X-Men: The Animated Series

The show features X-Men similar in look and line-up to the early 1990s X-Men drawn by Jim Lee (specifically, the Blue Team established in the early issues of X-Men (vol. 2)), composed of Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey, Professor X, as well as an original character, Morph (an adaptation of previous X-Men member Changeling).[citation needed.The series deals with social issues, including divorce (“Proteus”), Christianity (“Nightcrawler” and “Bloodlines”), the Holocaust (“Enter Magneto”, “Deadly Reunions”, “Days of Future Past” and “The Phalanx Covenant”) and AIDS hysteria (“Time Fugitives”), and feelings of loneliness (“No Mutant Is an Island”). Television was satirized in the episodes “Mojovision” and “Longshot”.X-Men: The Animated Series Season 1-5 Download.

X-Men crossed over with the animated series Spider-Man, when Spider-Man seeks out the X-Men’s help to stave off his progressing mutation. In the abbreviated form of the Secret Wars storyline, the Beyonder and Madame Web selected Spider-Man to lead a team of heroes including Storm against a group of villains. An earlier draft of “Secret Wars” involved all of the X-Men, but transporting the voice cast from Canada to Los Angeles, where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based, had been too costly in previous crossovers, so the episode was re-written to include only Storm, whose actress, Iona Morris, lived in Los Angeles. Hulk and She-Hulk were excluded from the episodes because[citation needed] the Incredible Hulk animated series featuring the characters was airing on rival network UPN.[13]

The first season of the show brought the X-Men into conflict with human conspirators building mutant-exterminating Sentinel robots, Magneto and his attempts to instigate a human-mutant war, and the powerful mutant Apocalypse’s plans to eradicate the weak, both human and mutant alike. Other storylines including X-Men member Morph’s death at the hands of Sentinels, Beast’s incarceration, and an assassination attempt on US senator Kelly by Apocalypse’s minions to turn human sentiment against the mutants.