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X-Men

TV·1992–1997·5 seasons, 76 episodes·FOX·Children, Science-Fiction·30m·8.0·Created by Eric Lewald

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With stories adapted directly from the original comic books, this show is a piece of Marvel history and a must-have for every X-Men fan. Discover the origins of your favorite characters and uncover the secrets of Magneto and more of the world's most diabolical villains in X-Men.

Due to budget issues and issues with animation production deadlines not been met most episodes from Season 3 onwards aired out of production order, leading to some storylines not making any sense and creating plot holes, however this was somewhat rectified later with the DVD and streaming releases.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01X-Men S03E15Cold ComfortS03E15 · 8.9Former X-Man Bobby 'Iceman' Drake is caught breaking into a top-secret government installation.
  2. 02X-Men S01E12Days of Future Past Part IIS01E12 · 8.8Aware of an impending assassination which will create a catastrophic future, the X-Men must deal with threats both outside and within their team.
  3. 03X-Men S03E16Orphan's EndS03E16 · 8.8Cyclops and Storm respond to a call for assistance from Commander Raknar, only to discover the man he is trying to capture is Scott's father, Christopher Summers, who claims he has been framed.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1992–93Aired 8.3Season avg
  1. S01E01X-Men S01E01Night of the Sentinels Part IOctober 31, 1992 8.0Breaking into the Mutant Control Agency's headquarters to destroy the registration files on mutants, the X-Men lose two of their members aga
  2. S01E02X-Men S01E02Night of the Sentinels Part IINovember 7, 1992 8.2Breaking into the Mutant Control Agency's headquarters to destroy the registration files on mutants, the X-Men lose two of their members aga
  3. S01E03X-Men S01E03Enter MagnetoNovember 27, 1992 7.9As the Beast faces an arraignment in court before a mutant-hating public, the X-Men unwillingly take in an old enemy of Wolverine's. Magneto
  4. S01E04X-Men S01E04Deadly ReunionsJanuary 23, 1993 7.8Magneto & Professor Xavier come face to face for the first time in years amid an exploding factory, while Sabretooth & Wolverine fac
  5. S01E05X-Men S01E05Captive HeartsJanuary 30, 1993 8.2Wolverine must overcome his feelings for Jean, and Storm must overcome her crippling claustrophobia, when the team journeys into the sewer t
  6. S01E06X-Men S01E06Cold VengeanceFebruary 6, 1993 8.1Having left the X-Men to seek peace in the arctic, Wolverine instead finds himself battling Sabretooth for the safety of an Inuit tribe. Sto
  7. S01E07X-Men S01E07Slave IslandFebruary 13, 1993 8.5Gambit, Storm, Jubilee and a host of other mutants are made to work as slaves in Genosha to complete a dam which will power a Sentinel facto
  8. S01E08X-Men S01E08The Unstoppable JuggernautFebruary 15, 1993 8.2The X-Men return from Genosha, finding the home destroyed, and Professor Xavier missing. They suspect a super-strong Russian mutant named Co
  9. S01E09X-Men S01E09The CureFebruary 20, 1993 8.5Rogue seeks a scientist who claims to be able to ""cure"" any mutant of their powers, unaware that neither he, nor his process, are what the
  10. S01E10X-Men S01E10Come the ApocalypseFebruary 27, 1993 8.3An ancient and immensely powerful mutant, known as Apocalypse, creates four Horsemen to help usher in a new world where survival of the fitt
  11. S01E11X-Men S01E11Days of Future Past Part IMarch 13, 1993 8.6A mutant from more than half a century into the future, named Bishop, arrives in the present, attempting to change history for the better, b
  12. S01E12X-Men S01E12Season's bestDays of Future Past Part IIMarch 20, 1993 8.8Aware of an impending assassination which will create a catastrophic future, the X-Men must deal with threats both outside and within their
  13. S01E13X-Men S01E13The Final DecisionMarch 27, 1993 8.7Prominent anti-mutant and presidential hopeful Senator Kelly is caught in a tug-of-war between Magneto's goal of mutant superiority, the X-M

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1993–94Aired 8.3Season avg
  1. S02E01X-Men S02E01Season's bestTill Death Do Us Part Part OneOctober 23, 1993 8.6Cyclops and Jean get married and Senator Kelly becomes president. Creed spreads anti-mutant protests throughout the country, focusing his in
  2. S02E02X-Men S02E02Till Death Do Us Part Part TwoOctober 30, 1993 8.6As the newlywed couple, Cyclops and Jean Grey reach their honeymoon island, the members of Mister Sinister's forces put Genoshan Mutant Slav
  3. S02E03X-Men S02E03Whatever It TakesNovember 6, 1993 7.9Jean Grey uses Cerebro to detect a tearing in the astral plane in a part of Africa. Rogue and Storm decide to investigate the astral plane d
  4. S02E04X-Men S02E04Red DawnNovember 13, 1993 8.1Colossus returns home to Russia with Jubilee by his side. They are confronted by a newly revived Russian, life force absorbing, super soldie
  5. S02E05X-Men S02E05Repo ManNovember 20, 1993 8.1After Wolverine has been lured to Canada by an alleged message from his old friend, Heather Hudson, he finds himself fighting Heather's husb
  6. S02E06X-Men S02E06X-Ternally YoursDecember 4, 1993 8.2Gambit is forced to return to his southern roots by an ancient tithe, an old family feud and the kidnapping of his brother, Bobby. Bella Don
  7. S02E07X-Men S02E07Time Fugitives - Part OneDecember 11, 1993 8.4New York City, 3999 AD. Here Time is changing itself. Cable uses his time device and sees that Bishop traveled from 2055 AD to the present t
  8. S02E08X-Men S02E08Time Fugitives - Part TwoDecember 18, 1993 8.5Cable comes to the present to stop Bishop and save his own future world. After a battle with Bishop and the X-men he flees. When he checks o
  9. S02E09X-Men S02E09A Rogue's TaleJanuary 8, 1994 8.3Mr. Sinister sends Mystique to destroy the X-Men while Professor X is lost in the Savage Land. Rogue starts having painful visions of a myst
  10. S02E10X-Men S02E10Beauty & the BeastJanuary 15, 1994 8.3The Friends Of Humanity attack a hospital for the blind that Beast is working at. And Wolverine plans on tearing them apart from the inside.
  11. S02E11X-Men S02E11MojovisionFebruary 5, 1994 8.2Mojo, a very megalomaniacal, interdimensional network programmer casts the X-Men as his latest all galaxy television hit, when he uses his p
  12. S02E12X-Men S02E12Reunion - Part OneFebruary 12, 1994 8.6Xavier and Magneto finally make their way back to Xavier's plane, only to be ambushed by some mutates. The new ruler of the Savage Land is r
  13. S02E13X-Men S02E13Reunion - Part TwoFebruary 19, 1994 8.3The X-Men are now in the Savage Land and are powerless like Xavier and Magneto, which leaves the X-Men open to being experimented on by Mr.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode19Episodes1994–95Aired 8.2Season avg
  1. S03E01X-Men S03E01Out of the Past - Part IJuly 29, 1994 7.5Wolverine is lured into the Morlock tunnels by a former lover who is accompanied by a group of cybernetic mercenaries called Reavers. Wolver
  2. S03E02X-Men S03E02Out of the Past - Part IIAugust 5, 1994 7.5After being released from an alien spacecraft, a being called the Spirit Drinker starts draining the life force of the people around it, inc
  3. S03E03X-Men S03E03The Phoenix Saga - Part I SacrificeSeptember 5, 1994 8.2Professor X's visions leads to his decision to blindly send the team to commandeer a space shuttle on which they are then attacked by Shi'ar
  4. S03E04X-Men S03E04The Phoenix Saga - Part II The Dark ShroudSeptember 6, 1994 8.3A psychic probe in the form of a beam of light causes Professor X's to emit a psychic projection of his dark side which then attacks the X-M
  5. S03E05X-Men S03E05The Phoenix Saga - Part III Cry of the BansheeSeptember 7, 1994 8.2Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy kidnap Lilandra for Erik The Red, but the X-Men track them down. A fight results in a stalemate until Gladi
  6. S03E06X-Men S03E06The Phoenix Saga - Part IV The StarjammersSeptember 8, 1994 8.3The X-Men fail to protect the M'Kraan Crystal from intergalactic pirates called Starjammers who plan to sell it to D'ken as well as to use C
  7. S03E07X-Men S03E07The Phoenix Saga - Part V Child of LightSeptember 9, 1994 8.2The X-Men are drawn into battle against D'ken within the confines of the world within the M'Kraan Crystal where Phoenix makes a last stand.
  8. S03E08X-Men S03E08Savage Land, Strange Heart - Part OneSeptember 10, 1994 7.6Sauron kidnaps Storm to the Savage Land in order to feed from her mutant energy. Wolverine, Beast, Rogue, and Jubilee go after him back to t
  9. S03E09X-Men S03E09Savage Land, Strange Heart - Part TwoSeptember 17, 1994 7.4Garokk fuses with the island's volcano and the surging planetary force below it.
  10. S03E10X-Men S03E10ObsessionSeptember 24, 1994 8.2Archangel has become obsessed with destroying Apocalypse, who he blames for ruining his life.
  11. S03E11X-Men S03E11The Dark Phoenix - Part I DazzledNovember 12, 1994 8.2Jean is beginning to lose control, and the Phoenix begins to brazenly take over at will.
  12. S03E12X-Men S03E12The Dark Phoenix - Part II The Inner CircleNovember 12, 1994 8.6When Mastermind tries to force Phoenix to kill Cyclops, she finally breaks free of the psychic controls on her, leaving the X-Men to fight f
  13. S03E13X-Men S03E13The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark PhoenixNovember 19, 1994 8.6Jean Grey, now completely part of the Phoenix, returns to her childhood home, overwhelmed by too much emotion and too much power.
  14. S03E14X-Men S03E14The Dark Phoenix - Part IV The Fate of the PhoenixNovember 26, 1994 8.7Xavier reads Lilandra's mind and challenges her guard to the Duel of Honor that Lilandra cannot refuse for Jean Grey's life.
  15. S03E15X-Men S03E15Season's bestCold ComfortFebruary 4, 1995 8.9Former X-Man Bobby 'Iceman' Drake is caught breaking into a top-secret government installation.
  16. S03E16X-Men S03E16Orphan's EndFebruary 25, 1995 8.8Cyclops and Storm respond to a call for assistance from Commander Raknar, only to discover the man he is trying to capture is Scott's father
  17. S03E17X-Men S03E17The Juggernaut ReturnsMay 6, 1995 8.4Juggernaut's life is at risk when someone else uncovers the Ruby of Cyttorak and claims the powers of Juggernaut for himself.
  18. S03E18X-Men S03E18NightcrawlerMay 13, 1995 8.2On holiday, Rogue, Gambit and Wolverine must protect Nightcrawler, a demonic-looking but kindhearted monk, from a misled community.
  19. S03E19X-Men S03E19Weapon X, Lies, and Video TapeJune 11, 1995 8.4Wolverine discovers everything about his past life in the government program Weapon X was a lie... including his love affair with Silver Fox

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode17Episodes1995–96Aired 8.4Season avg
  1. S04E01X-Men S04E01One Man's Worth - Part 1September 9, 1995 8.4Trevor Fitzroy and Bantam travel back in time to 1959 and kill Professor X.
  2. S04E02X-Men S04E02One Man's Worth Part IISeptember 16, 1995 8.4Failing to stop the assassination of Xavier, Bishop, Shard, Storm and Wolverine travel forward to the future.
  3. S04E03X-Men S04E03CourageSeptember 23, 1995 8.4Morph feels he's finally ready to return to the X-Men. But his homecoming is interrupted by the return of the Sentinels, the robotic mutant-
  4. S04E04X-Men S04E04Proteus Part ISeptember 30, 1995 8.3The long hidden secret patient of Muir Island, a reality-warping mutant teen known as Proteus, escapes from his 15-year long captivity, and
  5. S04E05X-Men S04E05Proteus Part IIOctober 7, 1995 8.2When Proteus discovers that his deadbeat dad is a prominent politician, he storms the Union Hall right in the middle of his dad's campaign s
  6. S04E06X-Men S04E06Sanctuary Part IOctober 21, 1995 8.3Weary of battling for mutant supremacy, Magneto offers to transport all mutants to an orbiting asteroid named Asteroid M where they can live
  7. S04E07X-Men S04E07Sanctuary Part IIOctober 28, 1995 8.3As Magneto plummets helplessly to Earth, Fabian Cortez assumes control of Asteroid M and sends hundreds of missiles towards Earth. Meanwhile
  8. S04E08X-Men S04E08Beyond Good & Evil Part 1November 4, 1995 8.7In the year 3999, Apocalypse steals Cable's computer and time-travels to the past in order to end his struggle against inferior mutants perm
  9. S04E09X-Men S04E09Season's bestBeyond Good and Evil Part TwoNovember 11, 1995 8.8When Oracle, the psychic member of the Imperial Guard is kidnapped by Apocalypse, Professor Xavier deduces his scheme involves capturing mut
  10. S04E10X-Men S04E10Beyond Good and Evil Part 3November 18, 1995 8.6After swiping the government's own time machine, Cable ends up recruiting the X-Men on his mission to destroy Apocalypse's source of immorta
  11. S04E11X-Men S04E11Beyond Good and Evil Part 4November 25, 1995 8.8Cable & the X-Men destroy the Lazarus Chamber. They then use Cable's computer and Cerebro to track a homing device on the Professor to t
  12. S04E12X-Men S04E12Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-MasDecember 23, 1995 8.0Jubilee's first Christmas with the X-Men doesn't go exactly as she expected, when she, Storm, and Wolverine become involved with a mission t
  13. S04E13X-Men S04E13Lotus and the SteelFebruary 3, 1996 8.1Wolverine, losing control, quits the X-Men and returns to the rural Japan of his younger days, in an effort to find himself. He works peacef
  14. S04E14X-Men S04E14Love in VainFebruary 10, 1996 8.2Rogue's childhood sweetheart, the boy whom she put into a coma when her powers first manifested, returns to her life unexpectedly. But what
  15. S04E15X-Men S04E15Secrets, Not Long BuriedFebruary 17, 1996 8.1When Cyclops flies solo to a tiny, western, desert community to see an old friend, his plane is blasted out of the sky. Injured and unable t
  16. S04E16X-Men S04E16Xavier RemembersApril 27, 1996 7.9When Professor X suffers a slight concussion, his powerful psychic mind is suddenly open to manipulation. The Shadow King takes advantage of
  17. S04E17X-Men S04E17Family TiesMay 4, 1996 8.7Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Magneto are lured and captured by the High Evolutionary and his New Men. They imprison them along with Wolve

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode14Episodes1996–97Aired 8.2Season avg
  1. S05E01X-Men S05E01Season's bestPhalanx Covenant Part OneSeptember 7, 1996 8.8The X-Men are attacked by the Phalanx, a race of techno-organic aliens seeking to assimilate all life on earth. The alien Warlock allies wit
  2. S05E02X-Men S05E02The Phalanx Covenant Part IISeptember 7, 1996 8.4Planet earth is under attack by the Phalanx, a race of techno-organic aliens seeking to assimilate all life on earth. Warlock, Beast, Forge
  3. S05E03X-Men S05E03A Deal with the DevilSeptember 14, 1996 8.1Omega Red, the destruction machine from the former Soviet Union and a sworn enemy of Wolverine, is thawed and sent two miles beneath the oce
  4. S05E04X-Men S05E04No Mutant is an IslandSeptember 21, 1996 8.2Cyclops, still in mourning after Phoenix's death, quits the X-Men and returns to the orphanage he grew up in and encounters his friend Sarah
  5. S05E05X-Men S05E05LongshotOctober 5, 1996 8.3Longshot, rebel from another world, tumbles into this world with no memory. He is discovered by Jubilee who takes a liking towards him and t
  6. S05E06X-Men S05E06BloodlinesOctober 26, 1996 8.3Graydon Creed tries to return to the friends of humanity by capturing and delivering his mother and step brother who are both mutants. Night
  7. S05E07X-Men S05E07Storm Front Part INovember 2, 1996 8.3The alien Arkon comes to Earth and begs Storm to return with him to his planet, to save it from meteorological chaos which threatens his peo
  8. S05E08X-Men S05E08Storm Front Part IINovember 9, 1996 8.4Spectacular preparations for Storm's wedding to Arkon proceed quickly.
  9. S05E09X-Men S05E09Jubilee's Fairytale TheatreNovember 16, 1996 8.1Jubilee leads a group of school children on tour of a cave on Mansion property, only to be caught in a cave-in. As the water in the cave ris
  10. S05E10X-Men S05E10The Fifth HorsemanFebruary 8, 1997 8.2Fabian Cortez kidnaps Jubilee because Apocalypse is trapped in Astral Plane and needs a host body.
  11. S05E11X-Men S05E11Old SoldiersFebruary 22, 1997 8.8While visiting the grave of a friend in an Army Cemetary in France, Wolverine remembers a mission he did for him, while battling the Nazis a
  12. S05E12X-Men S05E12Hidden AgendasSeptember 6, 1997 7.8Sam Guthrie's parents have contacted Professor Xavier about their son's mutant powers.
  13. S05E13X-Men S05E13DescentSeptember 13, 1997 7.8The origin of Mr. Sinister is revealed, as Dr. Xavier attempts to stop Essex before he goes too far.
  14. S05E14X-Men S05E14Graduation DaySeptember 20, 1997 7.7On the verge of Magneto's final stand against humans, the X-Men request him to save a dying Professor X. What choice will he make?

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

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