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.
#1 - Cajun Spice
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/4/2003
Gambit kidnaps Rogue to help her forget her past with Mystique. Wolverine tracks him to Magneto’s base, but Gambit takes Rogue to confront his foster father’s captors. Rogue discovers Gambit’s plan and helps rescue his father. The X-Men arrive, and Gambit decides to leave his old life behind.
#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?
#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.
#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"".
#5 - 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.
#6 - Ghost of a Chance
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/11/2003
Kitty is saved by Danielle Moonstar, a mutant who joins the institute but causes nightmares for Jean, Kurt, and Kitty during training. When Danielle disappears without a trace, Kitty follows mysterious messages to find her, fearing she might be expelled.
#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.
#8 - Sins of the Son
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/2003
Xavier’s son, David, is kidnapped by Lucas, who has multiple personalities. Xavier and the X-Men rescue him, and David learns Ian is actually Lucas. Xavier fails to erase Lucas, who disappears. Meanwhile, Kitty and Kurt are too sick for school.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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!
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - No Good Deed
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/2003
The Brotherhood stages accidents for fame, framing the X-Men. After their arrest, the X-Men help stop a final disaster, with Avalanche preventing the explosion and promising no more heroics.
#17 - Uprising
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/2003
Spyke, now armored, protects mutants but sparks anti-mutant hysteria. He shields Dorian Leach, who can suppress powers, and the X-Men defeat Duncan. Dorian negates everyone’s abilities, and Duncan is arrested. Meanwhile, Apocalypse creates an indestructible sphere in China.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#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...
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.