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The Worst Episodes of X-Men

Every episode of X-Men ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of X-Men!

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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Jubilee's Fairytale Theatre" is the worst rated episode of "X-Men". It scored 5.3/10 based on 693 votes. Directed by Larry Houston, Fred Miller and written by Brooks Wachtel, it aired on 11/16/1996. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Mojovision".

  • Jubilee's Fairytale Theatre
    5.3/10693 votes
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    #1 - Jubilee's Fairytale Theatre

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1996

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

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Brooks Wachtel

  • Mojovision
    6.0/10984 votes
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    #2 - Mojovision

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1994

    An alien being named Mojo abducts the X-Men to use as forced action stars of television programming.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Brooks Wachtel

  • Longshot
    6.1/10724 votes
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    #3 - Longshot

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1996

    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, Frank Squillace

    Writer: Steven Melching, David McDermott

  • Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas
    6.3/10711 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Hidden Agendas
    6.4/10650 votes
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    #5 - Hidden Agendas

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 9/13/1997

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

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Love in Vain
    6.5/10709 votes
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    #6 - 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
    6.6/10668 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Storm Front (1)
    6.6/10660 votes
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    #8 - Storm Front (1)

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Mirith J. Colao

  • X-Ternally Yours
    6.8/10989 votes
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    #9 - X-Ternally Yours

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1993

    Gambit must come face to face with the past he's been running from for years, as he returns to Louisiana to save his brother from the woman he left at the altar.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Julianne Klemm

  • Xavier Remembers
    6.8/10675 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Storm Front (2)
    6.8/10658 votes
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    #11 - Storm Front (2)

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Brooks Wachtel

  • Savage Land, Strange Heart (1)
    6.9/10790 votes
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    #12 - Savage Land, Strange Heart (1)

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/10/1994

    Mutant-draining, pterodactyl-man Sauron is persuaded into capturing Storm by Zaladane, the high priestess of Savage Land Sun God Garokk, unaware of her ulterior motives for unleashing the mutant's full potential.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Marty Isenberg

  • No Mutant Is an Island
    6.9/10720 votes
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    #13 - No Mutant Is an Island

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/1996

    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: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fifth Horseman
    6.9/10674 votes
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    #14 - The Fifth Horseman

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/1997

    Fabian Cortez helps Apocalypse escape from the astral plane.

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: Steven Melching, David McDermott

  • Whatever It Takes
    7.0/101,039 votes
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    #15 - Whatever It Takes

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/6/1993

    Storm returns to her village in Africa, and must choose between her life and that of her godson when a powerful evil overtakes him. Meanwhile, Wolverine tracks down Morph in the Amazon, and Professor Xavier & Magneto find their situation going from bad to worse as they end up in a hidden land.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Julia Jane Lewald

  • Savage Land, Strange Heart (2)
    7.0/10786 votes
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    #16 - Savage Land, Strange Heart (2)

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 9/17/1994

    Storm's unfettered weather-fury continues setting the stage for the rise of Garokk. Even if Storm can be brought back under control, the Sun God's geothermal rejuvenation will spell an end to the Antarctic paradise known as the Savage Land.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Marty Isenberg

  • The Juggernaut Returns
    7.0/10752 votes
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    #17 - The Juggernaut Returns

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/6/1995

    Professor Xavier's step-brother, and sworn enemy, the Juggernaut loses his powers to a bumbling archeologist. He must overcome the pain of their childhood together, and have the powers restored to him to save his life.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Julianne Klemm

  • Orphan's End
    7.1/10753 votes
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    #18 - Orphan's End

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1995

    Cyclops discovers that Corsair, the leader of the interstellar band of pirates known as the Starjammers, is his father. He's a fugitive on the run from the Shi'ar empire, and seeks his help in proving his innocence. But can the man who abandoned him as a child truly be trusted?

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Doug Booth

  • A Deal with the Devil
    7.1/10686 votes
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    #19 - A Deal with the Devil

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1996

    The former Soviet Union's living weapon, Omega Red, is thawed out by the US Military to deal with an abandoned Soviet nuclear submarine near Hawaii. He asks for his old enemy, Wolverine, and the woman responsible for freezing him most recently, Storm, to accompany him on the mission. Omega Red is offered restored humanity, but once aboard the warhead-filled sub, he reveals his true, deadly intentions.

    Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • Captive Hearts
    7.2/101,388 votes
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    #20 - Captive Hearts

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/1993

    Wolverine must overcome his feelings for Jean, and Storm must overcome her crippling claustrophobia, when the team journeys into the sewer to rescue Jean Grey & Cyclops from a race of hideously deformed mutants known as Morlocks, and their leader Callisto, who wants to make Scott her king.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Robert N. Skir, Marty Isenberg

  • Red Dawn
    7.2/101,024 votes
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    #21 - Red Dawn

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/1993

    Jubilee joins Colossus as he returns to his homeland of Russia, and helps him face an unbeatable menace from the Cold War, who wishes to restore the former Soviet Union, and has a history with Wolverine.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Francis Moss

  • Proteus (1)
    7.2/10698 votes
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    #22 - 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)
    7.2/10697 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Out of the Past (2)
    7.3/10864 votes
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    #24 - Out of the Past (2)

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/5/1994

    An alien being called the Spirit Drinker drains the life-force of Jubilee and the Reavers, making strained allies of Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike.

    Director: Larry Houston

    Writer: Len Wein

  • The Lotus and the Steel
    7.3/10687 votes
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    #25 - 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