X-Men: The 5 Best Storylines From The Original Animated Series

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Long before shows like Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, and Steven Universe popularized serialized story arcs in cartoons, animated shows based on superhero comics were already doing it. And the very first superhero cartoon to try directly adapting iconic story arcs from the comics was none other than X-Men: The Animated Series.

This beloved cartoon originally ran from 1992 to 1997, lasting five seasons for a total of 76 episodes. A revival series, X-Men ‘97, is slated to premiere on Disney Plus next year, picking up where the original left off. So in honor of its impending return to TV, here are just a few of the greatest storylines from X-Men: TAS.

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Quite possibly the most iconic X-Menstoryline of all, The Animated Series adapted the comic book story only 12 years after its original 1981 publishing — long before the 2014 movie of the same name. But like the live action film version, the animated “Days of Future Past” two-parter (which composes episodes 11 and 12 of Season 1) faithfully adapts many iconic elements from the original comic. There’s a glimpse of a dystopian future where the Sentinels have nearly exterminated mutantkind, and a lone time traveler goes back in time to stop the dark future from coming to pass by stopping Mystique from carrying out an assassination.

However, Mystique’s target isn’t Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask like in the film version, but rather the mutant-hating Senator Robert Kelly, who moviegoers may remember from the original X-Men film. Additionally, Mystique isn’t a solo agent, but rather operating alongside the Brotherhood (namely, Pyro, Avalanche, and Blob) like in the comics. That said, the cartoon also makes some changes of its own: for