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X-Men title card Format Animated series, Action, Adventure Created by Larry Houston
Frank Squillace Voices of Cedric Smith
Cathal J. Dodd
Norm Spencer
Iona Morris Country of origin  United States No. of seasons 5 No. of episodes 76 (List of episodes) Production Producer(s) Marvel Entertainment
Saban Entertainment Running time 22 minutes Production company(s) Marvel Entertainment Group
Saban Entertainment, Inc.
Marvel Studios (1997) Distributor Saban Entertainment Broadcast Original aisle FOX (Fox Kids)[1] Original run October 31, 1992 – September 20, 1997 Status Ended Chronology Preceded by X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men Followed by X-Men: Evolution

X-Men, also understood as X-Men: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series which debuted on October 31, 1992, in the United States on the Fox Network as part of its Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup.[2]

X-Men is Marvel Comics' second try at one animated X-Men program, after the pilot "X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men" which was not picked up for a series, though it was broadcast multiple times among 1989 and 1992.

one Background 2 Synopsis 3 Episodes 4 Reception 5 VHS and DVD releases six Alternate versions seven Characters eight Cast eight.one Additional voices 9 Spin-offs nine.1 X-Men Adventures 9.1.1 Bibliography 9.2 Video games 10 References eleven External links [edit] Background

X-Men was originally to premiere over the Labor Day weekend in September; however, due to creation delays, it was shoved to the end of October. The "Night of the Sentinels" two-part episode originally aired as a "lurk preview" even though it truly wasn't prepared for broadcast. There were many animation peccadilloes in these 2 episodes, but the peccadilloes were later corrected when Fox re-aired the pilot in early 1993.[3]

X-Men also stands as the longest-running Marvel Comics-based show, sprinting for five seasons and 76 episodes. The second longest, Spider-Man: The Animated Series, lasted for five seasons and 65 episodes. Although produced by another animation studios, either series were set in the same animated macrocosm, and the X-Men even made guest outwards on Spider-Man's show. (The second X-Men animated series, X-Men Evolution, does not share this continuity.)[4]

After the carton office success of the live-action X-Men movie in the summer of 2000, Fox began disscusion reruns of the anime aboard weekday afternoons. At premier, merely incidents namely mainly functioned those[clarification needed] in the video were announce. Later, the series was aired in appropriate array, but the series was plucked from the wind in early 2001. Soon later, ABC Family and Toon Disney began ventilation reruns,Torchwood, deserving to Disney's buyout of always Saban Entertainment procedures.

[edit] Synopsis

The show features an X-Men alike in see and line-up to the early 1990s X-Men drawn by Jim Lee, composed of Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey, Professor X, as well as an original character, Morph (an remodelling of before X-Men member Kevin Sydney).[5] Though they were not part of the team as featured in the animated series, the following X-Men have all guest-starred in at fewest one episode: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, Forge, Havok, Polaris, Cannonball, Banshee, Northstar, Iceman, Archangel, Longshot, Dazzler, Sunfire, Psylocke, Cable, and Bishop. Keen-eyed fans may also speck cameos by other familiar mutants, such as Feral, Rictor, Deadpool, and Blink. Of all X-Men members (at that point), Shadowcat was the only membership to never emerge in anybody path during the series run.

A digit of prominent storylines and accidents from the comics are loosely accustomed in the series, such as "The Dark Phoenix Saga", "Days of Future Past", the "Phalanx Covenant", and the Legacy Virus. The third episode, "Enter Magneto", features a confrontation at a missile base: this is largely based on the X-Men's first battle with Magneto, as told in their 1963 debut X-Men #1. The season four episodes "Sanctuary, Parts I & II", which involve Magneto creating an orbiting haven for mutants, were influenced by several storylines from the comics, chiefly the first three issues of X-Men (Volume 2) and the "Fatal Attractions" crossover.

Beyond faithfully recreating many of the fashionable characters and stories from the comic books, the series also dealt fairly openly with adult social issues. The ills of bias, intolerance, isolation, and racism were all frequent themes in the animated series, as they were in the comics. Anti-mutant bias and bias was described via minor characters as well as extra famous ones, including Senator Robert Kelly, the Friends of Humanity (whose activities and masks in later episodes echoed white supremacy teams such as the Ku Klux Klan) and robotic Sentinels. On the inverse side of the spectrum, Professor Xavier and Magneto, much like their comic-book counterparts, bear similarities to civilian rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, respectively.[6] Whereas Xavier advocates non-violence in the skirmish for parity, Magneto takes on a more combative 'by any method necessary' stance; the two's differing views are the source of many dispute throughout the series.

The sequence too deals with additional social issues, including divorce ("Proteus"), Christianity ("Nightcrawler" & "Bloodlines"), the Holocaust ("Enter Magneto," "Deadly Reunions", "Days of Future Past", and "The Phalanx Covenant"), AIDS hysteria ("Time Fugitives"), and even satires of television itself ("Mojovision" and "Longshot").

[amend] Episodes [amend] Reception

In its prime, X-Men garnered very tall ratings for a Saturday morning cartoon, and like Batman: The Animated Series it received wide critical compliment for its description of many different storylines from the comics.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

The show currently has a score of 8.9/10 on IMDB.com,[19] and 8.9/10 on TV.com.[20]

In 2009, IGN ranked X-Men as the 13th greatest animated show of all time in their Top 100 menu, the second-highest standing for a comic book-adapted show on the list.[21]

[edit] VHS and DVD releases [edit] Alternate versions

The original beginning series featured the X-Men demonstrating their mutant abilities to a immediately quite distinctive instrumental theme (written by Ron Wasserman). This intro is used throughout the first four seasons. A modified edition is eventually introduced in due time 5, episode one ("Phalanx Covenant, Part One"). In this fashionable intro, the beginning of the theme is slightly changed. New fighting scenes are also added.

In the first season only, the end credit sequence consisted of computer-animated rotating 3D models of the different team-members created by graphic chart artist, Dave McCarty, set to a different, electric-guitar-based heavy-metal theme.[citation needed] In subsequent seasons, the computer-animated sequence and guitar-based closing theme were dropped and replaced with clips from the regular animation over the regular instrumental theme.[citation needed] When UPN began airing repeats on Sunday mornings an alternate credits sequence was used: a high-quality Japanese-animated version of the original opening.[citation needed]

Brazil

Rede Globo tear all of the intro sequence besides for the logo at its end—which they do to about all animated series they air. The American intro was retained when it was aired later on Fox Kids and Jetix.[cite needed]

Japan

The opening intro was replaced with a new, Japanese-animated section of the characters as well as a new Japanese theme with vocals shrieked "Rising" (ライジング), by the Japanese band Ambience (アンビエンス), which features mysterious moments such as Magneto summoning Brood to fight the X-Men and Cable fighting monster robots in power armor. Starting with episode 46 an switch cartoon intro was used, featuring the new theme "Dakishimetai Dare Yori Mo" (抱きしめたい誰よりも…). The end honors sequence was also changed: it featured shots of X-Men comic books set to the anthem "Back to You" (バック･トウ･ユー), also by Ambience.

Several seiyū (Japanese voice cast) played roles in the TV Tokyo edition of the Japanese dub, such as Kōichi Yamadera (Cyclops), Shinobu Adachi (Jean Grey), Rihoko Yoshida (Storm), Akiko Hiramatsu (Jubilee), Masashi Ebara (Wolverine), Norio Wakamoto (Mr. Sinister), Yūko Kobayashi (Rogue), Yoshito Yasuhara (Gambit), Ayako Shirashi (Dazzler), Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Magneto) and Rokurō Naya (Professor X).

[edit] Characters [edit] Cast George Buza as Beast/Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy Alyson Court as Jubilee/Jubilation Lee Tony Daniels as Gambit/Remy LeBeau (1997) Catherine Disher as Jean Grey/Phoenix Cathal J. Dodd as Wolverine/Logan Iona Morris as Storm/Ororo Munroe (1992) Chris Potter as Gambit (1992–1996) Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm (1992–1997) Cedric Smith as Professor X, Red Skull Norm Spencer as Cyclops/Scott Summers Lenore Zann as Rogue [edit] Additional voices Dennis Akayama as Iceman/Bobby Drake, Silver Samurai, Sunfire Philip Akin as Bishop Melissa Sue Anderson as Snowbird Harvey Atkin as Sasquatch/Doctor Walter Langkowski Lawrence Bayne as Cable, Erik the Red, Fabian Cortez, Captain USA Nigel Bennett as Mastermind Rick Bennett as Colossus (in "Red Dawn"), Juggernaut/Cain Marko James Blendick as Apocalypse/En Sabah Nur (1997), High Evolutionary Robert Bockstael as Ka-Zar, Sauron Christopher Britton as Mister Sinister/Nathaniel Essex Lally Cadeau as Doctor Moira McTaggart Robert Cait as Colossus/Piotr Rasputin (in "Red Dawn") Robert Calt as The Blob/Frederick J. Dukes Len Carlson as Senator Robert Kelly Randall Carpenter as Mystique/Raven Darkholme (1992–1993) John Colicos as Apocalypse/En Sabah Nur (1993–1995),DVD, appended voices Rod Coneybeare as Avalanche/Dominic Szilard Petros David Corbain as Tar Baby Jennifer Dale as Aurora, Domino, Mystique (1994–1997) Len Doncheff as Omega Red Adrian Egan as Cannonball/Samuel Guthrie, Quicksilver/Pietro Lehnsherr Barry Flatman as Vindicator, Henry Peter Gyrich David Fox as Sentinels, Master Mold Don Francks as Sabretooth/Victor Creed, Puck/Eugene Milton Judd, Shaman Catherine Gallant as Famine Paul Haddad as Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Arkon Graham Halley as Pyro/St. John Allerdyce Brett Halsey as Bolivar Trask Roscoe Handford as Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel David Hemblen as Magneto/Jonathan Magnus Dan Hennessey as Ruckus, Sunder Rebecca Jenkins as Dr. Heather Hudson Rene Lemieux as Northstar Judy Marshak as Plague/Pestilence Peter McCowatt as Amphibius James Millington as War Stephen Ouimette as Archangel/Angel/Warren Worthington III/Death, Cameron Hodge Ross Petty as Ape Jeremy Ratchford as Banshee/Sean Cassidy Susan Roman as Amelia Voght, Callisto, Scarlet Witch Ron Rubin as Morph Elizabeth Rukavina as Darkstar Camilla Scott as Lilandra Neramani Tasha Simms as Lady Deathstrike/Yuriko Oyama Megan Smith as Vertigo John Stocker as Graydon Creed, Leech Stuart Stone as Proteus Marc Strange as Forge Tara Strong as Ilyana Rasputin Kay Tremblay as Annalee, Shard Peter Wildman as Mojo Rod Wilson as Gorgeous George, Longshot Maurice Dean Wint as Shadow King [edit] Spin-offs [edit] X-Men Adventures X-Men Adventures
X-Men Adventures vol. 1 #1 (Nov 1992).
Art by Steve Lightle. Publication information Publisher Marvel Comics Schedule Monthly Format Ongoing Publication date November 1992–March 1997 Number of issues 53 Main character(s) X-Men

X-Men Adventures was a humorous paperback spin-off of the animated series. Beginning in November 1992, it adapted the first three seasons of the show; in April 1996, it became Adventures of the X-Men, which included incipient stories set within the same continuity.[22] The comic book lasted until March 1997, presently after the show's cancellation by the Fox Network.

In the final issue of Adventures of the X-Men, it is revealed that the Marvel animated universe existed prior to the chief Marvel Universe, and was destroyed by the fracturing of the M'Kraan Crystal.[23]

Volume five of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Hardcovers lists the X-Men cartoon for part of the Marvel multiverse, inhabiting Earth-92131. also, the pestilence infested future that Bishop tried to prevent in Season two is listed as Earth-13393 meantime Cable's release then immediate cure of the pestilence namely listed as Earth-121893.

[edit] Bibliography X-Men Adventures vol. 1 (1992–1994) (15 issues) [24] X-Men Adventures vol. two (1994–1995) (13 issues)[25] X-Men Adventures vol. three (1995–1996) (13 issues)[26] Adventures of the X-Men (1996–1997) (12 issues)[27] [edit] Video games X-Men Cartoon Maker: The X-Men Cartoon Maker was a recreational software pack that granted the consumer to create animations with a minimal class of sophistication by utilising a library of backdrops, animations and sound effects from the show. Wolverine and Storm (voice-only) aid you out. X-Men: Released by Western Technologies INC in June 1993 for Mega Drive. (This game was afterward followed by X-Men 2: Clone Wars in May 1995. Sega also released several X-Men game titles for it's GameGear hand held system. X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse: Released by Capcom in November 1994 as Super Nintendo. Capcom's VS. Series: The symbols in the series were copyrighted by Capcom and were the inspiration for the movie game X-Men: Children of the Atom, which in turn would be the foundation for the Marvel vs. Capcom sub-series of movie games.[28] Most of the voice players who did the voices in the series reprised their characters for the video game. Capcom would persist to use these symbols long after the show was cancelled ahead eventually losing the rights to create Marvel-based games to Electronic Arts in 2001. Capcom, whatever, would reacquire the rights in 2008 and loosened Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds on February 15, 2011. Some games in this series are: X-Men: Children of the Atom: Released in December 1994 for Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PC. Marvel Super-Heroes: Released in 1995 for Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn. X-Men vs. Street Fighter: Released in 1996 for Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter: Releasedn in 1997 for Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn. Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes: Released in 1998 for Arcade, PlayStation, Dreamcast. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes: Released in 2000 for Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation two, Xbox, PSN, XBLA. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds: Released in 2011 for PlayStation three and Xbox 360.

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