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X-Men, an animated series, debuted on October 31, 1992 (the 1992–1993 season) on the Fox Network as part of Fox’s “Fox Kids” Saturday morning lineup, which featured cartoons such as X-Men, Bobby’s World and Life with Louie and live-action programming such as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, directed at young children.

X-Men is Marvel Comics' second attempt at an animated X-Men program, after the ill-received half-hour pilot “Pryde of the X-Men”, was broadcast multiple times between 1988 and 1989.

The popularity and success of X-Men, along with (which also debuted in the 1992-93 season), helped launch a number of 1990s-2000s animated series based on comic book series.

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Background

X-Men was one of the longest-lasting series on Fox Kids, and next to , its most acclaimed and successful to date. Despite its final new episode airing in late 1997 after five complete seasons, Fox did not remove the show from the line-up until 1998. The show is also one of the highest-rated and most-viewed Saturday morning programs in American history. During its peak years (1995 and 1996), the show was often shown weekday afternoons, in addition to Saturday mornings.

After the box office success of the X-Men movie in the summer of 2000, Fox began airing reruns of the cartoon on weekday afternoons. This ended in early 2001. Soon after, the ABC Family licensed the cable syndication rights from FOX, and began airing reruns. The reruns still air on ABC Family around 7 a.m. EST Saturday mornings and have been doing so for quite some time.

The show features a team line-up similar to that of the early 1990s X-Men comic books, including Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit, Storm, and Jubilee. In fact, the line up largely resembles that of Cyclops' Blue Team, established in the early issues of X-Men vol.2.

Though they were not part of the X-Men team in the animated series, the following early ’90s X-Men characters all guest starred in at least one episode of the cartoon: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Forge, Banshee, Iceman, Archangel, Psylocke, and Bishop. 

Only a few episodes have been released on DVD. So far there are no plans for official release of season box sets. The episodes that have been released are:

Fox cancelled the series in large part because the network did not like that Marvel Studios controlled their most popular animated series. Thus, they pulled the plug on both X-Men and  animated series despite the fact that both received good ratings. Many fans predicted the series' cancellation because of the noticeable drop in the quality of the animation and story during the final season. Fox soon realized just how popular the X-Men animation series was when ratings dropped 31% after the network stopped showing it in heavy rotation.



Characters depicted



Hero Teams


X-Men









Xavier Security Enforcers/The Resistance (in Bishop's future)



Clan Chosen (in Cable's future)





  • Corsair
  • Hepzibah
  • Raza Longknife
  • Ch'od
  • Cr+eee.


X-Terminators (unnamed)



The Mutant Resistance (in the Xavier-less timeline)





S.H.I.E.L.D. (cameo appereance only)



Guest Allies



Villains



Villain Teams










  • Sauron/Karl Lykos
  • Brainchild
  • Amphibious
  • Vertigo
  • Lupo
  • Barbarus














Mojo's Agents



Friends of Humanity



Genoshan Magistrates



Morlocks



Hounds









Assassins Guild



Children of the Shadow



The Phalanx Empire






High Lords (cameo appereance only)



In other media


The characters in the series were licensed by Capcom and were the inspiration for the video game , which in turn would be the basis for the Marvel vs. Capcom series of video games. Most of the voice actors who did the voices in the series reprised their roles for the video game. Capcom would continue to use these characters long after the show was cancelled before eventually losing the rights to create Marvel based games to Electronic Arts in 2001.



Opening animation

The original opening animation introduces the main mutants using their mutant abilities to an instrumental theme. In japan, this opening intro was replaced with made over japanese animation of the characters as well as a new vocal japanese theme called "Cry of the Moon", which lasted well over a minute as any japanese intro. An alternate anime intro was used for future episodes. (Note: the opening sequences were used for the 1990s version japanese dub; there was no original anime adaptation of the series)



Cast



 Actor              
 Role


 Cedric Smith         
 Professor Charles Xavier


 Cathal J. Dodd         
 Wolverine/Logan


 Norm Spencer         
 Cyclops/Scott Summers


 Iona Morris         
 Storm/Ororo Munroe (I) (1992)


 Alison Sealy-Smith         
 Storm/Ororo Munroe (II) (1992–1997)


 Chris Potter         
 Gambit/Remy LeBeau (I) (1992–1996)


 Tony Daniels         
 Gambit/Remy LeBeau (II) (1997)


 Lenore Zann         
 Rogue


 George Buza         
 Beast/Dr. Henry “Hank” McCoy


 Catherine Disher         
 Jean Grey/Phoenix


 Alyson Court         
 Jubilee/Jubilation Lee


 Lawrence Bayne         
 Cable


 John Colicos         
 Apocalypse


 David Hemblen         
 Magneto




Episodes



Season 1



  1. "Night of the Sentinels (Part 1)"
  2. "Night of the Sentinels (Part 2)"
  3. "Enter Magneto"
  4. "Deadly Reunions"
  5. "Captive Hearts"
  6. "Cold Vengeance"
  7. "Slave Island"
  8. "The Unstoppable Juggernaut"
  9. "The Cure"
  10. "Come the Apocalypse"
  11. "Days of Future Past (Part 1)"
  12. "Days of Future Past (Part 2)"
  13. "The Final Decision"


Season 2



  1. "Till Death Do Us Part (Part 1)"
  2. "Till Death Do Us Part (Part 2)"
  3. "Whatever It Takes
  4. "Red Dawn"
  5. "Repo Man"
  6. "X-Ternally Yours"
  7. "Time Fugitives (Part 1)"
  8. "Time Fugitives (Part 2)"
  9. "A Rogue's Tale"
  10. "Beauty & the Beast"
  11. "Mojovision"
  12. "Reunion (Part 1)"
  13. "Reunion (Part 2)"


Season 3



  1. "Out of the Past (Part 1)"
  2. "Out of the Past (Part 2)"
  3. "Phoenix Saga Part 1: Sacrifice"
  4. "Phoenix Saga Part 2: The Dark Shroud"
  5. "Phoenix Saga Part 3: Cry of the Banshee" (Used in the internet parody film The Juggernaut Bitch!!)
  6. "Phoenix Saga Part 4: The Starjammers"
  7. "Phoenix Saga Part 5: Child of Light"
  8. "Obsession"
  9. "Cold Comfort"
  10. "Savage Land, Strange Heart (Part 1)"
  11. "Savage Land, Strange Heart (Part 2)"
  12. "The Dark Phoenix Saga Part 1: Dazzled"
  13. "The Dark Phoenix Saga Part 2: The Inner Circle"
  14. "The Dark Phoenix Saga Part 3: The Dark Phoenix"
  15. "The Dark Phoenix Saga Part 4: The Fate Of The Phoenix"
  16. "Orphan's End|Orphan’s End"
  17. "Juggernaut Returns" (Used in the internet parody film Juggernaut Bitch 2/ Juggment Day)
  18. "Nightcrawler"
  19. "Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape"


Season 4



  1. "One Man's Worth (Part 1)"
  2. "One Man's Worth (Part 2)"
  3. "Courage"
  4. "Proteus (Part 1)"
  5. "Proteus (Part 2)"
  6. "Sanctuary (Part 1)"
  7. "Sanctuary (Part 2)"
  8. "Beyond Good and Evil Part 1: The End of Time"
  9. "Beyond Good and Evil Part 2: Promise of Apocalypse"
  10. "Beyond Good and Evil Part 3: The Lazarus Chamber"
  11. "Beyond Good and Evil Part 4: End and Beginning"
  12. "Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas"
  13. "The Lotus and the Steel"
  14. "Love In Vain"
  15. "Secrets, Not Long Buried"
  16. "Xavier Remembers"
  17. "Family Ties"


Season 5



  1. "The Phalanx Covenant Part 1"
  2. "The Phalanx Covenant Part 2"
  3. "A Deal with the Devil"
  4. "No Mutant Is an Island"
  5. "Longshot"
  6. "Bloodlines"
  7. "Storm Front Part 1"
  8. "Storm Front Part 2"
  9. "Jubilee's Fairytale Theater"
  10. "The Fifth Horseman"
  11. "Old Soldiers"
  12. "Descent"
  13. "Hidden Agenda"
  14. "Graduation Day"


Trivia














External links




 X-Men


 Bibliography
 Uncanny X-Men | X-Men vol. 2 | Astonishing X-Men | Exiles | New Excalibur |  | X-Factor | X-Men Unlimited | Ultimate X-Men


 Major 
 "Dark Phoenix Saga" | "Mutant Massacre" | "The Fall of the Mutants" | "Inferno" | "The X-Tinction Agenda" | "X-Cutioner's Song" |
 "Fatal Attractions" | "Phalanx Covenant" | "Age of Apocalypse" | "Onslaught" | "" | "E Is For Extinction" 


 In other media
 : X-Men | X2 | ' 
: Generation X | Mutant X | Pryde of the X-Men | X-Men: The Animated Series | '


 Locations
 Avalon | Asteroid M | Genosha | Madripoor | Muir Island | Savage Land | X-Mansion


 Things
 Cerebro | Crimson Dawn | Danger Room | Fastball Special | Legacy Virus | M'Kraan Crystal | X-Jet


 Other
 History | Teams | Bibliography of X-Men titles | Comics | Video games | 


















 





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