The best episodes of X-Men
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Former X-Man Bobby 'Iceman' Drake is caught breaking into a top-secret government installation.
- 02
Aware of an impending assassination which will create a catastrophic future, the X-Men must deal with threats both outside and within their team.
- 03
Cyclops 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.
- 04
When Oracle, the psychic member of the Imperial Guard is kidnapped by Apocalypse, Professor Xavier deduces his scheme involves capturing mutants with telepathic abilities. The X-Men are split up to track them down before the villains can, which puts Wolverine and Shard in the middle of a scuffle between Archangel and a ninja named Psylocke.
- 05
Cable & the X-Men destroy the Lazarus Chamber. They then use Cable's computer and Cerebro to track a homing device on the Professor to the control axis where Apocalypse reveals his plan to use the psychics to destroy all time, and recreate a universe, where he will rule unchallenged. Feeling that he was deceived by Apocalypse, Magneto attacks him when Cable arrives and joins the attack. Apocalypse begins draining the psychics which causes time and history to start to disappear. Bishop sees this and releases the psychics. Sinister and the Nasty Boys retreat. Apocalypse and his Horsemen are defeated by the heroes. Using Cable's time-spaceship, everyone else is returned to present time at the X-Mansion. Cable then travels back to his own time.
- 06
The X-Men are attacked by the Phalanx, a race of techno-organic aliens seeking to assimilate all life on earth. The alien Warlock allies with Beast, Forge, and Mr. Sinister to defeat the Phalanx.
- 07
While visiting the grave of a friend in an Army Cemetary in France, Wolverine remembers a mission he did for him, while battling the Nazis and Red Skull with none other than Captain America on his side.
- 08
Prominent anti-mutant and presidential hopeful Senator Kelly is caught in a tug-of-war between Magneto's goal of mutant superiority, the X-Men's dream of peaceful co-existance between mutants and humans, and the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots' goals of global domination.
- 09
The Dark Phoenix - Part IV The Fate of the Phoenix
Xavier reads Lilandra's mind and challenges her guard to the Duel of Honor that Lilandra cannot refuse for Jean Grey's life.
- 10
In the year 3999, Apocalypse steals Cable's computer and time-travels to the past in order to end his struggle against inferior mutants permanently.
- 11
Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Magneto are lured and captured by the High Evolutionary and his New Men. They imprison them along with Wolverine, who was spying on Magneto. The Evolutionary reveals that he wants to use their genetics & powers to create a new breed of beings, which he demonstrates by transforming Wolverine into a werewolf. He also reveals that Magneto is Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's father. Magneto admits to the twins Quicksilver & Scarlet that he regrets abandoning their mother, his wife Magda. Beast and Professor X locate them as Magneto breaks the others free when the High Evolutionary escapes. Wolverine reverts back, and the twins walk away from Magneto despite his effort to reconcile with them.
- 12
A mutant from more than half a century into the future, named Bishop, arrives in the present, attempting to change history for the better, by stopping an X-Man from committing an assassination. But between being chased by a future breed of Sentinel, and the details of his mission being fuzzy, he's got his work cut out for him.
- 13
Till Death Do Us Part Part One
Cyclops and Jean get married and Senator Kelly becomes president. Creed spreads anti-mutant protests throughout the country, focusing his interests on the recently pardoned Beast. Morph seeks revenge on the X-Men for leaving him to die. He fakes a distress call, sending Professor Xavier to help Magneto in Antarctica. Morph transforms into various members of the X-Men to cause confusion among themselves as more anti-mutant protests rise.
- 14
Till Death Do Us Part Part Two
As the newlywed couple, Cyclops and Jean Grey reach their honeymoon island, the members of Mister Sinister's forces put Genoshan Mutant Slave Collars on the couple. As the X-Men recuperate from Morph's deceptions, Wolverine discovers that Morph is still alive, but Morph escapes. Morph finds the mutant couple, but Mister Sinister stops him from killing Cyclops. Sinister plans on making a race of unbeatable mutants from their DNA. Sinister reveals how he saved Morph from death. The X-Men show up and battle Sinister's forces. Cyclops attacks Sinister, who retreats with his forces, and Morph runs away. Xavier and Magneto meet in Antarctica, only to discover it is a trap.
- 15
Xavier 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 revealed but not until they make a new ally. Morph sends a message to the X-Men revealing his location which provides an encounter with Mr. Sinister and his group of Nasty Boys.
- 16
The Dark Phoenix - Part II The Inner Circle
When Mastermind tries to force Phoenix to kill Cyclops, she finally breaks free of the psychic controls on her, leaving the X-Men to fight for themselves.
- 17
The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark Phoenix
Jean Grey, now completely part of the Phoenix, returns to her childhood home, overwhelmed by too much emotion and too much power.
- 18
After swiping the government's own time machine, Cable ends up recruiting the X-Men on his mission to destroy Apocalypse's source of immortality at its creation.
- 19
Gambit, 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 factory. Special collars on mutants' necks prevent them from using their powers, but Gambit manages to escape. During his escape, Gambit finds Cable who is looking for the one responsible for enslaving the mutants, the Leader. Cable gives Gambit a key to unlock his collar before attacking the Sentinel factory. Gambit frees the other Mutants, who begin fighting with the guards and Sentinels before fleeing. Storm uses her powers to bring down the dam, causing a flood to destroy the entire factory. The X-Men return home to find the X-Mansion destroyed.
- 20
Rogue seeks a scientist who claims to be able to ""cure"" any mutant of their powers, unaware that neither he, nor his process, are what they appear to be.
- 21
Cable 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 out the X-Men's biography, he sees that he can use Wolverine's healing power to create the antibodies needed to preserve his future. So, with Wolverine's help, Cable saves both his and Bishop's timeline.
- 22
New 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 to stop a plague, which Apocalypse started. Because he stopped the virus from being created, the antibodies that protected mutants from further plagues were never created.
- 23
Juggernaut's life is at risk when someone else uncovers the Ruby of Cyttorak and claims the powers of Juggernaut for himself.
- 24
Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape
Wolverine discovers everything about his past life in the government program Weapon X was a lie... including his love affair with Silver Fox.
- 25
Trevor Fitzroy and Bantam travel back in time to 1959 and kill Professor X.
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