Season Three
After the "Phoenix Saga," episodes were aired in a more random sequence. Also, due to animation problems with a few episodes, several would not appear until the fourth or even fifth season.
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| Script # | Title | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | Villain(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | "Out of the Past (Part 1)" | Michael Edens | July 29, 1994 (1994-07-29) | Yuriko, Reavers | |
| Wolverine's former love, a Japanese woman named Yuriko, lures Wolverine into the Morlocks' tunnels with Gambit and Jubilee tailing behind Wolverine. | |||||
| 28 | "Out of the Past (Part 2)" | Len Wein | August 5, 1994 (1994-08-05) | Yuriko, M'Kraan Spirit Drinker | |
| Yuriko's alien discovery — a Shi'ar vessel — turns out to be a prison cell containing a voracious, gaseous prisoner, the Spirit Drinker. | |||||
| 29 | "Phoenix Saga (Part 1): Sacrifice" | Michael Edens | September 5, 1994 (1994-09-05) | Erik the Red | |
| An emissary of the alien race the Shi'ar, Erik the Red takes over the Eagle One space station. | |||||
| 30 | "Phoenix Saga (Part 2): The Dark Shroud" | Mark Edward Edens | September 6, 1994 (1994-09-06) | Juggernaut, Black Tom Cassidy | |
| The space shuttle crash-lands in Jamaica Bay. Though the other X-Men are unscathed, Jean Grey's fate is unknown, until she flies into the air, displaying powers and a new costume she has never used before, and proclaims herself "The Phoenix" before collapsing, suffering from confusion, memory loss, and vast new powers. | |||||
| EpisodeNumber=31 | ProdCode=Juggernaut, Black Tom Cassidy, Gladiator | Title=Phoenix Saga (Part 3): The Cry of the Banshee | WrittenBy=Michael Edens | OriginalAirDate=September 7, 1994 (1994-09-07) | ShortSummary=The X-Men and Banshee go to save Lilandra. Jean Grey continues to exhibit inexplicable symptoms. |
| 32 | "Phoenix Saga (Part 4): The Starjammers" | Mark Edward Edens | September 8, 1994 (1994-09-08) | Starjammers, D'Ken | |
| Phoenix transports all the X-Men to Lilandra's ship, where she has hidden the M'Kraan Crystal. A group of space pirates called the Starjammers attack and steal the M'Kraan Crystal from the X-Men. | |||||
| 33 | "Phoenix Saga (Part 5): Child of Light" | Mark Edward Edens | September 9, 1994 (1994-09-09) | D'Ken | |
| D'Ken gets pulled into the Crystal, and becomes one with the universe inside it. | |||||
| 34 | "No Mutant Is an Island" | Sandy Scesny | September 21, 1996 (1996-09-21) | Kilgrave | |
| Cyclops, still in mourning after Phoenix's death, quits the X-Men and returns to the orphanage he grew up in and encounters his friend Sarah. | |||||
| 35 | "Obsession" | Adam Gilad | September 24, 1994 (1994-09-24) | Apocalypse | |
| Archangel has become obsessed with destroying Apocalypse, who he blames for ruining his life. | |||||
| 36 | "Longshot" | Steven Melching & David McDermott | October 5, 1996 (1996-10-05) | Mojo | |
| Longshot, rebel from another world, tumbles into this world with no memory. | |||||
| 37 | "Cold Comfort" | Len Uhley | February 4, 1995 (1995-02-04) | Iceman, X-Factor | |
| Former X-Man Bobby 'Iceman' Drake is caught breaking into a top-secret government installation. | |||||
| 38 | "Savage Land, Strange Heart (Part 1)" | Robert N. Skir & Marty Isenberg | September 10, 1994 (1994-09-10) | Sauron, Zaladane, Garokk | |
| Sauron kidnaps Storm to the Savage Land in order to feed from her mutant energy. | |||||
| 39 | "Savage Land, Strange Heart (Part 2)" | Robert N. Skir & Marty Isenberg | September 17, 1994 (1994-09-17) | Sauron, Zaladane, Garokk | |
| Garokk fuses with the island's volcano and the surging planetary force below it. | |||||
| 40 | "The Dark Phoenix Saga (Part 1): Dazzled" | Jan Strnad | November 12, 1994 (1994-11-12) | Phoenix, Mastermind, Inner Circle Club | |
| The Phoenix continues to inhabit Jean's body. Jean is beginning to lose control, and the Phoenix begins to brazenly take over at will. When the Inner Circle Club learn of the Phoenix's power, they use Jason Wyngarde to create a new history in the mind of the confused Jean/Phoenix. | |||||
| 41 | "The Dark Phoenix Saga (Part 2): The Inner Circle" | Steven Levi | November 12, 1994 (1994-11-12) | Inner Circle Club, Phoenix | |
| As Professor X and Emma Frost battle for psychic control of Jean, the Inner Circle members quarrel over how to dispose of their prisoners, the X-Men. | |||||
| 42 | "The Dark Phoenix Saga (Part 3): The Dark Phoenix" | Larry Parr | November 19, 1994 (1994-11-19) | Phoenix, Lilandra | |
| When the X-Men confront the Phoenix and ask it to give up Jean's body, Dark Phoenix vows to destroy the team, defeating them easily. | |||||
| 43 | "The Dark Phoenix Saga (Part 4): The Fate of the Phoenix" | Brooks Wachtel | November 26, 1994 (1994-11-26) | Lilandra, Phoenix | |
| In the Shi'ar court, Lilandra reveals Phoenix's destruction of the D'Bari solar system and declared that Phoenix has transformed into the Destroyer of legend and must die. | |||||
| 44 | "Orphan's End" | Doug Booth | February 25, 1995 (1995-02-25) | Shi'Ar | |
| Cyclops discovers that Corsair may be his father. Corsair is on the run from Shi'Ar authorities, who demand that Cyclops turn him over to them. | |||||
| 45 | "Love in Vain" | Martha Moran | February 10, 1996 (1996-02-10) | Family | |
| Wolverine witnesses the crash of a spaceship carrying horrific, alien bug-like creatures—the Family—which overwhelm him. | |||||
| 46 | "The Juggernaut Returns" | Julianne Klemm | May 6, 1995 (1995-05-06) | Juggernaut | |
| Juggernaut's life is at risk when someone else uncovers the Ruby of Cyttorak and claims the powers of Juggernaut for himself, wanting to pick up girls. | |||||
| 47 | "A Deal with the Devil" | Eric Lewald | September 14, 1996 (1996-09-14) | Omega Red | |
| Omega Red, the destruction machine from the former Soviet Union and a sworn enemy of Wolverine, is thawed and sent two miles beneath the ocean to salvage a disabled, toxic nuclear submarine threatening to break up near Hawaii. His only condition: Wolverine and Storm go down with him as insurance. | |||||
| 48 | "Sanctuary (Part 1)" | Steven Melching & David McDermott | October 21, 1995 (1995-10-21) | Magneto, Fabian Cortez | |
| Weary of battling for mutant supremacy, Magneto offers to transport all mutants to an orbiting asteroid named Asteroid M where they can live peaceful and human-free lives; however, Fabian Cortez tricks Magneto into an escape pod and launches him into space. | |||||
| 49 | "Sanctuary (Part 2)" | Jeff Saylor | October 28, 1995 (1995-10-28) | Fabian Cortez, Apocalypse | |
| As Magneto plummets helplessly to Earth, Fabian Cortez assumes control of Asteroid M and sends hundreds of missiles towards Earth. Meanwhile, Rogue goes to help the X-Men and tries to find a missing Gambit. Magneto frees himself and returns in time to destroy both the missiles and Asteroid M. Everyone escapes before the asteroid is destroyed and they all return home (Gambit included!) Meanwhile, Cortez is rescued from the descending asteroid by Deathbird... and Apocalypse! | |||||
| 50 | "Xavier Remembers" | Stephanie Mathison | April 27, 1996 (1996-04-27) | Shadow King | |
| When Professor X suffers a slight concussion, his powerful psychic mind is suddenly open to manipulation. The Shadow King takes advantage of this and takes possession of Xavier, leaving his mind trapped on the Astral Plane. | |||||
| 51 | "Courage" | Michael Edens & Sandy Scesny | September 23, 1995 (1995-09-23) | Master Mold, Sentinels, Henry Gyrich, Bolivar Trask | |
| The day Morph rejoins the X-Men, terrorists attack a top-secret, high-tech weapons factory; the alert interrupts his homecoming party. | |||||
| 52 | "Secrets, Not Long Buried" | Mark Onspaugh | February 17, 1996 (1996-02-17) | Children of the Shadow | |
| When Cyclops flies solo to a tiny, western, desert community to see an old friend, his plane is blasted out of the sky. Injured and unable to use his powers, he struggles into town, only to discover his friend is missing and the town is caught in the grips of a militant, mutant-only, anti-human hate group: the Children of the Shadow. |
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