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X-Men: Evolution Season 4 Episode 5

Uprising

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AIRED: 9/27/03

With anti-mutant hysteria on the rise, a further mutated Spyke does all he can to protect his fellow Morlocks from attacks. He then comes to the aid of a couple of the New Mutants from Duncan and his friends which leads to trouble when he later seeks revenge. Meanwhile, Xavier and Beast monitor the formation of a second impenetrable sphere in China created by Apocolypse. Trask is released from prison with the anticipation his Sentinels may be needed against him. Also, a young boy named Dorian Leach is exhibiting mutant abilities that can't be hidden as he also becomes a target of hate crimes, leading to Spyke protecting him as well. They meet again later when Duncan and friends start an all-out war against Spyke. But he won't be alone as some of the X-Men and eventually the Morlocks come to his aid. Young Dorian, however, is the one who ends the battle when he unleashes a new power.moreless

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The legendary Spyke returns! (He's not really legendary, but you'd think he was the way this ep plays!)

8.5

By RobGrizz, Jan 24, 2009

The The legendary Spyke returns! (He's not really legendary, but you'd think he was the way this ep plays!) In Uprising, Spyke has now fully evolved- grown up, and stronger than ever- even shooting flaming arrows! He's become the guardian and protector of the Morlocks (His relationship with Storm, who does this in the comics, opens the narrative decision up for discussion).

This is an impressive example of how characters grow and develop on this show. I quite liked seeing his return, and a small bit of the mutant hatred within the city continues. Original and welcome in my book.moreless
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Spyke returns and the entire world is shocked to see how dangerous mutants can be. An uprising is the only logical solution.

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By logi, Sep 24, 2007

This episode brings into play the major and most important theme from the X-Men comics, one that has been found in the background of numerous episodes so far: prejudice and fear or even hatred of humans towards mutants.

A nice and surprising move of the writers was to bring back Spyke, and give him a new design (and he does look cooler now) as well as a power "upgrade" (as Wolverine calls it). An all out war between humans and mutants (most notably against the Morlocks) begins, and the leader of the human gang is none other than Duncan (who hasn't appeared in a while). His character here is developed better than in all of his previous appearances put together, and his confrontation with Jean was surprising, but inevitable. I at least knew that was going to happen to him; he had it coming for a while now.

Another character introduced in this episode is Leech, who I must admit that I don't know much about him. He does serve as a good character in this episode, adding to the already existent conflict and suffering for being a mutant.

A great episode, with lots of action and drama. Not the best episode of the show, but certainly one of the most dramatic ones, and one that doesn't deal with a super powered villain, but with humans' fear of the unknown.moreless
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Spyke is back with avengence.

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By Lionheart08, Oct 26, 2005

The one thing I really disliked about this series was how uncharacterized Spyke was. Yeah, they should some episodes with him maturing, but nothing would change about him in the next episode. To pratically everyone, Spyke was just slacker, but I kept up hope that an episode like this would air.

Spyke really has matured since X-tream Measures. He now has titled himself the 'Protector of Mutants'. Total of a$$es like Duncan go around harrassing mutants, so now Spyke fights back. It was fitting to see him act like this. He's been living for months now with the morlocks. Unlike the X-men and the Brotherhood, they don't look human, so they get the worst treatment. Spyke has seen the worst humanity has to give, so now he finally sets himself a purpose. To protect the mutants that can't protect the mutants.

The fight scenes in this episode was great. Spyke's new powers are bad a$$ point blank. I especially like the scene when he destroys Duncan's car. It never get's old rewinding my tape to watch that scene over and over.

The other characters were handle nice. Duncan has know shown his revear side (if you read New Mutants, you know what I'm talking about). It was cool seeing Leech's display of power also.

In short, fantastic episode. Some people might say Spyke was out of line for the stuff he did, but it was needed to show his new attitude.moreless
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Spyke is back with avengence.

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By Lionheart08, Oct 26, 2005

The one thing I really disliked about this series was how uncharacterized Spyke was. Yeah, they should some episodes with him maturing, but nothing would change about him in the next episode. To pratically everyone, Spyke was just slacker, but I kept up hope that an episode like this would air.

Spyke really has matured since X-tream Measures. He now has titled himself the 'Protector of Mutants'. Total of a$$es like Duncan go around harrassing mutants, so now Spyke fights back. It was fitting to see him act like this. He's been living for months now with the morlocks. Unlike the X-men and the Brotherhood, they don't look human, so they get the worst treatment. Spyke has seen the worst humanity has to give, so now he finally sets himself a purpose. To protect the mutants that can't protect the mutants.

The fight scenes in this episode was great. Spyke's new powers are bad a$$ point blank. I especially like the scene when he destroys Duncan's car. It never get's old rewinding my tape to watch that scene over and over.

The other characters were handle nice. Duncan has know shown his revear side (if you read New Mutants, you know what I'm talking about). It was cool seeing Leech's display of power also.

In short, fantastic episode. Some people might say Spyke was out of line for the stuff he did, but it was needed to show his new attitude.moreless
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Kirby Morrow	Scott "Cyclops" Summers
Venus Terzo	Jean Grey
Neil Denis	Evan "Spyke" Daniels
Scott McNeil	Wolverine
David Kaye	Professor Charles F. Xavier/Professor X
Kirsten Williamson	Ororo "Storm" Munroe

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Saffron Henderson	Callisto	Guest Star
Lee Tockar	Lucid	Guest Star
Danny McKinnon	Dorian Leech	Guest Star
Jim Byrnes (I)	Nick Fury	Recurring Role
Matt Hill (III)	Alex Summers/Havok	Recurring Role

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- Mrs. Leech: Thanks to you, my little boy has been exposed as a mutant. What chance has he for a normal life now?
  Spyke: None, none at all.
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- Callisto: I heard what happened.
  Spyke: They had it coming.
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- Wolverine: Alright, I'll try to sweet talk the kid into not smacking down creeps and thugs who deserve it. But you'll be lucky if I don't end up joining him myself
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- Spyke: So what's with you? I kind of expected my Aunt.
  Wolverine: Yeah, but she'd just want to hug ya. Since you're a big boy now, you get me.
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- Farmer: What's a mutant?
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- Spyke: And as for you, picking on little girls, you better be lucky I just damaged your car.
  Duncan: Yeah, and you think your going to get away with messing up my ride?
  Spyke: Well the question is (Pops his wrist spikes) what are you going to do about it?
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- Wolverine: Let's keep things peaceful, Gecko Boy - I just want to talk.
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- Wolverine: Maybe it slipped your notice, Chuck, but I'm not exactly the model of restraint.
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- Wolverine: When did the porcupine start shooting flaming arrows? Did I miss an upgrade notice or something?
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- Beast: We, scientists, have a special term for that called "I don't know..."
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- Spyke can now climb and cling to walls.
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- Spyke's appearance shows more of a homage to Marrow in this episode. His torso and arms are almost completely covered with spikes, similar to Marrow's appearance.
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- You can see Scott's eyes when Dorian suppresses all energy when he takes off the visor. They are blue.
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- This is the final appearance of Duncan.
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- In the comics, Leach was green(er), hair-less, nose-less, with big bulbous pupulous eyes, spoke in broken English, referred to himself in the third person, and had absolutely no control over his powers which, to set the record straight, were to shut down mutant abilities. He was often (if not always) seen with another character named Artie. Artie had a nose but was pink. Also he couldn't talk but he did have some telepathic abilities.
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- The teacher who assigned homework to Amara and Sam was named Ms. Carter - the actress who voices Amara is named Alexandra Carter.
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- The shirt Leach wears resembles a Captain America style shirt.
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- Spyke became faster (not nearly as fast a Quicksilver). He was able to out run Duncan's car.
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- Trask has been released from jail and the sentinel program has been restarted.
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- Duncan and his friends are now serving time in jail.
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- Kids' WB! used the promo title "The Return of Spyke" for this episode.
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- This episode marks the first appearance of Leech, one of the Morlocks in the comics.
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- Spyke is totally different. Now he's covered with spikes everywhere except for his face and below the waist. He develops a new power in his mutant ability by being able to shoot flaming spikes, and ignite some that he already has on him at the time.
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