X-Men: Evolution

X-Men: Evolution is an American animated television series about the Marvel Comics superhero team X-Men. In this incarnation, many of the characters are teenagers rather than adults. The series ran for a total of four seasons (52 episodes) from November 2000 until October 2003 on Kids' WB, which has made it the third longest-running Marvel Comics animated series, behind only Fox Kids' X-Men and Spider-Man animated series. The series began running on Disney XD on June 15, 2009.

Strategy X (Season 1, Episode 1)[edit | edit source]

Cyclops losses control of his power and ends up triggering an explosion, Charles Xavier us his psychic abilities to make the cop believe that the explosion was caused by a gas leak instead.

Operation Rebirth (Season 2, Episode 11)[edit | edit source]

Jean uses her telepathy to wipe the memory of a bully who saw Nightcrawler in his real form.

Mindbender (Season 2, Episode 12 )[edit | edit source]

A mysterious hypnotist named Mesmero kidnaps some of the X-Men (Jean Grey, Spyke, Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde) and brainwashes them into committing crimes for him.

The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Season 3, Episode 7)[edit | edit source]

Wanda gets abducted by Magneto and is brainwashed by Mastermind into believing that her father didn't send her into a mental asylum when she was a child.

Dark Horizon (Season 3, Episodes 12-13)[edit | edit source]

Mesmero hypnotizes Rogue into absorbing the mutant powers of every mutant from every faction. The X-Men must team up with their enemies to stop Mesmero, Mystique, and Rogue from using Rogue's aborbed powers to reawaken the powerful mutant Apocalypse.

Rogue absorbs Kitty's powers
Rogue under Mesmero's control
The next morning Rogue remembers nothing
On her way to school, she is summoned by Mesmero
Rogue steals The Brotherhood's powers
And the powers of the Acolytes
Magneto and friends crash the X-Men's graduation looking for Rogue
Rogue appears, in a trance
Mesmero takes control of Rogue
The hypnotized Rogue drives everyone off
Rogue arrives at the tomb of Apocalypse
Still hypnotized
Apocalypse awakens
And absorbs all of Rogue's powers

Ascension (Season 4, Episodes 8-9)[edit | edit source]

Apocalypse turns Mystique, Magneto, Professor X, and Storm into his mind-controlled "Four Horsemen" to help enact his plan to turn all humans that have a dormant X-gene into mutants, while killing those who do not.