SnoopyStyle Jubilation 'Jubilee' Lee is hunted by a Sentinel after her foster parents sign her up to the Mutant Control Agency. She is rescued by the X-Men; Wolverine, Beast, Cyclops, Professor Charles Xavier, Rogue, Jean Grey, Gambit, Storm, and Morph. Professor X advocates the harmonious coexistence between mutants and the regular human population. He is opposed by others in both human and mutant world. The world extends beyond the earth into space and time.I remember watching the first season on Saturday mornings back in the day. I don't remember watching the following seasons. At the time, I found it compelling to lose a main character right from the start. It's done more often nowadays. I did binge watch the rest on Netflix. This is definitely one of the best of 90's Saturday morning cartoons. The second season has Professor Xavier paired up with Magneto in a side adventure. It would be more compelling to have Xavier stay with his X-Men to build up their relationship chemistry. Overall, this ranks as upper level of the cartoons of its era.

A_Different_Drummer I have been merrily working my way through not merely the Marvel archives but, to show I don't play favorites, the DC library as well. Series as well as features. Honestly (and usually I distrust anyone who starts a sentence with the word "honestly") the production standards here are the best I have seen. The animation is superb. Done in the 90s before the studio started to experiment with what can best be described as "stressed" or "overly geometric" figures. The writing? As good as or better than many features on the big screen decades later, and MUCH better than several X-Men features. Many two and three-parters, very brave for the era. The voice actors? Astonishing. Overall score? A perfect 10.

ydawg-478-917558 First of all let me say that I am not a comic nerd, I maybe owned a couple through my whole life (wolverine was my fav and probably because of this show). I have never liked other superhero shows (another critic said he liked the batman cartoon but that show blew, maybe i just didn't like the cartoon style). Basically what I am trying to say is that I am not a superhero guy but this show might be the best cartoon ever ...You know those shows/movies you loved as a kid then re-watch as an adult and they just seem corny and/or stupid, boring, childish or just plain lame? (i remember loving "labrynth" the movie as a kid, re watched and realized its just a long and boring David bowie music video). I recently got all 5 seasons of X-men for my kids to watch because I remember absolutely loving it watching it new as a kid myself, it was my most anticipated cartoon (besides the simpsons) and I thought the kids would enjoy it...the theme music gave me butterflies, so lets start there. What a theme song !!! )best ever maybe), so good I can't believe it brought out emotion in me and that is rare. The video for the intro is pretty cool too, love that explosion.Now on to the show, a lot of reviews here hit it on the nose. The show is so complex and the characters are real. The opening scene of jubilee with her foster parents, man !!! TV shows still don't have the balls to put on content that real.Gambit hitting on the cashier, man !!! so good.The characters make jokes that are funny.They get in each others faces.The girls are more loving and the guys are cold.OK i could go on and on so lets just finish by saying watch the damn show and lets never forget it. shows like this don't come along every day and i hope people enjoy it for a long time.OK i feel like i should throw a couple negatives in just so i don't seem to biased (remember i am not a comic geek so i cant talk about comic book accuracy) just from the first episode though ...1. I don't like how gambit is just waltzing around the mall in his costume, storm and rogue were both in plain clothes though so i don't know why gambit had to be rocking his outfit? 2. The giant robot is hiding behind a tree as jubilee walks by going to her parents house to check on them ... please.OK thats about it for nowum fav character has gotta be gambit, love the accentsthis show embraces diversity but not in a captain planet kind of wayalright i am outthanks

MisterWhiplash X-Men is one of the perennial favorites in the Marvel catalog, maybe as well known now as Spider-Man, and seeing this TV series it's not hard to see why. This is taken, as far as I can tell from my limited knowledge of the original comics that featured the main cast assembled here (Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Gambit, Jean Grey, Xavier, Jubilee), right from the source material, and it's a pleasure to see how the series in the first two seasons followed a fairly straightforward continuity. Indeed it's like going through a comic book series; you can't really jump in on any episode to really gage the plot (albeit there are some great stand-alone episodes, particularly in the second season where we get some backstories on Gambit and Rogue), though at the least you get an idea of who every character is and what their interests, powers, concerns and little dramas tend to veer toward.This is not to say sometimes it can't get a little confusing; by the time it gets into time travel with Cable it can be a little crazy, especially in terms of how much affects what or why an apocalypse still seems to be taking place. But aside from that, it's a classic Saturday morning serial, with lots of adventure and action and colorful villains. And they're all given some meaty comic-boom dialog, too, and it's a step-up usually from the times in the movie series when they've tried to go too far (i.e. X3, Wolverine) in defining personalities. Here it's done just enough as to get a grasp of everyone, but relatively so. And along with the breakneck animation (some of it quite sophisticated for the time, some on par with the Ninja Turtles cartoons if not quite up there with Batman), there's the whole issue of being a mutant, the identity of it and how it is to be a human and an outsider in society that works its way into the show and theme in general.It's got a message but it doesn't overstate it, it's got action that is believable enough so that we don't roll our eyes and incredible at times to keep the kids wondering (there's a moment where the flying-angel character in an episode asks Rogue how she can fly and she gives a shrug kind of answer, a perfect little comic-book moment), not to mention characters like Beast and Wolverine and Magneto, who are the kinds of icons that need strong storytelling to keep them interesting to new and old fans. This X-Men series, frankly, is the be-all-end-all for me, bad-ass and an all-around crowd-pleaser.