The X-Men Extended Headcanon, Season 8: Utopia

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
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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.