TheX-Men, asuperhero team created byStan Lee andJack Kirby that appears in comic books produced byMarvel Comics, has appeared in multiple television series since the team's inception in 1963.X-Men: The Animated Series premiered onFox Kids in 1992 and ran for five seasons until 1997. The series is credited with bringing mainstream attention to the X-Men. Following the conclusion ofThe Animated Series, a new X-Men cartoon titledX-Men: Evolution began airing onKids' WB from 2000 to 2003 for four seasons.

Across the various X-Men television series, which characters make up the team's roster and are members of the cast often changes. The only characters to have appeared as cast members and part of the X-Men across all five series areProfessor Charles Xavier,Scott Summers / Cyclops,Hank McCoy / Beast,James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine, andOroro Munroe / Storm. Besides these five characters,Jean Grey,Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler, andRogue have appeared in all five shows and been cast members in three;Warren Worthington III also appears in all five shows, being a cast member in only one series.

In 1992,the Fox network launchedX-Men: The Animated Series with the roster ofCyclops,Wolverine,Rogue,Storm,Beast,Gambit,Jubilee,Jean Grey, andProfessor X with secondary background playerMorph making occasional appearances. The two-part pilot episode, "Night of the Sentinels", began a five-season series. It was an extraordinary success and helped to widen the X-Men's popularity.^[4] The five seasons ended in 1997. It returned to Fox's line-up for several months after the first movie was released in 2000.^[5]

In 2000,The WB launched theX-Men: Evolution television series, which portrayed the X-Men as teenagers attending a regular public high school in addition to the Xavier Institute. The series ended in 2003 after its fourth season. The show focused on Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Rogue,Shadowcat, Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Professor X,Spyke (Storm's nephew), in addition to introducing the characterLaura Kinney / X-23, who has since become a recurring character in the comics.^[4]

In 2008,Marvel Studios released a new X-Men animated show that featured Wolverine titledWolverine and the X-Men. This series used a mesh of 2D/3D animation for characters and backgrounds.^[6]Avi Arad, CEO of Marvel Studios, stated "X-Men is one of Marvel's crown jewels and it makes sense to focus on the popular Wolverine character for our second animation project."^[7] The series debuted in the United States on January 23, 2009 and in the U.K. in February.^[6][8] It also aired in Latin America and Canada. The team consisted of Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast, Storm, Shadowcat, Iceman, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Angel, Jean Grey, Colossus, Forge, and Professor X. The show was cancelled just after one season due to financing issues.^[4]

As part of afour-series collaboration between the JapaneseMadhouse animation house and Marvel, the X-Men starred in a 12 episodeanime series that premiered in Japan onAnimax and in the United States onG4 in 2011.^[9][10] The series deals with the X-Men coming to Japan to investigate the disappearance ofArmor. The antagonists are reported to be theU-Men.^[11][12]

Set a year after the conclusion ofThe Animated Series—in which Xavier nearly died in an assassination attempt and was taken to space to be healed by the alien Shi'ar Empire—the X-Men face new challenges without Xavier, under the leadership of their former adversary Magneto.^[13][14]

In November 2021, Marvel announced that a revival ofX-Men: The Animated Series, titledX-Men '97,^[15] was in production and set to air on the streaming serviceDisney+.^[16]

set to be released onDisney+ in 2024 and will be produced byMarvel Studios. Beau DeMayo will serve as the head writer and executive producer for the upcoming series with several cast members from the original animated series are set to reprise their roles and will be joined by new cast. Original animated series director Larry Houston, and its showrunners and producers Eric and Julia Lewald are announced as the consultants for the upcoming series.^[17][18][19]

It is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 20, 2024 and run for 10 episodes.^[20] A second and third season are in development.^[21]

The entire cast ofThe Animated Series reappear as main characters. Dodd, Sealy-Smith, Zann, Buza all reprise their roles as Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, and Beast, respectively.^[22] At the beginning of the seriesMorph andLucas Bishop also join the cast, voiced byJ. P. Karliak (replacingRon Rubin) and Isaac Robinson-Smith (replacingPhilip Akin).

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