The show is brought into more traditional X-Men lore, dealing with themes of prejudice, public misconception, and larger threats. After the battle with the Sentinel, the mutants are no longer a secret and public reaction is one of hostility. In the third season, the show notably begins to take a much more serious tone. Everyone is shocked as Xavier calmly stands up, transforming into Mystique. Scott throws Xavier from his wheelchair and blames him for blowing up the mansion. When the mutants who have not been captured by the Sentinel return to the remains of the mansion, Cyclops and the students emerge from the explosion with minor injuries. The Sentinel is damaged and apparently crushes Magneto as it falls. Wanda tracks down Magneto and attacks him while he is trying to deal with the Sentinel that is targeting him. Magneto continues to manipulate events by unleashing the Sentinel onto the city, forcing the X-Men to use their powers in public. At the same time, Wolverine is captured by Bolivar Trask to use as a test subject for the anti-mutant weapon, the Sentinel. Magneto, meanwhile, recruits Sabretooth, Gambit, Pyro and Colossus as his Acolytes to fight the X-Men/Brotherhood team. The mansion is later set to self-destruct with Cyclops and several students still inside. Cyclops, furious with having to work with his former adversaries, leaves the team.
In the season finale, Xavier rigorously trains his X-Men to face Magneto, pairing them with the Brotherhood. Before the finale, a pivotal episode aired featuring the telepath Mesmero opening one of three doors that a mutant known as Apocalypse. The mentally unstable mutant joins the Brotherhood upon Mystique's return, allowing them to defeat the X-Men in a battle at the Bayville Mall. Using the files, she recovers Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, Magneto's daughter and Quicksilver's sister. Mystique poses as Risty Wilde, a high school student at Bayville High who befriends Rogue and breaks into the mansion to steal Xavier's Cerebro files. Sabretooth continues his pursuit of Wolverine, while Magneto continues to work his own agenda. During the course of the season, it is revealed that the villains who supposedly perished on Asteroid M are actually alive. The second season sees the addition of several new mutants, including Beast, who becomes a teacher at the Xavier Institute and an X-Man, as well as a version of the New Mutants: Boom Boom, Sunspot, Iceman, Wolfsbane, Magma, Multiple, Jubilee, Berzerker, and Cannonball. Asteroid M is destroyed by Scott and Alex Summers, but not before two metal spheres fly from the exploding asteroid. The Brotherhood and X-Men show up leaving Magneto, Sabretooth and Mystique trapped on the asteroid. Magneto captures several X-Men and Brotherhood members in an attempt to amplify their mutant abilities and remove their emotions. After Cyclops discovers that his brother Alex actually survived the plane crash that killed their parents, they are both taken by Magneto into his "sanctuary" on Asteroid M. The Brotherhood, led by Mystique, are in fact being directed by a higher power, the identity of whom was "revealed" in the two-part season finale as being Magneto. Toad is the first to be introduced, followed by Avalanche, Blob and Quicksilver. In the later episodes of this season, Nightcrawler discovers the identity of his birth mother, Wolverine finds answers to his past, and Xavier's half-brother, Juggernaut, is released from his prison.Ĭonfrontations are typically with the Brotherhood, who vie for new recruits with the X-Men over the course of the season.
As the season develops, the ranks of the X-Men are bolstered by the appearance of Nightcrawler in the first episode, Shadowcat in the second, Spyke in the fifth, and Rogue (who originally joins the Brotherhood in the fourth episode) in the seventh. Professor X, Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm and Jean Grey make up the original X-Men. The first season introduces the core characters and lays the foundations for future story lines.
The series began running on Disney XD on June 15, 2009. The series ran for a total of four seasons (52 episodes) from Novemuntil Octoon Kids' WB, which at the time made it the third longest-running Marvel Comics animated series, behind only Fox Kids' X-Men and Spider-Man animated series. In this incarnation, many of the characters were teenagers instead of adults. X-Men: Evolution is an American animated television series about the Marvel Comics superhero team X-Men.