X-Men "Gifted" TV show discussion and speculation

[TimberWolf]

Sooo no one asked why the black person is a Mutant hating cop while 2 white comicNazis are the stars???? This is why ive only gone to Cons once...and eventually got kicked out

Coby Bell is bi-racial, not black

[jmc247]

Interesting... on Saturday and Sunday they are having The Gifted reruns on FX.

[Divine Spark]

Coby Bell is bi-racial, not black

He also looks more white than black.

[Variant]

The Gifted youtube channel are posting clips from the next episode.



Taking joy in your powers. This just puts a smile on my face.

[Disciple of Redd]

Did the mom say she needed to inject Blink with Hypercortisone-D or did I hear something incorrectly?

[Star_Jammer]

Sooo no one asked why the black person is a Mutant hating cop while 2 white comicNazis are the stars???

LOL...

This is why ive only gone to Cons once...and eventually got kicked out

Even more LOL!

[jmc247]

TheGiftedWriters: "[Polaris's] rings ... can be used as weapons. Her steel toed boots can be used for levitation.” More insight inside! #TheGifted

Full article below.

https://wizardworld.com/wizard/gifte...-mutant-series

[mace11]

Coby Bell is bi-racial, not black

He is black.
Bi-racial black

He also looks more white than black.

Nope i don't think so.
He still looks clearly black enough to me.
He does not even look racially brown and that is intermediate (between white and black).

[mace11]

The opposite was confirmed by the showrunners.

This is the latest info below.
It was posted in another thread.

The Gifted (TV series)
Shared universe connections

Donner explained in January 2017 that, unlike the previous X-Men television series Legion, this series "is much more a part of just the world in terms of there are mutants, mutants are hated ... you feel like you're here in the X-Men world". Despite this, the "cinematic universe will not worry about ... these TV worlds at all. [The films] will just continue in the way that they have been continuing". Nix added that the X-Men films "don't all line up perfectly. So it's not like I'm slavishly fitting myself into a particular slot [but] if you like that world and the world of the movies, there are definite nods to it, it definitely exists in the same general universe".

Nix wanted the connection to be more general than that between Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying "I think [that] is cool but [S.H.I.E.L.D.] already did that." He noted that the premise of the series is something that "established mutants are going to have something to say about", but "it's sort of designed to side-step questions like 'Where is Wolverine?' ... I didn't want to do anything like 'Wolverine is just offscreen!' ... those questions are answered without needing to name a lot of names or spend time dwelling on that issue". Also, "there are a certain amount of those [existing] characters I can use, and I'm using some of those, but others I'm inventing". One group of existing characters that do feature in the series are Sentinels, mutant-hunting robots that have appeared in several of the films, though Donner noted their appearance in the series is "very different from what we've seen before."


Moyer stated in June 2017 that The Gifted would be set between Legion, in which mutants "are still largely not understood", and Logan, which sees the title character as one of the last mutants. He added, "we definitely slot into a timeline, but as of yet, we're not allied. I think they have given themselves a lot of leeway in order to be able to go places, but we've enough story within our universe to propel us forward without having to do that." The next month, Nix noted that the film X-Men: Days of Future Past established multiple, different timelines or "streams" in the X-Men universe, and that the series would take advantage of those to avoid the films and comics and instead do "our own thing". He explained that in the series' "stream", the X-Men have disappeared, soon adding that the series would not be "driving" the movies or vice versa". Loeb compared the series' relationship to the films to the way multiple Marvel comics can tell separate X-Men stories at once, with a "main" storyline co-existing with several others.

Legion (TV series)
Shared universe connections

Landgraf stated, in January 2016, that the series would be set in a universe parallel to the X-Men films where "the US government is in the early days of being aware that something called mutants exist but the public is not". He felt it was unlikely that characters would cross over between the show and films, but noted that this could change between then and the premiere of the series. That July, an article on Marvel.com referred to Legion as one of several characters joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), suggesting that Legion would be set in that shared universe like Marvel Television's other series. The next month, Singer said that Legion had actually been designed to fit into the X-Men universe, but also to stand alone, so "you wouldn't have to label" the relationship between the series and the films. He teased plans to have the series "relate to future X-Men movies".

At New York Comic-Con 2016, Donner said that the series is "far from the X-Men movies, but still lives in that universe. The only way for X-Men to keep moving forward is to be original and to surprise. And this is a surprise. It is very, very different." Hawley explained that because the series is depicting the title character's "subjective reality", it would not have to address any connections to the films straight away, noting that Fargo, which is connected to the 1996 film of the same name, at first "had to stand on its own feet" before exploring those connections more; "We have to earn the right to be part of this universe. My hope is we create something so strong that the people in the movie studio call and say they would be foolish enough not to connect these things." He did state that "you can't tell this story without" acknowledging that Legion is the son of Charles Xavier, who appears in the films. In regards to the MCU, Loeb stated that his involvement in the series was a sign that "bridges are being made" between Marvel and Fox, "but I don't want to make any promises ... Marvel heroes at their core are people who are damaged and are trying to figure out who they are in life. It doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men, Tony Stark, Matt Murdock or Peter Parker ... If you start at a place as strong as David's character is and you have a storyteller like Noah, then it's Marvel. In that way, it is all connected."


Loeb and Donner stated in January 2017 that there were no plans to have Legion be the first in a series of connected shows on FX, like Marvel Television's group of interconnected Defenders series on Netflix, and that Legion and the X-Men series being developed for Fox are "not going to get in each other's way." Donner stated that the series was just a chance to bring an X-Men character to the screen who was not going to be used by the films. The producers hoped that audiences would watch the show because of its character-focus and the talents of Hawley and the cast, rather than to "see a Marvel franchise show." Donner also noted that having Hawley focus on Haller's perspective of reality rather than connections to the X-Men films allowed the series to avoid the convoluted continuity of the films, "because we play with so many different timelines, and we rebooted and not really rebooted and all that" throughout the films. Therefore, "the cinematic universe will not worry about Legion. They will not worry about these TV worlds at all. They will just continue in the way that they have been continuing." For the onscreen confirmation that Xavier is Haller's father in "Chapter 7", with Xavier's signature wheelchair shown in a brief flashback, the series' production was able to choose from any of the variant wheelchairs used throughout the film series. They settled on the version from X-Men: Apocalypse, with the prop used in that film being brought out of storage for the show.

[Proteus]

This is the latest info below.
It was posted in another thread.

The Gifted (TV series)
Shared universe connections


Legion (TV series)
Shared universe connections

That is not the latest info. In multiple interviews over the summer, they stated this show is in its own timeline.

[TimberWolf]

As someone who is Bi-Racial, I can assure you he is bi-racial. Not black, not white. BI-RACIAL

[marhawkman]

TheGiftedWriters: "[Polaris's] rings ... can be used as weapons. Her steel toed boots can be used for levitation.” More insight inside! #TheGifted

Full article below.

https://wizardworld.com/wizard/gifte...-mutant-series

that's a great take on being a mistress of magnetism. Wearing lots of bits of iron because you can use them with your powers makes perfect sense.

[Celestial]

As someone who is Bi-Racial, I can assure you he is bi-racial. Not black, not white. BI-RACIAL

A lot of biracial people identify as black. It's up to the person.

[MarvelMaster616]

The Gifted youtube channel are posting clips from the next episode.



Taking joy in your powers. This just puts a smile on my face.

I'm usually not a fan of episodes that rely too heavily on flashbacks, but after seeing how well Legion handled them, I'm willing to make an exception here.

[marhawkman]

A lot of biracial people identify as black. It's up to the person.

I'm gonna identify as Laplander then.