The Best Episodes Directed By Fred Miller

Bishop, Shard, and the alternate-present versions of Wolverine & Storm, will have one more chance to save Xavier from being killed before he founded the X-Men... if they can survive the alternate-future ruled entirely unopposed by Mastermold.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Gary Greenfield

Finding himself continually losing control, Wolverine takes a sabbatical to Japan, in an effort to find inner peace in temple-building. Instead, he faces a village under siege by a group of bandits, and struggles to help them without compromising his search for his true nature.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

Rushing to investigate a disturbance downtown, the X-Men find Sabretooth on the rampage again, but realize too late that it isn't really Sabretooth at all. It is the Phalanx, a voracious alien life-form that can assume the guise of anything or anyone. Before long, the X-Men are all captured, except for Beast, who must find a way to stop the alien horror from devouring the entire Earth.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

Snatched from the jaws of the Phalanx by the villainous Mr. Sinister, Beast and Forge search for allies to help them battle the alien threat. Gathering assistance from such unlikely sources as Magneto and Sinister himself, they embark upon a daring and risky plan to free the planet from the clutches of the Phalanx by traveling straight into the belly of the beast.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Steven Melching

Bishop & Shard recruit Wolverine & Storm for a time travel mission to save Professor Xavier's life. Except they're from the parallel timeline where he died before founding the X-Men, a world where humans and mutants are in a constant war with one another. Not only do they pair lack a connection to him, but correcting history may put an end to their marriage.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Richard Mueller

Nightcrawler gets a mysterious message. He is informed that his birth mother (whom he never knew) is in trouble. He turns to the X-Men for assistance. Jubilee is baffled that Nightcrawler wants to help the mother who abandoned him -- she has never known her birth parents and feels pretty hostile toward them, whoever they are. Nightcrawler admits there has been pain, but his faith in God has helped him overcome her rejection. The plot thickens when one of the team members recognizes Nightcrawler's mother's voice.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Len Uhley

The dashing alien, Arkon, unleashes terrible weather conditions over Washington D.C. to get Storm's attention. It works, he begs her to return with him to his planet, Corsus, to save it from meteorological chaos which threatens his people.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Mirith J. Colao

Spectacular preparations for Storm's wedding to Arkon proceed quickly. But as Jubilee helps Storm, the new queen, prepare for the wedding, Jubilee can't help notice how badly the palace workers are treated. Meanwhile, Wolverine, Cyclops and Beast discover there are fleet ships bringing slaves from the neighboring planet.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Brooks Wachtel

Jubilee tells children her own fairy tale having herself, her fellow X-Men and their greatest enemies be the characters in it.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Brooks Wachtel

Fabian Cortez helps Apocalypse escape from the astral plane.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Steven Melching

Wolverine thinks back to the time when he fought during World War II and teamed up with Captain America.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Steven Melching

The origin of Mr. Sinister is revealed.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Steven Melching

When the army learns of Sam Guthrie's cannonball power, they try to enlist him in their ranks.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

At a Mutant/Human Relations Summit, Henry Peter Gyrich attacks.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

After swiping the government's own time machine, Cable ends up recruiting the X-Men on his mission to destroy Apocalypse's source of immortality at its creation.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Michael Edens

In a New Mexico desert, Wolverine witnesses the crash of a spaceship carrying horrific, alien bug-like creatures—the Family—which overwhelm him. Rogue reunites with her first boyfriend, Cody, who ends up being a part of the Family's plot to have Rogue become their new leader.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

Cyclops heads solo to the desert town of Skull Mesa, where humans and mutants live in harmony, to visit an old mentor from his youth. But he not only finds himself powerless when he arrives, but discovers the place under the rule of a maniacal mutant, with none of the citizens willing to take a stand.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

X-Factor's Quicksilver, and his sister, the Avenger called Scarlet Witch, seek revenge against Magneto when they learn that he was responsible for their birth mother's death. But the trio is unaware of the common bond between them, nor the true purposes of the mysterious man who brought them all together.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Marley Clark

Cyclops, still in mourning after Jean Grey's "death", quits the X-men and returns to his orphanage home and encounters his friend Sarah. She tells him that a wealthy man has decided to adopt all the mutant children, especially Rusty, but his intentions are to make them his army to destroy all humans in the world so that mutants are accepted. It's up to Cyclops to stop him and save the mutant children.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: N/A

Jubilee's first Christmas with the X-Men doesn't go exactly as she expected, when she, Storm, and Wolverine become involved with a mission to save the Morlock child known as Leech.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Eric Lewald

Longshot, a rebel from another world, tumbles into this world with no memory and a murderous gang led by the six-armed woman warrior Spiral hot on his trail. It turns out that Longshot is on the run from Mojo, maniacal inter-dimensional TV executive. Using Jubilee as the 'prize', Mojo and his minions lure Longshot and the X-Men into a deadly contest which Mojo broadcasts 'live' to up his ratings.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Steven Melching

With Magneto seemingly dead, Fabian Cortez takes over Asteroid M, and initiates a nuclear war with Earth. The X-Men attempt to sabotage his warhead stockpile, and rescue Gambit, finding assistance in the most unlikely of places.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Jeff Saylor

Apocalypse steals Cable's computer in the year 3999, allowing him to time travel to the past, where he schemes to bring an end to his struggle against inferior mutants once and for all. This leads to Bishop becoming trapped amid the timestream, and brings

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Steve Cuden

When Oracle, the psychic member of the Imperial Guard is kidnapped by Apocalypse, Professor Xavier deduces his scheme involves capturing mutants with telepathic abilities. The X-Men are split up to track them down before the villains can, which puts Wolverine & Shard in the middle of a scuffle between Archangel and a ninja named Psylocke.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Jan Strnad

Two of Apocalypse's former evil allies, the captive Wolverine, the loose cannon Cable, and the exiled Bishop, come together to free the kidnapped psychics and save reality from being rewritten.

Director: Fred Miller

Writer: Dean Stefan