X-Men: Evolution

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X-Men: Evolution brought the fan favorite comic book title onto the TV screen. The series loosely follows the main stories of the original comic. The main cast has been turned into kids (with the exception of Wolverine, Prof. X, and a few select others). Most of the fan favorites are accounted for, including Wolverine, Cyclops, and Storm.''''X-Men: Evolution follows the lives of six mutants (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, ShadowCat, Rouge, and a new original named Spyke) who attend Xavier's Institute for the Gifted. There they learn how to control their powers and use it for good.''''Episodes: 52 Color Episodes (52 half-hour episodes, 4 two-part episodes)''Production: Marvel Enterprises''Distributors: Kids' WBmoreless
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S 4 :  Ep 52 Aired 10/25/03
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  • It is the X-Men universe totally expanded into a show that takes their lives and puts them in a teenage setting.

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    By JusticeLeaguer, Nov 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    I would do anything to bring this show back. I love it with all of my heart because it is the best show around. It is a shame that it was cancelled and if it was brought back for a 5th season I would be even more of a faithful watcher.

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  • A great beginning and a great end

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    By Saffii1, Dec 27, 2010 Report Abuse
    X-Men: Evolution was perhaps, the best animated portrayal of the X-Men to date. The effects all seemed real (as real as a cartoon can be), and the plot for the show was superb. Towards the end of the third season, however, the show started to lose its luster. Several of the fourth season episodes lacked in plot and interest. But by the end, with the series finale, the show pulled itself back up. The ending was good, because, even though Apocalypse was destroyed, new doors had been opened for them to become real heroes, as they do in the comics. All in all X-Men: Evolution was a superb show.moreless

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  • This show is awesome.

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    By UltraStrata, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    X-Men evolution will always have a special place in my heart because it rescued me from having to watch television that was absolute stupidity in my early days. Back when saturday night television meant being bored out of your skull, I could always count on x-men evolution to serve up just the right amoount of action, laughs, and mystery. Though it deviates from the comics a lot (to my knowledge, the comics never even touched the concept of the founding x-men in their teen years with professor x), x-men evolution is still, in my opinion, one of the best introductory animated superhero shows that a kid can watch and I think that another season should have been produced.moreless

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  • It brought out the best in the characters, the greatest portraying and use of each one.

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    By SerajBrugi, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    X-Men: Evolution, one of my favourite animated TV series of all time. Characters like Cyclops and Storm were the best they'd ever been. Though characters like Rogue could have used a little more spark and energy, it was still brilliant. The show is set at the teen years of the X-Men students, more easily pro-set as a prequel to the original X-Men animated series. Everything about the show, the graphics, effects, plots, choice of characters, brilliant. Though many may not share my enthusiasm, though many might. But it would be hard to argue that Magneto and Storm weren't portrayed as the Gods they are. Absolutely fantastic use.
    That's all I got to say about this masterpiece of work.moreless

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  • What an abysmal series - How do you go from the amazing original X-Men TAS to Evolution without wanting to crawl up inside yourself and die? Rehashed TAS episodes, awful use of characters, dumbed down plot lines, cliched dialog -- a complete devolution.moreless

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    By claushouse, Aug 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    When you have a barometer like 1994's X-Men cartoon series to gauge the next incarnation, it helps provide you with an idea of what a television series can do with the material.

    X-Men TAS's powerful emotional moments like Rogue's permanent theft of Miss Marvel's powers and putting her into an eternal slumber, tricked by her mother Mystique -- are completely absent.

    Cool plot lines like Bishop and Cable's time-travelling to the past and fighting Apocalypse in the future (with glimpses of an old Magneto fighting off the machine race) are nowhere to be found.

    But the show is quick to rehash episodes like the Juggernaut assaulting the Mansion for posterity's sake, albeit minus half the back story or emotional attachment that helps explain his character -- and lacking the subtlety of a later episode where he leaves without a fight to show appreciation in his own way. Every Juggernaut episode in Evolution ends with him being put in some lame stasis prison.

    How you fail to provide entertainment with such a rich X-men history is beyond me -- even without cherry-picking great story threads from TAS.

    Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Spiderman TAS -- they've all drawn from their respective back catalogues and provided great series -- so I don't know what Evolution's excuse is.

    The only interesting episode was Rogue acquiring everyone's power and using them in conjunction -- that was cool as hell.

    Smart and topically interesting episodes like mutants wanting to get an operation to become normal again (instead being enslaved by Apocalypse) are replaced by mysterious CGI-rainbow powers that Apocalypse uses in the final episode to enslave his 4 horsemen.

    Magneto is portrayed as a blunt idiot rather than a calculating mastermind. Wonderful character-building that delves into his friendship with Professor X in TAS when in the prehistoric world hidden in Antarctica are conspicuously absent.

    The incredibly interesting Sentinel/Senator Kelley and anti-mutant sentiment paralleling things like apartheid shown in 1994's X-Men are mangled beyond recognition resulting in Kelley being a school principal and a bigot and the Sentinels looking stupid and underutilized.

    The premise of the whole show is stupid, but I hesitate to criticize that because I'm open to fresh interpretation for a new generation, but given all the 9's and 10's given to this show clearly people are unaware of how badly they're being underserved in terms of receiving amazing X-Men entertainment -- because it was available 6 years earlier.

    The people who wrote this series should be embarrassed at best -- you're supposed to improve on a formula -- not mutilate it. (see Battlestar Galactica on how to reboot a series)moreless

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