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The Best Episodes of X-Men Season 4

Every episode of X-Men Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of X-Men Season 4!

The X-Men are an elite team of mutants, genetically gifted human beings with superpowers, sworn to fight for mutant rights against hostile Government agencies, whilst...
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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"One Man's Worth (1)" is the best rated episode of "X-Men" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 774 votes. Directed by Larry Houston, Fred Miller and written by Richard Mueller, it aired on 9/9/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "One Man's Worth (2)".

  • One Man's Worth (1)
    8.0/10774 votes

    #1 - One Man's Worth (1)

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Richard Mueller

  • One Man's Worth (2)
    8.2/10775 votes

    #2 - One Man's Worth (2)

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Gary Greenfield

  • Courage
    7.4/10719 votes

    #3 - Courage

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1995

    Morph feels he's finally ready to return to the X-Men. But his homecoming is interrupted by the return of the Sentinels, the robotic mutant-hunters who nearly killed him the last time he faced them. Will history repeat itself?

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Michael Edens, Sandy Scesny

  • Proteus (1)
    7.2/10707 votes

    #4 - Proteus (1)

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1995

    The long hidden secret patient of Muir Island, a reality-warping mutant teen known as Proteus, escapes from his 15 year long captivity, and wreaks havoc across Scotland searching out his father.

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Bruce Reid Schaefer

  • Proteus (2)
    7.2/10705 votes

    #5 - Proteus (2)

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1995

    Tracking down his father, who is now a candidate for Secretary of State, Proteus continues threatening lives with his uncontrolable powers. It's up to Professor X alone to try to stop the boy who brought even Wolverine to his knees.

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Luanne Crocker

  • Sanctuary (1)
    7.7/10737 votes

    #6 - Sanctuary (1)

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995

    Magneto builds a home strictly for mutants on the orbiting base known as Asteroid M. The message goes out worldwide of initial exodus, and he finds just as many eager to join him, as those anxious to destroy him.

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Steven Melching, David McDermott

  • Sanctuary (2)
    7.8/10729 votes

    #7 - Sanctuary (2)

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Jeff Saylor

  • Beyond Good and Evil (1)
    8.0/10751 votes

    #8 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Steve Cuden

  • Beyond Good and Evil (2)
    8.0/10734 votes

    #9 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Jan Strnad

  • Beyond Good and Evil (3)
    8.0/10725 votes

    #10 - Beyond Good and Evil (3)

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Michael Edens

  • Beyond Good and Evil (4)
    8.2/10774 votes

    #11 - Beyond Good and Evil (4)

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Dean Stefan

  • Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas
    6.3/10716 votes

    #12 - Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1995

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Eric Lewald, Larry Parr

  • The Lotus and the Steel
    7.3/10691 votes

    #13 - The Lotus and the Steel

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Love in Vain
    6.5/10712 votes

    #14 - Love in Vain

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Secrets, Not Long Buried
    6.6/10675 votes

    #15 - Secrets, Not Long Buried

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Xavier Remembers
    6.8/10677 votes

    #16 - Xavier Remembers

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/27/1996

    Trapped on the astral plane after suffering a concussion, Professor Xavier is at the mercy of the Shadow King, and in desperate need of help from his X-Men, who are unable to hear him.

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Family Ties
    7.4/10694 votes

    #17 - Family Ties

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 5/4/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Marley Clark