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I always felt that shows like X-Men: Evolution, The Batman and Extreme Ghostbusters were great shows that weren't really given their due by the fandom of the time simply because they weren't the same as their predecessors. It's nice to see them get more positively re-evaluated over the decades since.

Evolution is the X-men I grew up with. Wished it got one more season.

This series had the best teamwork and coordinated powers. Each member had their own contributions and they all synergized so well together.

As one of the voices of the promos on Kids’ WB I’ve been patiently waiting to be able to say: “That’s me on the promo.” Thanks for making my wait payoff😉…oh yeah, and thanks for all of the fun videos about better times!! P.S. If you ever do the Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot series, I played the Big Guy…

I will admit that I was one of those who didn't give X-Men: Evolution a chance originally. I felt the idea of aging them down was just a gimick, and it didn't apeal to me. Then I actually tuned in one day. Boy, was I wrong. While it did not adapt storylines straight from the comics, as TAS did, it still paid homage to them while doing its own thing. Definitely worth watching if you are an X fan. Also, there's the Kitty and Rogue dance scene that was a straight-up frame-by-frame recreation of Buffy and Faith dancing from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Clearly showing their WB pedigree

One of my favorite versions of the X-Men, especially after it found its footing. Once it got past leaning too much on the initial super teens in high school trope, they started telling some really solid stories with deeper characterizations. I really wish it'd had two or three more seasons to see where the story was headed.

To me, this is the standard for X-Men. It was actually nice that Storm and Wolverine were side characters, especially now that anything with them would have them be up front and main focus. This also shows that you can write Cyclops as a likable dude if you just try

Wanda was SO GOOD in this show. I wish there was more of her.

I'm here to argue that the 4-player X-Men Arcade game was just as important to their popularity as the TV show. Classic game.

Goth Rogue was the best change to her aesthetic ever.

Recalling Dan's intro, you can say Evolution was an allegory for feelings of social isolation among young people vs 90's X-Men tackling wider issues of racism and bigotry. And I've never heard such a spot-on interpretation of the movies before reaching the end of the video.

I loved Evolution. It was a fresh take on the X-Men, and was very well written. I wish it had gotten another season.

Loved this version of the X-Men! Rogue and Kitty Pryde's design were especially cool in my opinion.

That Boyd Kirkland interview was not from 2018. He passed away in 2011. There's an episode of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Hero, which he also worked on, dedicated to him. Also, Boyd Kirkland, Craig Kyle, and Chris Yost, the main writers behind X-Men: Evolution also made Wolverine and the X-Men and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. They were kind of trying to make a Marvel animated universe but unfortunately Marvel was in bad financial shape and couldn't capitalize on the opportunity.

It doesn't beat the 90s cartoon, but it's definitely great. I like the younger attitude of the characters, especially Rogue and Nightcrawler.

While it’s still second best to the 90’s X-men, Evolution at least gave the Brotherhood more depth and personality than just Magneto’s evil mutant gang.

I loved this show, loved Rogue's design, the newer characters, just a well written show all around.

Scott McNeil (Beast Wars Dinobot) voiced Wolverine and Christopher Judge (Teal’c) voiced Magneto in this show.

X-Men Evolution was an outstanding show, I was sad to see it go!

Xmen evolution was my intro to them and honestly has one of my favourite iterations of the team members, especially cyclops

I loved this show, it was far better than many give it credit for.

I really liked Evolution when it debuted. It was such a product of its time. Very late 90s/early 2000s vibe. Also thought Spyke was cool and it was nice that he was included as a nod to the Black audience members who liked X-Men

2:52 is the often overlooked first appearance of Cottage Cheese Kid. His superpower was giving people indigestion. Stan Lee wrote him out shortly after due to pressure from Breakstones after their sales dropped.

It's an good thing that they put Shadowcat in the series. 😀👍

I loved this show. XME was awesome. It features my favorite version of and costume for Wolverine. I loved the return to focusing on the team as teens in highschool. And I loved seeing the way everyone was reimagined. I hope we get an official release of the complete series one day

Jason kicking that boombox gets me every time 😂

I didnt like the artstyle all too much, too used to Jim Lee and the Fox cartoon but still grew to love this. The ending really made me feel sad and empty at the time. I LOVE X-Men.

This and Spectacular Spider-Man were great high school variants of the 90s X-Men and Spidey animated series! It's interesting how the 90s cartoons were the comic books brought to live while these 'Batman Beyond high school series' had their own flare that made them standout. IMO Evolution is sadly underrated and overlooked...

One of the best subplots I liked was when Spike (correctly) guessed Rogue could use a quick tap to gain Kitty's dancing skills without seriously hurting her. Especially since it was one of the few cases of Rogue getting some positive non-combat use for her abilities.

A Secret Galaxy video about X-Men Evolution makes me want to dance like Kitty Pryde and Rogue.

I enjoyed Evolution. I was in high school when it came out and I definitely wasn't the target audience, but I thought it was a nice series. Couldn't top TAS, but still fun.

I loved this series in my mid-late teens after growing up with TAS. I recorded the entire first season on my VCR. When I tried to introduce my 3 kids to the X-men on Disney+ with TAS, my kids didn’t like it. Then I said, “let’s try X-men Evolution” and my kids ate it up! I’ve enjoyed rewatching the whole series with them and now they are all about X-men 97 too. Great memories!

X-Men Evo was great! People complain about "aging down" the characters. But the concept of "teenage mutants at a special school" is ingrained into the X-Men franchise and they've done a version of it pretty much every decade. It's just instead of doing "New Mutants" or "Generation X" or "New X-Men: Academy X" with a new cast of characters, they did it with the more popular main X-Men characters.

I know the good guy likes the bad guy trope has been used a lot but I did like how Avalanche and Shadowcat paired up. I also appreciated that Avalanche seemed pretty reluctant to be a bad guy but kind of felt stuck where he was. I did think it was a bit odd that the X-Men has their own school but then went to the local high school but I also recognize that was a way to build the conflict between them and the Brotherhood (as well as other students).

I loved Evolution when it was on, and I'm glad the idea was later converted into movie form somewhat with First Class. I would love seeing a live-action movie for Evolution, though, the added action element and budget would look amazing in my opinion

I was just getting into the X-Men comics as this series aired. I found it quite enjoyable.

Can I say I just absolutely LOVE all the times you insert some small clip of Jason into your videos. Of course the Jason/Boba Fett gag is top tier comedy, but just the random Jason Takes Manhattan is amazing too.

X-Men the Animated Series is still he GOAT, but X-Men Evolution certainly gives it a run for it's money and I couldn't be mad at anyone who preferred Evolution. Both incredible adaptations. Also I remember the X-23 episode, but never realized she was introduced in Evolution. Feel like that should be more common knowledge like Harley Quinn's origins in Batman The Animated Series

I watched Evolution first, so it's actually my favorite iteration of X-men. I loved it because I was a teenager at the time and really identified with it. I didn't watch the last season until a few years ago because I lost the channel prior to season 3 and since it was never released in home video and I didn't know it existed. Really bringing back memories.

This one gets unjustly overlooked. It gave us Laura Kinney for God's sake!

I loved this show still to this day. Plus I love the iteration of these characters. Most of them are in high school with Charles Xavier, Beast, Storm, Wolverine being the oldest.

MAN!!!! I loved the action figure line for this show! Peak ToyBIz “transition”’period where they had “play feature” Gimmicks….

Spyke was a great character. He was one of my favourite characters when I watched the show as a kid. I thought they took his story in interesting directions.

Absolutely loved this rendition. One the better animated comic adaptions.

That news paperclip showed an image of Mystery Men, which is an underrated super hero movie, way ahead of it's time.

My whole childhood

Awesome stuff! Ty for the new video @Secret Galaxy. X-Men: Evolution is one of my favorite cartoons and one of my favorite Kids’ WB! series ever. Keep up the amazing work and ty again lots!

Having watched this casually as I was starting to "age out" of the target audience I completely forgot that x23 originated here. That's pretty big. She isn't quite harley quinn, but that is a super successful transition into the mainstream universe from a TV adaptation

I love X-Men Evolution more than the first series. Loved Pryde of the X-Men also. Since Animated wasnt my first exposure to X-Men I was able to see all the terrible flaws that others missed . I used to guess the part two, to their cheesy cliff hangers and people in Highschool would wonder how I knew. Stephen J Cannels school of television shows is how. Evolution told stories without butchering the major plotlines from the Comics. It's one of the best representations of cyclops in any media. It wasnt perfect, but there was a lot to love about it.

Obligatory Wolverine and Banshee were not introduced in Giant Size #1. I guess Wolverine was introduced to the X-Men comics, but Banshee previously appeared as an antagonist. It's why he and Sunfire have relatively short introductions compared to the other team members

Peter Porker The Spectacular Spider Ham. Good reading material

I love how you casually describe the death of Saturday morning cartoons without even really mentioning that's what it was. X-Men/Spider-Man were definitely the headliners to me. What a wonderful/unique time to be a kid it was. Though it is a bit sad to have been the last generation to enjoy it. It was quite some time ago, and years felt like an eternity compared to how they pass now. But I do remember the quality and quantity of Saturday morning cartoons declining sharply in the late 90s before I entered High School. It went from me looking forward to the Fall preview issues of TV Guide to see what new shows were coming and waking up at 5am to watch cartoons, to being bored until after 10am when anything worth watching was airing in only a few years time, although in my mind it feels like it lasted ages. I was already 2 years into high school by the time X-Men Evolution came around, I didn't really enjoy it because Gambit wasn't around for the start, and the kids seemed... "whiny" for the lack of a better word. But when they finally did introduce Gambit, he was never part of the team until the very last still frame. Come to think of it, No X-Men cartoon did Gambit any justice like X-Men Animated did. I really hope Disney doesn't fuck up X-Men 97.

Evolution is probably my favorite X-men cartoon. They did the relationship part of the team better than almost any other.

I forking LOVED this show! It has my favorite version of Rogue.

the show also had the BEST art and character design of any modern animated series.

oh man I really enjoyed this show much more than the 99s cartoon. it captured the vibe/esthetic of Batman beyond making the characters easier to relate to and find out about

You have no idea how many memories I have of this show, I used to rent whatever DVDs I could find at my local library just to watch it. I destroyed a few boxes, and like... I freely admit to loving this over the 90s cartoon. This was my X-Men, Magneto's soft piano theme still chills me to this day and this is like my defintative voice for Wolverine.

Man I miss this show... I wasnt a Marvel fan but it was hella entertaining! I even remember the episode where Scott was supposed to go out for a burger but Logan told him not to go out... I then asked my parents to go out and get a burger too lol. A few years later imagine my shock where I found out Nightcrawler was voiced by Brad Swaile- who voiced Quatre, Dearka and Amuro Ray from the Gundam series!

I always forget that X23 is like Harley Quinn because she is a character that debuted in the cartoon and then moved to the comics and live action. Nice Jason Takes Manhattan clip lol.

I grew up with X-men Evolution and it’s still one of those shows I hold near and dear to my heart.

This cartoon came out during the period when I was a kid that turned into an adult but then turned back into a kid. I watched every episode and I LOVED it :)

I loved the OG X-Men TAS and X-Men Evolution... I was personally bummed when we didn't get the extra season after the defeat of Apocalypse.. But I watch them both on Disney+ and cruise down memory lane... Lol

I watch through Evolution every 5 years or so... love it!

I was born in 1985, when xmen animated series came out it hit in the face the moment the song played. Xmen evolution was like watching Dawson's Creek but with Xmen in it. All the khaki pants and sweaters, and doc Martin lookin boots reminds me of 2002 vibes. But it was good nonetheless especially for new people. Wolverine and the Xmen on Nick came close. 90s will always be it. Sucks Chris Claremont and Jim Lee all them quit when they did, I think all those stories would have really gone somewhere. I understand why they left, but multiple generations of people left with a cliffhanger dating back to the 70s, it's kinda sad . 😊

Love this version of the x men from the kidswb and cartoon network days ! Similar to iron man armored adventures !

loved this series, thank you for all the info! glad it was kept in the video.

Between the 90s show, Evolution, and Wolverine and the X-Men, modern X-Men animated shows stay winning. Also they nailed the Wolverine casting each time.

Evolution is what my childhood X Men was. It was great and i still love it to this day.

I would mind the new live action team being inspired by this show.

I think one of the reasons _Evolution,_ and the fact that they made many of the characters teens, worked, was because they could use mutant powers as a metaphor for puberty.

I loved this show. Thank you for covering it.

So timely. I watched the first three episodes for the first time last night.

I really liked this series i actually watch it all again on disney+ still think its great after rewatching

In the initial airing of the season one finale, Mystique actually had that nude look after emerging from that machine. Every airing after that was editing with an outfit being layered on top.

The first movie was my introduction to X Men but Evolution helped to expand my interest and the reason I became a fan of the franchise. The 90s cartoon felt like a whole other universe which I’ve grown to appreciate. But Evolution still is my favorite take on characters like Jean, Rogue and Cyclops. I hope Marvel eventually do something to honor it’s legacy!

Thank you Mr. Kirkland. Thank you for understanding the importance of representing!

Rogue is my favorite character and I absolutely love how they handled her in that show. Especially her arc in the first season being torn between the X-Men and the Brotherhood.

Not as good as the 90s version, but it has it's own unique charm.

Children of The Atom was a badass arcade game.

Loved this take on so many classic characters from the comics. Great vocal performances by the entire cast.

I’ve always enjoyed all things X-Men.

Nice visual segue from animated Scott losing his glasses and optic-blasting a bully, to a close-up of X-MEN #1 of him optic-blasting Magneto.

10:09 Jason is an X-Man?!? 😂

Watched both this and Batman Beyond back in the day. I really dont remember anything about about X-Men Evoultion though 🤔 Batman Beyond i liked so much more

I was in my 20's when X-men Evolution first aired. Didn't care about it then. Recently went back and watched the entire series. As an X-men fan it was worth it. I highly recommend it.

I loved the animation and designs of the XMen Evolution characters.

Always love the DEEP RESEARCH done and enjoy watching episodes on shows I never watched growing up

My parents were in their mid 20's when they watched the 90's animated series, when I was a child I watched the X-Men evolution series and I have so many memories of it, I never got to see the 90's series until now, and so far it's great too, and so is the X-Men 97 so far, but in terms of nostalgia, X-Men evolution will be always my favorite

This was my X-Men cartoon. I like the 90's show, but this clicked with me better. It's also the first time I liked how they handled The Scarlet Witch. In fact, still my favorite version of both Wanda and Pietro. I also loved that FINALLY we had a story about the X-Men that by design couldn't have the Jean/Scott/Logan love triangle.

This show is in my top ten of cartoon shows ever. It’s a shame they never kept going after the apocalypse story line.

Coincidentally, I just finished rewatching this show and liked it a lot more than I remembered. The first season might have had lower stakes but it did a fantastic job of introducing all of the character at the ground level. Certain design aspects like making Rogue kind of goth was inspired. Others, like all of the pleated dress pants and cargo is a constant reminder of exactly when the show was made. Spyke was fun but the fact that they finally added a black guy and then sidelined him for the last season with the Morlock subplot doesn't come off great. Overall, it's a really fun show but my best interpretation of the X-Men on screen is "Wolverine and the X-Men" which I also only recently saw for the first time. Fingers crossed that it's coming up soon on Secret Galaxy.

As a fan who grew up on Pryde of the X-men pilot, and the 90's X-men show... X-Men Evolution is probably the 2nd best X-men tv show. It's really solid, especially towards the end of the first season onward. It took a few episodes to establish itself and lean away from the "Teens in High School" elements.

This show was the coolest thing for me when i was a kid, definitely a product of it's time, but it is pure style, everything from their clothes, to the music and super relatable in so many ways

That final comparison between you and the adult X-Men of the early 2000s 🤣 I can relate!

With X-Men 97 coming out i couldn't help but think of Evolution, being born in 1990. I barely remember the original but Evolution was an obsession when i was 10 to 13.

I remember when Evolution debuted I was a bit taken back by it because in my mind nothing could top XMEN Sat. While I wasn't an immediate fan of the softer animation design I did enjoy the recognizable cast of characters and voice actors and the certain ways they told stories so eventually the series grew on me. I still enjoy it to this day and have my favorite episodes as I do with XMEN Sat, it makes a good companion peace so long as you keep a "What If" mindset in mind and are curious how the team could have been as teens.

I grew up with this show and the X-men films, so the idea of Rogue being essentially handicapped by her powers is burned into my skull. Her being scared of her powers, and being a danger to others, is how I will forever see her; that's fine. In fact, I like it that way. A superhero who doesn't live life on easy mode: what a wild idea.

I love X-men Evolution. It’s so much better in so many ways than the far more popular X-men animated series. I wish they would’ve been able to continue it instead of starting Wolverine and the X-men.

This show was my childhood man , but aside that it genuinely was a great show , great character story arcs it was amazing