30 years after its release, "X-Men: The Animated Series" remains not only the best portrayal of its titular super team, but one of the best superhero cartoons ever made and one of the all-time greatest Marvel productions, period. It perfectly captured the source material and the characters, defining them for a whole new generation. It also featured a terrific blend of faithfully adapting comics storylines and putting new spins on them, while creating standalone episodes that build an overarching story at a time when that level of serialization was still somewhat rare.

Getting the show made was no easy task. Before "X-Men: The Animated Series" proved to be a big enough hit that it helped expedite the development of the 2000 "X-Men" live-action film, and long before it got a Disney+ revi

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