Season Four
| # | Code | Title | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Original Airdate(s) | |
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| 44 | S04 E01 | "Impact" | Gary Graham (II) | Greg Johnson | August 30, 2003 (2003-08-30) | |
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A strange phenomena occurs in the wake of Apocalypse: A jungle-covered Mayan pyramid takes on a technological appearance and an impenetrable force shield surrounds it, even down into the ground underneath. The X-Men receive permission from the government there to study the base. However, Magneto, in an act of revenge, makes an attack upon it. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler tries to revive his mother Mystique who is still trapped in stone, much to the dismay of Rogue. Note: First appearance of Apocalypse in powered up mutant form. |
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| 45 | S04 E02 | "No Good Deed" | Doug Murphy | Story By:Greg Johnson, Boyd Kirkland & Craig Kyle Written By: William Forrest Cluverius |
September 6, 2003 (2003-09-06) | |
| Wanda accidentally causes an accident on the subway, and by helping the civilians the Brotherhood improve their Image. In order to boost their reputation, the Brotherhood decide to stage accidents and then rescue the bystanders. The plan starts out as a success, until a staged accident runs out of hand. | ||||||
| 46 | S04 E03 | "Target X" | Doug Murphy | Craig Kyle & Chris Yost | September 13, 2003 (2003-09-13) | |
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After being kidnapped by Omega Red, Wolverine manages to escape to a nearby forest. There he finds his clone, X-23, on a personal mission to destroy the person responsible for creating her: Madame Hydra. Now, the two team up to take on Hydra and destroy the Hydra base. Meanwhile, Cyclops and Jean Grey try to teach the New Mutants on much more advanced ways of using their mutant abilities. Note: First appearance of Madame Hydra, Omega Red & Gauntlet. |
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| 47 | S04 E04 | "Sins of the Son" | Gary Graham | Marsha F. Griffin | September 20, 2003 (2003-09-20) | |
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Charles Xavier's son David has been seemingly abducted. Charles, Storm, Cyclops, & Jean Grey track him down, and it turns out that he suffers from multiple personality disorder, and that his dominant malicious personality, called Lucas, is overwhelming him. Meanwhile, Kitty and Kurt have some misadventures while they're ill. Note: First appearance of Legion. |
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| 48 | S04 E05 | "Uprising" | Doug Murphy | Story By: Greg Johnson, Boyd Kirkland & Craig Kyle Written By: Bob Forward |
September 27, 2003 (2003-09-27) | |
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Spyke makes his return, having turned into an angry vigilante who protects the Morlocks. He is unafraid to go in public with his disfiguring mutation, causing panic in his environment, especially since the extreme prejudice against mutants is on the rise. Anti-mutant racist Duncan Matthews and his friends go and hunt Spyke down, and they even stumble upon a small boy named Dorian Leech. Also, in a foreshadow towards the eventual fight against Apocalypse, Nick Fury of SHIELD releases Bolivar Trask and orders him to build new improved Sentinels. Note: First appearance of Leech. |
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| 49 | S04 E06 | "Cajun Spice" | Frank Paur | Michael Merton & Greg Johnson | October 4, 2003 (2003-10-04) | |
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Gambit kidnaps Rogue but claims he's trying to help her forget what she did to Mystique, a deed which has pushed her into insecureness. But actually Gambit's just using her to help him find his adopted father who has been kidnapped. The X-Men notice Rogue's missing, and Wolverine goes on a hunt to search for her. Note: At the end Gambit slips Rogue the Queen of Hearts as she's about to leave, earlier in the episode he told her how she is "his lucky lady." Gambit calls Rogue "Cherie" (French for darling) four times in this episode. |
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| 50 | S04 E07 | "Ghost of a Chance" | Gary Graham | Greg Johnson | October 11, 2003 (2003-10-11) | |
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Shadowcat meets Danielle Moonstar and quickly becomes fast good friends with her. However, she wakes up the next morning and realizes that she seemingly dreamed everything up. Strangely, it appears her dreams had a deeper meaning, leading into a race-against-time search as Kitty tries to find her new best friend. Note: First appearance of Danielle Moonstar |
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| 51 | S04 E08 | "Ascension – Part 1" | Doug Murphy (part 1) | Story By: Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle, Boyd Kirkland Written By: Greg Johnson |
October 18, 2003 (2003-10-18) | |
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Apocalypse plans to turn all humans with the dormant X-gene into mutants. He has turned Magneto, Professor X, Storm, and Mystique into his Four Horsemen, and has covered the world with a network of energy pyramids to stage his plan. Note: Professor X wields what appears to be a psionic scythe while battling the X-men as a Horseman of Apocalypse, demonstrating incredibly strong physic/psionic abilities similar to that of Psylocke. |
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| 52 | S04 E09 | "Ascension – Part 2" | Frank Paur | Greg Johnson | October 25, 2003 (2003-10-25) | |
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In order to prevent all of humankind from being turned into mutants, the X-Men, the Brotherhood, S.H.I.E.L.D., The Acolytes, Angel, Spyke, Havok, and the New Mutants all join forces to save humanity from the ambitions of Apocalypse. Rogue defeats Apocalypse at the last minute by borrowing Leech's power/ability-canalization ability. She stops the pyramids' energy and closes his case while Apocalypse is still in there, Wolverine helps, sending him back through time. Professor X tells all who helped stop the catastrophe his visions of the future while he was under Apocalypse's control. Note: One of the visions Professor X had was of the X-Men all grown adults, Rogue flies into the picture which gives the impression that she will eventually absorb all of someone's mutant abilities one day – Miss Marvel, perhaps. Another vision is Jean as the Phoenix Force, and another still of is of the full-grown adult Brotherhood as members of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the group photo at the end, Gambit has his arm around Rogue. And although they do not act as a romantic couple in this version it shows they have strong friendly feelings for one another and might possibly get together in the future. However, according to series director Frank Paur, the view of the adult X-Men suggests a future romantic relationship between Cyclops and Rogue. |
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Final Moments: The series ends with a speech by Charles Xavier, who had caught a glimpse of the future while being controlled by Apocalypse. Boyd Kirkland confirmed that the unproduced fifth season would have expanded on several of these plot threads, with Dark Phoenix being the season's main villain. The following future scenarios were foreseen:
- If the show had not been canceled, the foreshadowing of Jean becoming the Dark Phoenix, a possible arrival of Scott's father, Corsair, Magneto officially allying himself with Xavier, David Haller and Apocalypse returning, the arrival of the Shi'ar, Madelyne Pryor, Mister Sinister, Bishop, Cable and *Rachel Summers (from the present and future; although in the current timeline, Nathan and Rachel are twins whereas the others are not), and *Scott's romance and marriage with Jean.
- Anti-mutant sentiment strongly continues.
- The Sentinels attack, led by a Super Sentinel which is hinted to be Nimrod.
- A reformed Magneto becomes the teacher of the New Mutants, which now includes the return of Wolfsbane, and Jubilee.
- Jean Grey becomes possessed by the almighty and all-powerful Phoenix Force and turns into the Dark Phoenix. (NOTE: It's unknown whether the Phoenix Force would have been a cosmic entity or a darker part of Jean's subconscious mind; similar to the movies).
- The future X-Men team (Picture on the right) consists of adult versions of Cyclops, X23, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue (able to fly and, curiously, not wearing gloves), plus Storm and Colossus. The uniforms these future X-Men wear look very much like the dark uniforms in the Ultimate X-Men comic. Only X23 (who had a dark uniform from the start) looks the same.
- The last scene (see picture above) shows the entire cast, which includes the X-Men, the New Mutants, Gambit and Colossus (former Acolytes), the previously unaligned Boom Boom, Havok, Angel, and X-23; along with the return of Jubilee, Spyke, and Wolfsbane.
- The Brotherhood and Pyro join S.H.I.E.L.D.
Read more about this topic: List Of X-Men: Evolution Episodes
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