For as much as TAS was responsible for getting me into X-Men, it didn't do enough to be its own thing and I read the comics for essentially a better eXperience than the show.
Evolution for me.
Best to worst:
Pryde of the X-Men
X-Men (1992)
Wolverine and the X-Men
The X-Kids Go to High School (Evolution)
X-Men with no animation that gives you sensory deprivation (Anime)
Evolution had the best character designs and animation. As far as writing goes, none of them were truly great, though from what I remember of the anime it was largely a bore.
>As far as writing goes, none of them were truly great
I liked WatX's story and writing. Better than rehearsing the same storylines over and over like the others
Ngl, I genuinely want there to be two Rogues. Goth Rogue is too iconic and should be her own character, kinda like Spider-Gwen and even Ultinate Jessica Drew. Or more accurately, Supergirl and Power Girl situation.
Ngl, I genuinely want there to be two Rogues. Goth Rogue is too iconic and should be her own character, kinda like Spider-Gwen and even Ultinate Jessica Drew. Or more accurately, Supergirl and Power Girl situation.
Or just have the one Rogue be the Goth one.
Nahh much as I found Goth Rogue to be superior I do like me southern belle Rogue, that's why I want two.
X-Men evolution made me think Magneto, Apocalypse and Juggernaut were powerful and competent villains. In the comics they are nothing but jobbers and the X-men are only ever threatened by their own members randomly having mental breakdowns fricking up everything over and over.
Evolution & Anime are the only two versions that worked and told a good story. 92 had good designs and opening theme but that's it. thou Minster Sinister was the best part of the show.
Personal rating >Wolverine and the X-men >X-men evo >X-men 1996 >X-men anime >Pryde of the x-men
Outside of pryde of the x-men I do like all of them, that one just has a cool song.
and the X-men
Seriously? I remember the very first episode just describing A LOT of off screen events, if felt like season 1 was in fact season 3 and the early seasons were lost media.
Honestly that was part of why I liked it. I liked that it wasn't another early x-men story with them meeting people for the first time but an existing one, framed via logan needing to rebuild the team.
I liked Wolverine and the X-Men but it didn't get enough episodes.
I can't with Evolution. I don't like child/teen characters.
What we know of its season 2 also sounds really cool.
WATX had a handful of really good episodes, usually centered around Nightcrawler, but other than that was just generally bland.
Kurt was a real standout, honestly he's a stand out in all 3 main shows.
Might agree with this. Pound-for-pound, WATX is probably the best X-Men show.
I have a bias too in that it was the first one I regularly watched. I saw some re runs of the 90s one, but that was more so my brother's thing, and I only saw like two episodes of evo.
I wouldn't call WatXM my favorite by a long shot, but I actually appreciated that the beginning of the series wasn't yet another "let's pretend you don't know who the X-Men are" situation, and it felt like we were jumping into a world where the characters had already existed for a while and done things prior to the start of the series. Not enough shows are willing to go that route.
Cinemaphile was, and mostly still is, terminally butthurt about this show because they determined it was wolverine-wank and cyclops-hate from the title alone
Wolverine and the x-men was canceled due to disney but also due to one of the studios animating it going under. Still had disney not bought marvel it likely would have continued since they had already started work on season 2. But having a show on nicktoons was dumb.
>X-Men: TAS
The best. The original. Closest thing to the comics, explored a variety of storylines, had a great soundtrack. >X-Men Evolution
I knew the showruner for this one. It was an interesting take on it, with the teen high school angle and some lesser-known mutants got screentime which was nice. This was the start of Wolverine's re-positioning, though. >Wolverine and the X-Men
Most watered-down, least interesting. This was the height of the Wolverine and Cyclops switch characters era. Execs knew Wolverine was the most popular character and decided to put him front and center even though that fundamentally ruins his character. Simultaneously, Cyclops had to be shuffled to the side and trying to reclassify him as the edgy one didn't work at all. I really, really hate it, and it doesn't help that Wolverine's fighting style became 100% punches because this was an era where you couldn't show him mauling things with claws on a kids show. >X-Men anime
I think I only watched a couple episodes. Armor is a fine focal point but it was too boring for me to stick with.
I really liked how mature and heavy TAS got. Like it was still cleaning stuff for the kids but the characters all spoke with a certain adult gravitas. Nobody was really trying to make light or humor of things. And it dealt with a lot of stuff that was kind of heavy for the usual childrens show at the time. Feelings of loneliness, loss, redemption sacrifice, war, and even bigotry was handled in more a more nuanced way than the standard very special episode
Yeah, it had a tone that gave scenes the necessary gravitas. Marvel hasn't written that way in over a decade. Not since they turned every character into Spider-Man.
Yeah, it had a tone that gave scenes the necessary gravitas. Marvel hasn't written that way in over a decade. Not since they turned every character into Spider-Man.
I also really liked how one episode would be like "oh no these robots built by racists are gonna kill us" and then the next it would be some big epic space opera thing where Charles is like "oh btw we gotta go save this alien empire for a minute because I really wanna bang this sexy b***h with a fricked up dorito looking hairdo".
Haven't seen the anime, but I enjoy all the rest for different reasons. TAS was really groundbreaking for the way they were willing to adapt long multi-part serialized storylines featuring obscure characters from the comics (and Rogue is fricking hot), Evolution managed to do the "teenaged reimaginings of beloved characters" thing without being too moronic and still managed to have good serious storylines while featuring a lot of lesser-known memebers of the team like Nightcrawler (and Rogue is fricking hot). WatXM was a cool look at the team under different leadership, which is a thing that happens all the time in the comics. Getting to see a version of Cyclops that wasn't just a boyscout, Wolverine having to be more than le brooding dark past man, the inclusion of characters like Emma Frost, and seeing Magneto being something other than just a supervillain was cool. And Rogue was pretty hot I guess.
Currently watching TAS and finished Evolution. It took me season 3 to fully enjoy TAS, season 1 kinda turned me off with how early Apocalypse was introduced and he's practically a villain of the week instead of this event threat, whereas Evolution does make each villains to be a very strong threat.
I only watched the first ep of WatX so I plan to watch it after finishing TAS. My vote goes to Evolution, despite it being X-Men teenagers I feel like it's the most definitive adaptation.
The first episodes of TAS really kill the show
They're so fricking unbearable the Sentinels eps and the Beast in jail ep, I couldn't even finish that one, which I sad because the show looks ok after that but I can't go through these episodes
Exactly as you listed. 1234
X-Men Evolution
Wolverine and the X-Men
X-Men TAS
Marvel: Anime X-Men.
For as much as TAS was responsible for getting me into X-Men, it didn't do enough to be its own thing and I read the comics for essentially a better eXperience than the show.
Evolution for me.
Best to worst:
Pryde of the X-Men
X-Men (1992)
Wolverine and the X-Men
The X-Kids Go to High School (Evolution)
X-Men with no animation that gives you sensory deprivation (Anime)
Evolution had the best character designs and animation. As far as writing goes, none of them were truly great, though from what I remember of the anime it was largely a bore.
>As far as writing goes, none of them were truly great
I liked WatX's story and writing. Better than rehearsing the same storylines over and over like the others
Fun Fact: Rogue was meant to be killed off during New X-Men and was to be replaced by a new Rogue based on the version featured in Evolution.
Ngl, I genuinely want there to be two Rogues. Goth Rogue is too iconic and should be her own character, kinda like Spider-Gwen and even Ultinate Jessica Drew. Or more accurately, Supergirl and Power Girl situation.
Or just have the one Rogue be the Goth one.
Nahh much as I found Goth Rogue to be superior I do like me southern belle Rogue, that's why I want two.
Fuse them
Wasnt there art of that?
Made for sex
they can be both holy shit
HOLY SHIT THIS
Vased
Cringe
Kringe?
How the frick do you fuse them? Half southern belle half goth?
Yes
Evolution
92
WATXM
Anime
I liked anime X-men. It felt like a genuine X-men story but anime.
I only ranked it last cause I've never seen it
It's neat
Marvel should commission more anime
I agree
X-Men is so much better than the other X-men cartoons in everyway is not even funny.
I mean X-men Evolution
X-Men evolution made me think Magneto, Apocalypse and Juggernaut were powerful and competent villains. In the comics they are nothing but jobbers and the X-men are only ever threatened by their own members randomly having mental breakdowns fricking up everything over and over.
Evolution & Anime are the only two versions that worked and told a good story. 92 had good designs and opening theme but that's it. thou Minster Sinister was the best part of the show.
so like most of marvel.
>Anime are the only two versions that worked and told a good story
Is it?
If you want non-jobber Brotherhood, early Ultimate universe had them fricking shit up - incredibly edgily.
Personal rating
>Wolverine and the X-men
>X-men evo
>X-men 1996
>X-men anime
>Pryde of the x-men
Outside of pryde of the x-men I do like all of them, that one just has a cool song.
and the X-men
Seriously? I remember the very first episode just describing A LOT of off screen events, if felt like season 1 was in fact season 3 and the early seasons were lost media.
WATX had a handful of really good episodes, usually centered around Nightcrawler, but other than that was just generally bland.
honestly same, Nightcrawler was the best part of that show.
Honestly that was part of why I liked it. I liked that it wasn't another early x-men story with them meeting people for the first time but an existing one, framed via logan needing to rebuild the team.
What we know of its season 2 also sounds really cool.
Kurt was a real standout, honestly he's a stand out in all 3 main shows.
I have a bias too in that it was the first one I regularly watched. I saw some re runs of the 90s one, but that was more so my brother's thing, and I only saw like two episodes of evo.
I wouldn't call WatXM my favorite by a long shot, but I actually appreciated that the beginning of the series wasn't yet another "let's pretend you don't know who the X-Men are" situation, and it felt like we were jumping into a world where the characters had already existed for a while and done things prior to the start of the series. Not enough shows are willing to go that route.
Cinemaphile was, and mostly still is, terminally butthurt about this show because they determined it was wolverine-wank and cyclops-hate from the title alone
It's funny, WATXM made me like Cyke before I began reading the comics
Might agree with this. Pound-for-pound, WATX is probably the best X-Men show.
I liked Wolverine and the X-Men but it didn't get enough episodes.
I can't with Evolution. I don't like child/teen characters.
Got canceled thanks to Disney. Same shit with Evolution if I'm not mistaken. Such a shame. Both had promising storylines to cover
Evolution ended because it hit the 52 episode syndication limit and they didn't want to fund anymore.
NO I MUST BLAME DISNEY FOR ALL MY OF WOES
No, it was Disney's fault.
Its always DISNEY's fault you pathetic shill
Disney gassed the israelites, crucified Jesus, and caused 9/11
>Evolution got canceled thanks to Disney
>Series aired from 2000-2003 on Kids WB
>Disney purchased Marvel in 2009
???
Wolverine and the x-men was canceled due to disney but also due to one of the studios animating it going under. Still had disney not bought marvel it likely would have continued since they had already started work on season 2. But having a show on nicktoons was dumb.
Evo was WB.
>Which one
None. Comics > Adaptations, always.
>X-Men: TAS
The best. The original. Closest thing to the comics, explored a variety of storylines, had a great soundtrack.
>X-Men Evolution
I knew the showruner for this one. It was an interesting take on it, with the teen high school angle and some lesser-known mutants got screentime which was nice. This was the start of Wolverine's re-positioning, though.
>Wolverine and the X-Men
Most watered-down, least interesting. This was the height of the Wolverine and Cyclops switch characters era. Execs knew Wolverine was the most popular character and decided to put him front and center even though that fundamentally ruins his character. Simultaneously, Cyclops had to be shuffled to the side and trying to reclassify him as the edgy one didn't work at all. I really, really hate it, and it doesn't help that Wolverine's fighting style became 100% punches because this was an era where you couldn't show him mauling things with claws on a kids show.
>X-Men anime
I think I only watched a couple episodes. Armor is a fine focal point but it was too boring for me to stick with.
I really liked how mature and heavy TAS got. Like it was still cleaning stuff for the kids but the characters all spoke with a certain adult gravitas. Nobody was really trying to make light or humor of things. And it dealt with a lot of stuff that was kind of heavy for the usual childrens show at the time. Feelings of loneliness, loss, redemption sacrifice, war, and even bigotry was handled in more a more nuanced way than the standard very special episode
Yeah, it had a tone that gave scenes the necessary gravitas. Marvel hasn't written that way in over a decade. Not since they turned every character into Spider-Man.
I also really liked how one episode would be like "oh no these robots built by racists are gonna kill us" and then the next it would be some big epic space opera thing where Charles is like "oh btw we gotta go save this alien empire for a minute because I really wanna bang this sexy b***h with a fricked up dorito looking hairdo".
I think I also just generally liked how it just trusted the viewer to be okay with all of this without needing to over explain shit.
>TAS
>Best costume designs
>Best voices
>Best music
>Best depiction of violence
>Best previously on
This isn't much of a contest, OP.
Haven't seen the anime, but I enjoy all the rest for different reasons. TAS was really groundbreaking for the way they were willing to adapt long multi-part serialized storylines featuring obscure characters from the comics (and Rogue is fricking hot), Evolution managed to do the "teenaged reimaginings of beloved characters" thing without being too moronic and still managed to have good serious storylines while featuring a lot of lesser-known memebers of the team like Nightcrawler (and Rogue is fricking hot). WatXM was a cool look at the team under different leadership, which is a thing that happens all the time in the comics. Getting to see a version of Cyclops that wasn't just a boyscout, Wolverine having to be more than le brooding dark past man, the inclusion of characters like Emma Frost, and seeing Magneto being something other than just a supervillain was cool. And Rogue was pretty hot I guess.
I never watched any of these, is it worth it or only good as nostalgia?
I am watching TAS right now. I plan on re-watching Evolution and WATXM, so yeah they are worth it
Yes they do.
>Tas
>Evolution
>Anime
>W&X
I never watched the anime version
Most people havent.
You don't so much watch it as you stare at at. There are Windows 95 screensavers with more animation.
It had Armor in it as the Jap rep. She looked like Naruto’s Hinata if she had regular eyes. Even has the same English VA.
>Evo
>watxm
>92
>anime
same as you except switch WatXM and the anime.
Currently watching TAS and finished Evolution. It took me season 3 to fully enjoy TAS, season 1 kinda turned me off with how early Apocalypse was introduced and he's practically a villain of the week instead of this event threat, whereas Evolution does make each villains to be a very strong threat.
I only watched the first ep of WatX so I plan to watch it after finishing TAS. My vote goes to Evolution, despite it being X-Men teenagers I feel like it's the most definitive adaptation.
The first episodes of TAS really kill the show
They're so fricking unbearable the Sentinels eps and the Beast in jail ep, I couldn't even finish that one, which I sad because the show looks ok after that but I can't go through these episodes
Season 1 is a mess. It took season 2 for it to become solid and season 3 with Phoenix arc makes them iconic
TAS > Evolution > who fricking cares
The anime could've been great but it was made to mirror the X-movies more than the comics
It's still the best of the Marvel anime series. I liked Iron Man for a while but it dragged out too much. The actual feature was better.
>that black widow
TAS, hands down.
I don’t like X-men
Frick you
As it stands, Evolution. Wolverine could probably take it in the alternate universe where it had more than one season.