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The following is a list of episodes for the animated television series X-Men: Evolution, based on the X-Men comic books.

Season One

#	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original Airdate(s)
1	"Strategy X"	Frank Paur	Avi Arad & Rick Ungar (story) Bob Forward (writer)	November 4, 2000
As Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) adapts to his new home at the Xavier Institute, Mystique attempts to spy on the facility. She enlists Todd Tolanski (Toad), a mutant with frog-like abilites to scope the place out. Note: First apperance of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Prof. Charles Xavier, Storm, Nightcrawler, Toad, Mystique, Sabertooth (cameo apperance), and Magneto.
2	"The X-Impulse"	Gary Graham	Greg Johnson & Rick Ungar (story) Greg Johnson (writer)	November 11, 2000
Chicago native Kitty Pryde begins to exhibit the mutant ability of being able to phase through solid objects. Charles Xavier and Jean Grey head over to try and enlist her into their institute before a scheming trouble maker (who also happens to be a mutant who can create earthquakes) gets her to use her powers for wrong causes. Note: First apperance of Shadowcat & Avalanche. Also, this is the first time that Wolverine fights his rival, Sabretooth.
3	"Rogue Recruit"	Steven E. Gordon	Simon Furman	November 18, 2000
When Rogue accidentally triggers her mutant power by absorbing a local boy's memories, strengths, & abilites, the X-Men head off to Caldecott County, Mississippi to recruit. However, Mystique isn't willing to let her out of her grasp. She gets to Rogue first and is able to convince her that X-Men are hunting her down. Note: First apperance of Rogue & Destiny.
4	"Mutant Crush"	Frank Paur	Katherine Lawrence	November 20, 2000
Fred Dukes (Blob), a former sideshow entertainer from Texas, gets enlisted by Mystique into Bayville High, but his short temper and blubbery girth prevents him from making any necessary friends. He does get some help from Jean Grey in finding his way around the school, but things tak a turn for the worst when he mistakens this for love. Note: First apperance of Blob
5	"Speed and Spyke"	Gary Graham	Bob Forward (story & writer) Rick Ungar (story)	December 2, 2000
Evan Daniels, Ororo Monroe/Storm's nephew, is exihibiting his mutant ability of projecting boned spikes. Despite knowing his powers, Daniels initially refuses to join the X-Men. However, when former basketball teammate Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) continually steals money from him (along with getting him in trouble), Evan accepts the offer in an attempt to take his former friend down. Note: First apperances of Spyke & Quicksilver
6	"Middleverse"	Steven E. Gordon	Evelyn Gabai (story) Adam Beechen (story & writer)	January 27, 2001
Kurt's childish behavior makes Scott mad at him. Later, Kurt (in his true form) accidentally activates a device which transfers him to a parallel dimension. There, he meets Forge, who had been trapped there since the late seventies, and together, they devise a plan to break out and return to their normal dimension. Note: First apperance of Forge
7	"Turn of the Rogue"	Boyd Kirkland	Rick Ungar (story) Greg Johnson (story & writer)	February 3, 2001
Scott Summers/Cyclops and Jean Grey prepare for their geology club excursion, but Mystique has different plans in mind, replacing Jean with Rogue, in an attempt to put further distance between her and the X-Men's trust. In the end, Rogue finds out about Mystique's plans and finally joins the X-Men.
8	"Spykecam"	Frank Paur	Christy Marx (writer), Rick Ungar (story), & Randy Littlejohn (story & writer)	February 10, 2001
For extra credit, Spyke films the current events in his life. However, his project takes a turn for the worst when Sabretooth uses the video camera to find out where the Xaiver Institute is in order to hunt down his rival, Wolverine.
9	"Survival of the Fittest"	Gary Graham	Pamela Hickey & Dennys McCoy	March 3, 2001
The X-Men and the Brotherhood battle each other in a summer camp, but must cooperate when a bigger and unstoppable mutant threatens both Charles Xavier and Mystique. Note: First apperance of Juggernaut
10	"Shadowed Past"	Steven E. Gordon	Bob Forward (writer) & Jules Dennis (story)	March 31, 2001
Rogue has nightmares about Baby Kurt being abducted. It turns out that when she absorbed Mystique's memory of her prior plan to her away from the X-Men, she also absorbed her memories, allowing the X-Men to find out that Mystique is Kurt's mother. Wolverine also discovers that Nihtcrawler was the object of heinous experiments conducted by Magneto, but decides not to tell him.
11	"Grim Reminder"	Frank Paur	Greg Johnson (story) & Greg Johnson (writer)	April 14, 2001
Wolverine's tortured origin comes back to haunt him. He goes into the Canadian wilderness to find Weapon X. He runs into not only his archrival Sabretooth, but the exact doctor who gave him his adamantium claws. It turns out that the doctor still plans to use Wolverine to carry out Weapon X by brainwashing him with a microchip that was implanted into Logan's brain a long time ago. It's up to Shadowcat and Nightcrawler (who accompanied Wolverine accidentally, as they were in the X-Jet when he took it) to save the day.
12	"The Cauldron (Part 1)"	Gary Graham	Simon Furman	May 5, 2001
Scott is reunited with his brother Alex, as the X-Men are forced to the Brotherhood for a place in Magneto's sanctuary. Note: First apperance of Havok
13	"The Cauldron (Part 2)"	Steven E. Gordon	Greg Johnson	May 12, 2001
Magneto holds multiple battles to find out which mutants are "worthy" of joining him on Asteroid M. The "winners" are abducted by force and offered a place in the Cauldron, in which mutant powers are increased to "their full level".

Season Two

#	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original Airdate(s)
14	"Growing Pains"	Frank Paur	Cydne Clark & Steve Granat	September 29, 2001
The Brotherhood (sans Mystique) gatecrash a soccer match of Jean's team and threaten to expose mutantkind to the world. Introduction of the New Mutants and Risty.
15	"Power Surge"	Gary Graham	Doug Molitor	October 13, 2001
Jean Grey loses control of her powers, and the only one able to contain her is Rogue.
16	"Bada-Bing Bada-Boom!"	Steven E. Gordon	Greg Johnson	October 6, 2001
Boom Boom flirts with Nightcrawler, and then gets a visit from her criminal father who wants her to commit a crime for him. Tabitha reluctantly agrees, but then crosses the way of the Brotherhood, and joins them at the end of the episode.
17	"Fun and Games"	Frank Paur	Brian Swenlin	October 20, 2001
While Professor X has to mend Juggernaut's stasis cell, the younger X-Men trick Cyclops and Jean Grey to exit the Mansion in order to have a party. However, there is a guest with sinister intentions. Introduction of Arcade.
18	"Beast of Bayville"	Gary Graham	William Forrest Cluverius	October 27, 2001
Dr. Hank McCoy has no energy left to fight his mutation, which forces him to be a violent Beast. When he finally becomes a monster, Spyke is the only one who can possibly reach Dr. McCoy. Introduction of Beast.
19	"Adrift"	Steven E. Gordon	Greg Johnson	November 3, 2001
When Cyclops and Havok are on a boat tour, a great storm comes and nearly kills them.
20	"On Angel's Wings"	Frank Paur	Boyd Kirkland	December 15, 2001
In Christmas time, a mysterious angel is saving people's lives. Rogue and Cyclops track down Warren Worthington, who is deeply unsure about his mutation. Magneto wants to frame him, in order to instill hate against mankind into him, and the two X-Men have to set things straight. Introduction of Angel.
21	"African Storm"	Gary Graham	Nick Dubois	November 17, 2001
Storm is tormented by Houngan, an evil African shaman who wants to take over Africa. Storm and the X-Men have to stop an enemy who knows every weakness of hers.
22	"Joyride"	Steven E. Gordon	Cydne Clark & Steve Granat	December 1, 2001
Lance Alvers (Avalanche) wants to join the X-Men in order to be near Kitty. Unfortunately, the rest of the Brotherhood, along with several of the X-Men, are not pleased with his decision.
23	"Walk on the Wild Side"	Frank Paur	Cydne Clark & Steve Granat	March 2, 2002
The female X-Men are fed up with playing second fiddle, and form a vigilante crime-fighting group. For a while, things go great, but in the end, an old enemy crosses their way.
24	"Operation: Rebirth"	Gary Graham	Bob Forward	March 30, 2002
Nick Fury informs Wolverine that Magneto has stolen a device once used to create the super-soldier Captain America. Wolverine, Rogue and Nightcrawler go to recover it. Meanwhile, Logan reminisces about his history with Captain America during World War II.
25	"Mindbender"	Steven E. Gordon	Bob Forward	January 26, 2002
A mysterious hypnotist named Mesmero kidnaps some of the X-Men and brainwashes them into committing crimes for him.
26	"Shadow Dance"	Boyd Kirkland	Boyd Kirkland	February 2, 2002
The Bayville High Sadie Hawkins dance arrives, and everybody is scrambling for dates. Jean is highly jealous of Scott's date. In the meanwhile, Forge constructs a device which augments Nightcrawler's teleportation, but is unaware that vicious monsters from Kurt's bamf dimension will now be able to enter Earth. Introduction of Amanda Sefton, who knows the real Kurt Wagner and dates him.
27	"Retreat"	Frank Paur	Michael Merton	February 16, 2002
In order to help a depressive Beast out of his slump, Kitty arranges a field trip with the New Mutants. However, hunters catch Beast, thinking him to be Bigfoot, and the young mutants must save their teacher from life in captivity.
28	"The Hex Factor"	Gary Graham	Cydne Clark & Steve Granat	April 20, 2002
A mentally unstable, but immensely powerful mutant called Wanda is abducted from a mental institution and becomes the newest Brotherhood member, much to the horror of her brother Pietro. The new Brotherhood defeats the X-Men single-handedly. Introduction of Scarlet Witch.
29	"Day of Reckoning (Part 1)"	Gary Graham, Steven E. Gordon, & Frank Paur	Written By: Cydne Clark & Steve Granat Story By:Greg Johnson & Boyd Kirkland	May 11, 2002
Anti-mutant racist Bolivar Trask abducts Wolverine and introduces him to his newest invention, the Sentinels. In the meanwhile, Magneto wants to provoke all-out war between mankind and mutantkind and summons his Acolytes to create mayhem.
30	"Day of Reckoning (Part 2)"	Gary Graham, Steven E. Gordon, & Frank Paur	Written By: Cydne Clark & Steve Granat Story By:Greg Johnson & Boyd Kirkland	May 11, 2002
The X-Men are shocked when Professor X teams them up with the Brotherhood to stop them, but then, a shocking twist reveals that nothing was to be as it seemed to be. Introduction of the Acolytes, the Sentinels and Bolivar Trask.

Season Three

#	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original Airdate(s)
31	"Day of Recovery"	Gary Graham	Story By: Boyd Kirkland & Greg Johnson Written By: Cydne Clark & Steve Granat	September 14, 2002
The remaining X-Men and Brotherhood members go to Area 51 to save their captive members. However, when Cyclops traps the treacherous Mystique in Area 51 to blackmail her into saying where Professor X is, the squads split. The X-Men are now alone in a world which shuns them.
32	"The Stuff of Heroes"	Curt Geda	Story By: Greg Johnson Written By: Bob Forward	September 21, 2002
Storm and Beast step in front of the Senate and try to curb rampant anti-mutant racism. The X-Men fight have to stop Juggernaut, who was unleashed by Mystique and is threatening to destroy a dam. Shadowcat assists Rogue with absorbing the Juggernaut's powers and mind (including information of where the Professor is located). While the Juggernaut is thrown into the dam by Rogue, Iceman freezes him in a giant block of ice, and is declared "long gone now" by Cyclops. Seeing this, Congress decides not to pass any anti-mutant laws.
33	"Mainstream"	Frank Paur	Story By: Greg Johnson Written By: Michael Merton	September 28, 2002
The outed X-Men return to Bayville High and are scorned and verbally abused. Worse of all, Principal Edward Kelly is now prejudice of every mutant of Xavier's and New York. The School Board decides whether to allow mutants to attend school. The Brotherhood attack to get even with Scott. The X-men stop them by only using their powers to save people. The School Board votes to allow them to attend school.
34	"The Stuff of Villains"	Gary Graham	Adam Beecham	October 5, 2002
Wanda wants to find out where her father Magneto is and threatens Caliban and then her brother Quicksilver for info. When he refuses, Wanda delivers him to the police. When the Brotherhood wants to break him out of a prison transport, Rogue and Shadowcat appear and prevent Pietro from falling to his death. However, he is less than grateful and with help of Gambit, becomes new leader of the Brotherhood.
35	"Blind Alley"	Curt Geda	Story By: Greg Johnson, Boyd Kirkland & Craig Kyle Written By: Doug Molitor	October 19, 2002
Jean was about to confess that she loves Scott. However, Mystique abducts Cyclops to a desert in Mexico and steals his ruby quartz glasses. Jean, who has visions of him in peril, tracks him down. Although Mystique is determined to kill them both.
36	"X-Treme Measures"	Frank Paur	Story By: Greg Johnson & Boyd Kirkland Written By: Jules Dennis & Greg Johnson	November 2, 2002
Spyke joins a skateboarding contest sponsored by "Power8" soda. However, Power8 is harmful to mutants, and when Spyke drinks a swig, his mutation advances and poisons and disfigures him seriously. He is saved by the Morlocks, and in the end, Spyke joins them.
37	"The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"	Gary Graham	Steve Granat & Cydne Clark	November 9, 2002
Wanda tracks down Magneto to his Acolyte HQ in a near by ski resort. Meanwhile, Kurt is spending time with Amanda Sefton and meeting her parents. Toad steals Nightcrawler's image inducer (thereby blowing his cover in front of the Sefton household) and pursues Wanda, followed by an angry Kurt. However, when Wanda gets abducted by Magneto, the two rescue Wanda... who has been brainwashed by Mastermind into believing her father was a kind and giving man (erasing her memory of the asylum and his "death" by Sentinel).
38	"Self Possessed"	Curt Geda	Greg Johnson	November 16, 2002
Rogue witnesses her crush Scott date Jean. She is consoled by her friend Risty, but when she accidentally touches and absorbs her, she finds out that she was Mystique in disguise. Thinking everybody hates her, Rogue's latent multiple personality disorder breaks through and she loses her sanity. The X-Men have to stop their colleague, who has all their powers combined and in the verge of burning herself out.
39	"Under Lock and Key"	Frank Paur	Sean Roche	November 30, 2002
Angel spots Gambit stealing a mysterious artifact, but when he wants to stop them, Mesmero fights him off. When the Acolytes want to steal another artifact, the X-Men fight them and discover that there is a bigger plan happening. Soon both teams will face a spider-like being which is virtually unstoppable... Trivia: In this episode the x-men team that goes up against the spider is the original team from the comics (Cyclops, Beast, Jean Grey, Iceman, and Angel)
40	"Cruise Control"	Gary Graham	Steve Granat & Cydne Clark	August 23, 2003
Taking a break from superhero duty, the X-Men (sans Rogue) take a pleasure cruise. However, Magma becomes violently ill, literally suffering from earth withdrawal. When Boom-Boom transfers her to an island, she accidentally triggers a volcano. When the volcano threatens to explode again, Magma dives into its heart to silence it once and for all. (Originally aired out of order)
41	"X23"	Curt Geda	Story By: Craig Kyle Written By: Craig Kyle & Chris Yost	August 2, 2003
A mysterious assassin terrorizes the X-Mansion, knocking out the X-Men one by one. Wolverine finds out that it is his clone, raised without love by HYDRA, and she wants to kill him because she makes him responsible for her miserable life. Wolverine and X-23, as she is called, square off in a battle which Wolverine does not want to win.
42	"Dark Horizon (Part 1)"	Frank Paur	Craig Kyle & Chris Yost	August 9, 2003
Rogue falls under mind control of Mesmero and is used as a weapon to absorb the mutant powers of every X-Man, Brotherhood and Acolyte member. The three factions reluctantly cooperate and find out that Mesmero wants Rogue to give all her powers to Apocalypse to awaken him.
43	"Dark Horizon (Part 2)"	Gary Graham	Craig Kyle & Chris Yost	August 16, 2003
The reluctant team tracks him down to Egypt, but fail to prevent Apocalypse from coming back to life. Mankind is now in terrible danger.

Season Four

#	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original Airdate(s)
44	"Impact"	Gary Graham (II)	Greg Johnson	August 30, 2003
Strange phenomenon occur in the wake of Apocalypse. A jungle-covered Mayan pyramid complex becomes activated as one of Apocalypse's bases when his craft alights on top of it. The pyramid takes on a tech-ish appearance, and an impenetrable force shield surrounds it, down even into the ground underneath. A nearly-identical base in China is shown in news coverage as being attacked by the Chinese army, with the consequence of an area of several miles radius being utterly destroyed. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler pleads with Agatha Harkness to revive his mother Mystique, who is still turned into stone. Agatha states that a touch from Rogue might restore her, but instead of saving her foster mother, Rogue pushes her over a cliff to Nightcrawler's echoing cries as it shatters. Back in Mexico, the X-Men receive permission from the government down there to study the base, and while they are doing so Magneto makes an attack upon it. He smashes tanks from the surrounding army forces into the force shield to no effect, and then reaches out with his powers to pluck orbital satellites from the sky, sending them at high speed into the force shield, and again to no avail. Finally, Appocalypse emerges, and in a one-sided combat Magneto is wrapped in a ball of force and disappears, presumably destroyed utterly.
45	"No Good Deed"	Doug Murphy	Story By:Greg Johnson, Boyd Kirkland & Craig Kyle Written By: William Forrest Cluverius	September 6, 2003
In order to boost their reputation, the Brotherhood decide to stage accidents and then rescue the bystanders. In the beginning, they are successful, but then, a staged accident runs out of hand. The X-Men just save the day, and the Brotherhood stops with their deeds.
46	"Target X"	Doug Murphy	Craig Kyle & Chris Yost	September 13, 2003
X-23 returns and wants to hunt down the people who tortured her. Wolverine is dragged into the mess by an old enemy, and the two tackle HYDRA and its leader Viper and bring the terrorists down. Introduction of Omega Red and Gauntlet.
47	"Sins of the Son"	Gary Graham	Written By: Marsha F. Griffin	September 20, 2003
Charles Xavier's son David has been seemingly abducted. The X-Men track him down, and it turns out that he suffers from multiple personality disorder, and that his dominant malicious personality, called Lucas, overwhelmed him. In the end, Lucas defeats the X-Men and breaks free. Introduction of Legion.
48	"Uprising"	Doug Murphy	Story By:Greg Johnson, Boyd Kirkland & Craig Kyle Written By: Bob Forward	September 27, 2003
Spyke makes his return, having turned into an angry vigilante who protects the Morlocks. He is unafraid to go in public with his disfiguring mutation, causing panic in his environment - especially since the world is under extreme prejudice against mutants. Anti-Mutant racists, Duncan Matthews and his friends hunt Spyke down, and stumble on a small boy called Leech. When the X-Men fight Duncan's gang (and try to stop Evan from causing more damage), Leech stops the battle with his powers and is "outed" as a mutant. Spyke realizes that his rage has destroyed Leech's chances for a normal life. Also in this episode a pyramid in China is surrounded by an impenetrable force shield. The Chinese government attack by bombing the force shield but fail and destroy the landscape surrounding the pyramid. SHIELD release Bolivar Trask ordering him to build new improved Sentinels so that they can fight Apocalypse.
49	"Cajun Spice"	Frank Paur	Michael Merton & Greg Johnson	October 4, 2003
Gambit abducts Rogue, so that her powers can aid him in finding his abducted father. The mission is a success, but Rogue finds out that Gambit had some additional, deeply egotistical goals attached. In the end, she states that he did the wrong thing for the right reasons, and that she forgives him.
50	"Ghost of a Chance"	Gary Graham	Greg Johnson	October 11, 2003
Shadowcat meets Danielle Moonstar and quickly becomes friends with her. But suddenly, she wakes up and realizes that she seemingly dreamt everything up, but then, it seems that her dreams had a deep meaning. In the end, she and Nightcrawler find out what really happened and that Danielle is more than a piece of fiction.
51	"Ascension (Part 1)"	Doug Murohy (part 1)	Story By: Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle, Boyd Kirkland Written By: Greg Johnson	October 18, 2003
Apocalypse plans to turn all humans with the dormant X Gene into mutants. He has turned Magneto, Professor X, Storm, and Mystique into his Four Horsemen and has covered the world with a network of energy pyramids to stage his plan.
52	"Ascension (Part 2)"	Frank Paur	Greg Johnson	October 25, 2003
The X-Men, the Brotherhood, SHIELD, Angel, Spyke, Havok, and the New Mutants all join forces to save humanity from the ambitions of Apocalypse. Then, Professor X tells them what may happen in the future (because he had glimpsed into the mind of Apocalypse).

External links

• X-Men: Evolution Episodes at Marvel.com
• TV.com: X-Men: Evolution episode list
• Toon Zone's X-Men: Evolution website
• X-Men: Evolution Page run by Kataclysm with screenshots for each episode and custom avatars