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The X-Men franchise has had a few animated series, and is on their way to a sixth live action movie. But how would you put together a ten season live action show with continuity and including the best stories from the various X-books over the years? Now that the X-Men are tucked safe and sound in a place called Utopia, one would imagine they’re all happy together and throwing the best psychic slumber parties ever, right? Not so much.  Art by Ilias Kyriazis Season 9: Schism (Showrunners: Mike Carey & Rick Remender) Serial 1: X-Men Legacy Aftermath, X-Men Age Of X, Lost Legions
(written by Mike Carey, art by Paul Davidson, Harvey Tolibao, Jorge Molina, Rafa Sandoval, and many others) Legion, Professor X’s mentally ill son, is one of the most powerful mutants in existence. He has a long and complicated backstory intertwined with The Age Of Apocalypse (which he accidentally created) but let’s pretend we are seeing him for the first time here. He’s brought to Utopia by The New Mutants and in the first half of The Aftermath trade, he accidentally creates Age Of X. So put Aftermath down, check out The Age Of X trade, you can skip the Avengers and Spider-Man stories at the end of Age Of X, and then resume reading Aftermath, as Utopia struggles to understand how many of the mutants spent seven days in an imaginary world. Age Of X. 3 episodes Episode 4: X-Men Legacy Lost Legions (written by Mike Carey, art by Khoi Pham) Professor X forms a team of X-Men to track down six of Legion’s missing personalities. Lost Legions. 1 episode Serial 3: Uncanny X-Force Apocalypse Solution, Uncanny X-Force Deathlok Nation (written by Rick Remender, art by Jerome Opena, Esad Ribic, and Rafael Albuquerque) There is a run of X-Force that goes back a few years before this, and it’s a good run, but Remender’s run is excellent. X-Force is a team assembled by Cyclops to handle situations that the now public X-Men can’t be publicly involved with. Wolverine is the team leader and they do all sorts of morally dubious things. Their first mission lead them to a reborn Apocalypse who is still a child when they discover him. Their second mission gives them an opportunity to get their revenge on The Reavers from waaaay back in Season One. The only problem? Deathloks programmed to kill Fantomex. Ok, that’s not their ONLY problem. X-Force. 2 episodes Serial 4: Uncanny X-Force The Dark Angel Saga Volumes 1 & 2 (written by Rick Remender, art by Jerome Opena, Dean White, Esad Ribac, Billy Tan, and Mark Brooks) Fiiiiine, here’s your Age Of Apocalypse story. Angel has been able to transform back and forth into Archangel for a while now, but Archangel is becoming a bit of a monster. In fact, he may be the next Apocalypse. Can his teammates stop him before he destroys this world? Dark Angel. 3 episodes Serial 5: X-Men Schism (written by Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen, art by Carlos Pacheco, Frank Cho, Daniel Acuna, Alan Davis, Adam Kubert, and Billy Tan) The whole point of X-Force is to be the soldiers of the X-Men’s Utopia, so when Cyclops responds to a new Hellfire and Sentinel threat by using members of Generation Hope, Wolverine decides that the X-Men have gone astray and decides to come up with a solution. Breaking up the X-Men. Schism. 2 episodes Serial 6: Uncanny X-Force Otherworld, Uncanny X-Force The Final Execution Volumes 1 & 2 (written by Rick Remender and Sam Humphries, art by Jerome Opena and Ron Garney) Wolverine has some unfinished business to attend to before he can take on his new role as headmaster of the Jean Grey school. This arc is probably not going to win him the prestigious Father Of The Year Award. The Final Execution. 4 episodes Serial 7: Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen Volumes 1 & 2 (written by Kieron Gillen, art by Carlo Pacheco and Brandon Peterson) Back on Utopia, Cyclops uses the adult X-Men to handle events that would previously be X-Force’s problem and dubs them The Extinction Team. Mr Sinister returns to help them live up to their name. Everything Is Sinister. 2 episodes Serial 8: Wolverine & The X-Men Volumes 1 & 2 (written by Jason Aaron, art by Chris Bachalo and Nick Bradshaw) Wolverine opens the Jean Grey school for mutants on the grounds of the former Charles Xavier school in Westchester. For a guy who’s all about making younger mutants students and not soldiers, he sure puts them in a lot of life or death situations, though. Blame the Hellfire club. New School. 3 episodes Season 9 is 20 episodes Interseason Special: Avengers The Childrens’ Crusade (written by Allan Heinberg, art by Jim Cheung) The Young Avengers go off in search of Wiccan’s mom, The Scarlet Witch, who has only been seen once since House Of M. How will the possibility of her return affect the population whose genocide she’s responsible for?
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The X-Men franchise has had a few animated series, and is on their way to a sixth live action movie. But how would you put together a ten season live action show with continuity and including the best stories from the various X-books over the years? After years of destroying and rebuilding Westchester New York, The X-Men decide they need to freshen up their routine, so they head west to go about destroying the Pacific coast for a change. They even form their own little island called Utopia.  Season 8: Utopia (Showrunner: Matt Fraction) Episode 1: X-Men Manifest Destiny
(various writers and artists) The mutants head west to San Francisco. Follow the journeys of Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and many more as all 198ish surviving mutants are invited to take up residence in the new mutant haven. Manifest Destiny. 1 episode Episode 2: Deadpool Secret Invasion (written by Daniel Way, art by Paco Medina and Carlo Barberi) While the mutants have been moving west, all the NY based superheroes have been battling Skrulls during The Secret Invasion. That’s not really the X-Men’s problem, though. Everyone’s favorite merc with a mouth, on the other hand, sees a profit in taking down the impending Skrull empire. And make a profit he does but at the cost of the entire Marvel Universe as he single handedly ushers in Marvel’s Dark Reign era. One Of Us. 1 episode Serial 1: Uncanny X-Men Lovelorn, Uncanny X-Men Sisterhood (written by Matt Fraction, art by Greg Land and Yanick Paquette) Back in San Fran, Emma Frost does a little therapy in Cyclops’s head while Colossus battles his past. Also, some old school mutants come back into the picture. Then, everyone’s favorite redhead is back and she and some female villains are kicking X-ass. Also meet the X-Men’s Science Team. Sisterhood. 4 episodes Serial 2: X-Men Curse Of The Mutants (written by Victor Gischler, art by Paco Medina) Vampire Terrorists? Vampire Bombs? One of the X-Men’s long-shelved c-list characters becomes a Vampire Mutant? San Francisco is not great for this team (please note, I did not use the phrases “San Francisco bites” or “San Francisco sucks” or “bloody hell in San Francisco”). Cursed. 2 episodes Serial 3: Avengers & X-Men Utopia (various writers and artists) Dark Reign has a team of Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men. Basically, if there’s a team, HAMMER (the organization that replaced SHIELD) has their own version filled with villains.It’s like every team is The Thunderbolts. Well, Cyclops has had enough. He decides to take on Norman Osborne once and for all. Emma will undoubtedly be the key to ending the standoff. Of course she’ll be on the winning side. Dark Reign In Utopia. 4 episodes Episode 13: X-Men Psylocke (written by Christopher Yost, art by Harvey Tolibao) After the events of Sisterhood, Psyclocke decides to go back to Japan to clear up some loose ends from the early seasons of the X-Men. Revanche. 1 episode Episode 14: X-Men Legacy Emplate (written by Mike Carey, art by Daniel Acuna) Now that the X-Men are safely on Utopia they shouldn’t have to worry about any…wait. Emplate? Devil At The Crossroads. 1 episode . Serial 4: X-Men Second Coming (various writers and artists) Having been absent all season, Cable and Hope return from the future. Hope is now sixteen years old and her mutant gene is active. But what are her powers? Who, aside form Bishop, is chasing her now? Will she be the savior or the end for all mutantkind? Find out as one pivotal X-Men completely and totally dies. For a little bit. Second Coming. 3 episodes Serial 5: Uncanny X-Men The Birth Of Generation Hope, Generation Hope The End Of A Generation (written by Matt Fraction, James Asmus, and Allan Heinberg, art by Whilce Portacio, Leonard Kirk, Jamie Mckelvie, Steven Sanders, Oliver Coipel, Ibraim Roberson, Tim Green II, and Takeshi Miyazawa) Now that Hope is back, new mutants have started showing up all over the globe, and it’s up to her to track them down and try and recruit them to the X-Men. But sometimes, the new recruits are a bad idea. Generation Hope. 2 episodes Episode 20: Uncanny X-Men Quarantine (written by Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen, art by Greg Land) Sublime is back and he has a new drug that can turn anyone into an X-Man. Downside? There’s a plague on Utopia sapping the powers of all the mutants. Maybe these two things are connected? Also, Emma deals with one of the mutants Hope brought back from her mission. Quarantine. 1 episode Season 8 has 20 episodes Interseason Special: Deadpool X Marks The Spot (written by Daniel Way, art by Paco Medina and Shawn Crystal) The merc with a mouth has spent years as foe or unlikely ally to the X-Men, just ask Cable. But he really, really wants to be an X-Man. And now that all the mutants are on Utopia, he’s determined to join their ranks. They’d be crazy not to accept him. The X-Men franchise has had a few animated series, and is on their way to a sixth live action movie. But how would you put together a ten season live action show with continuity and including the best stories from the various X-books over the years? The events of the last season brought the mutant population from millions to 198. Despair ran through the Xavier school, the ashes of Genosha, Mutant Town and beyond. This season Beast tries to come up with a way to bring the species back from the brink of extinction.  Look at all them pretty graves. Art by Marc Silvestri and Stjepan Stejic Season Seven: Messiah Complex (showrunners Peter David and Mike Carey) Backup of the first six episodes: Endangered Species
(written by Mike Carey, Christopher Yost, and Christos Gage, art by Scot Eaton, Mark Bagley, Mike Perkins, Tom Grummet, and Andrea Divito) Beast goes across the globe in search of a solution to the decimation crisis, running into a slew of villains, old friends, and surprises along the way. Episode 1: New Avengers The Collective (written by Brian Michael Bendis, art by Steve McNiven and Mike Deodato) The Avengers know all about what happened during House Of M so they’re super worried when a new cosmic entity shows up in Alaska that appears to be a mutant. What it is is much, much worse. The Collective. 1 episode Serial 1: X-Factor Life & Death Matters, X-Factor Many Lives Of Madrox, Heart Of Ice (written by Peter David, art by Pablo Raimondi, Ariel Olivetti, Dennis Calero, Renato Arlem, and Roy Allen Martinez) The heart of the post House Of M world is X-Factor. Peter David’s decision to draw from the event and then only skirt around the other crossovers works really well, making this book much more engaging than any of the other X-books. In these two volumes they deal with mutant terrorist cells, the truth behind Decimation, the enigmatic Layla Miller, and the X-Men who really want them to pick aside in Civil War. The Many Lives Of Madrox. 5 episodes Serial 2: Messiah Complex (written by Ed Brubaker, Mike Carey, Peter David, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, art by Marc Silvestri, Billy Tan, Chris Bachalo, Humberto Ramos, and Scot Eaton) A mutant child is born in Alaska and every mutant and villain are fighting for control of it. Marauders. Purifiers. Reavers. Mr Sinister. Forge. Lady Deathstrike. Mystique. Pretty much everybody but Apocalypse is involved. And in the end, the X-Men are betrayed by several of their own. But at least there’s hope. Also, Madrox and Layla Miller go to the future to learn what they can. It doesn’t go well. Messiah Complex. 6 episodes Serial 3: X-Factor The Only Game In Town (written by Peter David, art by Pablo Raimondi and Valentine De Landro) X-Factor had a rough time during Messiah Complex and Madrox and Layla’s return to Mutant Town isn’t precisely restful. Plus, Quicksilver has had a rough time of it since House Of M but maybe things will finally turn around for him. Also, Val Cooper from the early X-Factor days gets some comeuppance. The Only Game In Town. 2 episodes Episode 14: Wolverine Get Mystique (written by Jason Aaron, art by Ron Garney) Mystique wreaked havoc during Messiah Complex, and Logan decides he needs to make her pay. Get Mystique. 1 episode Serial 5: Cable Messiah War, Cable Waiting For The End Of The World (written by Duane Swierczynski, art by Ariel Olivetti, and Ken Lashley) Tasked with keeping the future of mutantkind safe, Cable travels through the future with Hope but they are constantly being trailed by a certain turncoat X-Men who thinks Hope is the key to mutantkind’s extinction, not their salvation. Waiting For The End Of The World. 2 episodes Serial 6: X-Factor Time And A Half, X-Factor Overtime (written by Peter David, art by Valentine De Landro and Marco Santucci) Just when you think X-Factor couldn’t get any darker, it does. Longshot, Darwin, and Shatterstar join the team. Madrox goes back to the future and we finally learn why Layla Miller “knows stuff”. Overtime. 3 episodes Serial 7: Cable X-Force Messiah War (written by Duane Swierczynski, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, art by Ariel Olivetti, Jamie Mckelvie, Mike Choi, Sonia Oback, Clayton Crain, and Larry Stroman) Returning from their adventures through time, Cable and the child are greeted by X-Force and a litany of villains still trying to claim the messiah child as their own. Remember how I said it was everybody but Apocalypse? Yea, well, Apocalypse shows up. Plus, Deadpool and Cable have some long unfinished business. Messiah War. 2 episodes Season seven. 22 episodes Interseason Special: X-Men Legacy Divided He Stands, Uncanny X-Men Divided We Stand (written by Mike Carey and Ed Brubaker, art by Scot Eaton, John Romita Jr, Billy Tan, Greg Land, Brandon Peterson, Mike Deodata, and Mike Choi) Having been shot by a traitorous X-Man earlier in the series, Professor X is being put back together by an unknown benefactor memory by memory. Meanwhile Cyclops and Emma Frost go to the west coast to examine the future of mutantkind. |
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