The BEST episodes of X-Men: Evolution

Every episode of X-Men: Evolution ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of X-Men: Evolution!

Loosely following the main stories from the original comic, X-Men: Evolution accompanies the lives of six mutants (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, and a new original character named Spyke) who attend Xavier's Institute for the Gifted, where they ought to learn how to control their powers and use them for good. These teenagers must face a world that both fears and despises them.

Last Updated: 2/28/2024Network: The WBStatus: Ended
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Ascension (2)
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9.08
86 votes

#1 - Ascension (2)

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/25/2003

The four teams fight a losing battle against their horsemen, until Apocalypse moves his plan to the next level. The tops of the pyramids come off and line the Earth's atmosphere, connected to each other by some sort of energy. Pressed for time, the teams become desperate. The Brotherhood joins the team in Mexico to fight Magneto, and Jean amplifies her power with Cerebro to battle Xavier psychically. Apocalypse lies down in his original resting place, and the evolution of humankind begins. But in the last moments of the battle, Rogue shows up with Leech, and she takes his power and negates Apocalypse's power, ending the evolution before any harm is done. Apocalypse is shut into his machine and sent to another time period, and the horsemen fall out of their trances. Rogue and Kurt give Mystique the cold shoulder, and the episode ends with Xavier deeply disturbed after seeing glimpses into the future of the X-Men, and seeing Jean become the Phoenix, among other changes.

Directors: Frank Paur
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Dark Horizon (1)
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8.76
108 votes

#2 - Dark Horizon (1)

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/9/2003

As Jean's and Scott's graduation day approaches, Rogue suddenly leaves the mansion.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Dark Horizon (2)
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8.64
77 votes

#3 - Dark Horizon (2)

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/16/2003

As all the monsters in the tomb attack, the teammates fight to survive and find a way out.

Directors: Gary Graham
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On Angel's Wings
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8.60
86 votes

#4 - On Angel's Wings

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/2001

Xavier starts worrying about the existence of mutants becoming public knowledge when the media starts reporting multiple sightings of a man with angel wings. With most of the X-men on Christmas leave, and Cerebro down for repairs, Scott and Rogue are left having to track the man down themselves.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Ascension (1)
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8.53
86 votes

#5 - Ascension (1)

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/18/2003

When a new sphere appears in Egypt, Professor X wants to try to communicate with Apocalypse, taking Storm with him. With Cerebro technology, the rest of the group watches as Apocalypse telepathically communicates his plan to awaken the dormant X gene in all humans, a process which will kill most 'normal' humans. Xavier tells Apocalypse that this isn't necessary, which angers Apocalypse. Storm comes to his defense, but instead sends them both away in the same way Magneto was. The X-Men are mortified, and are soon joined by Nick Furry who announces the restart of the Sentinel program. Apocalypse is confronted by three sentinels at the Sphynx, which act as decoys while more sentinels are sent to use their superior technology to disable the three spheres. Apocalypse defeats the sentinels, but sends out four horsemen under his control to protect them - Magneto in Mexico, Storm in China, Xavier in Egypt, and Mystique at the Sphynx. The X-Men split into four groups to fight the horsemen aroun

Directors: Doug Murphy
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Blind Alley
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8.52
85 votes

#6 - Blind Alley

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2002

Mystique escapes from imprisonment while the X-Men repair and rebuild the Institute. Disguised as Alex, she lures Scott into a trap - leaving him stranded in the middle of the Mexican desert without his glasses.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Doug Molitor
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Shadow Dance
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8.51
92 votes

#7 - Shadow Dance

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/2/2002

Forge is working on a device that will enhance Kurt's teleportation powers.

Directors: Boyd Kirkland
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The Stuff of Heroes
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8.43
116 votes

#8 - The Stuff of Heroes

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2002

Rogue and Wolverine duck a squad of soldiers when the nationwide alert goes out against mutants, while Storm and Beast go into a meeting of Congress to defend themselves. Meanwhile Juggernaut goes on a rampage and the X-Men feel obliged to take him down.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Bob Forward
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Cruise Control
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8.40
78 votes

#9 - Cruise Control

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/23/2003

The X-Men are on vacation with Storm as their guardian. Amara falls ill while on the ship.

Directors: Gary Graham
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Day of Reckoning (2)
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8.38
78 votes

#10 - Day of Reckoning (2)

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/11/2002

The Brotherhood and X-Men arrive where Magneto is with his new allies.

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Fun and Games
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8.37
119 votes

#11 - Fun and Games

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2001

A malfunction in Juggernaut's stasis field leaves the X-Men without adult supervision. Deciding to hold a party, they ditch Scott and Jean in the wilderness. However, things soon get out of control, when one of the guests gives himself access to Cerebro.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Bada-Bing Bada-Boom
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8.36
118 votes

#12 - Bada-Bing Bada-Boom

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2001

After being grounded for reckless behavior during a training mission, Tabitha doesn't need her father showing up asking her to steal money for ""her mother""...

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Greg Johnson
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The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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8.34
88 votes

#13 - The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2002

Wanda receives a clue from one of Magneto's minions, Pyro, directing her to a ski resort. Meanwhile, Kurt is meeting Amanda's parents for the first time, and the Toad believes he can use Kurt's holo-inducer to disguise himself and win Wanda's love.

Directors: Gary Graham
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Day of Recovery
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8.22
92 votes

#14 - Day of Recovery

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/2002

The X-Men and Brotherhood deal with the after math of the world finding out about mutants. Mystique, diguised as Professor X, manages to blow up the Insitute. Some of the X-Men and Brotherhood were captured, leaving the mutants that escaped to find them and the Professor.

Directors: Gary Graham
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Mindbender
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8.22
92 votes

#15 - Mindbender

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/26/2002

Jean has nightmares about huge circus clowns, then is controlled by the master of that circus, with Nightcrawler, Kitty, and Spyke controlled also.

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Bob Forward
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Walk on the Wild Side
star
8.20
83 votes

#16 - Walk on the Wild Side

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/2/2002

When Jean and Amara feel like the boys think they are stronger than the girls are, Tabitha decides that they should form a girl's crime fighting club as the Bayville Sirens.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Impact
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8.19
83 votes

#17 - Impact

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/2003

Magneto ruthlessly hunts Apocalypse, but the X-Men aren't so eager. When nothing can be done about Mystique, the professor gives her to the Brotherhood. Much to Rogue's objection, Kurt brings it back. When the two fight, Kurt sees a tear. Jean discovers Apocalypse in Mexico, and the professor, Cyclops, Jean, Shadowcat, Beast, & Wolverine go to investigate. They try to be peaceful, but Magneto attacks. Apocalypse defeats him with ease, and appears to kill him. Back in Bayville, Kurt has Wanda contact Agatha. Rogue finds the two meeting, and Agatha tells her that she's the only one who can save her mother. Kurt begs her to do the right thing, but Rogue knocks the statue off the cliff. It shatters before Kurt can teleport down to it, and Rogue just walks away.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Operation Rebirth
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8.19
85 votes

#18 - Operation Rebirth

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/30/2002

Magneto steals the remaints of the top secret "Rebirth" project, a project Wolverine helped shut down all the way back in World War II.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Bob Forward
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African Storm
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8.18
91 votes

#19 - African Storm

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2001

An African witch-doctor comes to the institute to steal Storm's powers while she is faced with the decision to send Evan back to his parents.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Nick Dubois
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Under Lock and Key
star
8.17
76 votes

#20 - Under Lock and Key

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2002

Mesmero mentally controls Gambit into stealing half of the Spider Stone from Angel.

Directors: Frank Paur
Writer: Sean Roche
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The Beast of Bayville
star
8.15
144 votes

#21 - The Beast of Bayville

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2001

The kids get worried when the normally cool and collected teacher Hank McCoy starts having fits of animal rage.

Directors: Gary Graham
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The HeX Factor
star
8.13
86 votes

#22 - The HeX Factor

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/20/2002

Mystique breaks a mysterious young girl out of an asylum and brings her to the Brotherhood House.

Directors: Gary Graham
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X-Treme Measures
star
8.12
85 votes

#23 - X-Treme Measures

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2002

Evan enters an extreme Skateboarding competition, and puts his skills to the test. But something is wrong: A mysterious woman is watching and following him during the competition.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Turn of the Rogue
star
8.11
105 votes

#24 - Turn of the Rogue

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/3/2001

Scott and Rogue end up on a geology club field trip together. Scott tries to be friendly to her, but it turns out Mystique has other plans...

Directors: Boyd Kirkland
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Self Possessed
star
8.05
87 votes

#25 - Self Possessed

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2002

Rogue appears to have problems with her powers, as the residual impressions of everyone she has touched start flashing through her mind and body.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Greg Johnson
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