7.1/10412 votes#1 - Strategy X
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2000
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.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Avi Arad, Bob Forward, Rick Ungar, Bob Forward
7.0/10349 votes#2 - The X-Impulse
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2000
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.
Director: Gary Graham
Writer: Rick Ungar, Greg Johnson
7.5/10340 votes#3 - Rogue Recruit
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/2000
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.
Director: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: N/A
6.9/10320 votes#4 - Mutant Crush
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/25/2000
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.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Katherine Lawrence
6.8/10305 votes#5 - Speed and Spyke
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/2000
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"".
Director: Gary Graham
Writer: Bob Forward
6.9/10303 votes#6 - Middleverse
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/2001
Kurt accidently finds an abandoned lab, and is sucked into a pocket dimension by a strange device he finds there.
Director: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Adam Beechen
7.6/10302 votes#7 - Turn of the Rogue
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/3/2001
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...
Director: Boyd Kirkland
Writer: Greg Johnson
6.7/10299 votes#8 - SpykeCam
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/10/2001
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.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Christy Marx
7.4/10292 votes#9 - Survival of the Fittest
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Pamela Hickey, Dennys McCoy
7.6/10288 votes#10 - Shadowed Past
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/2001
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?
Director: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Bob Forward
7.2/10275 votes#11 - Grim Reminder
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/14/2001
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.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Len Uhley
7.6/10281 votes#12 - The Cauldron (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10283 votes#13 - The Cauldron (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2001
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.
Director: Steven E. Gordon
Writer: Greg Johnson
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Teenagers Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike fight for a world that fears and hates them.
Genres:KidsAnimationSci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:The WB
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Strategy X" is the best rated episode of "X-Men: Evolution" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 412 votes. Directed by Frank Paur and written by Avi Arad, Bob Forward, 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".