New Mutants (TV series)/Tropes

* Actor Allusion: Wendie Malick voices a witch who is a Large Ham.
* Animation Bump: Quicksilver is animated more fluid than most of the show, to represent his speed.
* Author's Saving Throw: Sunspot is played by Afro-Brazilian actor Ícaro Silva, after his last two potrayals had him whitewashed or undergoing a Race Lift.
* Casting Gag:
** Halle Berry, who previously played Storm in the FOX X-Men films, voices Lady Sif in a guest role.
** Michael Rosenbaum again plays a speedster in a comic book series.
*Class Clown: Quicksiover is this in the series.
* Composite Character:
** Rogue takes Agent McTaggert's role as the one who takes Wolfsbane to the Institute.
** This version of Quicksilver goes by Pietro and is Wanda's brother like the comics, but has a miscgeveous personality more in line with Evan Peters' potrayal.
** The show's Agatha Harkness is a Large Ham like her Katheryn Hann version but maintains her comic book self's appearance and moral alignment.
* Commonly Connection: In season 2, Mirage bonds with Aurora in both of her altersbecause she understands the traumas they experienced for being a mutant in a religious household.
* Dark And Troubled Past: Mirage was abused by her father after her powers first manifested, and, once they were exposed, her enture town tried to kill her, forcimg her to live in the forest until Beast showed up to take her to the Xavier Institute.
* Does This Remind You of Anything?: Wolfsbane's arc of accepting her powers is played very similarly to a gay person coming to terms with their sexuality.
* Funny Moments: An episode starts with the students passing along a note to each other, before Wolverine catches them and discovers is a drawing of him cursing while watching Cyclops and Jean Grey kiss. The real kicker is the priceless reaction of Pietro Maximoff, the student who drew it.
* Heartwarming Moments: After Wolfsbane (in her wolf form) admits to Mirage why she is so ashamed of her wolf form, Mirage tells her to forget what people said and that she is amazing as a wolf. Wolfsbane is touched by this, and licks her.
* Improved Second Attempt: The FOX version of Cyclops was highly criticized by fans for barely doing justice to the character and being a waste of James Marsden's talents. New Mutants not only brings Marsden to reprise his role, even if as an unrelated version, but gives him more depth as a character than the live-action films, showing both his struggles as a teacher for the Xavier Institute and displaying geniune skills as a leader in "Emergency".
* Lighter and Softer: Than the 2020 New Mutants film, focusing on high school drama instead of horror material.
* Mythology Gag:
** Karma's fascination with Asgardian culture is an homage to her time in Asgard in the comics.
** Wolfsbane and Mirage develop a romantic relationship, much like in the live-action film.
** Karma's first class has Xavier reading a passage of The Once and Future King before asking the students about it. This was lifted directly from X-Men: Apocalypse.
** During the pilot, some older students can be heard talking about a field trip to the Statue of Liberty.
** The ringbell for the Xavier Institute plays the 1992 X-Men theme.
** Episode 2 begins with a flashback to when Wolfsbabe met Professor X, which is similar to when Kitty Pryde met Xavier in the Pryde of the X-Men pilot.
** The scene of Wolfsbabe walking througth the school as "Creep" by Radiohead plays is an homage to the opening of Guardians of thr Galaxy Vol. 3
** The logo for the Xavier Institute is the same from the FOX films.
** The X-Men established relationships with Asgard after Loki tried using Storm to take over the realm, which the team and Thor stopped. This is an homage to a story from the New Mutants comics.
** The first shot of Asgard is accompanied by "Paradise City" by Gun 'n Roses, which was previously used to introduce New Asgard.
** One episode has the New Mutants doing a group ptoject about time travel, a nod to the Days of the Future Past.
** Wanda's appearance is modeled after her X-Men: Evolution self.
** While declaring her feelings for Mirage in the finale, Wolfsbane calls her "[her] soulmmate", which was how they called each other in the original comics.
** In season 2, upon seeing Aurora after waking up, Sunspot compares her to "a sasquatch after a nap". In the comics, Aurora is part of the Canadian team "Alpha Flight" alongisde superhero Walter Langkowski / Sasquacth.
** Wanda mentions her childhood home was often surrounded by prostests where people chanted "no more mutants", referencing her infamous spell in the House of M event. Her old house is mentioned to be nearby Mount Wundagore, which is where she and Pietro were born in the comics.
** In Wanda's room, a poster for Modern Family can be seen. The MCU Wanda was established to be a fan of sitcoms in WandaVision, with Modern Family being homaged in one episode. Another poster says "Change the winds of your destiny!", an homage to her chants in The Avengers: United They Stand!, "Winds of destiny, change!".
*Nightmare Fuel: The episode "Emergency" is full of this. Sentinels attack the school looking to kill anyone inside it, including the students. The whole episode plays as if a earthquake or tsunami is affecting the school.
*Parental Substitute: Wolfsbabe clearly sees Rogue as this.
* Role Reprise: James Marsden reprises his role as Cyclops from the FOX X-Men franchise.
* Shout-Out: The intro features the song "Do You Wanna Test It", in homage to Peacemaker.
* Straight Man and Wise Guy: This is the dynamic between Wanda and Pietro, with Wanda being the goth who has to live with Pietro, the self-proclaimed "class clown".
* Tearjerker: Wolfsbane's first reaction upon realizing the team saw her powers is to hide away in fear. You can see how terrified she is in her face upon seeing her roommates.
* Trauma Button: The X-Men and New Mutants unknowingly step on Wolfsbane's as they search for her, as seeing them reminds Wolfsbane of her people chasing her.
* What Could Have Been: Lauren Faust previously did an unapproved pitch for a New Mutants show starring Kitty Pride, which she later turned into DC Superhero Girls (2019).