The WORST episodes of X-Men: Evolution

Every episode of X-Men: Evolution ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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: 11/20/2024Network: The WBStatus: Ended
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Cajun Spice
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6.37
110 votes

#1 - Cajun Spice

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/4/2003

Gambit kidnaps Rogue and tells her he is trying to help her to forget what she did to Mystique. When everyone notice she is missing, Wolverine sense Gambit's smell and goes to Magneto's base where he find Pyro and tells him the Acolytes are separated and he does not know where Gambit is. Gambit takes Rogue to city where a couple of criminals reconcile him and attack them both. Rogue touches the leader of them and discovers Gambit's foster father is being hold in an old house near the swamp. They go there and Rogue accidentally touches Gambit and learns he is using her to get there. Gambit decided to go alone but Rogue comes back to help him and rescue his father and take on the Rippers. Wolverine and the rest of the X-men arrive and take Rogue with them while Gambit decides to quit that lifestyle for good.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Shadowed Past
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6.72
130 votes

#2 - Shadowed Past

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/2001

Rogue's nightmares seem to show images from Kurt's past, but in them he's far too young to remember. So where did they come from?

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Bob Forward
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The X-Impulse
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7.33
145 votes

#3 - The X-Impulse

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2000

15-year-old Kitty Pryde wakes up one day and finds herself able to walk though objects. She tries to ignore it, but finds that hard when she's approached by Jean Grey and a mutant trouble maker, who both say they know what she's going through and want to help her. Meanwhile Wolverine's old nemesis, Sabertooth, arrives in town - looking for trouble.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Speed and Spyke
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7.43
117 votes

#4 - Speed and Spyke

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/2000

Ororo's nephew starts exhibiting mutant powers, but he's more interested in settling a rivalry with a fellow mutant than hearing about a ""school for freaks"".

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Bob Forward
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Ghost of a Chance
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7.48
86 votes

#5 - Ghost of a Chance

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/11/2003

Kitty is saved from a rockslide by a mutant girl named Danielle Moonstar. Danielle quickly joins the institute, but immediately causes trouble during a training session when she causes the nightmares of Jean, Kurt, and Kitty to come true. That night, Logan, Professor X, and Storm also have powerful nightmares, worrying Kitty that her new friend will be expelled from the institute. When Kitty wakes up the next morning, Danielle isn't there -- and when she asks, nobody has even heard of her. Kitty is determined to find Danielle Moonstar, and follows a path of strange messages that only she is receiving to her location.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Joyride
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7.48
92 votes

#6 - Joyride

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/2001

Lance comes to the mansion, wanting to join the X-Men. Unfortunately he has a hard time fitting in, and it doesn't get any easier when he gets the blame for some of the other students' nightly joyrides in the various X-Men vehicles.

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
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Middleverse
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7.53
114 votes

#7 - Middleverse

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/2001

Kurt accidently finds an abandoned lab, and is sucked into a pocket dimension by a strange device he finds there.

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Adam Beechen
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Sins of the Son
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7.59
86 votes

#8 - Sins of the Son

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/2003

David Haller, Xavier's son, who has lived away from his father's knowledge, contacts him seeking help. He has been kidnapped by a man called Lucas. Xavier, Jean, Scott and Storm travel to Scotland where Xavier's ex-wife lives with David and a street boy called Ian. When Ian leaves the house, Jean follows him and is kidnapped by Lucas. Scott tracks them to an old castle in ruins where teenagers throw parties and gets captured. Xavier and David's mother find Ian and with his help, they get to the castle and face the boys there while Jean, Scott and David escape. David meets his father for the first time, and he reveals he is actually Ian. Lucas, too, by turning into Ian first and later into Lucas. His multiple personalities change his appearence every time. Xavier enters in his son's mind trying to erase Ian and Lucas, but fails and Lucas is the only one left who disappears in the sky. Meanwhile, at Bayville, Kitty and Kurt are way too sick to go to school.

Directors: Gary Graham
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Strategy X
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7.60
234 votes

#9 - Strategy X

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2000

Mystique sees an opportunity to get a spy in Xavier's institute when the morally shady Todd Tolanski starts exhibiting mutant powers. Kurt Wagner, Xavier's latest recruit, arrives and tries to familiarize himself with his new life as part of the X-Men.

Directors: Frank Paur
Writer: Bob Forward
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Survival of the Fittest
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7.60
106 votes

#10 - Survival of the Fittest

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2001

While the X-Men are at a summer camp, learning survival training, Mystique releases Cain Marko - the unstoppable Juggernaut - in hopes of getting his help in obtaining Xavier's mutant location system.

Directors: Gary Graham
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Mutant Crush
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7.67
120 votes

#11 - Mutant Crush

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/25/2000

The only thing bigger than Fred Dukes' strength and size, is his temper, which makes his first day at school rather difficult. When Jean Grey makes contact, trying to be friendly, he takes it just a bit too seriously.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Day of Reckoning (1)
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7.69
91 votes

#12 - Day of Reckoning (1)

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/11/2002

Wolverine suddenly vanishes, as the Brotherhood members team up with the X-Men to defeat Magneto.

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Target X
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7.73
88 votes

#13 - Target X

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/2003

Wolverine is kidnapped, but escapes in the forest. X23 returns and teams up with Wolverine to take on Hydra!

Directors: Frank Paur
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Rogue Recruit
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7.75
147 votes

#14 - Rogue Recruit

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/2000

After being kept in the dark about her powers for years, a young female mutant touches a fellow student and absorbs his strength, his memories - his life. Afraid and confused, and unable to differentiate her memories from the absorbed ones she runs away - straight in to the hands of Mystique.

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Simon Furman
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Adrift
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7.76
90 votes

#15 - Adrift

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2001

Scott becomes lost at sea when trying to find his brother, who was swept out by a freak wave while surfing.

Directors: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Greg Johnson
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No Good Deed
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7.80
86 votes

#16 - No Good Deed

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/2003

When the Brotherhood saves a few people after Wanda accidentally causes a subway accident, they are regarded as heroes. The X-Men are utterly repulsed. The Brotherhood begins to cause accidents just to get famous. When the X-Men figure it out, Pietro tricks Wanda into using her powers to make it look like the X-Men are the villains. After the X-Men are arrested, the Brotherhood tries to cause one last accident. When they can't stop it, the X-Men are released to help. Shadowcat & Jean can't stop the explosion, so Avalanche does. He promises that there will be no more heroics.

Directors: Doug Murphy
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X23
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7.80
87 votes

#17 - X23

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/2/2003

A mysterious female assassin terrorizes the X-Mansion, knocking out the X-Men one by one. Wolverine finds out that it is his clone, created by the Dr. Deborah Risman and raised without love by HYDRA, and she wants to kill him because she holds him responsible for her miserable life. Wolverine and X-23, as she is called, square off in a battle that Wolverine does not want to win.

Directors: Curt Geda
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Uprising
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7.81
85 votes

#18 - Uprising

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/2003

A further mutated Spyke, now armored and able to throw flaming spikes, now protects mutants, including Magma and Cannonball who are walking out of a library when Duncan pulls up and tries to attack them. Xavier is concerned and sends a reluctant Wolverine to talk to him, to no effect. Callisto is also concerned that Spyke's efforts will bring down the wrath of mutant-haters on the other Morlocks who can't protect themselves. Her predictions come true when Spyke's efforts set off further anti-mutant hysteria. Spyke protects a young mutant named Dorian Leach, who it is revealed to have the power to suppress energy - electrical, mutant, whatever. The Morlocks and the X-Men come to Spyke's aid, and defeat Duncan and his men. Dorian shows up and temporarily negates everyone's powers. Duncan is arrested and Spyke returns to the underground. Meanwhile, Apocalypse creates a second sphere in China which resist all efforts to destroy it, and Nick Fury is ordered to free Trask and have him reinit

Directors: Doug Murphy
Writer: Bob Forward
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SpykeCam
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7.83
107 votes

#19 - SpykeCam

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/10/2001

As an extra credit project, Evan is given a camera to record the ""current events"" in his life. Though most of them aren't keen on being caught on tape, Sabertooth is most definitively interested in the result.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Retreat
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7.83
113 votes

#20 - Retreat

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/16/2002

While Beast is taking Kitty, Bobby, Evan, and two other new recruits on a camping trip, a few hunters decide that Beast is really a Big Foot, and they plan to trap him.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Growing Pains
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7.90
130 votes

#21 - Growing Pains

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2001

When Scott and Kurt use their powers to save several people from a car crash, the question of how much they're willing to ignore to keep their powers a secret comes up. Professor X maintains that the world is not ready to know about them, however the other mutants, now without Mystique's guidance, have other ideas...

Directors: Frank Paur
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Mainstream
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7.91
88 votes

#22 - Mainstream

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2002

During the rebuilding of the manor, Kitty and Kurt intercept a bunch of graffiti artists disguised as monsters. The older students get to go back to Bayville High for one day before attending a hearing to determine their ultimate fate, while they are banned from using their powers.

Directors: Frank Paur
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The Cauldron (1)
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7.91
104 votes

#23 - The Cauldron (1)

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/2001

As mysterious metal pods appear, picking up the mutants one at a time, Cerebro detects a new mutant in Hawaii: Alex Summers - Scott's believed to be deceased brother.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Simon Furman
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Grim Reminder
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7.93
104 votes

#24 - Grim Reminder

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/14/2001

A news report from the Canadian mountains triggers something deep inside Wolverine, and he starts having berserk fits. To find out why, he takes the Blackbird to the site, not knowing that Kitty and Kurt are sitting in the back.

Directors: Frank Paur
Writer: Len Uhley
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Power Surge
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7.94
93 votes

#25 - Power Surge

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2001

Jean's abilities start growing in sudden bursts. At first she tries to ignore it, but with each burst she has increasing trouble regaining control. Meanwhile the school gets a new science/phys. ed. teacher.

Directors: Gary Graham
Writer: Doug Molitor
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