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The Best Episodes of X-Men: Evolution Season 1

Every episode of X-Men: Evolution Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of X-Men: Evolution Season 1!

The Best Episodes of X-Men: Evolution Season 1

Teenagers Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike fight for a world that fears and hates them.

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  1. Background image for Strategy X
    7.1/10(439 votes)

    #1 - Strategy X

    S1:E1

    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.

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  2. Background image for The X-Impulse
    7.0/10(371 votes)

    #2 - The X-Impulse

    S1:E2

    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.

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  3. Background image for Rogue Recruit
    7.5/10(359 votes)

    #3 - Rogue Recruit

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Mutant Crush
    6.9/10(340 votes)

    #4 - Mutant Crush

    S1:E4

    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 to seriously.

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  5. Background image for Speed and Spyke
    6.8/10(325 votes)

    #5 - Speed and Spyke

    S1:E5

    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"".

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    Director:Gary Graham
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    6.9/10(322 votes)

    #6 - Middleverse

    S1:E6

    Kurt accidently finds an abandoned lab, and is sucked into a pocket dimension by a strange device he finds there.

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  8. Background image for Turn of the Rogue
    7.6/10(319 votes)

    #7 - Turn of the Rogue

    S1:E7

    Scott and Rogue end up on a geology club field trip together. Scott tries to be friendly to her, but it turns out Mystique has other plans...

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  9. Background image for SpykeCam
    6.7/10(316 votes)

    #8 - SpykeCam

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Director:Frank Paur
  10. Background image for Survival of the Fittest
    7.4/10(310 votes)

    #9 - Survival of the Fittest

    S1:E9

    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.

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  11. Background image for Shadowed Past
    7.6/10(305 votes)

    #10 - Shadowed Past

    S1:E10

    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?

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  12. Background image for Grim Reminder
    7.3/10(292 votes)

    #11 - Grim Reminder

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Frank Paur
    Writer:Len Uhley
  13. Background image for The Cauldron (1)
    7.6/10(299 votes)

    #12 - The Cauldron (1)

    S1:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Cauldron (2)
    7.7/10(302 votes)

    #13 - The Cauldron (2)

    S1:E13

    Magneto reveals the his plans for the winners of his challenge - to fully unlock their powers with a machine he has built. Back at the mansion, those left behind regroup, and decide to pay Magneto a little visit.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Strategy X" is the best rated episode of "X-Men: Evolution" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 439 votes. Directed by Frank Paur and written by Bob Forward, Avi Arad, Rick Ungar, Bob Forward, it aired on 11/4/2000. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The X-Impulse".