiliation and style
The genre of Mutant X cannot be clearly determined. Mutant X includes elements from science fiction , action series, youth series, family drama and martial arts film . On the surface, Mutant X seems to belong to science fiction; On closer inspection, however, this is put into perspective by the concentration on the emotional relationships between the characters and an emotional bliss that is extremely atypical for science fiction . In terms of clothing, music, camera work, etc., the series is essentially based on Matrix; in the figure constellation there is a striking resemblance to the characters in the movie X-Men.
content
Mutant X addresses the guilt of a geneticist for performing genetic engineering on sick children - a treatment method the geneticist was (allegedly) unaware of at the time of its application. The patients of the genetics company are now adolescents and young adults who have developed “mutant powers” ( telekinesis , telepathy, etc.) as a result of the genetic treatment and who are mostly overwhelmed by these strange powers and their feeling of being different. Since some of the mutants pose a threat to society and the existence of the genetically modified people - part of a secret military program - must not be made public, the current head of the genetics company, a military tactician, tries to capture all mutants and lock them in stasis pods or for his own To recruit security service to perform this task for him.
Figures / groupings
Adam Kane
Adam Kane is the boss of Mutant X. He is a normal human, highly gifted geneticist and a marked inclination towards Far Eastern philosophy and mysterious behavior. He was the chief biogeneticist at Genome X for 20 years and, as such, carried out genetic experiments on sick children until he left Genome X in around 1991. Then he started building the Mutant X resistance group to save Genom X's children from Mason Eckhart and the GSD. He first adopted Shalimar Fox, then Jesse Kilmartin, to build the foundation for Mutant X from.
Kane was friends with Mason Eckhart until Mason suffered an immune breakdown in 1991 as a result of an incident (possibly caused by Adam) .
After he faked his death at the beginning of the third season and thus leaves Mutant X, he reappears in the middle of the season, but only for guest appearances to support his team. He is kidnapped by the "Creator" in the season 3 finale after it was revealed that Adam is only the "Creator's" clone.
Shalimar Fox
Shalimar Fox is one of the children of Genome X, mutant, member of Mutant X. Adam found her half-starved and abandoned when she was 15 years old. He took her in and gave her a new home. Shalimar is a “wild one”, which means that she has animal DNA in her (cf. chimera in the natural sciences, hybrids ). Like all animals, Shalimar fears fire; she has superhuman physical strength, but also particularly strong instincts and as a result can be very affectionate, but also very freedom-loving.
Brennan Mulwray
Brennan Mulwray is an "electrical elemental" mutant. He will be added to Mutant X during the second episode. Brennan grew up with his mother and stepfather. He did not get to know his birth father, who was a pilot in the Vietnam War and was shot down. Like an electric eel, it can give off electrical surges through its fingertips, which it also uses to crack cars, destroy computers and resuscitate cardiac patients. Brennan avoids the water because he is not able to use his powers when wet. In the course of the series, Brennan developed further and with the help of his electricity he was able to use his lightning bolts as a jet engine.
Jesse Kilmartin
Jesse Kilmartin is a member of Mutant X, Mutant, “Molecular”, which means that he can change the density of his body from solid to gas. He can also change the density of other people and objects through touch. He is also a computer specialist. Jesse's father is a successful manager, the two were never close. That is why he is always the mediator and the sensible one. After Adam's departure, he partially takes over the leadership.
Emma deLauro
Emma deLauro is a "psionic" or " tele-empathic " mutant. She can read, feel, and manipulate other people's minds. In the course of the series she discovers new powers: she can shoot numbing energy balls from her forehead, but with the help of them she can also let her other powers work. She will be included in Mutant X during the course of the first episode. DeLauro was disowned by her parents for her mutation when she was nine years old and grew up in Seattle. At the beginning of season 3, in the episode The Mutant Out of Nowhere , Emma dies in an explosion.
Lexa Pierce
Lexa Pierce (nickname Mutant 1.0) can break the light. Thus it can z. B. make invisible, blind opponents and shoot laser beams from your finger. After Emma died in an explosion at the beginning of season 3 and Adam disappeared without a trace, Lexa became a member of Mutant X. Through her contacts with Dominion, her employer, she initially created suspicion among the other Mutant X members. Mutant X obeys all orders from Dominion, transmitted through Lexa, initially with blind trust. However, when an outsider begins to give the group tips and these prove to be very helpful, Lexa also begins to doubt her superiors until she even turns away from the Dominion organization completely.
Mason Eckhart
Dr. Mason Eckhart is a military tactician and a graduate of West Point Military Academy . Eckhart is a seedy, hard-to-see character. As the former head of security at Genom X, he ensures that nothing about the failed experiments is leaked out. His goal is to get to the children of Genome X and bring them under his control, in order to then exploit them for his own purposes or to put them into stasis. He himself lost his immune system in the failed experiment. In order to achieve his dubious goals, the ice-cold head of the Genetic Security Service (GSD) walks over corpses. When Mason takes over the leadership of Genome X, he becomes the direct opponent of Adam and Mutant X. Mason Eckardt is killed by Brennan Mulwray after he tried everything possible to restore his immune system after the Naxcon explosion.
Genome X (Genomex)
Genom X is a government-affiliated genetics company that conducts human testing. Patients in this company called children of genome X. As a silhouette for genome X is the facade of the RC Harris Water plant on the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto .
The Genetic Security Service - GSD
GSD is the task force founded by Eckhart that helps him to implement his plans. Eckhart's German surname and the designation G SA are not exactly chosen very subtly. In the GSD / GSA, a large number of the recruited mutants are employed by Eckhart.
Dominion
Dominion is an organization that doesn't enter the game until the third season of Mutant X. Dominion's members are committed to preventing the misuse of science and preventing disasters. Dominion orders Lexa to join Mutant X. It later emerges that some members have very different interests.
places
Refuges (New Mutant Safehouses)
Refuge are secret hiding places in which mutants hidden from Eckhart can be temporarily housed; also a kind of "camp" from which the mutants can plan their operations. But there are also (if only temporarily) the mutants who prefer to go underground in the mutants.
The Secret Headquarters (Sanctuary)
Sanctuary is the secret place where Adam, Shalimar, Jesse, Emma and Brennan commonly hang out. A high-tech hiding place inside a mountain, which includes a genetics laboratory, a holographic training room ( dojo ) and a meditation pond . The complex is modeled on a Japanese Zen temple and is therefore called Sanctuary.
When the head office was partially destroyed at the end of the second season, it was then completely renovated.
Weapons / devices / vehicles
Stasis capsules
Stasis capsules are coffin-like containers made of plexiglass in which the mutants are held during stasis, a coma-like state. They were originally developed by Adam Kane to render harmless the first, most powerful and also mentally disturbed mutant - Gabriel Ashlocke.
Subdermal Commander (Subdermal Governor)
A device also developed by Adam to control mutants, but which is also in the possession of Mason Eckard, which is implanted in or on the cervical vertebrae using a kind of pistol . Subdermal commanders block the mutants' powers as they interrupt the corresponding nerve impulses with strong pain signals. However, it is possible to temporarily remove the blocking using a kind of remote control. So that captured mutants can use their powers briefly and mostly in favor of genome X. Furthermore, they can easily be put out of action with targeted power surges or with the help of the right tool.
Double helix
The double helix is the main means of transportation for Mutant X members. It is an aircraft that is equipped with a stealth mode and can make itself invisible. The highly developed double helix lands vertically and can also be controlled remotely from the control center (sanctuary) .
Mutation types
By combining human and animal DNA, wild mutants possess the physical and mental abilities of the animal donor. The elemental mutants have the ability to channel elemental energy through their bodies. Molecular mutants disregard the basic laws of physics, e.g. B. can stretch their bodies or make themselves invisible. Psychic mutants have a strengthened mind. You have e.g. B. the ability to sense or manipulate other people's emotions.
comics
The series is only very vaguely based on the various X-Men comics (X-Men, X-Factor, Excalibur, Cable, ...) from Marvel. A comic of the same name that was started at Marvel long before the TV series began has no relation to the series and is therefore only related in the title. With Mutant X: Dangerous Decision and Mutant X: Origin appeared in 2002 but two comic books for the TV series at Marvel.
future
After Fireworks Entertainment went bankrupt, the American operator of the series Tribune Entertainment refused to bear the production costs alone. A fourth season had been planned beforehand, but the plans were discarded after the bankruptcy.
Awards (selection)
- In 2002 Jill Purdy, Steve Baine, Dan Daniels, Mark Gingras, Rose Gregoris, Allen Ormerod and Scott Shepherd won a Gemini Award for the episode "The Shock of the New" for best tone in a dramatic series
Web links
- Mutant X in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode guide etc. on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mutant X discontinued ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on treknews.de
